Note from Beth: I’m taking part in the virtual book tour Maddie Grant and Lindy Dreyer are doing to explore concepts from Open Community: a little book of big ideas for associations navigating the social web. I read an early draft of the book and think it is a very important idea for those of us in the nonprofit community embrace. I've been a big fan of openness and freely sharing community knowledge and have seen first hand from the early days of the social web the power of this - take for … [Read more...]
Why Should Nonprofits Choose Abundance (and Breathe)
Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Did he run out of paint before spraying the letter "e"? Who knows, but if nonprofits embrace abundance, wouldn't it give them more time to breathe? Trying to do everything, a scarcity model, is such an exhausting way to work. Marnie Webb has been thinking about how the nonprofit sector might be different if organizations believed in abundance and re-thought their organizational structures and how they delivered programs as a result. Marnie points out that … [Read more...]
A Peer Learning Community for Nonprofits and Social Media
Freely sharing and facilitating community knowledge is part of my DNA as it for many colleagues in the nonprofit technology field. Over the years, I've participated in and started many nptech online sandboxes, small online learning cohorts and wiki projects to explore best practices in nonprofit technology hosted on many different platforms and in collaboration with many different organizations. I'm passionate about the power of peer learning communities - and how we can all lift up each … [Read more...]
A First Look at Jumo
Note from Beth: The long anticipated social network site for social change, Jumo, launched. Here's the article from today's New York Times. Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 errors, which will smooth out as more people play with it and give them feedback. As the platform matures, we'll get a … [Read more...]
Networked Nonprofit Update: Royalty Check Sent to Sharing Foundation, London Event, and More
Not long after we received our final letter from Leng Sopharath, a young Cambodian woman our family has been sponsoring for college over the past four years, the first royalty check from The Networked Nonprofit arrived! It was with sincere joy that I was able to donate the full amount of my share of the royalities to the Sharing Foundation in support of the educational programs. So, while I am delighted with the response to book , I'm even more pleased that the book is able to help young … [Read more...]
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