As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation this year, I've been experimenting with a lot of models for workshop delivery and curriculum for social media. This workshop, graciously hosted by the Community Foundation of Monterey County with support from the Packard Foundation, was a two-part session. The first session, facilitated by colleague Daniel Cohen, focused on creating a communications strategy. The second session, a month later, was focused on … [Read more...]
How to Turn Video Views Into Life-Saving Dollars
Note from Beth: On my way to Kenya for the Ushahidi Board meeting, so enjoy this post by Manny Hernandez. We at the Diabetes Hands Foundation started the Big Blue Test in 2009 with a simple premise meant to raise awareness about the importance of physical activity for diabetes management: testing your blood sugar, exercising 14 minutes, testing your blood sugar again and sharing the results with the community. In 2010, we wanted to let people know about the Big Blue Test through a video that … [Read more...]
Does Your Organization Already Have a Policy for Professional Conduct?
As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I've had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee's conference. I just returned from doing Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshops at the National Summer Learning Association's Conference in Indianapolis. As I discovered when I did an online chat with this community, this field includes a mix of educators, nonprofits, government agencies, and universities - and I learned so much from the … [Read more...]
Tech@State: Reflections on Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents
Last week, I was honored to facilitate a "networked discussion" about the Networked Nonprofit and working with free agents in Washington, DC at the State Department's "Tech@State Civil Society 2.0" Event. Joining me were two of my favorite free agents, Mark Horvath (next to me on stage) and Shawn Ahmed (virtually through Twitter #netnon hashtag and video). My goal was to have a conversation with the folks in the room - who represented both traditional nonprofit institutions, government … [Read more...]
Sparked, Micro-Volunteering Network, Has Volunteers Standing By For Your Nonprofit's Next Small Project
Note From Beth: Colleague Ben Rigby, co-founder and CTO of Sparked, a micro-volunteering networked has a problem. The site matches skills-based volunteers with nonprofits to do just in time projects like logo or business card design, marketing help, and other small volunteering tasks. All the job requests from nonprofits are getting down and micro volunteers are standing by to help your organization. Every time I do a workshop, the common complaint from nonprofits is "I don't have time to do … [Read more...]
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