Source: Monitor Institute Yesterday, Allison Fine and I, along with colleagues Danielle Bridiga and Marc Sirkin gave a Care 2 Webinar on the Networked Nonprofit. Here's a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. One of the topics was "How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques." I thought I'd expand on it here. Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar View more presentations from womenwhotech. As someone who loves … [Read more...]
Networked Nonprofits Avoid Scarcity Thinking and Embrace the Black Smoke Monster
You are invited to a virtual book launch party! Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. Today, Allison Fine and I, along with Marc Sirkin and Danielle Brigida did a free webinar for care2 about The Networked Nonprofit. Watch for the link to the recording and slides - I'll share it in a more detailed post I have for Friday, but I wanted to capture two ideas that struck me. Networked Nonprofits engage … [Read more...]
The Networked Nonprofit Book Arrived!
Yesterday, an advanced copy of our book, The Networked Nonprofit, arrived. My son, Harry, who is in video making summer camp, decided to make a little movie of me opening the book! Today, I taught a workshop in Santa Cruz hosted by the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz and supported by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I, of course, raffled it off in exchange for people filling out index cards with their planned first steps into social media. The lucky winner was Lorraine from the … [Read more...]
Help Us Launch The Networked Nonprofit With A Splash!
You are invited to a virtual book launch party! Join Allison Fine and me on June 21st at 1-2 PM PST/4-5 PM EST for the launch of The Networked Nonprofit published by Jossey-Bass. The virtual launch will take place on Twitter (#netnon) and Ustream (http://www.ustream.tv/channel/networked-nonprofit) If we get a single pre-order for 100 or more copies of the book from one individual, we'll jump in the pool (with our cloths on - we aren't Esther Williams look a likes!). We'll do this live on … [Read more...]
Approach Social Media Like Thomas Edison
One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit, is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit where Allison Fine and I will talk about social media experimentation and other themes from the book. Thomas Alva Edison held 1,093 patents for different inventions. Many of them, like the lightbulb, the phonograph, and the motion picture camera, … [Read more...]
