Pokemon Go, the latest installment in the best-selling Pokémon video game series, launched as a smartphone app using augmented reality. It became an overnight viral sensation and cultural phenomena. Perhaps its appeal is an escape from all the bad things that are happening the world right now. Rather than chaining game players to their computer screens inside their houses, it sends players roaming their neighborhoods and communities to play the game. On the plus side, they are avoiding death … [Read more...]
Curiosity Kills Bad Work Habits
The topic of habit change is something that Aliza Sherman and I researched and experimented with as we wrote "The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout" over the last year. Habit change research was one of our favorite rabbit holes to explore. It lead us to discover the works of Gretchen Rubin, Charles Duhigg, BJ Fogg, and others. As we wrote chapters on the book, we examined our own unhealthy habits and experimented applying some of the methods. This recent article on INC by Emily … [Read more...]
New and Improved Data Visualization Tool: Maps for Media Funding
Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called "Foundation Maps for Media Funding," a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. This version of the tool is a significant upgrade to the tool launched previously by Media Impact Funders. The tool is designed for funders, nonprofits, mission-driven media makers, journalists and philanthropic … [Read more...]
How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should
Note from Beth: I've been a big believer in shared knowledge and learning for the sector. IssueLab has been working for ten years to apply the age-old knowledge management question, “what if I knew what others know?” to the hard-earned lessons of nonprofits and foundations. While they confess that they still don’t know the ultimate answer to that question, they have learned a thing or two in their continued pursuit of that goal. That's why I'm so grateful they are sharing it in this guest … [Read more...]
How to Be a Wizard at Tech Training Design and Delivery
[slideshare id=59949012&doc=finalmastertechwizardssession-160323182352] Note from Beth: At this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference, I was lucky to co-design and facilitate a session on technology training with colleagues John Kenyon, Cindy Leonard and Jeanne Allen. Cindy and Jeanne wrote this great reflection of what we learned and how we facilitated this very interactive session. As I am planning for workshops in the fall in Cleveland and North Carolina (with Jeanne Allen), … [Read more...]
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