Note from Beth: It's Giving Day Season! I'm working with a network of community foundations, grantees of the Knight Foundation, that are hosting giving days as the facilitator. The peer learning exchange is experimenting with best practices for Giving Days. The group is using and adding their knowledge to The Giving Day Playbook. These strategies are helping community foundations experiment, iterate and implement best practices when it comes to hosting Giving Days as well as … [Read more...]
Understanding the New Power of the Collaborative Economy for Social Good Sector
My colleague, Henry Timms and Jeremy Heimans have just published an important piece over on the Harvard Business School blog called "Understanding the New Power" that gives us a great high level analysis of how collaborative economy is operating in the social good sector. The piece talks about how the growing tension between: old power and new power are transforming the way that social good activists do their work. The article lays out a framework for understanding how power works and how … [Read more...]
Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd
Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that … [Read more...]
The Ultimate Tool for Managing Your Organization's Social Strategy: LightBox Collaborative Editorial Calendar 2015 Edition
[slideshare id=41539057&doc=measuringandmanagingasocialmediapresence-141113205730-conversion-gate02] Note from Beth: Last week I was in New Orleans for the National Assembly of State Arts Councils meeting. I facilitated a peer session with Public Information Officers and a Mini-Workshop on managing and measuring a social media presence. We covered strategy, especially identifying audiences through personas and key objectives. Most importantly, participants began to think through their … [Read more...]
How Many Social Channels Should Our Nonprofit Use?
[slideshare id=40885791&doc=sociallifecycle-141029142644-conversion-gate02] Whenever I do a workshop, keynote, or webinar for nonprofits, the most frequently asked question is "What social channel(s) should our nonprofit use?" or variations "Is X social channel worth it for our organization?" or "With limited time and resources, what social channels make sense to invest in?" This is one of the questions that is hard to answer with a sound byte of clever, easy advice. It depends on the … [Read more...]
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