Will the Virtual Summit Replace Face-to-Face Guest Post By Kari Dunn Saratovsky
Note from Beth: Last June, I live blogged the virtual Millennial Donor Summit and it was an interesting experience. So I was very interested to hear about the lessons learned report about the virtual summit and Kari agreed to write a guest post. Hosting engaging online events and learning experiences has been of interest to me over the past ten years and the question of whether or not virtual events replace the face-to-face or how to best blend together. Will the Virtual … [Read more...]
Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau
Note from Beth: While many of us focus our attention on FB pages, Facebook groups can be a good platform for nonprofits to use for informal peer learning groups, getting feedback from your post passionate fans, or to cultivate and support a brand ambassadors group. I've been using them to enhance peer exchanges where participants are meeting face-to-face or conference call for "water color" learning - especially if the focus of the learning is how to use Facebook! I'm also a champion for … [Read more...]
Is the New Facebook "People Talking About" Metric Meaningless?
Facebook announced its new brand page metric on Sunday night, "People Talking About," with Mashable breaking the news and analysis from Clickz. The new "people talking about" metric is designed to measure FB engagement and a raw number of user-initiated activity related to a Page, including posting to a Page’s Wall, “liking,” commenting, sharing a Page post or content on the Page, answering a Question posed to fans, mentioning a Page, “liking” or sharing a deal or checking in at your … [Read more...]
Content Curation Primer
What is Content Curation? Content curation is the process of sorting through the vast amounts of content on the web and presenting it in a meaningful and organized way around a specific theme. The work involves sifting, sorting, arranging, and publishing information. A content curator cherry picks the best content that is important and relevant to share with their community. It isn't unlike what a museum curator does to produce an exhibition: They identify the theme, they provide the … [Read more...]
Notes from Mari Smith Facebook Changes Webinar: Privacy Settings and A New Metric – People Talking About
Facebook Changes: A Complete Guide - by Mari Smith View more presentations from Mari Smith Last Friday, social media guru Mari Smith offered a free webinar that took a deep dive through the Facebook changes, and how they work for both individuals and brands. You can download the slides here and listen to the recording here. The webinar was 90 minutes and she took us through step-by-step about how the new features work. At times it was confusing, complicated, and … [Read more...]
7 Tips To Help You Focus In Age of Distraction: Are You Content Fried!
This morning I learned a new word for information overload - "content fried" from a colleague at the Packard Foundation. It resonated. We have so much content in our professional lives. I'm talking about the stuff we consume daily to keep inform of our professional field. It comes speeding at us from our email boxes, social networks, kindles, and even paper and snail mail! We scan, we browse, we try to thoughtfully read the best stuff, and interact through online … [Read more...]
Visual Meeting Facilitation Workshop with David Sibbet
I've been a fan of visual thinking and graphic facilitation for many years - and have used the techniques to take notes for myself. As a visual learner, mindmapping, drawing, and other techniques to think visually have helped me learn, synthesize lots of data, and see patterns. I have also attended and facilitated meetings with a graphic recorder, most recently at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, and know the power of how "drawing on the wall" can help spark group insights and … [Read more...]
An Interview With Paull Young from Charity:Water
I first came across @paullyoung in September, 2008 when he implemented a birthday campaign as part of charity:water's September campaign. Fast forward a couple of years, and Paull is following his passion for clean water around the world and is the director of digital for charity:water. charity:water continues to be an innovator in the area of online fundraising. Earlier this month, I stumbled upon their brilliant personalized thank you videos. It got me curious about the overall campaign … [Read more...]
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