The Mobilisation Journal: A Way To Spread Learning About Social Change Movements Innovative Use of Technology
The Greenpeace Mobilization Lab has a project proposal idea for a "Mobilization Journal" as part of the Knight News Challenge. It's open for comments and feedback right now - or "applause." This blog shares some thoughts about this project and I have to give it a big round of applause. To understand the project, you have to get familiar with work of Greenpeace Mobilisation Lab. I've been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives … [Read more...]
New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns
Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge. The first is The Giving Day Play books which a collective archive of formally documented processes, examples, check lists, and case studies planning and hosting giving days. The second is a peer learning group of … [Read more...]
The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!
"I kissed a squirrel & I liked it" #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014 I'm preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become … [Read more...]
Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding
Note from Beth: Last year, 30% of the $5 billion crowdfunded went to social causes according the "Cracking the Crowd Funding Code". Nonprofit's use of crowdfunding is growing at an exponential rate with many nonprofits jumping on the crowfunding bandwagon attracted by the potential of finding new supporters. Robert Wu offers a great set of best practices in this guest post below. As crowdfunding practices mature and become an valuable part of the nonprofit fundraising toolkit, there … [Read more...]
Organizational Amnesia, Accountability Buddies, and Other Things I learned at the Grant Managers Network Conference
March was the "Iron Woman Multi-Conferencethon" for me and I'm just catching up. In mid-March, I had a whirl wind day at the Grant Managers Network Annual Conference where I did the following: Panel Session: Outcomes, Impact, and Communication with Roberto Cremonini and Danette Peters. The session was about why it is important to track outcomes, some examples, and discussion. Keynote: Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data - I … [Read more...]
Methods for Facilitating Innovation in Nonprofits
Last month I had the pleasure of taking the Luma Institute Train the Trainers workshop where I got a chance to immerse in practicing facilitation techniques based on human centered design principles. The workshop instructor Peter Maher is founder and CEO, of Luma Institute, and a Jedi Master. The co-facilitator was Amy Hedrick who works in Product and Design Innovation at Intuit. The curriculum was based on their “Innovating for Peopledesign methods recipe book and "taxonomy for … [Read more...]
Learn You Will: #14ntc Nonprofit Tech Training Session Reflection and Resources
[slideshare id=32140899&doc=slideshareversion-140310145016-phpapp02] Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called "Learn, You Will" with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. I've collected the resources, notes, slides, and tweets from the session in this post. We framed the session as what to think about before, during, and after a training, using the … [Read more...]
How Nonprofits Can Leverage Crowdfunding: Best Practices and Data
I'm at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about "Social Media for Social Change" moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org. I'll be talking about the role of hyper-connected donors based on my experience and some recent research that shows how valuable these champions are for crowdfunding and social fundraising. I love serendipity! Since last summer, I've been … [Read more...]
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