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Curating Valentine's Day From Nonprofits, Geeks, and Social Media
Happy Valentine's Day! Valentine's Day is a big day for florists, jewelers, restaurants, candy makers, and nonprofit techies too! Here's a few curated examples. Nerdy Valentine's from Scoop.It: The content curation platform, Scoop.it, came up with funny "nerdy" valentine's for its content curation community. Google's Love Stories: Google has been sharing "doodles" - fun variations on its logo since 1998. It's first Valentine's Day logo appeared in 2000, looks quite primitive … [Read more...]
How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?
Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone's job. With limited time, how should that resource be invested to for best results? Often, it can be choice of what channels to go deeper on and what channels to ignore. We know that the road to great results is paved with controlled experimentation, one hypothesis and test at a time. Using the scientific method for experiments … [Read more...]
Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days
Note for Beth: Most of my work over the last twenty years in nonprofit technology has been focused on designing and facilitating capacity building projects, specifically training and peer learning projects that help participants successfully learn and apply skills using online technology, social media, networks, measurement, training design or other topic. You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do … [Read more...]
Why Movement Is the Killer Learning App for Nonprofits
As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Learning theory is an attempt to describe how people learn. There are many learning theories and can be categorized in different ways: External: These theories take into account self-learning and learning in groups. This includes … [Read more...]
The Fine Art of "Satisficing" for Nonprofits
Last November, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Erie Ries, Lean Start Up, about applying the principles to nonprofits. He talked about how perfectionism, an internal mindset that bad things in the world will happen if our campaign, program or whatever is not right from beginning. Perfectionism is the enemy of learning and ultimately of getting improved impact. "We live in a culture of high quality and low risk tolerance and people want to be safe and not harmful. We … [Read more...]
How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results
Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Would you stop doing crowd funding, social media infused fundraising and revert back to traditional methods of fundraising? Or would you learn, pivot, and improve? That's exactly what the Latino Community Foundation did. Masha Chernyak, Director of Programs and Policy, answered a few questions about how they used learning and pivoting to get … [Read more...]
January 2014 Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Measurement and Learning
I'm delighted to be hosting the January, 2014 Nonprofit Blog Carnival. I put the call out for nonprofit blog posts on the topic of measuring your nonprofit's marketing or communication strategies. As KD Paine and I wrote in “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” measuring your social media channels, overall communications or marketing strategy is not a form of voodoo black magic; it is an art and a science. The art part is how you articulate your organization’s measure of success and formulate … [Read more...]
The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning
[slideshare id=28983267&doc=georgefinal-131206221722-phpapp01] Last week, I was honored to be one of the judges at the Lean Impact Summit in San Francisco where 15 nonprofits, start-ups, and social entrepreneurs shared ignite style presentations about how they applied lean start up principles. The event kicked off with an overview of lean impact by Dominique Aubry of Lean Startup Machine and a provocative series of conversations between funders/investors and grantees/startups. The day … [Read more...]
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