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How Experimentation and Measurement Can Help Win A Little Bet with Facebook Promoted Posts
As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I have the honor of working with a cluster of grantees working on children's healthcare coverage on a networked capacity building project called "Friending the Finish Line." designed to help grantees institutionalize social media and networked nonprofit skills and strategies and integrate them into their broader strategy for communications on children’s health. A networked capacity building project is where a cluster of grantees learn and … [Read more...]
Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!
Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World." We started off discussing the recently released report from NTEN/Idealware that found that nonprofits collect lots of data, but don't look at it. One of the reasons cited in the report and also from participants on the webina: "We don't have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data - so we … [Read more...]
Unicef's Little Bet on Pinboard
Last month, I had the honor of keynoting the Social Good Brasil Conference and one of the other keynote speakers was Peter Sims, author of "Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries." I will have a full book review coming. One message in the book is not start with a big idea with it all planned out in advance, but to make a methodical series of little bets about what might be a good direction and learning from lots of little failures and from small wins to find … [Read more...]
Happy Giving Tuesday! Get Out The Give Today!
Happy Giving Tuesday, a national movement to add a day of charity and doing good founded by the 92nd Street Y, the United Nations Foundation and Mashable, and supported by many nonprofits and corporations as well as individuals to jumpstart the giving season in the US. I've set up a fundraiser for NTEN on Crowdrise and all donations are being matched to day by the Case Foundation and Six Degrees as part of a match day - in partnership with Networked for Good. I'm proud to be a community champion … [Read more...]
Elevating Advocacy Voices for Children Through Social Media
Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I've had the honor of designing and facilitating a "networked capacity building project" for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. The project is in its second year and I've been working in collaboration with Spitfire Strategies. Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, building robust networks and using social … [Read more...]
Thanksgiving: What are you grateful for?
I'm at the New Jersey Shore for the Thanksgiving holiday. My hometown got hit pretty hard, but we're counting our blessings that my family's house is still standing and able to enjoy this Thanksgiving with family. If you haven't donated to Hurricane Sandy Relief, please consider making a contribution. Here's my crowdrise campaign. Be sure to check out "Giving Tuesday" a national day of giving the Tuesday after Thanksgiving. Your organization participate or you can fundraise for a cause. … [Read more...]
‘Give 10′ Every Day: An Inspiring Story of Giving Back
Note from Beth: My colleague, John Weeks, is an expat nonprofit techie living and working in Cambodia. We first connected back in 2004 when I started my first blog on Cambodia and was covering the Cambodian Blogosphere for Global Voices. When I was in Cambodia last summer, John hosted a blogger's meet up. When learned about Giving Tuesday, he offered to share an inspiring story about giving back. Give 10 Every Day: An Inspiring Story of Giving Back - Guest Post by John Weeks So just … [Read more...]
I'm Doing Giving Tuesday Not Black Friday: One Week To Go!
The Story of Stuff Project made this video to inspire more people to choose family over frenzy the day after Thanksgiving, also known as Black Friday. I'm spending the day with family in Atlantic City, NJ. Please join me in signing the pledge on the site to confirm that you'll spend that day investing in community and family, rather than stuff. And, on the following Tuesday, I will participate, support, and enjoy "Giving Tuesday." There is just a week until November 27th, the first … [Read more...]
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