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Book Review: The Nonprofit Business Plan
One of the things that I love at the Packard Foundation is the learning culture. Different program officers host regular program forums with nonprofit experts, grantees, authors, and thinkers. This week I attended a session with David La Piana, author and long-time nonprofit consultant, hosted by the Foundation's Organizational Effectiveness Program. David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan, and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a … [Read more...]
Attention Nonprofit #datanerds: Data-Informed Fundraising!
We may need to start wearing these here! RT @kanter what every #datanerd needs in their wardrobe - I Love Data T-shirt bit.ly/QlhMt4 — Mission Measurement (@MissionMeasure) September 5, 2012 The September, 2012 Issue of the NTEN Change Journal is pure crack for nonprofit #datanerds (folks who would definitely wear a t-shirt emblazoned with "I Love Data!" in the office). But if you read the articles in this issue, you will come to conclusion that loving (and using data) for strategic … [Read more...]
Attention Data Nerds! NTEN Change Journal: It's All About Data
The new issue of the NTEN Change Journal is all about data! Or rather how we all should love data! Whether you call it data-driven or data-informed, the issue has several excellent articles about how to use data for decision-making as well as lots of useful tips! It's a must read for data nerds. As many of you know, I've just finished writing a book with measurement guru, KD Paine, called "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" that teaches nonprofits how to embrace the data and use it to … [Read more...]
Does Your Nonprofit Have A Social Media Work Flow?
Jeremiah Owyang's post, "Social Media Work Flow," offers a good taxonomy for a social media work flow, triage, or process. He defines this as "a sequence of connected steps that enables the entire organization to act efficiently with minimal overlapping tasks and resources in order to serve the market in social channels and beyond." It is the work flow documented and visualized that answers the question, "What if we get a negative comment? or on a larger scale, "What if our organization … [Read more...]
How @GoodwillIntl is Celebrating Labor Day with Twitter Campaign #150jobs AND Measures Success
KD Paine and I had the pleasure of interviewing the Arlene McCrehan social media team at Goodwill for our soon to be launched book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Goodwill uses measurement and learning in its evolution into a networked nonprofit. One practice they have mastered well is the ability to use experiments (with measurement) to mature its practice. One of their newest experiments is a Twitter campaign, #150jobs. They launched it to align Goodwill with Labor Day, and to … [Read more...]
Redesign Your Nonprofit Organization for Success in Age of Connectivity
I'm so excited! My second book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, co-authored with KD Paine, will be launching in October! Expect to hear more about where to hear us speak about the book or come toast us at a book party shortly, but in the meantime you can pre-order the book now! I will continue my training and teaching practice and will be leading a peer learning network through my work at the Packard Foundation and also other places. Next up is a workshop I will lead at the … [Read more...]
Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn?
[slideshare id=14045754&doc=feedblitzusage-120822203012-phpapp02] I've been using Feedburner for my blog RSS Feeds since 2005! It was one of a few good free options in the early days of blogging. Shortly after Feedburner was acquired by Google in 207, there started to be complaints about the way it was managing the transition and handling subscriber stats. It is time to self-host your RSS feed many people wondered? Rumors that Google will close Feedburner are circulating again, … [Read more...]
Nature Conservancy Instagram Contest and Other Examples
Last week, I wrote a post about Nonprofits and Instagram, asking if it was valuable for nonprofit marketing. The post summarized why it may be important, best practices, and a few nonprofit examples. One of my blog readers, Sarah Mowry, Outreach Director for the Deschutes Land Trust pointed me to Nature Conservancy's Instagram contest, an image scavenger hunt. Here's how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to … [Read more...]
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