I've just finished teaching a class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. It was an amazing experience and so delighted that I'm doing a FREE webinar next week to share some reflections on designing and delivering an effective nonprofit training. The grad students in my class will be doing an internship as part … [Read more...]
Implementing Lean Startup in Mission-Driven Organizations
Video streaming by Ustream Note from Beth: I'm thrilled to take the opportunity to learn more about how nonprofit causes can embrace the principles of the lean start up movement. In December, I'll be covering the Lean Start Up Conference in San Francisco and in January I'll be a judge and attend the Lean Impact Summit in SF. Recently there was a webcast hosted by the Lean Start Up Conference about implementing lean impact with Christie George of New Media Ventures and Akash Trivedi of … [Read more...]
5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority
Note from Beth: My friend Porter Gale has just launched a new book called "Your Network is Net Worth." Porter's definition about networking is about charting your own course, following your passions, and making meaningful connections, which in turn increase your happiness and productivity. Her book shares the secrets of how to do this. Porter has been a guest poster to this blog in the past and she offered to write up this guest post about mentoring. As one who has always considered their … [Read more...]
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...]
TechCamp: Empowering Women Through Technology
Note from Beth: With all the travel I've been doing, I was hoping that I could sync my schedule with attending TechCamp, a program under Secretary Clinton’s Civil Society (CS) 2.0 initiative – an effort to galvanize the technology community to assist civil society organizations (CSOs) across the globe by providing capabilities, resources and assistance to harness the latest information and communications technology (ICT) advances to build their digital capacity. Unfortunately, that was not … [Read more...]
