Note from Beth: This is a banner week for data nerds!  Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report.  Frank Barry shares this guest post summarizing results. 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report [INFOGRAPHIC] guest post by Frank Barry Blackbaud, NTEN and Common Knowledge just released the fourth annual 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. We learned a lot of things, but one prevailing theme … [Read more...]

I'm here at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this week and hope to share some brief nuggets.       The conference got off to an exciting start this morning in a very unique way.   Oakland's Extra Action Marching Band lead the way into the ballroom  with clinging, clanging, trumpets, drums, flag waving, and dancers who danced their hair off.  It was a high energy, off beat and unique way to open a conference.   Holly Ross welcomed everyone and thanked the event … [Read more...]

Mobile is the Needle, Social is the Thread: How Information Today is Woven Into Our Lives View more presentations from Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project "Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread" is the name of  a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., focusing on how information consumption patterns are changing in light of these two technological developments.  But it is also … [Read more...]

  Note from Beth: I've been working with John Haydon over the past week to get my Facebook Page ready to go (and it's gonna rock can't wait to show it off!).    As part of the process, I've been looking at what other nonprofits have done to get ideas.   It takes time to do that, so  I've been posting screenshots of Nonprofit Facebook Pages and curating them on pinterest so other nonprofits can spend more time looking, versus hunting.     I noticed that every time I posted an example,  Nancy … [Read more...]