It's really important to fill out the information in your Twitter profile especially the "Bio" field where you sum up in a few words who you are and make it sound interesting. It's like an elevator speech. It grabs attention and says a lot in a few words. It should leave your audience wanting more, while answering the essential questions about your organization. A great place to start your elevator speech is to adapt your marketing boilerplate. Here's some questions to help you craft … [Read more...]
Social Media and Mobile for Real Time Professional Learning at Conferences
Last week, I faciltated a mini-workshop at the Silicon Valley/Peninsula Nonprofit Leadership Forum hosted by Compasspoint. I've had the pleasure of working closely with Compasspoint as part of my continuing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. I enjoy it because I get double dose: great ideas about the integration of technology with leadership, training, and capacity building AND the content. The lunchtime conversation was with Emmett D. Carson, Ph.D., CEO … [Read more...]
QR Codes, Electronic Devices,Nonprofits, and Concert Etiquette
QR Codes (Quick Response) is a bar code that can be scanned by your mobile phone (with a free app) and are currently being used with print media (or t-shirt media) to point people to more information online. The information embedded can be a URL, a link to a download, text, phone number, or SMS. According this post by Gina Trapani, many geeks think QR codes are gimmicky, clumsy, not used well or enough, or that they're "a solution looking for a problem. That's no surprise given there are … [Read more...]
Brainstorming with OpenIDEO to Save Lives
Note from Beth: I written a lot about crowdsourcing and measuring the impact of the crowd, so I'm really intrigued by this project because they are using crowdsourcing from creative people to get ideas about how to solve an on the ground project. What I like most about this platform, although at times a little difficult to navigate, is the collaboration map. The design encourages people to connect and create. Guest Post by Jennifer Aaker, Katie Clark, and Katie Pfeiffer If you were given … [Read more...]
NTC Day of Service 2011: The Art of Story Capture
This year's Day of Service featured three different projects - a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC's largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Approximately 100 volunteers participated in service activities. Event 360 was a sponsor for the Day of Service. My role was to document the event and collect stories. I was lucky enough to work along side Mark Horvath and Shawn Ahmed, both experts at capturing stories on … [Read more...]
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