[slideshare id=32055762&doc=smdata-140307183636-phpapp02] I'm just back from the SXSW Interactive Festival where I was on a panel called "What Social Media Analytics Can't Tell You" moderated by Alexandra Samuel of Vision Critical, Jeremiah Owyang, Crowd Companies, and Colby Flint, Discovery Channel. We discussed how social media analytics can provide some great information on your existing social media followers, but at the same time, there are gaps that need to be filled through other … [Read more...]
Ellen's Oscar Selfie Raises $1.5 Million for Humane Society
If only Bradley's arm was longer. Best photo ever. #oscars pic.twitter.com/C9U5NOtGap — Ellen DeGeneres (@TheEllenShow) March 3, 2014 If you watched the Academy Awards, you know that Oscars' host, Ellen DeGeneres, kept pulling out her Samsung Galaxy Note 3 during the show. She managed to gather a bunch of celebrities, including Angelina Jolie, Bradley Cooper, Kevin Spacey, Jared Leto, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Lupita Nyong'o and Brad Pitt for a selfie that made the history books as the most … [Read more...]
My TedXBerkeley Talk on Individual Social Responsibility
Earlier this month, I crossed an item off my bucket list when I gave a talk at TedXBerkeley. I spoke on the topic of "ISR" or what I call "Individual Social Responsibility. " The idea is that when you give in small amounts - anything - your time, money, or skills and encourage your network online to amplify it, you can have a great impact as an individual. The point is that it isn't about amazing a huge number of followers on social networks, it is about building relationships online, … [Read more...]
Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days
Note for Beth: Most of my work over the last twenty years in nonprofit technology has been focused on designing and facilitating capacity building projects, specifically training and peer learning projects that help participants successfully learn and apply skills using online technology, social media, networks, measurement, training design or other topic. You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do … [Read more...]
How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results
Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? Would you stop doing crowd funding, social media infused fundraising and revert back to traditional methods of fundraising? Or would you learn, pivot, and improve? That's exactly what the Latino Community Foundation did. Masha Chernyak, Director of Programs and Policy, answered a few questions about how they used learning and pivoting to get … [Read more...]
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