How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook Smart.ly   View more presentations from Beth Kanter My Facebook page is a focus group or channel for research.   It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. If don't synthesize the ongoing stream, it  gives me vertigo.    I set aside an hour or two a month to review my … [Read more...]

This week I attended Center for Effective Philanthropy's  conference "Better Philanthropy: From Data to Impact" where I participated on a panel about social media, foundations, and grantees.   Vincent Stehle moderated and other panelists included Paula Goldman, Omidyar Network,  Jacob Harold, Program Officer, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Travis Manzione, Director of Assessment Tools for CEP. Travis Manzione shared some preliminary data from a survey of over 2,000 grantees from … [Read more...]

I'm just beginning a new crop of peer learning projects for nonprofits to learn the practice of being  networked nonprofits and use social media effectively at Zoetica and through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation. I'm also trying to shift my own practice into more design and train the trainers and coach the coaches versus direct delivery.   It's hard because you have to be very disciplined about noticing and documenting your practice. Wikis can be terrific platforms for … [Read more...]