[slideshare id=35401197&doc=bethkanterlighteningtalk-gatesfoundation-final-140602151326-phpapp01] Yesterday and today, I am attending the Markets For Good workshop at the Gates Foundation. Markets for Good is an initiative with a purpose to support the further development of the information infrastructure that enables sharing and use of information for the social sector. You can about the vision here. I was invited to do a "lightening talk" covering the "human side" of data for good. I will … [Read more...]
Learning is the Work
Last month, I had the pleasure of participating in National eXtension Conference which was amazing for many reasons. I first did several professional sessions with this network back in 2007 and an online class on knowledge sharing and online collaboration - so it was great to long-time colleagues. The highlight was a master panel with Dave Gray, Harold Jarche, and Jane Hart on connected learning and culture change needed to embrace this type of learning. We used Dave Gray's "Board … [Read more...]
How Do I Get My Nonprofit's CEO To Use Twitter or other Social Media?
"You have to show not just tell your CEO about social media"- @carolynsave "Create a tweetorial" - @kanter #afpshift pic.twitter.com/zKggoMllYB — Ettore Rossetti (@EttoreRossetti) March 25, 2014 Last month, I participated in a keynote panel at the AFP Annual Conference in San Antonio, TX on the theme, "Social Media for Social Change" with Carolyn Miles, CEO of Save the Children, Ben Rattray, Founder of Change.Org, and Ritu Sharma and Darian Rodriguez Heyman, co-founders of Social Media for … [Read more...]
The Fine Art of "Satisficing" for Nonprofits
Last November, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Erie Ries, Lean Start Up, about applying the principles to nonprofits. He talked about how perfectionism, an internal mindset that bad things in the world will happen if our campaign, program or whatever is not right from beginning. Perfectionism is the enemy of learning and ultimately of getting improved impact. "We live in a culture of high quality and low risk tolerance and people want to be safe and not harmful. We … [Read more...]
Announcing ImpactRising.Org: Organizational Capacity Building Resource for Nonprofits and Consultants
Note from Beth: I first learned about this project last year, when Shiree Teng, the project leader, interviewed me as part of some research on capacity building consultants that lead to the design of ImpactRising. ImpactRising.org helps to make standards of practice explicit, so that social sector organizations like nonprofits, NGOs and foundations don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Designed to support social sector organizations and consultants with tools and resources to get ready for … [Read more...]
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