As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I'm facilitating several peer exchanges on the topics of measurement, social media, and networked nonprofits. This is feeding into my work on a book with KD Paine on that topic. Last month I had the pleasure of facilitating another peer exchange for Packard grantees who are children's advocates and was thrilled to have Momsrising co-founder Kristin Row-Finkbeiner share some of the secrets of how networked … [Read more...]
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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?
Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Two grantees that work on Children's Healthcare at the national level and have experience using social media as part of an integrated campaign were co-presenters. Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner co-founder of Momsrising and Bruce … [Read more...]
Orchestras, Musicians, The Concert Experience, and Social Media
I've been at the League of American Orchestras Conference. Yesterday, I had the pleasure of co-facilitating a half-day "Digital Strategies" seminar with Vince Ford, Director of Digital Media from the New York Philharmonic and leading a peer session for major orchestra marketing staff and youth orchestra executive directors with Makala Johnson who does Social Media for the Mayo Clinic. This posts shares a few insights. I always use sticky notes or index cards to get people to ask questions … [Read more...]
Webinars: Designing Effective Learning Experiences
If you deliver training on webinar platforms, you need to understand how people learn. The content is important, but it is only half of the instructional design task. This post summarizes some learning research and offers some tips for delivering effective webinars. It has been over six years since I designed and delivered my first webinar/conference call, "Designing Effective Technology Training Workshops for Nonprofits" with NTEN. Because webinars were a new medium to trainers, I used … [Read more...]
Twitter Community Organizing Rules for Non Profits
Note from Beth: I love when I discovered folks who are community organizers and successfully transfer what they know about community organizing offline to the online world. Robin shared some of her thoughts in the comments of a recent blog post, and I invited to share her community organizing rules for Twitter. Enjoy. As a community organizer, Twitter makes a lot of sense. Organizing is about building relationships and mobilizing people around a cause. Twitter does exactly that. I have … [Read more...]
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