Note from Beth: I'm working on the sequel to the Networked Nonprofit - it is a book about using measurement to prove and improve results with the Measurement Goddess KD Paine. (Her recent book, Measuring What Matters, is a must read.) So, lately, I've been on the hunt for good nonprofit measurement stories. Last week, I read Jocelyn Harmon's post about Nonprofit Facebook Fail and in the comments, Petri Darby refers to the dramatic increase of visits to his nonprofit's Make-A-Wish … [Read more...]
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How Networked Nonprofit Use Facebook SMARTly
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...]
What is the scaffolding for learning in public?
I've been writing about wikis (and other social technologies) can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “learning in public.” You can learn in public in different ways - self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. The Packard Foundation's organizational effectiveness wiki has an excellent example of this networked approach to public learning … [Read more...]
How Mature Is Your Nonprofit's Social Media Practice?
In our book, Networked Nonprofit, we describe the principles for becoming a networked nonprofit - a nonprofit that is simple, agile, transparent, and works more like a network than an isolated fortress. Networked nonprofits are experts at using new media (social media, mobile, and other emerging technologies) to spread their missions, design and scale programs, communicate with stakeholders, or inspire behavior change. Their impact is to make the world a better place. Yesterday, during a … [Read more...]
SXSW Reflection: Using Social Media to Facilitate A Global Back Channel at a Panel Session
Over the past month, I have been thinking about a couple of different ideas and how to incorporate them into training design to facilitate learning. My questions are: 1. How can we integrate content sharing and audience interaction in the right balance to unleash pearls of wisdom from both audience and the experts on the stage? 2. How can we use graphic facilitation or graphic note taking in real time to deepen understanding of the topic being discussed? 3. How can nonprofits learn from … [Read more...]
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