I'm writing this post from Tunisia. I'm here working on an amazing training project for the Women's Economic Sustainability program where I will train trainers to deliver a curriculum for Women entrepreneurs to use social media as well as deliver a workshop to the partners on the "Networked NGO" based on my book the Networked Nonprofit. The photo above is the view from my hotel room. For the last five years, I have been using Chris Brogan's "My Three Words" to identify three words that help … [Read more...]
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5 Infographics About Infographics To Master Basics in Five Minutes
In my forthcoming book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit," co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement - called "Measurement and the Aha! Moment—Using your data to tell stories, make decisions, and change the world." There's where I discovered a new passion - data visualization techniques for sense-making. The process of translating your spreadsheet into an infographic can help lead you to insights and the product, the infographic … [Read more...]
I Love Charts
I have a couple of addictions. One of them is magic markers and pens. But I also love using those pens for visualization techniques and especially to sketch out charts and graphs. I did a deep dive on data visualization techniques while working on a chapter of my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, with co-author KD Paine. That's when I heard about the book, "I Love Charts." The book is based on the popular tumblr blog with the same name - I Love Charts. The blog has been … [Read more...]
Have Online Social Networks Become Boring?
I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, "The Machine is US/ing Us." I often used the video at social media workshops back then to generate discussion about how our world is changing. When I first got started with social media training (2004-2007), I often rain into a lot of raised … [Read more...]
Getting Insight from Facebook Insight Requires Sense Making Skills
If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others. Robin Good curated this article about research on future workplace skills. (Found it via Curata's collection). The skills are: Sense-making: ability to determine the deeper meaning or significance … [Read more...]
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