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7 Fantastic Free or Low Cost Sources To Get Images for Your Content Strategy 27 Aug 2013 | 05:26 pm
Flickr Image by Sam Howzit Images, visuals, videos, and infographics are being staples of nonprofit’s content strategy, especially for social channels. While Facebook recently launched a huge free ...
Knight Foundation Launches The Giving Day Play Book 21 Aug 2013 | 06:22 pm
Note from Beth: Most of my work over the last twenty years in nonprofit technology has been focused on designing and facilitating capacity building projects, specifically training and peer learning pr...
7 Fabulous Nonprofit Videos on Vine and Instagram 20 Aug 2013 | 06:17 pm
Note from Beth: Like many colleagues who are nonprofit technology capacity builders, we often get asked the question, “What’s hot? What’s not? What’s the new cool thing?” Or a variation – What’s t...
Context Is Everything: Online Communities 19 Aug 2013 | 06:03 pm
Flickr Photo BirkgetKing Note from Beth: Mitch Arnowitz and I recently participated in an online discussion atVenture Philanthropy Partners/Leap of Reason about creating a community of practice fo...
Top Ten Chart Secrets from A Nonprofit Data Nerd 13 Aug 2013 | 06:02 pm
Note from Beth: A few months ago, Ann Emery wrote a guest post about her Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets which was an amazingly practical and popular post. Ann inspired me to set up a tumblr blog...
Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award 9 Aug 2013 | 05:22 pm
I’m thrilled to announce that “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” won the Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award for 2013. The Terry McAdam Book Award was established in 1989 to commemorate the life and...
Peer Learning As A Prelude to Collective Action for Social Change: Reflection 31 Jul 2013 | 07:53 pm
Source: Spitfire Twitter Feed As part of my work plan as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I have the pleasure of working with networks of grantees to design and facilita...
3 Must-Have Productivity Tools for Creating Visual Content for Social Channels 30 Jul 2013 | 05:29 pm
You are on a roll! You’ve put together an editorial calendar for next month that lays out the themes, news events, and content ideas for all channels, including social media. With your metrics in ha...
Announcing ImpactRising.Org: Organizational Capacity Building Resource for Nonprofits and Consultants 29 Jul 2013 | 05:18 pm
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 ...
Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships 25 Jul 2013 | 09:23 pm
Note From Beth: Last month, I did a webinar for the SalesForce Foundation on measuring social media. The Foundation is offering webinars and publishing white papers for nonprofits. Two recent paper...