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...]
Archives for April 2014
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 Mobilisation Journal: A Way To Spread Learning About Social Change Movements Innovative Use of Technology
The Greenpeace Mobilization Lab has a project proposal idea for a "Mobilization Journal" as part of the Knight News Challenge. It's open for comments and feedback right now - or "applause." This blog shares some thoughts about this project and I have to give it a big round of applause. To understand the project, you have to get familiar with work of Greenpeace Mobilisation Lab. I've been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives … [Read more...]
New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns
Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge. The first is The Giving Day Play books which a collective archive of formally documented processes, examples, check lists, and case studies planning and hosting giving days. The second is a peer learning group of … [Read more...]
The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!
"I kissed a squirrel & I liked it" #ReplaceGirlWithSquirrelInASong — Billboard (@billboard) April 4, 2014 I'm preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become … [Read more...]