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Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think They Should Do Their Work!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Faithful readers of this blog may know that Beth Kanter is Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program, but we’ll bet that far fewer of you know what the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program actually is, or what we fund. Guest Post by the Packard Foundation OE Team.

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Configuring QuickBooks for Use in a Nonprofit: Using "Customer/Jobs" and "Classes" Utilities

Tech Soup

This is the third blog of my series on configuring QuickBooks for use in a nonprofit organization. In my first blog , I mentioned that the very first step in configuring QuickBooks is to have a QuickBooks implementation meeting, and I recommended using a questionnaire to facilitate the meeting and act as a centerpiece. 2009 5K Run.

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Great reads from around the web on December 9th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " Open for Action — A blog for OpenAction thoughts and musings – "Not sure about you, but we’re saying finally! Who Tweets?

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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable.

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ROI: What are the best "I" words for nonprofits to think about Social Media and ROI?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For nonprofits, this should not be a foreign concept. Here's a sampling: Lewis Green warns not to use the traditional investment financial calculations but instead measure value. He is talking about outcomes based program evaluation, not evaluating your social media strategy.

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Mobile Innovations for Social Good

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. Of course a selection of these updates will be aggregated on the team blog. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Second Place: $15,000.

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Invention, Technology and Social Change: What’s driving you?

Amy Sample Ward

made me think again about the open-ended topic Ashoka posed in it’s “Blog your way to Hyderabad&# competition announcement: the interconnection between technology, invention and social change. This blog post is an entry in their competition to find the official blogger to travel to and cover the event.

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