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How Nonprofits Get Significant Value from Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I have been doing content curation for the past twenty years that I’ve worked as a technology trainer, in July, 2011 I discovered the Scoop.It Evaluating: Rate and rank items in your collection. Instead, content curation helps us keep focused. Illustrating / Visualizing: Add an illustration to the resource or collection.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Friday, April 15, 2011 Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead and Manage a Nonprofit Organization posted by Laura L. NMI students agree; however, they additionally rank high their interest in learning about strategic planning, board governance, grant writing, marketing, program evaluation, and social entrepreneurship.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

We knew we would ultimately be in 16 countries by the year 2020, which meant that tracking, monitoring, and evaluating projects would become more complicated by the day. We rolled out ProvingIt.org in October 2011. Anybody could observe our progress, at any time. It isn’t perfect. But it is exactly what we wanted to get us started.

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Research Friday: The Trouble with Pay Raises

ASU Lodestar Center

The more a person’s job includes the following elements, the harder it is to fairly evaluate (and reward) individual performance: 1. It's no surprise when employees perceive job performance evaluations as unfair. Levine, and Colleen O’Neill, World at Work Journal , 2011. Sutton, Harvard Business Press, 2006. [2] Get another!

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#NTCwinning: Reflecting on What Went Well at the 2012 NTC

NTEN

These quotes and the rest found in this post are from the NTC evaluation.) NTCwinning 2: Learning Everywhere So much teaching and learning happens at the NTC and that makes us proud. Nearly 300 of you shared your knowledge as a speakers, not to mention the teaching and sharing that happened over meals and in-between the sessions.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? However, thats hard enough to do when evaluating any one nonprofit organization, let alone the many thousands that we would like to compare. May 4, 2011 3:49 PM George said. posted by Mark Hager, Ph.D. But thats okay.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: The cockroach under the refrigerator.

ASU Lodestar Center

Disclaimer Wednesday, April 13, 2011 The cockroach under the refrigerator: scandal and malpractice in philanthropy posted by Travis Butterfield , Project Coordinator ASU Lodestar Center Ever since I worked with Laura Tan on editing her recent blog post , I have been thinking about the unintended effects that volunteer service can have.