I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics.  Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. Listening: hearing what people are talking about your issue or sector. Can’t wait! The right metrics. report.

Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day.  The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Take my information overload quiz.  Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI.

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1.  Listening and Learning: You're monitoring what stakeholders are saying about your organization, your issue, or programs and using the information to support your marketing goals. Remember, social media can also be used to connect people to offline actions and events. Resources.

Crisis Mapping My colleagues at Ushahidi have been working around the clock and around the globe mapping crisis information from Haiti. For those you who are not familiar with Ushahidi, they have a platform that allows anyone to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or time line. Crying.

The topic was using maps to persuade and mobilize. Larry Orman started off with a great point: we're overloaded with geographic information. We've got access to road maps, mash ups, interactive maps, climate change maps, election maps, and geotagged photos. And new generations of folks are map-savvy.

whitewater widgets yak shack October 13th, 2006 The Best use of Google Maps, full stop The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children ( NSPCC ) has a long history of embracing innovation to raise awareness of its cause. An accessible version (no map of course) allows you to drill down to your own postcode. Welcome to.

See larger image here: Map from:  Waddell, Steve. Note from Beth:   As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work.  One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. 

summits and informal conferences around the country initiated last year by O’Reilly (the publisher) and other partners. Data” was likely the biggest buzz word at the conference—open data, sharing data, collaborative data, mapping and visualizing data and so on. Helping people ask, "How would this look on a map?"

Main | Commenting On Your Blog: Zero » March 10, 2008 mapping discussion and information: Presidential Watch 08 This is a very cool tool tracking news and chatter on the election. NetCentric Advocacy Advocacy Strategy for the Age of Connectivity. del.icio.us/networks

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. If you have started following too many people on Twitter by choice or accident , use Tweetdeck and create groups.