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It’s Not What You Know, It’s How You Learn

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space.

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Resources for Measuring What Matters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leap of Reason: Managing to Outcomes in an Era of Scarcity (Mario Morino) – Provides a call to action and a set of case studies that highlight the importance of outcomes-based management in the nonprofit sector. What have you learned? The resource also includes some case studies. What methods are you using? Measurement'

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Of course, there were a few bright spots such as Mario Morino’s Lead of Reason , DoSomething.Org , DataKind , and other nonprofit data nerds. I would describe less of a handbook on how to use data, and more of a recipe to become a learning organization. The field has grown exponentially. Communicating Results.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). In Education.

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Why Data Informed VS Data Driven?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mario Morino uses the phrase “information-based introspection” to refer to using and applying data in context to excel. Data-informed cultures have the conscious use of assessment, revision, and learning built into the way they plan, manage, and operate. Data-informed cultures are not slaves to their data.

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What is your organization’s “One Metric That Matters”?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While I was working “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with KD Paine several people said I had to read Mario Morino’s Leap of Reason which is about how nonprofits can manage to outcomes. It’s critical to move through the build>measure>learn cycle as quickly and as frequently as possible.To

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