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Shameless Ask, Looking for SXSW 2012 Nonprofit Votes!

NetWits

SXSW 2012 session voting is nearing the end. If you’re not familiar with the process The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a huge new media event. Let the voting begin … Making Social Media Measurement Sexy. We’ve got until Friday Sept 9th (right, tomorrow).

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Outcomes usually imply changes in behavior, condition, skills, attitudes or knowledge in the individual, community or other target population. Funders are increasingly conditioning grants upon the delivery of specific measures. Welcome to Research Friday !

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The Secret To Social Media Engagement: Kiss A Squirrel!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Measure, Test, Refine. This tweet is sparking engagement because it resonates with the audience and is also playing with nostaglia.

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Doing More by Doing Less

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some funders and donors started to ask how much of the sector’s perceived inability to achieve scale or impact is due to funders believing it is about them – their theory of change, their strategy, and their definition (and measurement) of outcomes? Less ‘we know better’ attitudes. Less restrictive funding.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Overhead: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand?

Connection Cafe

In just about any place you look today for advice on fundraising, overhead is being discussed. Some say it’s the wrong measure of a nonprofit organization’s success; others say it is the gold standard for measuring worthiness for support. I recently undertook research into the subject of overhead for my doctoral project.

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Book Review: “Charity Case”

Connection Cafe

Pallotta’s latest book, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World , was released in late 2012 to very positive reviews. Since then he has authored several books and has become a voice for change in the nonprofit sector. In 2009, the American Egg Board spent $15.8

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