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Doing More by Doing Less

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo Jakob Montrasio. Less ‘we know better’ attitudes. If you believe nonprofits are largely inefficient, lack key technical skills and abilities, don’t understand their business model, you create a funding system high on accountability, compliance, and funder-driven.

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My Three Words for 2011: Seek, Sense, and Share

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My Three Words for 2011 inspired by Harold Jarche's Networked Learning Model. For 2011, my three words are: Seek, Sense, and Share inspired by Harold Jarche’s model for networked learning. How these words will guide me in 2011: Seek: Seeking is the process of keeping up to date in your field.

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Better Blog Museum Metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He thinks that Avanish Kaushik's model is particularly well-suited for museum blogs. Do you have plan or logic model to share? What is your impression of the flickr stats feature? These captured the ???interactivity???, interactivity???, the multidirectional communication, that most museums set up blogs to encourage and explore.

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PopTech Fellows Program: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This includes leadership, social innovation, communications, branding, graphic facilitation, financial and funding models. Peter Durand, Flickr Photo. Otherwise, attitudes don't change. Even more inspiring was to learn more about the work that PopTech Fellows are doing to change the world. Graphic Facilitation Rocks.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

is an attitude , not a download. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ). Laura Quinn explains why she feels the "all content should be open" attitude is not responsible and explains how/why there aren't sustainable business models in nonprofit content creation. More pointers to NTC posts here. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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The 7 Keys to a Donor Retention Strategy Full of Thanks

Connection Cafe

If you want to build a transformational business model that moves your organization steadily forward (not two steps forward; three steps back), then you simply must put more resources into your donor retention strategy – more specifically, your gratitude program. Photo cred: Flickr. One-time transactions don’t get you very far.

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Green Coworking: An Interview with Chris Messina and Ivan Storck of Citizen Space

Have Fun - Do Good

I think so far it's similar to the BarCamp event model where it started out as being a lot of geeks and people online, because it spread through online vehicles. We recently created a second model to meet additional demand, and also to extend the size of our coworking community here.

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