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Networked Learning Loops Through Benchmarking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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Advice for Starting A New Fundraising Job

Bloomerang

Network, network, and network. The overriding benchmark is that there is steady progress toward meeting core goals and objectives. Starting a new fundraising job can be welcomed as beginning with a clean slate — there are no problems holding you back. Explore opportunities for growth.

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Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

problem, here is an awesome list of potential tasks that might be perfect for your interns. Business challenge Challenge interns to create a 10 page presentation that researches an existing problem in the company and pitch practical solutions. In order to really avoid the ‘what do I do next?’

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Learn MBA Skills In 12 Weeks

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"I found this concept difficult -- does the problem lie with me?" The cocktail of comfort and anxiety you get when you benchmark yourself against your peers is just one of the many ways a social learning experience like a book club can help keep you interested and focused. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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How are you using metrics, benchmarks, and experiments to improve your Facebook presence?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is the way out of this problem? The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size. Sysomos did a benchmarking study of all Fan Pages on Facebook that looked Fan Page "popularity" (number of fans) against content posting frequency.

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When Women Lead

Eric Jacobsen Blog

The second section primarily includes: How women tackle complex problems. Boorstin is CNBC’s Senior Media & Tech Correspondent and has been an on-air reporter for the network since 2006. I’ve been fascinated to see how these leaders saw the world and approached problem-solving.