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Taking 18 Minutes Day Towards A Year-Long Focus

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Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. I want to sustain that focus throughout the year and apply to what I do — from content curation to blogging to facilitating trainings and developing curriculum. Be more of a focusing lens versus a fire hydrant.

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Making Data Visualizations: A Survival Guide And Other Resources

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As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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The End of Expertise and How Associations Must Adapt

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Declining trust and polarization is affecting national organizations’ ability to partner with their chapters. One exec expressed interest in resources to share with our members to teach them how to have conversations about controversial topics. Many execs reinforced the idea that communications should be clear and transparent.

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Linking Results To Key Performance Indicators Is Like Hooking Up A Big TV

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book. When I use this a teaching tool for peer learning projects, participants select one result area to base a small project that they will measure. Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s). Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again.

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Creating A Culture of Well-being in Your Nonprofit Workplace: The First Step

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Last June, I facilitated a leadership workshop at the Americans for the Arts Conference where I tested some of the assessments and checklist tools in our book. Their program includes about teaching artists. Then had a group conversation about what people were open to sharing. Then we had the whole staff brain storm together.

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Second Life Education Programs in NY Times, Goes Open Source, and other tidbits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Graduate students doing research or teaching in Second Life have formed a mobile colony that holds discussions with experts in subjects like online ethics or aesthetics What they didn't mention is the new Nonprofit Island that will be opening a few weeks. I learned a lot. Unfortunately, the event got cancelled due a fire.

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Advancing Social Media Measurement for Philanthropic Outcomes #sm_re

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” This is a question that is hard to answer in a Tweet or two, and in fact we devoted to an entire chapter to the topic in the book – “Understanding, Visualizing, and Improving Networks.” Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Radio Bilingue.