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Community-Driven Social Impact: Presentation, Case Studies, and Workshop

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Org is a terrific example of a CDSI campaign. Now for the Social by Social game! Be sure everyone has a playing surface: CDSI Game – Grid.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

It’s in our org charts. But the data clearly shows that donors do not see themselves as online or offline — they’re just supporters who don’t care about the attribution games nonprofits play. Generation Z, those born between 1995 and 2012, will make the connection between gaming and giving. Can you read a chart?

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WeAreMedia Live Workshop: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Your workshop encouraged us to devise a strategy for using social media, and to tease out what these tools could really mean to our mission, vision, and constituencies -- rather than just, "hurry up and get your org up on Twitter!" I'd use the social media game as culminating activity. Setting up a blog. Set up a Facebook Page.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Party Metaphors, Conversations, and A Few Good Links

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. Not sure what a Game for Change is? The ResDistricting Game involves moving the invisible district borders in every U.S.

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Building your Donor base on Facebook - The Nature Conservancy's experience.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

They did this by creating a Cause and a Fan Page for the org, and by forming a relationship with an ecology oriented game on Facebook, (lil) Green Patch. Clicking on their name of the amount that they've donated yields a graphical chart containing the people that they've recruited and/or recent donations that they've made.

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Signals launches a podcast series with " From Org Charts to Sitemaps: How Organizational Structure Affects Web Strategy and Implementation." Meanwhile, Net Neutrality legislative debates may have some impact for Second Life and other online games. And, for a quick summary of recent Second Life stats, see here.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

If you’re a fan of the trilogy, you’ll understand: 5 Important Marketing Lessons Nonprofits Can Learn From The Hunger Games. Beth Kanter’s guest star, Ann Emory, offers up the Top Ten Chart Secrets from a Nonprofit Data Nerd. This one I particularly like, and not just because I wrote it.

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