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Learning is the Work

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The highlight was a master panel with Dave Gray, Harold Jarche, and Jane Hart on connected learning and culture change needed to embrace this type of learning. We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience.

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Case Study: NTEN’s Website Relaunch

NTEN

However, as technology and the available tools have progressed, we’re now finally able to tackle all these issues in a comprehensive way and within a budget that our board will actually approve. I am excited about being really open about our approach and our processes, both as a way to get a great product out there and as a learning tool.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. I'm struggling to learn Google Analytics, so I thought it might be a useful exercise to go through his framework with my own blog. s in it for you/your business). So, here's mine - sort of. " Conclusion.

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When Flexibility Becomes an Operating Principle: Lessons from a Nonprofit

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It was a very meaningful exercise for our entire team, resulting in what we call “ The Seven Benetech Truths.” Developing Open Source Software For Social Good For example, in the last few months, individual employees have used volunteer hours to create fun interactive, online learning tools for educators and students using Mozilla’s Webmaker.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools." I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools.

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Risk & Reward: Open Road Alliance and Candid launch new risk management course for funders

Candid

And how can the exercise of risk mitigation support grantee efforts rather than create a burdensome process? Janet : Open Road Alliance has developed a variety of tools and presentations to help support funder learning around risk management. And can you describe a few of the tools the course helps funders learn how to use?

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