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Interview with Shonali Burke: Analytics Tell Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. The Google Analytics chart looks at web traffic and trends between May 9 and June 20; the first phase of the campaign. Note from Beth: Last May, USA for UNHCR launched The Blue Key campaign as a way for U.S. What is the blue line? Orange line?

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How the Nonprofit Sector Can Share What We Learn and Why We Should

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So we are hopeful this is a trend. Change will require more of this kind of shift in thinking, but also a real shift in organizational practices around how we license and share what we learn. The use of open licenses (like creative commons) and open repositories (like IssueLab ) are two such shifts.

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How The James Irvine Foundation Received Microsoft Donations Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

This is an interview with Jeff Brandenburg who runs the IT department at the foundation. Here is my interview with Jeff Brandenburg. We received our software licenses in two days and installed them right away. He and his two IT colleagues support 43 staff in two offices. Jeff reports that he's not been bored at all.

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How Companies Succeed By Engaging Radically With Society

Eric Jacobsen Blog

To achieve " connected leadership " you must: Map your world -- Analyze stakeholders as precisely as your customers, understand trends and discontinuitites, and quantify the value at stake from external relationships. Question: You interviewed over 80 corporate leaders from around the world for the book. What insights stood out?

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. The data set has been stripped of personal information and now available on a creative commons license at Crisis Trends. So, they launched a campaign with “Team Crunchy vs Team Smooth.” They collected thousands and thousands of peanut butter jars.