Great reads from around the web on December 22nd

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 22nd). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

December 22, 2011 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Measuring Impact: Feature Article from the Latest Issue of NTEN:Change

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[Note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free!] By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to [...]

December 22, 2011 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

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My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up on the opinion blog – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog or read the full post below. —– Google+, the social network launched by Google nearly 5 months ago, has recently opened up the platform to organizations [...]

November 23, 2011 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Is social media helping you meet your mission? It can!

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Last week, I had the opportunity to run a webinar on Nonprofit Webinars. I had thought to myself that there wouldn’t be anyone registered because it wasn’t a very buzzy topic. I was presenting on the way we can identify metrics in social media that help us reach our mission and how to use those [...]

November 17, 2011 4 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Getting Meta: Inviting the Community to Drive the Community Builder Chats

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For about a year, I moderated a monthly online chat focused on community building, community management, on and offline engagement, and the technologies that support those connections. The chat used the #CommBuild hashtag to pull regular and new participants together on Twitter and elsewhere, though we found that having the chats take place on a [...]

November 10, 2011 26 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Nonprofit Webinars: Strong Connections

Date: November 9, 2011, 3 pm EST Location: Online Topic: Strong Connections: Linking your strategy, to goals, to data Description: When it comes to social media, email marketing, or even online engagement in general, we often have a feeling when things are going well or when they aren’t. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or something else, [...]

November 9, 2011 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Great reads from around the web on October 27th

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of October 27th). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

October 27, 2011 1 comment CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

New on SSIR: What the New Facebook Changes Mean for Nonprofits

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My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog, or read the full post below. —– Whether your organization has had a presence on Facebook for years or just days—or you’re considering starting now—trying to follow along with all [...]

October 18, 2011 4 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…

Empowers Grant for Community Organizing at #OWS from DemocracyInAction

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If you’ve been following the #OccupyWallStreet events you know the size and number of events continues to grow every day. It’s really exciting to see the energy and visibility the Occupy Wall Street movement is bringing to communities around the country and even world. From speeches, to marches, to the signs individuals have brought with them, core [...]

October 12, 2011 0 comments CONTINUE READING THIS ARTICLE…