Stories, software and strategies to help nonprofits do the social web
Em Hall and I presented to a great crowd at Digital Capital Week's nonprofit day today. Thanks, everybody for turning out — and thanks for the super questions. Check them on Twitter #npskillz. My favorite, "Focus on brand or issues for NPO social media?" Humungous thanks to @emilyhaha for the kickoff idea and wisdom as always! You must have flash to see this embedded document. Update: Here's the text of the presentation, since the text seems to have gotten lost between Keynote for the iPad and Scribd. (What...
June, 16 2010 • 2 Comments • 0 Faves
The goal of all of this has been to harness the excitement of development for good, but also to go beyond the contests — to build communities of practice. Peter calls these innovator networks. If we’re lucky, these may grow into innovation marketplaces that just might be self-sustaining. That’s the hope, anyway. Meanwhile, it’s lots of experimentation. One prominent experiment, sponsored by Corbett’s iStrategy Labs, is this month’s Digital Capital Week (DCWeek). A week-long series of workshops, projects and parties...
June, 8 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
It is only by accepting the hard truth of personal responsibility for yesterday that each of us can begin to create a better tomorrow. via blogs.hbr.org Let's make it so.
June, 3 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
via flickr.com For our office service day we did a little school cleanup with City Year DC. Three murals spruced up what will become an outdoor classroom for Emery Educational Campus in DC. Big thanks...
May, 8 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Eric: Why not just have experts help develop ideas and directly fund them? Marnie: There are many people — universities, foundations, private individuals — who find experts, give them resources to develop amazing and elegant solutions and fund them. That’s a model that has been around for a long time and, like any model, it has its strengths and weaknesses. We wanted to do something different with NetSquared. via casefoundation.org I caught up with Marnie Webb of NetSquared to ask about their Challenges...
April, 16 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
April, 12 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Not surprisingly for those in the independent sector, the hardest part of this is organizing and educating NGOs on how to engage supporters... not inspiring individuals who want to do good. Whereas the former is about nonprofit capacity building (not fun and sexy, but absolutely critical); the latter is about branding and marketing (totally fun). Thus many Web services discover that even the slickest tool sets and Web designs don't drive participation from NGOs, who we believe are the most important part of the equation...
April, 5 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Clay Shirky gives voice to what big media seems to be thinking: “Web users will have to pay for what they watch and use, or else we will have to stop making content in the costly and complex way we have grown accustomed to making it. And we don’t know how to do that.” via shirky.com This doesn't work so well, though, if supply explodes and demand does not. When complex systems collapse, the moment shifts to those who can work lightly and cheaply. A great read, as usual.
April, 1 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
You can find a lot of advice in many places. Rarely is the quality of the advice associated with having money involved of largely superior quality. And if you end up building something of considerable value, then the connections and introductions will come all by themselves. via 37signals.com
April, 1 2010 • 0 Comments • 0 Faves
Startup thinking for the social sector. Code to help nonprofits do the social web. Plus photography.
(And reading aloud.)
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