Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. Network use of social media tools and strategies incorporates metrics and ongoing learning experiments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The next step is to see how people remix, improve, and share back the material (with attribution of course) - that is the true power of working wikily. I'd include the implementation/metrics at the end or as an extension of the game. Finish the social media strategy map. My debrief of the two-day workshop.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

On the other hand, I appreciate the fact that research in the value of informal learning, and evaluation metrics beyond earned income, throughput, and educational outcomes are underdeveloped. I would prefer us to try to “learn what the community does, map how we could improve or support what they do, and fill in the white space.”

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