Summit Collaborative - Building Nonprofit Power

Interview with Gavin Clabaugh

In this interview Gavin speaks frankly about foundations, nonprofits and issues related to organizational change. By the way - Gavin's Digital Diner blog is fantastic.  First, a few brief introductory notes:

Obstacles to Opportunity Report

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Washington Regional Grantmakers Presentation

Below is a brief video presentation that I am giving today via Skype to a group of grantmakers in Washington DC. Below the video are case studies and materials that I refer to or that were handed out at the session.

First here are some of the questions you asked this morning:

• How do we 'network' folks in a password protected space?
• What is this Twittering thing?
• What is the verb for twittering?
• How do we sort what the options are
• How do we help our members that are geographically dispersed stay connected?
• How could it help the nonprofits we support?
• What are the results: Should I spend time blogging or doing my annual report?
• What about maintenance, sustaining this stuff once we get started?

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Getting Started with Web 2.0 Worksheet

The following videos take you on a tour of five distinct uses of the same blogging tool. Contact me if you'd like to learn more about what it took to set up and sustain these.

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Family Feud for Nonprofit Teaching and Learning

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No media coverage...no worries, just social media it!

Vanessa Brown is the new State Representative for West Philadelphia and North Philadelphia. Colleagues of mine at Evolve Strategies sat down with her a few days after her swearing in to talk about her new position and her priorities.

No local electronic media has covered Vanessa's election. By producing this video and posting it up on social network sites, Vanessa is reaching the politically aware and interested people in Philadelphia.

Vanessa has a great story as a community activist that challenged power and won. She is independent and the "real deal" in terms of her commitment to helping her constitutents. She is not going to have the resources to buy time on TV and even the earned media that she may get at some point will not give her the opportunity to really explain who she is and what she cares about. This longer form introductory piece gives people a much better understanding of what she is about and establishes a media benchmark that she will build upon in the coming months.