Summit Collaborative - Building Nonprofit Power

Follow-up to Presentation at the Greater Worcester Community Foundation

The presentation, - Web 2.0 + Nonprofits = Stronger, Smarter, More Effective, was presented as part of the foundation's Nonprofit Support Center’s program, “Leading in a New Era.”

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Web 2.0 + Nonprofits = Stronger, Smarter, More Effective

View more presentations from marcosten.

• Online Engagement Case Studies
• Worksheet - Designing a Web 2.0 Experiment
• Online Engagement Planning Tool - Nonprofits
• Stakeholder Engagement Worksheet
• 5 Part video series about online community building
• YouTube Nonprofit Program
• Flickr Photosharing
• Audio/Podcasting Tool
• Wiki Tool

Circuit Rider Performance Improvement

This is a document I created for Lasa's Circut Rider Programme. This autumn they are launching an innovation, first of its kind Circuit Rider skills development programme. You can contact me or Sarah Lord-Soares to learn more. Click here to download a PDF version of the report.

Evaluating E-Newsletter Success

Last week I led a session for a group of amazing communication professionals in London that are a part of the Cascade Network . The session's focus was evaluating e-newsletter success. What follows are the audio clips from the session. Give part 1 about 30 seconds to load up before you click on the play arrow. Though the audio quality is good, it was a face-to-face session so I'm not sure how useful it'll be to you. Let me know! There are some good things raised in the session but again, audio just doesn't do justice to what we did face to face.

You may find the Newsletter Impact worksheet I used with the attendees to do some on-the-spot classwork helpful. Email me if you'd like to know more about how we used this worksheet.

Part 1

Stakeholder Engagement Worksheet

I like simple! I like to use inquiry based learning. I like synergy! So this tool is simple, asks you to ask questions and connects the dots between strategic communications information flow and engagement of core stakeholders. If you need a Word version of it to customize just let me know. Ciao4Now - Marc

Learning to build, nurture and sustain online communities

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Together with Bellanet, USAID, the Association for Progressive Communications and others we created the 'Building Electronic Communities an Networks' web-based curriculum for the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). 

The module covers the approaches, methods, and tools used to build electronic communities as well as the steps and procedures for developing and facilitating electronic communities. TIt contains 29 lessons, ranging from approximately 15 to 90 minutes duration, grouped into five units, for a total of about 16 to 22 hours of self-paced instruction. You can use it to help you build, nurture and sustain your online community. It walks you step by step from assessment to implementation.

Critique of the nonprofit approach to the use of Web 2.0 tools

These two short videos offer a strong critique of current nonprofit approach to the use of Web 2.0 tools. It provides you with a balanced framework to look at Web 2.0 adoption from.

Part 1

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Part 2

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FREE Tech Planning and Fundraising Guide

Developing a grant proposal?
Need a technology plan? Then
this easy to use planning guide 
is for you! 

It is really a great tool, full of
simple steps by step instructions,
worksheets and case studies.

Worksheet #1 - Raising Money for your technology needs

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This is the first in a series of worksheets to help you improve your ability to raise funds for your technology needs. Worksheet # 1 will get you started.

Online Community Planning Tool

Use our Online Engagement Planning
Tool to think through what
you want to do online, with
whom and why.

Web 2.0 'Getting Started' tool

We designed this simple to use Getting Started with Web 2.0 tool for foundations interested in utilizing Web 2.0 tools and strategies. We think this planning tool will help you get started on the right foot! It will help you better understand who you want to engage and why. It prompts you to consider the role you might play in online engagements with your stakeholders and most importantly, it will help you justify to yourselves, and then to the others you will need on board, that the online efforts you propose to launch make sense to pursue.