Networks, metrics, levers, buzzwords

I’m nearing the end of my second to last multi-week road trip of 2008. Way too much travel… Need to go home… Can not think, let alone write, anymore… What follows are notes. Way back in May I wrote about a paper on Working Wikily from the Packard Foundation. To their credit, they’ve built out [...]

Networks, metrics, levers, buzzwords

I’m nearing the end of my second to last multi-week road trip of 2008. Way too much travel… Need to go home… Can not think, let alone write, anymore… What follows are notes. Way back in May I wrote about a paper on Working Wikily from the Packard Foundation. To their credit, they’ve built out [...]

Network analysis as metric for grantmakers

[image from boxesandarrows] You hear a lot about networks these days. In nonprofit jargon no one even wants to be an organization anymore, everyone wants to be a network. I’ve been thinking on a smaller scale of how networks might matter to philanthropy and funders and do-ers. Assuming we value networks because they facilitate useful [...]

Network analysis as metric for grantmakers

[image from boxesandarrows] You hear a lot about networks these days. In nonprofit jargon no one even wants to be an organization anymore, everyone wants to be a network. I’ve been thinking on a smaller scale of how networks might matter to philanthropy and funders and do-ers. Assuming we value networks because they facilitate useful [...]

Social Innovation Camp

A few weeks back I wrote about Kluster and the promise it might hold for rapid prototyping of social ideas. Here’s a better example – Social Innovation Camp, London, April 4 – 6, 2008. For 72 hours techies and social innovators will work on the following six ideas: – Barcode Wikipedia A site for storing [...]

Notes on nonprofit networks

Enough of my noodling about networks, I decided to take my questions, “What do nonprofit networks look like, how do they work, and what does this mean for philanthropy?” to the experts. So I asked these questions of the folks over at FAS.Research – who do very important work mapping networks. Here’s some of what [...]

Noodling about networks

What do politics, the Super Bowl, and philanthropy have to do with each other? Besides the fact that they are all on my mind, that is. They may have nothing else in common so I’ll stick with why all of them are on my mind. One word. Networks. I’ll get the easy one out of [...]

Facebook and Project Agape

I wrote about networks and nonprofits in a post on LinkedInforGood. Yesterday, in announcing its efforts to become the “social platform for the Internet,” Facebook announced partnerships with Amazon, eBay, and Project Agape. This will allow the 24 million users of Facebook to promote nonprofits they support, raise funds, share information about causes – the [...]

Network effects, nonprofits, and crossing lines

LinkedIn is bringing its network platform to the nonprofit world – you can learn about nonprofit organizations and donate directly from the new nonprofit pages on LinkedIn For Good. Here’s what they say about it: “In addition, you can add a badge to your own LinkedIn profile to show your support and raise awareness for [...]

Another take on networks and integration

Mari Kurashi of Global Giving provides these insights on the need to break down the conceptual firewall beween giving money and giving time. Its in line with the power of networks being built over at xigi – which is connecting various kinds of financial tools for social good. Tags: philanthropy