We are always on the lookout for good advice on nonprofit management and I was happy to find out that Darian Rodriguez Heyman, former Executive Director of the Craigslist Foundation, was doing a book on the topic. The result is “Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals” recently released and a must read! › Continue reading…

Social media is one powerful tool in the arsenal of the nonprofit. My second day at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) led me to a valuable panel by Beth Kanter and Allison Fine, based off their upcoming book, The Networked Nonprofit › Continue reading….

We stopped to chat with Jean Russell, self-described Community Flow Catalyst, at SXSW, about her new book Thrivability: A Collaborative Sketch. It’s now freely available in the digital realm, and collects 64 personal redefinitions of terms we thought we knew… › Continue reading… 

Avinash Kaushik has written an excellent book on how to use free and easy-to-use tools for measuring your website’s performance. Unlike other authors, who are fixated on site visit numbers, Kaushik wants you to develop a well rounded perspective that includes: the voice of your customers, why and how people are actually using your site, and how you are doing versus the competition. His approach will help you gain powerful insights. › Continue reading…

The folks over at The Monitor Institute have been working with The Packard Foundation to explore this question. Their conclusion? Don’t worry so much about the social media tools and instead realize that you are building a social network. To do that you need a ‘networked mindset’ characterized by ‘openness, transparency, decentralized decision-making, and distributed action’. We encourage you to read the full paper ‘Working Wikily 2.0′ but here is a summary of the more important points for people working in the social sector. › Continue reading…