One week ago, my colleague Marc posted an announcement asking NetSquared Community members around the world to take a comprehensive community survey for us to learn how to move the program forward. Having recently posted the Net2 Think Tank on Community Surveys, I was excited to use some of my own lessons learned from the community. As the curator on the team, I have spent the last week promoting, reading, and responding to surveys. In the interest of transparency and mutual learning, I’d like to share a few of my lessons-learned from conducting th

On April 22, Billy announced the launch of the NetSquared Camps Pilot. During each of the 8 weeks since then, Amy has been reporting using the camp-notes tag here on the blog about the progress, lessons learned, and questions that have arisen as part of the pilot.

Last week saw events in Portland, Paris and North Carolina: the Camps Pilot is 4 events down, 2 to go!  The original plan with these Notes from the Field was to share emerging questions and lessons on the blog in real time over the 8 weeks of event planning alongside the organizers. But, as there are still two more events to happen and much more evaluation and thinking about the pilot, I'm sure this will not be the end of the posts!  (If you haven't been following these weekly notes, you can catch them all with the Camps-Notes tag.)

We have three events taking place next week and I'm really excited - I know they all have great speakers and participants coming, and there will certainly be some valuable content and conversations emerging.  If you are in one of these regions and aren't signed up, check out the events in Portland, OR; Chapel Hill, NC; and Paris, France. But, back to the notes!

We are well-into the Camps Pilot now, with the Douala event already passed and more coming next week. We have learned a lot and made quite a few adjustments and iterations in real-time throughout the process. Posting these notes each week has helped capture thoughts and start conversations as a team and we hope it's been valuable and interesting for you, too! (If you haven't been following these weekly notes, you can catch them all with the Camps-Notes tag.)

This is the fourth post in a series I'm writing to reporting publicly about the Camps pilot as it develops, sharing questions and ideas each week from the global perspective of planning and creating events. I've having some greation conversations with colleagues like Bonnie Koenig this week that have continued to surface ideas and insights about our work. (If you haven't been following these weekly notes, you can catch them all with the Camps-Notes tag.)

The Facebook application Causes recently announced it hit the $20 Million mark in donations.  The America's Giving Challenge from Case Foundation spurred $2.1 Million in donations for charities this past winter.  But, despite these numbers, for most organizations and causes raising money via social media is still a hard thing to do.  There are different rules and new opportunities with online fundraising and every platform or application comes

I have been using Flickr for about two years to increase visibility of the work of Red Cross Red Crescent. Today, I’d like to share some of the lessons I’ve learned.

Why Flickr?

I believe that most non-profits spend too much time preaching to the choir. Flickr is a great website to show what your organization is doing and why it is doing it to people whom you haven’t been able to reach.

http://sm4good.com/2010/01/11/flickr-nonprofits-lessons-learned/