Measurement & Evaluation

Big Data for Social Innovation

By Kevin C. Desouza & Kendra L. Smith 20

Nonprofits lag behind business and science in using big data effectively.

Technology

Putting Bullies in Their Place

By Suzie Boss

A Web-based initiative uses analysis of social media chatter to locate hotspots of antisocial behavior.

Arts

Good Show

By Suzie Boss

Presenting content with a social message is the focus of a recently launched movie-streaming company.

Podcast

Civic Engagement

Starting a RYOT In Traditional News

Featuring David Darg, Bryn Mooser, & Ned Breslin

Host Ned Breslin speaks with the RYOT founders about their plans to disrupt traditional media by allowing people to “Become the News.”

Nonprofits

Shifts in Thinking to Achieve Transformative Scale

By Mark Bonchek 9

We need to shift from a focus on production to impact, and leverage principles of platforms, networks, community, and co-creation.

Podcast

Nonprofits

The Whole World In Our Hands

Featuring John Kenyon

From the 2013 Nonprofit Management Institute, Kenyon explains how the intersection of mobile, social, and technology is changing nonprofits.

Foundations

Managing Organizational Knowledge: Five Lessons

By Tim Hanrahan 1

Better knowledge management depends on knowing what you don’t know.

Socially Responsible Business

Nonprofits Should Lead the Sharing Economy

By Erin Morgan Gore 8

The sharing economy is creating new business models, forcing traditional for-profit businesses to adapt or fall behind. The same will hold true for the social sector.

Nonprofit Management

Nonprofit Lessons from a Government Tech Debacle

By Joe Magee 1

What can organizations learn from the Affordable Care roll out?

Corporate Philanthropy

C³: The Exponential Power of Company-Cause-Culture Partnerships

By Mark Rodgers, Jacob Marshall, & Michael Leaser

Companies can achieve more than traditional corporate social responsibility efforts by partnering with celebrities.