michaela hackner

Data Portability for Good

Michaela Hackner and Sandy Smith, Forum One Communications

Data is powerful.

Making your data public and accessible has numerous benefits for your organization. If you've been thinking, "Yeah, I get it. Data is the next buzz-word after Web 2.0. I’ll pay attention as soon as I get my Facebook and Twitter strategy off the ground," it's time to to take another look.

Not only will making your data accessible to others increase your opportunities for funding, it will also further your mission, grow the number of people invested in your work, and make your work and research credible to your existing and future audience base.

Scaling Web 2.0 Momentum: Preparing to Sell Your Case to Organizational Stakeholders

Michaela Hackner, World Learning

So, you think you've figured out the best way to use new media in your organization -- that blog you've always daydreamed about, or that Facebook fan page that's just got to be made. You're ready to take this new media blitz public and make your website the one that everyone on Progressive Exchange and Twitter is talking about.

You think you've got the perfect proposal... but you know the reality of the nonprofit technology world, and all those grubby little externalities that periodically throw a wrench in your idealism. To help ensure your new media ideas succeed, you might consider the following before committing to a technology strategy (and Tweeting the idea to your boss).