The pressures on all of us to filter stories and visual media shouldn’t mean that we’re filtering it out. At my firm, See Change, Inc., we believe the social sector has as much to gain from becoming expert consumers of stories and visual media as it does from refining impact metrics and establishing performance management systems. Metrics [...]
Visual storytelling is a practice that is at once old and new in our sector. Telling stories and creating images are deeply rooted cultural traditions in human society – some of the oldest manifestations of our values and beliefs. We tell stories because historically – ancestrally – this is how we learned. Stories were passed [...]
Last week, David once again stirred the pot around the concept of “micro,” raising some good questions about the efficacy of micro interventions and whether much-hyped new platforms such as The Extraordinaries might actually do damage to the sector by emphasizing the easy over the impactful. David’s main concern is these micro actions may sound appealing, but in [...]
We have an evaluation problem in the social sector. We want evaluations to be easy more than we want them to be right. Designing good surveys and collecting client data is hard. Rating how we feel about a particular program on a scale from one to five is easy. As a sector, we need to [...]
I’ve written extensively on how the social service sector needs to be more data driven, that data and outcomes analysis should drive what we do and how we do it. This argument is not unique, pretty much everyone makes this argument. The real question is how do we determine what is working, and what is [...]
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