1. Board Report
OCTOBER | 2012

2. Build a network of Engage leadership
Promote and apply Increase
people supporting development
cutting edge ideas organizational
social justice stakeholders on key
and practices capacity
leadership leadership topics
New members Social media Member
LNE publications
(LLC and LNE) converage donations
Member Speaking
LNE events Grants
retention opportunities
Develop systems
Subscription list to grow
Blog readership LNE webinars
(newsletter) consulting
business
Applied
Newsletter
research
readership
projects
Transforming the Leadership Development Field

3. Communications Strategy

4. LLC Website
The blog continues to be a dynamic section of the website (31% of unique pageviews were related to
the blog in the January – September timeframe). The webinar series has generated significant traffic
3,500
3,000
2,500
2,000
Montly Uvs 2012
1,500
Montly Uvs 2011
Monthly Uvs 2010
1,000
500
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•Uvs: Unique Visitors

5. LNE Website
We have not seen a lot of new members sign up for LNE – mostly due to the fact that we have
not hosted any LNE related learning circles. We will have 2 regional labs later this year so
we hope to increase participation through the events
300
250
2012
200
2011
Total Members
150
2010
100
50
0

6. LLC Newsletter
This is our key channel for keeping members engaged. The best performing month was
February, which included an article on lessons learned about leadership, an overview of
our webinar strategy, an article about Bella’s contribution to LLC
Clicks/Sent
8%
7%
6% Current
5% newsletter base
4% is 3,097
3%
2%
1%
0%

7. Speaking Engagements
Deborah Meehan consulted on the design of the SFP
Institute and was a featured speaker for a plenary
session: The Story of the SFP Network.
Claire is hosting a session at the AEA conference:
How can evaluation approaches be used to catalyze
better goal-setting, collaboration and communication
among community collaboratives designed to achieve
“needle-moving” impact?
In this session, “Engaging Networks for Impact”, Deborah
will share what the Leadership Learning Community has
been learning through our joint work in the area of
community leadership and collective impact.

8. Twitter
Twitter is one of the most successful tools we use to share content, attract
members, promote events, test ideas and content, and find partners/allies for
our work
Twitter Followers:
3,052 (27% increase
since May 2012)
* Timeframe: January – September 2012

9. Top Blog Content
• Applying Social Network Analysis to Online Communications
Networks (Unique Pageviews: 995)
• 2012 Webinar: If You Till It, They Will Come: Nurturing Collective
Leadership (Unique Pageviews: 528)
• How is network leadership different from organizational leadership
and why is understanding this difference important? (Unique
Pageviews: 419)
• Emergent Leadership (Unique Pageviews: 361)
• A New Leadership Mindset for Scaling Social Change (Unique
Pageviews: 355)
* Timeframe: January – September 2012

10. Mission Work

11. Leadership and Networks
• Finalized the publication content
• Designer is working on
integrating the content into the
design template
• LLC team participated in a social
media pilot program and
developed a launch plan for the
publication
• Launch planned for Winter 2012
• The partners listed on the right
agreed to co-brand the
publication

12. Collective Impact & Leadership
• We developed a series of guides to
help leadership programs
strengthen the impact of their
leadership development work
• The publication was funded by the
W.K. Kellogg Foundation
• The publication was launched a
couple of weeks ago and has
already received 450 downloads.
We also hosted a webinar to discuss
some of the elements of the
publication, which attracted 47
participants

13. Webinars and Events
This year we are continuing to focus more on conducting webinars than face to face
events. The webinars are a cost-effective way to generate a great amount of interest from
our membership and to attract new members
• 17 webinars on diverse topics
• Over 1,500 participants
• Top webinars: john powell’s on system thinking (316 participants),
Eugene Eric Kim’s on strategic planning for networks (128 participants),
June Holly’s on network weaving (120 participants), the Interaction
Institute for Social Change’s on collective leadership (119 participants)
• Strengthened our relationship with content experts such as June Holley
and Compass Point
• Conducted follow up surveys after each webinar to get immediate
feedback
• We have also received 30 webinar donations this year, totaling almost
$2,000

14. Learning Events
• Innovation Labs Funded by W.K.K.F Research Project
Bay Area, Boston and Rural Webinar
• Four Learning Circles and Multi-state Leadership Chautauqua funded by
the Bush Foundation
Minnesota, South Dakota and North Dakota
• Funders and Evaluators meeting on Community Leadership funded by
the Bush Foundation (October 2012)
Minnesota
• Learning Circles to Discuss the Collective Impact & Leadership
Publication Funded by W.K.K.F Research Project (November2012)
Bay Are, Boston

15. Operations

16. Operations: New Hires
• Lauren Rodriguez as a Research Associate
• Lauren comes to LLC with a commitment to transformative change, a
bilingual/bicultural perspective and international experience working
with diverse communities in the United States, Mexico, Chile, and Spain.
Lauren has research training and a Masters in Sociology.
• Miriam Persely as our Administrative Assistant
• Miriam has a strong background in administrative processes gained
both in the public and private sectors. Her work focuses on fostering the
academic growth and success of underprivileged students at all levels.
• Zoe Madden-Wood, Research Associate and Project Manager
• Zoe manages the research and evaluation projects. She is trained in
project management, social network analysis, and has a quantitative
and qualitative research background.