Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. It is also used in education, although it is called something different, “ The Human Continuum.”.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources. That’s today. The Social Actions project began in 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I was asked to facilitate a small group in a participatory session called “ Digital Forum ,” designed for peer sharing by Marco Kuntz and Mike Johnson. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Alan Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

Consolidation among vendors means that some customers will be dealing with different (and larger, potentially less friendly) entities. It also means fewer options. On the other hand, perhaps it means that these new, larger entities can provide services and resources that the smaller ones could not.

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Care2

JULY 16, 2010

* 300 billion was raised in 2008 (Giving USA); * $15 billion was raised online in 2008 – a 44% increase over 2007) (Blackbaud); * $21 million has been raised by Causes since its launch three years ago; * 30% of online giving happens in December. Be clear how their donation will make a difference. Create Killer Landing Pages.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

As New York’s leading personalized board matching service, folks come to BoardAssist every day looking to make a difference in the nonprofit world. In fact, many of our placements are responsible for crafting the first cash flow analysis their boards have ever had). Since her retirement from the securities industry in 2007, Ms.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

If our research is to be valid and useful, the design, data collection, and analysis must be meticulous and exacting. Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I have pretty much always understood the difference between blogs and websites – but I recently got a better feeling as I was redoing my own website. All of these are good questions, and will be totally different for different organizations. Good analysis. I’ve been doing blogging for almost 4 years now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

What initially caught my eye was the demographic (age analysis) of LinkedIn VS Facebook users. While the demographics of Facebook are younger compared to LinkedIn, the Compete analysis shows that Facebook users are maturing. And you may have different approaches on networks. Source: Facebook vs LinkedIn Traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. There are two different profiles: subscribers and visitors. If you have a group blog, are there differences between authors? Are they tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. Nonprofit Use #1: Events and Conferences Since those early days, hashtags have been used in different ways by nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing. One last thing.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. January 19, 2007 Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The biggest challenge for me was scaling with mic runners. I had mic runners stationed at different quadrants of the room who would go to the person who wanted to speak. It was hard to get people as engaged as a full group after the table discussions. Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. Gartner also found that of the nearly 200 million PCs that were retired by corporations and institutions in 2007, fewer than half found their way into the secondary PC market.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. Gartner also found that of the nearly 200 million PCs that were retired by corporations and institutions in 2007, fewer than half found their way into the secondary PC market.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 11:03PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? May 29, 2007 | Luke Vander Linden Like most organizations, the Human Rights Campaign continues to try and find the perfect answer to this question (but is there one)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. and offered an analysis here. Photo UgoTrade Blog. " The conversation started - lets hope (and help) it continues. Nonprofits in Second Life Blog coverage.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Determine the compliance gap; perform a gap analysis to determine where you are not compliant and what it would take to become compliant. Privacy touches many different aspects of an organization, from business processes and internal controls, to data encryption and network security.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Interesting analysis. Boxes - do you have any insight as to what percentage of these nonprofits might have a different address than the one the IRS has?

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? May 29, 2007 | Luke Vander Linden Like most organizations, the Human Rights Campaign continues to try and find the perfect answer to this question (but is there one)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking What’s Different One Year After Haiti? Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on January 12th, 2011 One year ago a devastating 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck the island of Hispaniola.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 11, 2009

His first book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , which he co-authored with Anna Lappe , won a 2007 Nautilus Award for Social Change. That's what I wanted to bring to the world, my interpretation of that, playing with those different things, and reminding people that African-American food can be very healthy.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:46PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. And is there any left?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

60) Search « A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising | Main | Five Tips for Online Fundraisers from a Direct Mail Dinosaur » Thursday Nov 08 2007 MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Thursday, November 8, 2007 at 01:46PM | by Justin Perkins Post co-authored by James OMalley and Justin Perkins. And is there any left?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 12, 2006

The second one is the Localization Mapping Project that shows on a GIS map all the different localization projects happening in the nine county region of the Bay Area as a tool that other people can plug into. What we're looking at with the Rooftop Resources Project are all the different garden types that could work out on a rooftop.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Whether it’s Microsoft transforming the PC software industry, or Google or Facebook, it’s clear that the world is different because these companies exist. and Osberg, Sally R.,

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2011

The Blackbaud indices include organizations that raised money specifically for Haiti relief in the year-over-year analysis. Some important trends will be explored later to show analysis of post-Haiti giving. Small, medium, and large organizations all had positive growth in the analysis.

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