Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

Meme 50

Meme Lesson Social Media Reflection 50

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. The vast majority of applications that have been built since 2008 match actions with related content: for example, by reading a blog post and searching the Social Actions dataset for related actions.

API 186

API Action Open Data 186

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud's analysis of online giving in 2008 found that December accounted for about 21% of the year's transaction volume, but 48% of the total dollars raised. for Blackbaud customers in the entire analysis. Online Giving Tops $15 Billion in 2008. billion was given online to US charities in 2008.

Online 90

Online Fundraising Offline Blackbaud 90

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. An analysis of the past 36 months of online giving continues to show positive growth despite challenging economic conditions. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. Average Online Gift Trends.

Haiti 82

Haiti Trend Online Giving 82

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2009

M+R Strategic Services says that although the economy is down, online giving is up (as of November 2008). Their analysis showed: read more.

Online 100

Online Giving America Analysis 100

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook. This kind of analysis fascinates me, and I think it can really help others understand what's really going on in the Arizona nonprofit sector. In the field of social network analysis, these are called "structural holes."

Research 90

Research Phoenix Arizona Organization 90

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

, and the subsequent TechSoup discussion , I’m posting an analysis conducted by Sarah Grosvenor , the Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Willamette University , on the potential for mobile fundraising at the University. The information below was current as of December 15, 2008.

Raise 100

Raise United States Analysis University 100

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The analysis represents the largest study of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. An analysis of the past 36 months of online giving continues to show positive growth despite challenging economic conditions. Blackbaud’s research found that online revenue grew by 46% in 2009 compared to 2008. Average Online Gift Trends.

Haiti 68

Haiti Trend Online Giving 68

ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 29, 2011

It provides an overview of the size and scope of philanthropic activities in our state, based on 2008 IRS data. Total grants made by all Arizona-based grantmaking entities (including corporate foundations) in 2008 amounted to a bit more than $653 million, with 72% ($470 million) going to Arizona nonprofits. How's our blogging?

Arizona 87

Arizona Research Resource Foundation 87

Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. They might need financial analysis so they can translate insights into the true cost of their programming into more specific asks. Do they need to segment their audiences to get to the right donors?

Interview 59

Interview Build Companies Skills 59

ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Listening further, I learned this was a report of a study just recently published by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, using data on giving from 2008. 1 But let’s compare their numbers for 2008, the year for which the Chronicle recently reported. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion. Why the difference?

Research 75

Research Arizona Philanthropy Foundation 75

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis – to break down recommendations by size of organization. iMIS rounded out the bottom four.)

Database 113

Database Donor Open Source Kintera 113

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

ROI 50

ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

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.

Online 64

Online Practice Fundraising Benchmark 64

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. That part looks very interesting.

Kintera 100

Kintera Open Source API Platform 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

Drupal 100

Drupal Comment Report Metrics 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

Open Source 100

Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

Open Source 100

Open Source Convio Nonprofit Hype 100

Care2

JUNE 5, 2010

between 2008 and 2009, according to the 2010 e-Benchmark study , though the report did note that online revenue for half of the nonprofits included in the study either held steady with 2008 or declined. But as Frogloop reported last month , online fundraising grew overall by 4.5%

Fundraising 57

Fundraising Contest Boston Sponsor 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders. Silicon Valley philanthropy is increasing: Individual giving rose 150 percent between 2008 and 2013, from $1.9 billion to $4.8

Create 99

Create Philanthropy Alexa Local 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Getting the Big Picture: Intro to ICT Systems and Analysis (1/10/2008). Building the Foundation: Hardware, Software and Networks (1/17/2008). Mission Critical: Databases/Constituent Relationship Management (1/24/2008). Measure Twice and Cut Once: Technology Planning, Budgeting and Implementation (1/31/2008).

NTEN 50

NTEN Leadership Technology Analysis 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. I think some nonprofits should read it. It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc.

Analytics 100

Analytics Google Site Folksonomy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning analytics is not brand new and first identified in the education area in about 2008 according to this excellent primer on Learning Analytics that found by searching the Project Navigator on the topic. The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education.

Analytics 97

Analytics Teach Training Train 97

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

, and the subsequent TechSoup discussion , I'm posting an analysis conducted by Sarah Grosvenor , the Assistant Director of Annual Giving at Willamette University , on the potential for mobile fundraising at the University. The information below was current as of December 15, 2008.

Raise 43

Raise United States Analysis University 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Organizational Network Analysis). We decided to become a nonprofit in early 2008 and formed the Diabetes Hands Foundation in April 2008. Source: Rob Cross, What is ONA? We started our communities in 2007, more than a year before we started the nonprofit.

Social Media 85

Social Media Ning Media Organization 85

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Good analysis. But like any technology decision, it requires thought about how useful that technology will be, and whether, and how, it will serve your mission. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

Vlog 100

Vlog Podcast Web RSS 100

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Sustainability of social programs: A comparative case study analysis. Kylie Hutchinson is principal consultant with Community Solutions Planning & Evaluation and the author of Survive and Thrive: Three Steps to Securing Your Program’s Sustainability. [1] 1] Savaya, R., Spiro, S., & and Elran-Barak, R.

Fund 28

Fund Program Evaluation Stream 28

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Well, I just got my first one out in 2008! Benetech Update: Summer 2008 I'm thrilled to be writing you this update, because this year is unusually exciting even by Benetech standards. You can imagine the impact of Bookshare.org going from a $1 million per year enterprise in 2006 to over $7 million in 2008.

Darfur 100

Darfur Sri Lanka Liberia Colombia 100

Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2014

When the economy crashed in 2008, we all felt the negative impact, including K-12 private schools. Schools now had the power to easily conduct year over year trend analysis: How many families were in a certain stage compared to three years ago? This is a guest post by Daniel Weede, Senior Account Executive at Blackbaud.

Blackbaud 36

Blackbaud Application Database Demographics 36

Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Matthew Dubins, founder of Donor Science Consulting, performed an exhaustive study of the impact of the Great Recession of 2008 on Canadian nonprofits and came to the following conclusion: “…during a recession, it is? That instinct, while logical on the surface – may also be a grave mistake for most fundraisers. Research backs that up.

Integration 318

Integration Tech Fundraising Synchronous 318

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2008

The OpenSocial Foundation will be an independent non-profit entity with a formal intellectual property and governance framework; related assets will be assigned to the new organization by July 1, 2008.

Yahoo 50

Yahoo Myspace Google Foundation 50

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2014

We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company. What lessons did you believe were more prevalent during your trips that would have not existed or been less existent prior to the economy''s downturn in 2008/2009? What are the two or three most common themes you heard during your road trips?

Business 55

Business North Dakota North Carolina Omaha 55

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

at 11:31 am Web stats are intended to be an internal control and analysis tool. No one in this conversation has their head in the Web 2.0 Holly’s latest post makes the whole thing quite clear. 10 Cindy Leonard 09.26.07

Stats 100

Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2015

1] David La Piana, “The Nonprofit Strategy Revolution,” Fieldstone Alliance (2008): 32-33. Nonprofit Management #nptech Arts & Cultural business model data analysis Strategy' To stay nimble, it may be helpful to revisit strategy on a more frequent basis, perhaps every few months, as part of regular organizational upkeep. [1]

Strategy 20

Strategy Organization Model Music 20

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I hope that information helps you in your analysis. I’ve made a note to let you know when the two features (plus other very cool new features) are released into production later this year. One last thing. Or feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Or feel free to contact me if you have any questions.

Search 100

Search Web Open Source Audio 100

Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 13, 2014

We never expected that data analysis would be the key to success for such a company. What lessons did you believe were more prevalent during your trips that would have not existed or been less existent prior to the economy''s downturn in 2008/2009? What are the two or three most common themes you heard during your road trips?

Lesson 59

Lesson Business Learning North Dakota 59

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 14, 2011

In 2009, we conducted a broad financial overview of 70 domestic violence (DV) service providers, which was followed by a comparative financial analysis of 18 organizations in 2010. Between 2000 and 2008, this revenue mix provided stability and the opportunity to grow, due to gradual increases in overall government funding.

Research 89

Research Data California Government 89