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Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training, Teaching, and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). This report is not just your father’s PDF file!

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How Nonprofits can Use Analytics with Advocacy

Connection Cafe

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. And, through analytics and a culture of testing, some of the best advocacy and activist organizations are transforming how they listen to their supporters online. Data and analytics aren’t magic and they aren’t a panacea.

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My Top 16 tools of 2008

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I use this everyday, although I don’t really interact with it much. I use TweetDeck, Twhirl, and the Analytics reporting suite among others. So what tools did you come to depend on in 2008? I am administering and/or responsible for a couple of Virtual Private Servers that use it. Proprietary Tools. It’s kinda cool.

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Last minute tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank.

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How Do You Measure Up? [Benchmarks Webinar]

Care2

At Blackbaud, Dennis has managed the Strategic Services Practice, comprised of consultants in Business Analytics, Design & Information Architecture, Deployment Services and Agency Services. Her team raises funds to help secure and distribute more than 200M meals annually for families struggling with hunger.

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The (Lil) Green Patch Facebook app has now donated $33,600 to TNC's Facebook Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Like a real garden, it requires maintenance and the game includes lots of ways to interact with the larger Green Patch community and your friends. According to Developer Analytics it has 5,217,180 installations with 521,718 or 10% active users. The most recent donation was made May 1, 2008 to the Adopt An Acre.

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