Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment. While KaBOOM!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. Look first at your organizational metrics. Quite the opposite. What does it look like?

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APRIL 25, 2009

April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 1. April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3. We'll examine what can and can't be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. With so many great panels to choose from it was a challenge to come up with my top 10 panels to check out. Without further ado here are my favorites.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 1. April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3. Well examine what can and cant be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. April 27 , 2009 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM 5. With so many great panels to choose from it was a challenge to come up with my top 10 panels to check out.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

She re-mapped the data in Google Earth and shared the new map with community members, local politicians, and presented it at the community meeeting to a much different response. The new map galvanized the community because they were able to really understand the impact of the plan. Read the full case study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. THIS is Iron Chef ??? With snacks!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009. What was most sexy?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And it’s just really a way to map out everything from soup to nuts for all the resources and inputs that you have and matching that and aligning that with your impact and all the steps in between to get you there. . You have the whiteboard that you can map them out. And some applications actually require it.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important. Remember that what gets put on the Internet, stays on the Internet!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! By the end of 2009, Charity Navigator is doing two extraordinary things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

And anxiously anticipating metrics that assign value even more; And my hopes have all the seeming of a marketer still dreaming, That my efforts not in vain, will yield intangibles and metrics all the same. DEFINE the METRICS. Say, let’s define our metrics. This I hope and so much more. set audience. affected people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

state competition, we built the map on the website to show the number of pledges from each state and altered the message the pledge tally counter to include the top five states in order of their real-time tallies. Metrics for Success - Primary: # of people signing the pledge. To help fuel this state-vs.-state

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

Rebecca Moore then discussed at length the new generation of online (and easy to use) mapping tools – “neo geography” – and how it helps to communicate to and mobilize others through data visualization. Women Wired Tweet LiveStream for 2009-05-13 (via Women Wired In).

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