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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. They also tag and analyze responses. A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. Do you need sentiment analysis? Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Not Data Driven.” Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.” Disaster work.

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grist.org: Measuring Along the Ladder of Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” Once we’ve hooked them, we engage with our community until they own the idea and run with it. Source: grist.

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each type dictates a different process and therefore requires different measurement and analysis methods. Microtasks could be tagging hundreds of images or cleaning up hundreds of database entries. Her latest book is The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Crowdsourcing (Penguin, 2011) Her next book is Mom, Incorporated.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. and offered an analysis here. Photo UgoTrade Blog. Virtual to Reality Blog.

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Vote and Comment for ALL these Awesome Nonprofit Panels at SXSW!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! Each panelist will provide in-depth analysis of a notable social media screw-up they’ve been involved in, isolate key failure factors, analyze the broader lessons, and talk about how these specific organizations improved on their mistakes.

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Blackbaud Index for March 2011 | Nonprofit Trends with Steve.

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The latest Index data covers the 3 months ending March 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. for the 3 months ending March 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. for the 3 months ending March 2011 as compared to the same period in 2010. billion in yearly revenue on a monthly basis, both offline and online.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON. We also need other organizations to lead by teaching us how to communicate, others to lead by creating models of analysis and measurement, and so on. The full keynote and presentation are below.

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