Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Following are some of the areas discussed (with the lens of a customized approach when appropriate).

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

In 2012, NTEN was able to survey a sample of US nonprofits to find out how they were doing when it comes to being data-driven: were they collecting data and tracking metrics? It will be helpful to include input and discussion from various staff when using this workbook, however.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. A few months ago, I listened in on a Google Hangout with Eugene Kim and Dave Gray where they discussed the question “Is documentation learning?” What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

We'll also discuss the post-disaster operations analysis and triage processes. This informal discussion will include time for asking questions about favorite curation tools, platforms, organizing media, archiving, approaches to digital content curation, and relevance to the rest of your organizational story. Susan Tenby.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 4, 2012. If you’ve not seen The Center for Effective Philanthropy survey of September, 2012, it sets up the challenge pretty clearly. What is funder’s role to support good measurement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Recent TCC Group research, based on an analysis of reliable and valid organizational assessments for over 2000 nonprofit organizations nationwide, found that one of the best ways is by not meddling too much with nonprofits’ program design. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

As our own 2012 State of Nonprofit Data Report showed, 99% of organizations are already in the practice of collecting and tracking various types of data and metrics about their work and tactics -- but a very few indicate that this data is useful for progammatic decision-making.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

By Patrick Ball On 14 February 2012, the New York Times reported that a Swiss team had found a weakness in a key algorithm used to make secure connections online. I've organized the detailed discussion as a series of questions. On 15 February 2012, another team (Heninger et al.) What exactly is the problem? How did this happen?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

They discussed any common contacts, and if the two staff shared the same contact were aware of it, and if they have a coordinated “relationship strategy” for that contact ala a triad approach. They also discussed being strategic in the relationship building: What is the strategic value of investing in the relationship with that person?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Whatever raw data is put out there and no matter how sincere the invitation to dive in and swim around in it… few people, if any, end up being willing to spend time to actually do the analysis if they’re not paid to do it. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

In October 2012, the Beth Kanter came to speak to Social Media for Global Health (SM4GH) an interagency working group and space to connect and share experiences around the integrated use of social media to share the messages and products of global health and development organizations. This was supported through discussion at the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This year, the rise of big data was the subject of discussions across many disciplines, including the nonprofit sector. The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges. The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Mashable recently called 2012 the " year of the mobile election." Prefer to listen to your political news and analysis? Mashable's in-depth discussion of how mobile is affecting the 2012 elections. Through the Transforming Communities project, we've rounded up the best of election-related apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

I’m here at the 2012 Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) conference in Seattle – which is aptly nicknamed “The Emerald City.” Participants at this conference are talking about a “paradigm shift” from evaluation to learning. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

My colleague Amy Gahran, a mobile expert, has an analysis here. By 2012, about 20% of my audience was reading my blog through a mobile interface, either tablet or smartphone. By 2012, about 20% of my audience was reading my blog through a mobile interface, either tablet or smartphone. My blog passed the test!

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Tech Soup

JULY 22, 2011

The program concludes with an analysis related to data center planning and management as well as assessment of the costs and benefits associated with green IT practices while assessing the impact to the enterprise and return on investment (ROI). The nine-month certificate program begins in October of 2011 and runs through June of 2012.

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DECEMBER 29, 2017

But what we’ve seen in the market out there is that people are seeing subscription pricing models as a solution to the problem of deflation in CE pricing (see the Value-based Accreditation entry, above, for more discussion of that issue). Gamification: When we say game-based learning we mean learning activities that are games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. Photo by Beth Kanter, Net Funders Conference, October, 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I’m speaking at three events as follows: Monday, April 2, 2012, 11:30 am. I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! You can find the details here.

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NetWits

APRIL 11, 2012

12NTC wasn’t void of sessions and discussion on the topic, but they made sure fundamental things like email were covered because of a rather large group of people (Eh? adults use smart phones as of February 2012, up 11% from May 2011 and 10% said that their phone was their primary means of getting online. 6 Takeaways from #12NTC.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

million online gifts collected throughout 2012. This year’s study shows the growth of social media audiences outpaced email lists in 2012, growing an average of 46 percent on Facebook and 264 percent on Twitter. Some more alternatives and discussion from nonprofit folks here. Retweet Lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The State of Nonprofit Data report was released this week (hat tip to Ted Fickes ). Idealware and NTEN prepared the report based on a survey in April 2012 with nearly 400 nonprofit organizations about how they manage and use data. The report found that nonprofits are either doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

[Editorial note: the following article first appeared in the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , a free quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders.] In our initial conversations, we each had plenty of questions about where, and with whom, the data and the results of our analysis would be shared. When is a meal more than a meal?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Besides being a powerful email server, it supports group scheduling, discussion groups, team folders, mobile and web access, and a host of other features. Windows Server 2012 centralizes all of your data in one place. Available versions of SQL Server 2012 include Standard Edition, Business Intelligence Edition, and Enterprise Edition.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since 2012, Educational Testing Service (ETS) has engaged Forum One to design and build more engaging, interactive reports to share the NAEP results, including the most recent 2022 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics and Reading , with data at the national, state, and district levels. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2012

NTC 2012: Data Visualizaiton Panel. I’m here at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this week. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more! View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Then this is the session for you!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Since 2012, Educational Testing Service (ETS) has engaged Forum One to design and build more engaging, interactive reports to share the NAEP results, including the most recent 2022 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics and Reading , with data at the national, state, and district levels. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

It makes the point that the growth of social and digital media usage development policy research can reach more people in more areas of the world and allows international organizations to start and inform discussions with people ranging from academics and activists to UN officials and government ministers. CERN (@CERN) July 4, 2012.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 10, 2010

I think the nonprofit sector would be better served by elevating the discussion about Apple’s broader corporate and social responsibility efforts. Smartphones are flying off the shelves and tablet sales are expected to boom by 2012. And is probably doomed to meet the same fate. Mobile is going to be a huge channel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups. Working at the intersection of academia and social entrepreneurship, Wanjiru is passionate about the synergy between rigorous academic analysis and committed social activism.

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