Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Try to analyze peak times your followers are active — we like FollowerWonk for analyzing followers on Twitter — in order to hit the most people at the best time. Fox Foundation did this very well in 2013. The other item to highlight among our Giving Tuesday ideas: The only way to #fail on #GivingTuesday is to not measure your results.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Strange News. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We need to do a better job of understanding social needs, both to improve our programs and measure their ultimate impact. Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? And if it does, we’ll have a major new tool for combating income inequality and poverty in much of the world!

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. CMOM Executive Director Andrew Ackerman acknowledges that an active knowledge network and “philanthropists who are willing to provide ongoing support and venture into new areas” have been critical. Global nonprofit measures and shares its impact in real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Harvard Business Review, March 2013. SSIR Blog, January 2013. Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013. gpf13 Technical part about data easy – hard part is getting humans to collaborate @ jacobharold — Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 15, 2013. Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 16, 2013. gpf13 “Data is an outcome, not just an input” @ mayurhpatel — Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 15, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

Unfortunately, as Beth has pointed out , Facebook doesn’t always make it easy to generate meaningful and measurable results that drive your mission or your bottom line. These apps help organizations take advantage of Facebook’s new functionality in order to generate more meaningful and measurable fan engagement. Cute dog photo: check.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Note from Beth: Almost weekly, there is yet another tool, feature, or tactic that you can you try using as part of your social media tool box. ” This brave group beta tested not only the content in the book, but also the workshop curriculum that I will be teaching during 2013. What does this mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

And, then it is an ongoing activity of f eeding and tuning your network as Howard Rheingold says it in this still very relevant article about building your professional network on Twitter back in 2009. Kelly Kingman (@kellykingman) September 12, 2013. It is about how you cultivate and develop your network. Copyblogger. Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Putting relationship fundraising into action and measuring emotions is Craig Linton’s passion for 2013. Ryan Ozimek is actively bringing his dream to life— to help accidental techies make the right decisions for their organizations. Words to live by! Bonus laugh here—read the post through to find it. budget). .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. I don’t think that tools alone can do it alone.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

In the last year we've extended our reach as follows: Number of active groups: 48. Number of countries with active groups: 20. Portland, OR's pdxtech4good shared the secrets of using Internet and smartphone tools to engage and support volunteers. Toronto, ON: Measuring & Engaging Your Email List. New Groups.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid. Tools of Democracy. Tools of Democracy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Social channels continued to show strong growth over the past 12 months, with top social networks adding more than 135 million new users in the course of 2013.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2013

Speaking during bbcon 2013, Blackbaud’s Conference for Nonprofits in National Harbor, Md., Measurement is essential to understand your impact. Activities must support priorities, so it is imperative to define key metrics that drive your organization and create plans that are focused on driving those metrics.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. New data will be added to the platform on a weekly basis, and the totals for 2013 and 2014 are likely to increase.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Our smartphones are an increasingly important telework tool. Tools like WebEx, GoToMeeting , and ReadyTalk are all optimized for the small screen. The usefulness of smartphones as business productivity tools doesn’t seem to be slowing down. Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013. The downside?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2012

Last time she had a kid with her, and he got chalk all over his hands from the mosaic activity they did with a volunteer. Visitors become volunteers and take the lead on new projects and activities. We'll go from research to prototyping to final design from now until early summer of 2013. It could be loyalty cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2016

GiveMN learned the importance of having a crisis plan during a catastrophic technical glitch in 2013. “We This helps them identify potential weak spots and take precautionary measures in close coordination with GiveMN’s giving day technology vendor, Kimbia. Have your technology crisis communication messaging ready.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. I don’t think that tools alone can do it alone.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

launched in August 2013 when they became available to app developers for $1,500 – by invitation only. Their disruptive business model is make a vast improvement on preventative healthcare by having patients use wearable biometric devices like the activity tracker Fitbit. Google Glass was launched 18 months ago.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

(bring your own device) movement has been a staple topic in the IT press, and it is commonplace for us to use our own mobile phones and tablets for work related activities. Despite declining sales, well over 300 million PCs will be sold worldwide this year while tablet sales are in the range of 200 million in 2013.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Anything I missed?

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