Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. The skills are out there.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

The Blackbaud Index provides the most up-to-date information on charitable giving today. Here’s a brief overview of some of these updates: Compare your fundraising performance: You can now easily compare and visualize your fundraising by entering in your fundraising revenue to the interactive chart.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Data and analytics can play a big role in improving nonprofit strategy. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong. Think about the last strategy meeting you were a part of: What information was distributed beforehand? What charts or slides did the group focus on?

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

Mobile Beacon offers Wi-Fi hotspot devices with $10 unlimited 4G mobile broadband data for use when you’re working or traveling in places without Internet access. Office 2013 Fundamentals Online Learning for End Users. Information Security Essentials Online Learning for IT Administrators and End Users. Mobile Beacon.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Betsy Beaumon I recently had the honor to speak at the first-ever Braille Summit , hosted on June 19-21, 2013 by the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS) and Perkins School for the Blind. Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Like Marion Conway, I was struck by this photo of him pointing to data handwritten on the walls = tracking immunization records from a rural health clinic in Ethiopia. At the Germana Gale Health Post, I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases, and other health data plastered to walls. Simple, but hard to accomplish.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Armed with such data describing the value of the arts for its participants, arts leaders can change the perception that art is merely a luxury to show that, instead, it is a vital necessity to human beings. With such evaluation data, arts leaders can promulgate the value of the organization’s art to all stakeholders. July, 2013).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Interally, we have a new organizational chart (if you can call it that! Looking at data from previous NTCs, it looks like we will have twice as much bandwidth as before, with a backup we can roll over to if need be. After a year of work, the Collected Voices: Data-Informed Nonprofits report is here!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

PowerPoint 2013 can be used to create image slides and animations like nonprofit Trickle Up did. You can also use Visio 2013 to make dynamic diagrams and charts for your story. Use Esri’s geographic information system software to create maps that tell your story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

In other organizations, those that are lucky enough to have M&E staff, there is a disconnect between measurement practices for programs and communications. It is important to think of measurement integrated into everything the organization does – I’ve called it being data-informed. Click to See Larger Version.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Any other "stakeholder" who uses or needs financial information to perform her/his job in the nonprofit. The readers of these reports may include government and private funding sources, internal managers, data entry staff, board members, auditors, and others, and each may have a different focus on your organization.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2013

When was the last time you had to look up a donor's contact information while you were away from your desk? These include charts, financial reports, and a gallery to help you manage reports, KPIs, and other data. BlackBaud eTapestry Mobile (all platforms) gives you full access to eTapestry's rich data.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

The data shows that both digital immigrant and digital native donors have embraced the multichannel wonderland. There is perhaps no more telling data point than this: online donors 65-years and older have the highest retention rate. It’s in our org charts. Thankfully, we have lots of data to settle the argument.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Call us what you will, the International Data Corporation (IDC) predicts that by 2015, a bit over 37 percent of the total global workforce will be made up of mobile workers. Just under 200 million of them were sold worldwide in 2013. It’s a really big part of our world. That's around 1.3 billion of us doing it.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Your Chart of Accounts/Class List Becomes Unwieldy. It would require so much time and effort that you wouldn’t actually be able to stay on top of daily data entry. If you need up-to-the-minute balances for your organization’s projects, every time you add one you will add significant volume to the chart of accounts. Think Bigger!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

I wanted to take a deeper dive into resources out there that provide useful tips about how to do this step for folks who were not data scientists or data nerds. 1) Data Visualization Survival Guide : This resource (including the 176 slides powerpoint deck) was suggested by Devon Smith. How do you tell stories with data? (3)

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Infographics.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

The open and direct connections among individual users would allow for the efficient exchange of goods, services, and information. Yeshimabeit Milner and Amy Traub, Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism (New York and Washington, DC: Data for Black Lives and New York: Demos, 2021). Airbnb has an app for that.

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