Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

When’s the last time you heard a board member say, “Members want…” followed by an aggregate of the last five conversations they’ve had. Dig Below the Surface to Find Gaps in Member Retention It’s likely that your organization measures retention rates, but are you looking at the surface or digging in below the aggregate level ?

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Experiment Create Retention Aggregator 321

Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. Any good reporting tool should have the ability to aggregate numbers based off the category of your choosing. But it doesn’t have to be. EveryAction makes that possible (and super easy!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2005

(Closest thing right now is the attention stream created for the nptech tag community - although the focus is on one slice of the nonprofit sector) There are a few adhoc decentralized nooks and crannies in the blogosphere where you can find listings of nonprofit blogs or aggregated content of interest to nonprofits. Gilbert commented.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2008

What types of conversations are they hoping to engage in? And beyond quick information exchange -- if you want a deeper reflective conversation, twitter is not the place to have it. Summarizing Twitter responses - if you want a facilitated conversation - is not easy, although with tools like this - that may change.

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Twitter Question Minneapolis Aggregator 56

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

We look at the world around us and find outlets that reflect our philanthropic passions. In the 1937 Disney classic animated film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Queen looks at her reflection and asks , “ Magic mirror on the wall, who is the fairest one of all?” As funders, many of us spend quite a bit of time looking outward.

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Foundation Report Advice Management 22

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. of our connected conversations and resource finds. of our connected conversations and resource finds. For an experiment, here's some conversation questions about the NpTech Tag. I admit it.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2013

I use an RSS reader to aggregate articles to read, a bookmarking tool (pinboard) to save links of interest, and conversational tools (Twitter and Facebook) to share. And of course, I use this blog as a reflective space to learn by writing. I just haven''t figured out how to integrate these tools into my workflow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

A few days ago, I asked for some stories " What is the value of listening through social media channels for your organization? " I wanted to see examples from nonprofit organizations engaged in listening and conversation and the value it has to their missions, programs, or marketing efforts. This requires engaging in a conversation.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

FriendFeed is in a category called digital lifestyle aggregators that let you aggregate all your various feeds and share with your friends. In the last few weeks, there has been posts about how conversations have shifted to FriendFeed. In addition, a lot of ad hoc conversation and informal resource sharing unfolded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm hoping that some of us can have a conversation about what Tim has done or perhaps try to apply to their own social media project. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? Tim also wrote a reflection and it is enormously helpful. I think your pyramid approach is spot on.

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Guinea Measure Social Media Wikispaces 50

Media Cause

MARCH 19, 2021

How The iOS14 Update May Affect You: Conversion Tracking. Facebook will begin using “Aggregated Event Measurement.” You will now be limited to 8 conversion events per domain and will be asked to rank them in order of priority. 7-day click and one-day view conversions may now be PARTIAL. Domain Verification.

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Facebook Change Aggregator Conversation 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

NpTech Tag Summary of Conversations: Jan 26, 2006 If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Michele Martin's NpTech Search. The proposed call agenda is here. January 12, 2007.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

And just as quickly as people responded with outrage against Komen, the conversation changed to be about the women who would continue to need support and the services that help them. We could have done a better job of looking for other hashtags in real-time and piggy-backed on them in order to weave together different conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Except for a little bit chaos while we quickly switched from a Skypecast to a traditional conference call, we had a excellent conversation and there are notes ! I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order. still thinking outloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . I have people line up from "very comfortable" to "not so comfortable" and facilitate a conversation. I've be using a tool called " What the Hash Tag " that easily aggregates tweets into a transcript.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

In May, and June, I have workshops and presentations to do and want a chance to reflect and muck around inventing. Conversations. Having conversations without having a blog. How to aggregating and distributing content using tagging and widgets. It's time to reinvent some more. Some places I want to go.

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Florida ROI Metrics Social Media 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

There is certainly no shortage of buckets where nonprofit technology tagged resources are being aggregated. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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NTC Nptech Netsquared Summary 50

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take. Examples from Haiti. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS.

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Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Usability is a Conversation. I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Return on Reflection: This inquiry won't be all number crunching because you really miss the value of a ROI analysis.

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Goal ROI Wiki Metrics 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Alf Gracombe (a relatively new in the nptech blogosphere and whose blog looks promising) suggests that the debate reflects the shifting paradigm away from the more traditional content taxonomies to the emerging folksonomies on today???s Join the cross-blog conversation! social network and community sites. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

They hope to reach out to residents and spark conversations about philanthropic work and to give advice and assistance to residents who want to advance charitable causes. We're trying a year of conversation about how to enter the culture in Second Life and the role of philanthropy. We got advice not to do that. What's your advice?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I was reflecting back to those days and I realized that part of my work included content curation, although at the time I didn’t call it that. I also taught many workshops where I included techniques on how to deal with information overload caused by using the Internet to get our work done. Harold blogged about that here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. I'll come with extra blank index cards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As Wendy Harman, Red Cross Social Media Manager, observes, "When Katrina hit, we knew people are talking but we’re not listening to conversation. She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. Listening is an important piece of the strategy.

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Story Learning Organization Metrics 72

Museum 2.0

MARCH 4, 2009

There is a simple leaderboard and each player's cards are aggregated on a personal dashboard. What's GOOD about Signtific is that it encourages people to reflect on others' submissions and react to them in a series of intentional ways. Signtific is not an open mushy conversation about the future.

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Game Experiment Participatory Museum 24

Classy

APRIL 5, 2021

Follow these 10 best practices to optimize your main donation page for conversion: . Fundraisers can access the parent campaign on your website, and then customize their own personal fundraising page to reflect their goal. . Elevate the visual appeal of the donate button on your website.

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Campaign Fundraising Strategy Headline 64

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics. Audience Growth (content consumption ???

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Today, a conversation with Elisa Giaccardi , from the Center for Lifelong Learning and Design at University of Colorado , Boulder. My favorite pieces of this conversation dealt with 1. So the value of the mechanisms is to let people find and reflect on what natural heritage is—how it can be defined, represented, and shared.

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Interview Museum Culture Sound 20

Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The ad hoc conversations centered around how we’ve all grown up together in the Salesforce ecosystem and the limitless career opportunities that now exist served as validation of what a good decision it is to invest your career into Salesforce.

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Education Experiment Student Application 59

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 18, 2008

I was amazed by the number of conversations I had when I arrived at FreelanceCamp that went something like this: Me: Have you lived in Santa Cruz for a long time? This positions the museum at the center of the action, gives you an easy way to track online activity, and provides a useful service for participants to aggregate their content.

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Museum Hosting Model Community 22

Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Let’s keep the conversation going. So however it makes sense to move information within your organization, that’s how I would take your input in and aggregate it. And to be able to have those conversations separate and apart from making the decision, you want folks to be heard. Ooh, y’all had some great job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2006

Here are my notes and reflections. Third-Party Widget Directory and Aggregator Sites. However, what the newest thing is something called a "Widget Aggregator." These aggregators offer one widget box to rule them all, creating a single point of integration for new widget users." Where to find widgets.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 10, 2010

Some artists and art-lovers bemoan the fact that Foot in the Door has grown beyond professionals to include hobbyists and casual art-makers, but for many contributors, the exhibition is an opportunity to revel in the diversity of art-making (for example, see this contributor's reflection ).

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Participatory Museum Arts Artist 46

Museum 2.0

JUNE 15, 2009

It also includes reflections from the exhibit team on the project. Random passers-by got hooked and spent twenty minutes carefully reading each post-it, writing responses, creating chains of conversation and spin-off questions and pieces of advice. I recommend you check out the wiki and evaluation report to dig deeply into the content.

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Advice Museum Facilitation Student 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

It looked a little more comprehensive then just asking people to tag and then trying to aggregate (we also looked at other tools like CrowdVine which was very comparable, almost a coin flip). Our conference planner told me earlier this year about Pathable a company that provides a social network site for your conference. Geotagging Photos.

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Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

And then on April 29, the conversation really got rolling. I don't know if that was their original plan or a reaction to our poor use of the wiki, but it certainly didn't reflect our supposed digital chops. The goal of a wiki is to aggregate content of interest. On March 22, they released the wiki. over email.

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