Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence. In the analysis, one thing I learned was the importance of instant thank yous - not only via Twitter, but other way channels. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. Why was it a success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

twInfluence uses social network analysis techniques to analyze your Twitter followers. In social network analysis, a. Here's the metrics they are using.     I would like to get a sense of what they mean - perhaps scales?    How to put this into context?  Centralization. Twitterers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2005

The tool used to count total links is Blogpulse (He also shares his worksheet ) In the analysis, he mentions that the average blogger links to Global s 1.86 In another post, Ethan writes about the Blogpulse tools he used to do the analysis here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

In the comments, Chris Blow, shares an analysis of the other words used with the NpTech tag. full report here ) An analysis on the blog is forthcoming. " In an earlier summary , a key theme emerged -- the ways that folksonomy and taxonomy can produce best of both worlds results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

You can do a whole network analysis. Using the analysis steps below, it can help you be more intentional with online networking, learning, and building thought leadership. He did an analysis of his Facebook friends to explore the connections that consist among them. List them and do an analysis based on: Age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Highlights from Microsoft’s Nonprofit Sector Research on AI Devi kicked off by sharing a sentiment analysis from a recent survey of nonprofit leaders that fall into one of two different perceptions: comfort and concern. Below is my fully human-generated reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2007

My dog, Sadie, who has a Facebook profile (and has been dead for three years -may she rest in peace) has already made friends on Facebook with my friends' dogs. I also learned that there is "Catbook." " so the cat lovers the world won't be left out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

This like doing a landscape analysis with a simple click! On the grantmaker side, it allows you to do a systems analysis to see how your funding investment fits into the sector. It can also helps you do a rapid stakeholder analysis. The term “media” now means so much more than journalism and documentary film.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. Using unstructured qualitative data alone is pretty stupid unless you bring intelligence analysis, link to a quantitative analysis and link it back to decisions. Do numbers only matter? The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

My colleague, Lucy Bernholz, found a terrific example of such an analysis and shared it via a collaborative pinboard. What if you are a smaller organization that can’t afford to hire an outside consultant to do the analysis or use a paid tool? It involves a content analysis and a little counting. Here’s a template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2005

Stickers Originally uploaded by cambodia4kidsorg. Why do people put stickers on their laptops? I was only here for the last day. So I only saw six examples of this - bumper stickers on laptops. Here's the set. According Wendy Koslow it is for identification. So you can easily figure out which laptop is yours.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Also think about the data and analysis that a development professional would perform on the donor data base to analyze multi-channel fundraising campaigns. Tools that mash up public data allow nonprofit fundraisers to do benchmarking and a better analysis of market conditions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Analyze your Results - Complete a qualitative analysis across and within levels of your stakeholders. If interview protocol was used, your first step is to transcribe all responses, and then you can start an analysis. After completing the analysis, present your findings to your board committee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2006

Rashimi also wrote another interesting essay entitled " A Cognitive analysis of tagging (or how the lower cognitive cost of tagging makes it popular." Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others. This article will explore how tagging lets us connect with others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta. Jane Bozarth’s “ From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers ” includes some excellent templates and examples for training evaluation surveys. 3. The Evaluation Survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

To answer the questions, they conducted a landscape analysis of existing research on the impacts of capacity building on organizational strength and social impact. The landscape analysis suggests that the question is not whether certain types of capacity building are better or worse than others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. The ultimate purpose of data analysis and evaluation is to share findings with other leaders at your organization and use that information to make adjustments and improvements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2018

The social media pundits were swift with posting their analysis on Facebook. Zuckerberg said Facebook’s hopes to have people spend less time on Facebook, but if they end up feeling better about using the platform, they will ultimately benefit. Social Media examiner posted this 10 minute video breaking down the news about the newsfeed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2019

This is a good analysis of the evolution of Tech for Good, Cloud for Good, Data for Good, and the latest iteration: AI For Good. ” Here’s some recent links that look at the why and what. And, I’ve also included a few on the how. What Is AI for Good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

AI for Social Good: The McKinsey company recently released its “ AI and Social Good Report ,” which includes a landscape analysis of how AI is currently being used to solve big hairy problems. Concerns about human agency, evolution and survival emerged as well as proposed solutions can be found in the full report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2011

Social network analysis can reveal knowledge flows and roles. Network analysis provides a new measurement tool. Knowledge is created through individual interactions. Patterns of participation impact knowledge flow. Use network maps to visualize the network and make connections. Knowledge in the networking (and relationship building).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

There is a quite a lot of data as well as useful analysis from M&R. For the past 11 years, this study has gathered comparative metrics from nonprofits on email, social media, social advertising, fundraising, and web engagement. I was most interested in seeing what the trends were on digital ad spending, including social ads.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Nonprofits that can lead and develop programs based on an analysis of the problem or need, grounded in useful data that shows impact, and a commitment to getting better over time will move faster together towards solving today’s complex problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2006

I got an email from Cesar Vargas who writes the NPO Blog. He was born in Lima, Peru and is studying for his masters in Information Systems in Hawaii at HPU. He is currently working on a paper about: "How do blogs benefit nonprofit organizations in U.S."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

.” The participants were a cross-disciplinary group and included people who work at different foundations in the areas of evaluation, communication, social media, and programs as well as people who work for nonprofits and as consultants who work in evaluation, social media, network analysis, data scientists, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It will help you understand how graphic elements – type, color, arrangement, and graphics can help you communicate the results of your data analysis so others will understand it. It will help you understand when to use a pie chart versus a bar chart – but it goes beyond that. I hope you have a fabulous holiday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Most of the time you’ll be making charts and graphs of numerical data, but some of your data may be a content analysis or theme analysis – and you can use word clouds to illustrate the frequency of a particular theme. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway. My favorite free tool for doing that is Wordle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

These techniques are both high tech and low tech, as simple as using sticky notes. When doing the analysis, you want to look at diversity. Harold Jarche , a thought leader in networked leadership, suggests you also reflect on this question: Who are the people with you have most frequently communicated with in order to get your work done?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 22, 2018

FB is how I stay in touch with a lot of people (including many I am in touch with no other way), send out some news and analysis and occasional calls to action, follow many activists and find some news stories. Shutting down that capacity now would reduce my range and access to information and allies, and I doubt it would harm Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

For example, when I did this workshop in Australia, I met Dr. Linda Kelley who had just finished an analysis of the technographics of Australian museum goers. And then it clicked, he did an analysis of Forrester's Social Technographic profiles in India using secondary data. My cards all have US data. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Better data analysis, linking it to decisions. Does data collection from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Does not have a dashboard or simple collection method. Often overwhelmed.

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