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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

You don’t have to be the world’s best artist to create a respectable infographic to help you make sense of your data, but it does take a little consideration and small amount of inspiration. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Basically, connections can describe anything you want to gather data about to make decisions to improve your network or reach your goals. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Web Crawl Data: Click here to see larger image. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily. Of course as with any methodology, this presents a limited picture. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. Who Are the Presenters? At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs).

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

What does "big data" look like for museums? Collecting institutions have enormous stacks of data about the artifacts and artworks in their stores. The data is in a computer language called.JSON that is commonly used for data sharing and processing. What can you do with these.JSON files? These visualizations are fun.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Marc's talk was fantastically insightful and full of ways that community managers can use social network analysis to gain greater insights into and grow their communities. What is social network analysis?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? It will search hashtags or keywords and dump the data in a google spreadsheet. I used for anytime I teach a workshop or give a presentation. Who is regularly retweeting me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Elearning space defines it as: “Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.” These are: 1.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Here’s an example of the chart that I created: Tasks Start Date Completion Date Who is Responsible? Be present in more than one communication channel. Create a Master Task List and identify all the tasks that need to be done, step by step, from the start date of the campaign until the last day when things wrap up. Don’t be shy.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

View more presentations from womenwhotech. Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Don't let your data fall victim! Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online. But let's start with a few simple principles to jumpstart how your organization can improve its use of data online.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. Managers and the board were so overwhelmed by the huge amount of information that their eyes tended to glaze over when the data was presented. Poor Presentation. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 10, 2016

For this reason, it can be challenging to present timely, accurate data to external stakeholders while demonstrating fiscal responsibility internally. In return, your staff will be able to focus less time on data entry and more time on your mission! Track Data Through a Flexible Chart of Accounts.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With templates for presentations, posters, social media posts, direct mail letters, and more, your organization can easily brand marketing collateral to help spread the word about your campaign. Backlink analysis. Why This Fundraising App Made Our List Set goals using data from Google Analytics. Keyword research.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

This is especially true if your year-end campaigns were strategically planned to generate and collect plenty of useful performance data ( learn more about that here ). With more people using your fundraising, management, or data tech for a wide variety of reasons, each team member has a completely different experience of your toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

Katya Andresen, COO, Network for Good If you love data, you’re in for a treat. First, the data set for this study is limited to donations powered by the Network for Good platform. Also, the data do not differentiate what nonprofits are doing to affect donor behavior beyond the giving transaction. We looked at: 3.6

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The presentations and recordings are available online for free and if you work for a nonprofit and want to learn more about social media, definitely worth reviewing. As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Where do you look for standard metrics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

I have a chance to reflect now on the data I've collected and think about the instructional design. Typically, I have two groups of participants and as the chart above indicates, this group is no different - except that I probably have a greater number of people in Group 2. (1) Comfort Levels.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Too often, health data is locked in massive datasets that are opaque to all but epidemiologists and statisticians.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Key staff members enter, manage, and report on this data, but it can be difficult to pull together snapshots of progress quickly in order to make real-time course corrections. With financial dashboards, financial managers have access to data that can help them make timely tactical and strategic decisions. What is Business Intelligence?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Rolling out a well-thought-out business plan is like charting a course through treacherous yet conquerable terrains. Step 2: Conducting a Market Analysis for Your Non-Profit Conducting a comprehensive market analysis is crucial for non-profits to understand the landscape they operate in and make informed decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'll be doing a presentation on a panel at the Museum Computer Network Conference in two weeks on this topic and in early 2008 for the Legal Services Corporation. What data matters most? I like how you are weaving together both number data and qualitative data and how you plan to collect stories. You're almost there.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. You've probably already heard statistics like these floating around at various conferences and presentations. It's the kind of stuff we presenters say to justify the rest of our presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  His engaging and funny presentation was called "Tough Times call for Tough Measures."      Chart of an emotional visit to Starbucks.   The second time you go through your data - you can't do discovery - you need to do analysis.  Where are people going? 

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Acrobat XI Pro lets you bring that content over easily by converting a PDF to a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation. These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Acrobat XI Pro lets you bring that content over easily by converting a PDF to a Word document, Excel spreadsheet, or PowerPoint presentation. These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

We know nonprofits and libraries gather piles of data, from program outcomes to constituent data to fundraising or advocacy campaign results. And you probably struggle to turn that data into meaningful insights that can improve your work or tell your organization's story. Why You Need to Move Beyond the Pie Chart.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

For example, the Guidestar Exchange empowers nonprofits to share their own data and take control over how they tell their accounting story. Bridgespan Group Nonprofit Cost Analysis toolkit. Charity Raters Part 1: Charting the Bad and the Bad. People give to nonprofits because they agree with our values. More Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. The Data How was it collected? This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. And is there any left?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. The Data How was it collected? This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. And is there any left?

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Through plenary sessions, workshops, discussions, presentations, and networking events, our participants learn how to guide their organizations toward greater impact and mission fulfillment. At this year's AASP Summit, presenters will focus on cutting-edge technology and business methods using case studies. Do Good Data 2017.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. You’ll also need to schedule time to collect and analyze your data. How many by when?

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