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. Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. I realized that I was in front of my computer monitor, trying to squeeze out one more email or just one more bar chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

And because a lot of these organizations are controlling administrative costs by cutting staff, there just isn't much time for additional research. Based on years of biannual report analysis, I find that annual budget, mission focus, and service area, in that order, have the most impact on an organization's grantseeking experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

The visual shows the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). What's noted: "Adapted patterns are also cross-cutting techniques for increasing engagement and revenue." According to this analysis, Causes probably falls in the Adapted Patterns/Competition.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

We have done this in-person as part of stakeholder discovery and have also done them remotely, with end-users, as a user research activity. Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Return on Investment.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. More than 750 researchers, teachers and leaders from the field gather at the Annual Conference. Research / @ARNOVA. Annual Conference for Development Researchers. Annual Conference for Development Researchers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

My Facebook page is a focus group or channel for research. 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. Jo Johnson over at the London Symphony is a master of this technique. How many by when?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The Glasspocket’s blog has a post from Claire Gibbons, a senior program officer in the Research & Evaluation Unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that illustrates or describes the change. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.).

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