Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Pattern Analysis . You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Each type dictates a different process and therefore requires different measurement and analysis methods. You should also review how you’ve traditionally done the work or solicited the input or encouraged the action in the past and note what worked and what didn’t work previously to use as a comparison to crowdsourced efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! In addition, some comparisons of the pros/cons between Facebook and Myspace policies and the larger organizational policy issue related to embracing Web2.0 social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Judi Sohn has a comparison of the two approaches. Judi finishes her analysis with the big picture, noting the downside is cost: Think of all the tools out there with open APIs that we???re Michelle Murrain, NTEN board member and NOSI leader - and author of Nonprofit API white paper has insightful analysis.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric. The extraordinary feat of memorization aside, this simple act was personal and meaningful, and I doubt I’m the only attendee to comment on this to others. Get Rid of the Velvet Rope. Announcing a hashtag (ex.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. 10 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Allan Benamer 09.18.07 at 11:31 am Web stats are intended to be an internal control and analysis tool. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

So, here's a comparison between last year and this year and another opportunity to consider improvements. It is not useful to know how many posts you write on a monthly, weekly or daily basis or the number of the words for comparisons either. Conversation habits in the comments in the blogs - it's what makes them a social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." How many people comment on posts? What is your post to comment ratio? Why are the comments higher on one blog post or podcast and lower or another?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

at 7:05 pm { 6 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Charlie Crystle 08.07.07 at 9:22 am I am not sure that I agree with your analysis. at 11:36 am As to David’s comment – I think that we will know at some point in the future whether or not eTapestry continues to be an option, and what kind of option it is.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." " Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. Image one: courtesy of Wello.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

The key on Pathable is that we can ask them questions that they respond to with tags to describe themselves or interest: This creates some interesting effects- you can find other people with common interests based on tags, and Pathable does a tag comparison to suggest other people you may want to get to know during the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons. There are many social bookmarking services available on the web.

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