Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert. In the comments, Michele Martin points to an interesting article " Saying You Can't Compete for Free Is Saying You Can't Compete " What is your take.on The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Here’s a summary: There was a range of practice for using data and measurement to improve social media and demonstrate impact: Crawl. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Better data analysis, linking it to decisions. Does not know where to start. Often overwhelmed.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

But if you're just getting started with data and analysis, almost everyone uses Excel a little bit. It's actually very easy to use Excel features like pivot tables to get quick summaries and counts of the data in your spreadsheet, rather than formulas or manual counting. Log in to comment below. spanhidden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees. As one person in the comments of Michelle's posts notes, "Holly and Michelle are right to argue for context. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. Do not measure everything, but do measure what is most important to your objectives. The data you gather should help you learn. Avoid this measurement as therapy trap. Unsubscribes.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The ACLU website has a good summary of the USA Freedom Act. Charity Digital News recently announced a new smartphone game, Play to Cure: Genes in Space , which is fun game that also helps cancer scientists with analysis of variations in gene data. and is getting good comments from users. Just log in to comment.

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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. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. Do you read the summaries? of our connected conversations and resource finds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Update: See Ben's Comment over here. January 12, 2007.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2014

I received a number of comments on the “ Lessons Learned from the HealthCare.gov Rollout ” piece featured on npENGAGE late last year and wanted to follow up. Clay Shirky wrote a very popular analysis of the forces and personalities at play in a technical project. Please leave a comment. Other thoughts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

In my initial analysis of mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet , I did not look at hashtags. Nathaniel Naskashima, in a comment on another post , shared some insights from his look at the hashtags used by Foundations on Twitter. Another example, although not totally nonprofit focused is #blogchat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

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. I will summarize more in the weekly nptech tag summary.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

When embarking on a comprehensive analysis of your database, be sure to keep your goals and objectives first and foremost. I am interested in hearing your comments and questions, so please feel free to email me at carol.belair@blackbaud.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. Do you read the summaries? Leave a comment.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. In summary: Myth I: Religious giving is falling. Personally, I really like the analysis and detail of Rooney's myths. Much like Robert Ashcrafts previous blog post , this is a glass "half full" or "half empty" question – for research provides evidence on both sides. Not really.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

When I popped out of the reader to write a comment on this excellent post, I was blown away by the new site design. Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary. Check it out. for his blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Some struggle to find an attainable number. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. Here’s a summary of 25 SMART social media objectives from Leveraging Social Media project with arts organizations.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

Run some basic data analysis on your donor database, and create a couple of message alternatives that would appeal to your donor segments. I’d love to get into much more detail here, but Gary’s comments are a good summary. We’ve never segmented donors or written different messages for different donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2009

Organizational Network Analysis). Harold Jarche left a provactive comment on my summary of Pesce's essay: I think that the concept of wirearchy is between the hierarchy and the cloud and is very much aligned with what many non-profits strive to be. . Source: Rob Cross, What is ONA? So, I'm giving it away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

” People who donated enjoyed the opportunity for innuendo in the comments. So, now we are seeing an emerging practice that for lack of a better phrase, I’m calling “Charity Jacking.” His page features a famous clip of Seinfeld’s George Castanza shouting “I was in the pool, I was in the pool.”

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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 9:24 am Excellent summary. { 2 trackbacks } Convio will join Kintera and Blackbaud as publicly traded companies » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 09.01.07

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Also free is a summary analysis of your results. The survey typically takes respondents seven to 10 minutes to fill out and the results you get will identify your strengths and weaknesses, and will allow you to compare your evaluators responses to your own self-assessment. A full reporting on your results costs $79.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The session will provide a brief summary of the recent thinking on this topic by thought leaders in the field, but mostly provide an opportunity for small group discussion and sharing about current practices on this important topic. How many people comment on posts? What is your post to comment ratio? The Web is changing!

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Next, I read through all those responses and did a pattern analysis. For each theme, I wrote a summary and identified additional questions. Vicky left a comment on Facebook: I just wonder this, Beth. Be sure to read the comments, Vicky even got a comment by Scoble himself. and there were roughly seven themes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Geotagging Photos.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Build in activities like sharing your posts or leaving comments for an exclusive prize. Recurring Giving Benchmarking Analysis , retention rates for recurring gifts can be upwards of 90%, compared to 40% for one-time gifts and a single-digit rate for one-time peer-to-peer gifts. . According to the donorCentrics U.S.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

It has evolved as a way to engage customers, and increasingly policymakers and industry insiders, which GM valued at $180,000/year by measuring the number of customer comments. Comment below or feel free to email me: heather (at) care2team.com Receive monthly updates 8 Comments | by Share Article in Social Networking , Trends , Web 2.0

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Social Media ROI Media Social 59

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Most importantly, I know a lot of you have already done this, but please feel free to chat in your questions and comments. Because it’s really important to evaluate and do a little self-analysis and say, “Are we still sending these offers?” There’s a chat box and a Q&A box. Don’t be shy.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To a large extent, understand the market forces at play that help or hurt your chance for success; think SWOT analysis and marketing mix. A like here, a comment there, and a link back to your site can, with time, have a huge impact on search rankings. Another is the need for your content to persuade readers to take an action.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 9, 2008

Thanks to Michael Edwards, author of Just Another Emperor , for investing the time to comment on my last blog post. Perhaps my suggestion that this is less of the comprehensive, authoritative analysis than represented is not as outlandish and improbable as suggested by the author. The Ad Hominem Abusive attack, redux.

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