Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

Note from Beth: One of the most common questions I get at workshops or webinars is, “Should our organization be on XYZ social or mobile platform?” ” That to say that you need to know your audience and how they get their information. Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for NGOS by Darren Barefoot.

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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. I could compare it at the county level.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Use portals and your website to provide open access to the information they need when they need it. In healthcare organizations, it is vital to be able to show quantitative measurement of your impact, whether you are showing the community benefit impact, tracking dollars spent delivering direct services or reporting back to donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. 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.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It might be even useful to locate a volunteer with a background in sales or data analysis and see if you can get them to come on board as the one person in your organization who can go through the feedback and present the results. Listening to other organizations. Give your organization and yourself time.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

When a crisis occurs—whether it’s the war in Ukraine or the COVID-19 pandemic—people seek up-to-date information. In the social sector, the questions that often emerge are: Which organizations are addressing the crisis? When a humanitarian crisis occurs, Candid mobilizes a team to collect information about the philanthropic response.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The reality for many organizations, whether a smaller nonprofit, a large international advocacy organization or a government agency, is that their data lives in separate silos. For many organizations, different departments have different data storage requirements and they end up with their data stuck in different platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

GA4 also incorporates Artificial Intelligence into its data analysis, to enable an enhanced level of forecasting. More information about enabling enhanced measurements and the data collected can be found here. Examples of recommended events are purchase , with additional information about the form (monthly vs. one-time, etc.);

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 24, 2011

This week we welcome Mary McGillicuddy, one of the researchers who worked with the ASU College of Public Programs on a project that analyzed and mapped the social network of downtown Phoenix nonprofit organizations. Contrary to popular belief, social networks and social network analysis (SNA) both existed long before Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

We invite you to dive into key findings from the report and explore granular data on our funding map. . We’ve included their recommendations below, along with examples from the 2019 analysis of donors who use these tactics. . This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

How to format the results: Presenting data findings in a way that makes sense and allows stakeholders to take action is extremely difficult, especially when stakeholders differ in their focus and approach across an organization. The goal with your analysis is to have actionable data.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Direct mail gives your supporters a physical object to connect them to your organization, making it a highly personal way to reach out. This builds up your reputation as an established, trustworthy organization. Conduct research about your organization’s specific market, working to identify marketwide consumer and technology trends.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

To achieve this, Forum One conducted a comprehensive landscape analysis and full audits of their technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics as well as stakeholder interviews. 2022 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three) Bronze – Annual Report Zero to Three works to ensure all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we are collaborating with the Foundation Center on upcoming webinars designed to provide you with new ideas and tools to aid your organization. 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. Pacific time.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many organizations’ risk management plans focus on the steps they’ll take to mitigate problems once they’ve occurred. While mapping out these types of plans is important, you should also focus on taking proactive steps to avoid putting your nonprofit in risky situations in the first place. might occur. Compliance.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

First, it’s important to note that this analysis is based on U.S. For much of our analysis, however, we are trying to answer the most basic question: Who has given for what, for who, and for where? . Like most organizations that analyze data about the U.S. We start with a few caveats. The state of the data .

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

Based on our analysis, the answer is, it's (currently) impossible to know —but it’s important to get right. . This data is available on our racial equity map.[ Corporate funders are for-profit organizations funding philanthropic work. But not sharing this valuable information weakens philanthropy’s collective efforts. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2009

I think it is more than just having self-organizing values embedded in the way the tool works. I think these are four qualities to look for: Network: This is a collection of people and organizations that linked together. It's your professional social network or a network of organizations or typically both.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The previous version of Google Analytics (GA3 or Universal Analytics) was around for over a decade and helped organizations of all shapes and sizes track and analyze data around their website traffic. But what Google Analytics — and GA4 in particular — brings to the table is an extra layer of information. Where did the donor come from?

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In today’s world, data drives so much for nonprofit organizations. Business intelligence (BI) is the process of making sense of that data to identify trends, predict outcomes and inform decisions at the highest level. If your organization doesn’t have Salesforce yet, you still have options to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Take my information overload quiz. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

I think that is an important insight for small organizations who don’t have a team of people doing the social media and trying to do it with limited hours in the day. Those decisions are implemented across the organization’s web properties and social channels. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Guest Beneblog by Patrick Ball, Jeff Klingner, and Kristian Lum After the earthquake in Haiti, Ushahidi organized a centralized text messaging system to allow people to inform others about people trapped under damaged buildings and other humanitarian crises. We think that this is important and valuable.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

3 – Who is responsible for maintaining data quality in your organization? GARY: Data policies will vary from one organization to the next, but they should not vary too much. All organizations are dealing with roughly the same issues. Hygiene: How frequently, and on what schedule, will your organization clean data?

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

From managing members to organizing events, there’s no shortage of work to do. These powerful programs contain nearly everything you need for managing your members, accounts, events and organization as a whole. Professional associations have a lot on their plate. An AMS might include the following.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Layer two begins with the implementation process.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

While this information might not come as a surprise, there is a clear path forward for your technology strategy as it relates to managing your constituents. For nonprofit organizations currently utilizing the LCRM product, the time is now to plan for what comes next. Now – Take Initiative. You’ve decided NPSP is right for you.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Community Mapping. >> Content Mapping. >>

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

Discover how HOPE Atlanta , Metro Atlanta’s most established agency committed to fighting homelessness and hunger, capitalized on this integration to optimize their data collection , and explore how your organization can do the same to maximize fundraising potential. Automatically Transfer Data Between Platforms. Hannah Durbin.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2021

In the wake of their deaths, individuals, communities, and organizations have shown solidarity with words, actions, and millions of dollars pledged to end anti-Asian discrimination, violence, and hate. To further explore how philanthropy is responding, check out Candid’s Racial Equity map. [i] Additional trends in 2021.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Community Mapping.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

However, learning to properly market online and offline is an important opportunity for organizations. There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. That’s why far too many organizations operate without a clear marketing strategy: making a good one is time-consuming. .

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