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?” Even more importantly, what motivates them. So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. Where do they work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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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

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

bbcon 2021 Virtual , happening October 13–15, will bring together thousands of arts & cultural professionals from zoos, museums, aquaria, performing arts organizations, gardens, and beyond for three days of cutting-edge thought leadership, virtual peer networking and unforgettable experiences. Getting Organized for bbcon 2021 Virtual.

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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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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. What the Organization Does (22 percent). Provide the following information about the organization and staff. Professional References/Testimonials (others who can speak on the organization’s behalf). Organization’s Donation Website. Organization’s Fax Number.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. Each member of the team brought a different perspective based partly on their work in the organization. Visualizing Where Meaning Making Can Happen “Mapping” activities are often the starting point of identifying data collection opportunities.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

If your nonprofit organization hosts a peer-to-peer event with thousands of happy participants and supporters, but you don’t have a plan to convert those bikers, gamers, walkers, golfers, dancers, scavenger hunters, or pub crawlers into monthly donors, you’re missing out on the point of putting on an awesome P2P event.

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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

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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Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Across industries, organizations have been investing heavily to integrate analytics throughout every aspect of their company to capture a portion of the $9.5 Tableau is known for taking data from almost every system your organization is using and turning it into actionable insights – including Raiser’s Edge NXT. trillion to $15.4

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

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. Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources.

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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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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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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

There are so many tools out there and so many different options pulling us in so many directions that I’ve found many organizations, especially very small organizers, can feel like they are getting tied up in knots. Track your organization and your cause. Create a shared tracking space for your team or whole organization.

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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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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. and internationally.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

In the social sector, the questions that often emerge are: Which organizations are addressing the crisis? As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . based organization, Candid’s data collection relies heavily on sources written in English.

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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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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 11, 2016

According to the recent Nonprofit Finance Fund State of the Sector survey, “Forty-two percent of organizations reported that they do not currently have the right mix of financial resources to thrive over the next three years.”. Intro to the Matrix Map. The map gives them a combined look so they can make better decisions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world.

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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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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

GA4 also incorporates Artificial Intelligence into its data analysis, to enable an enhanced level of forecasting. Custom Events are for tracking information or interactions that cannot be easily mapped to any of the categories above, but these can be tricky to set up and configure correctly. Recommended events can be found here.

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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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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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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

Thanks to Deanna Zandt for being so thoughtful and smart in her analysis: "Let’s break down why the meritocracy myth is both so pervasive and problematic. "DeadUshahidi’s mocking tone towards maps it deems ineffective, without any understanding of the goals of the groups behind them, is problematic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Once this is established, along with goals – the methodology to measure your network relies on having a baseline methodology and using Social Network Analysis. The latter can be a very geeky topic, requiring expertise in statistics, understanding social network analysis terminology, and hard to master software. Radio Bilingue.

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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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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In today’s world, data drives so much for nonprofit organizations. For the nonprofit sector – where being able to accurately forecast donation patterns or make more predictable membership renewal is always a key focus – business intelligence has the potential to completely transform how organizations operate.

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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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Forum One

JUNE 2, 2022

While government has a mandate, all mission-driven organizations can gain insights into user-focused mindsets to deliver greater impact and engagement. To consider a customer-first experience at your organization, start with three questions: 1) Where do we start? Organization. Not part of a government agency? Want more ideas?

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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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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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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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