Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Organizational reporting. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Data Analysis. This conversation explored common pitfalls to analysis approaches and how to avoid them. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2009

Blackbaud has released a summary of early results from its analysis of 2008 online giving trends. The results come from 2,000 nonprofits using Blackbaud’s online fundraising tools. They’ve found: Steady growth throughout the year. read more.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is from the perspective of a web developer, and this overview leans towards the implementation of GA and Google Tag Manager (GTM) and not on building reports within the GA4 interface once data is flowing. GA4 also incorporates Artificial Intelligence into its data analysis, to enable an enhanced level of forecasting.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2024

Bloomerang’s New Reporting Capabilities Last month we launched several new reporting capabilities to help you better understand volunteer impact, support grant submissions, and inspire existing and potential volunteers. You now have 60 new reports to help you measure volunteer impact. an hour, a 6.2% Login to your account.

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Analysis Report Volunteer Impact 71

3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

For example, Epsilon, a consumer brand loyalty expert, published a short report on using data to build customer loyalty. I refer to this report fairly often because the summary points are such good reminders to all of us in the nonprofit sector (I’m interpreting a bit to use nonprofit terminology): Focus on your best donors.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

To say this is a highly anticipated, monumental report would be an understatement. The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. The industry report identifies the trends (see the Blackbaud Index ) which are used to inform the health of your online program, not overall constituent engagement.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 28, 2015

To save management time by instantly producing detailed reports and analysis showing current and historical training activity. In summary, an LMS leverages today’s technology to increase profits and company competitiveness in an increasingly complex business environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Also free is a summary analysis of your results. A full reporting on your results costs $79. 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.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

For example, you might send a summary of your last annual report over email rather than reciting it over the phone. Data analysis helps you eliminate prospects who may not be a good fit earlier in the process. The post How Data Analysis Can Help Nonprofits Reach Major Donors first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

" In an earlier summary , a key theme emerged -- the ways that folksonomy and taxonomy can produce best of both worlds results. In the comments, Chris Blow, shares an analysis of the other words used with the NpTech tag. full report here ) An analysis on the blog is forthcoming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2015

Also free is a summary analysis of your results. A full reporting on your results costs $79. 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.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2014

Also free is a summary analysis of your results. A full reporting on your results costs $79. 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.

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Skills Summary Leadership Evaluation 45

sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For example, you might send a summary of your last annual report over email rather than reciting it over the phone. Data analysis helps you eliminate prospects who may not be a good fit earlier in the process. The post 4 Tips to Cultivate Major Gift Prospects with Data Analysis first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Reports and data analysis tool. Send a thank you letter as well as a summary of the event’s impact. Email communication tool. It’s important that you communicate with attendees. Find a tool with automated marketing capabilities so that emails are sent in a timely manner. . Live-streaming or video conferencing tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2009

I didn't have to look any further than the Idealware site and a recent report, " A Consumer's Guide To Low-Cost Data Visualization Tools " to get the answers. The report includes a summary of design principles, some common visual formats, as well as a review and comparison of free/low cost tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

The State of Marketing 2011 report recently released from IBM analyzes over 300 online and direct marketers across a wide range of industries, geographies, and company sizes. A key finding: Nearly 60 percent of respondents listed “ measurement, analysis, and learning &# as their top information technology bottleneck.

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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. Does data collection from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Better data analysis, linking it to decisions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2012

In January of last year I wrote up a quick summary on how some of our clients' end-of-year fundraising campaigns did vs. the prior year, and I thought it’d be nice to repeat the exercise to see how nonprofits fared in 2011. Compared to last year’s report, this is the one downward trend.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I've worked on a very broad variety of technical information systems and multiple types of databases and reporting tools. But if you're just getting started with data and analysis, almost everyone uses Excel a little bit. Here are some quick tips for using Excel to improve your data analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert. Another Social Network on the horizon - Allen Benamer adds his two cents about the Project Agape and the TechCrunch Report and the issue of social networking fatique. Serious reflections from Phil Klein and some fun.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2014

Each June, nonprofit and philanthropy leaders gather for the unveiling of what’s become an annual report card for charitable giving in America and, by extension, for fundraisers. What’s in the report? Another critical contribution the report makes is a view of giving over time.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

For example Edgeflip , a new initiative plans to turn the ad hoc data analysis tools developed for the campaign into software that can make nonprofits more effective at raising money and recruiting volunteers. Analysis: Potential, pitfalls of "big data" for humanitarians.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

Conduct a financial analysis of each nonprofit (and of your organization). In addition, this analysis may be useful for partner meetings down the road in which major concerns may be voiced. This will aid in identifying any financial weakness, which depending on the severity, may force you to discard a candidate from the list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. The Nonprofittech Blog has its first guest blogger, Doug Yeager, who is posting reports from DreamForce. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

In July 2015, two of the earliest SIBs in the US reported markedly different results from which a nonprofit manager can learn. The Rikers Island State Prison SIB, which had a goal of reducing recidivism among youths detained, reported after two years that it would cease operations after failing to meet benchmarks. Vera Institute.

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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. Questions that encourage people to share their take on a research report: Seniors Embrace Social Media Faster Than Other Segments, What Does That Mean for Your Nonprofit?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The easiest subjects of your analysis are going to be individuals in your own database. For example: If you are making a Major Donor Profile, but don’t currently have any Major Donors for your nonprofit, look at Annual Reports from similar nonprofits. In summary, LOOK FOR PATTERNS!!! What data do you need to collect?

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

They also often provide features for data analysis and reporting, enabling nonprofits to gain insights into their website performance and user engagement. In summary, incorporating online forms on nonprofit websites is a best practice that can significantly enhance the user experience.

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fusionSpan

JUNE 1, 2023

Two prime examples of no-code or configuration based Salesforce data tools are List Views and Report Builder. When you’re working with Salesforce, though, really understanding the differences between List Views and Reports is crucial. Reports Salesforce Reports offer more advanced functionality and analysis tools than list views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links.

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Forj

MAY 25, 2021

Administering continuing medical education (CME) is no simple task— from the advanced accreditation reporting to the ongoing evolution of medical best practices, it can be a huge administrative task for your team. Complicated Accreditation Reporting. Your association needs to report to PARS for all accreditation activities.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

At its most basic level, it’s a system that manages information about donors and gifts so you can understand how much you’ve raised, keep track of all the useful information you know about your donors, manage mailings, emails and campaigns, and print reports on all this information. Querying and reporting are also particular strengths.

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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. Also, having weekly summaries that can be shared in other mediums can make the information accessible to others who don't want to participate on Twitter. Another example, although not totally nonprofit focused is #blogchat.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

And our resident outcomes expert Michelle DiSabato has helped us understand the benefits of outcomes measurement, tracking and reporting and the role outcomes play in driving collaboration between funders and grantees. All foundations and their nonprofit partners can benefit from measuring, tracking and reporting on outcomes.

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