Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2010

She gave a brilliant presentation that shared the story of footing binding in China and how using a networked approach and network weaving techniques, they were able to change the practice in a decade. . She covered some techniques of network weaving, sharing her check list of network weaving. Tags: network weaving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Next, we did a role-play.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. This is part 1 of a series of social networking analysis techniques.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Moving toward providing more do-it-yourself tools for reporting, “Explorations” in GA4 is a collection of advanced reporting techniques that help you uncover insights about your customers’ behavior. Moreover, GA4 is optimized for collecting lots of data, with much of the analysis taking place outside the platform. Implement it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 2: Use listening techniques to develop a deep understanding of the audience. I cover a couple techniques and tools using participants as an example to illustrate that keywords are king. Example: Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. I shared some thoughts about using Social Network Analysis tools to analyze your Twitter network. Tags: 10ntc metrics. You can see the full slide deck here. I'm still laughing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). They also tag and analyze responses. Do you need sentiment analysis?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).   In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study.    My main point is that you just think of ROI as math , then you're missing the a lot of the value of doing an ROI analysis. .  tags: microblog analytics ). tags: webcontent content ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. Tags: mobile. Or be bailout for our nonprofit. I like the way that Allison Fine reflected on this question last week. It may not make sense for your nonprofit to get mobile .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

I don't get an opportunity to do this workshop with a large group, so this was fabulous learning experience to work out some techniques to make it scale. They used "tagging" on Facebook to make people aware of the note. I've used a couple of techniques to accomplish this and they worked. Ant Trails As Learning Opportunities.

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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. So, I have no idea why this page was tagged with NpTech. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others. Tags: facebook metrics. My Fan Page objective is: . Right now it is limited to three different ways to analyze your Fan Page.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2010

I don't know enough statistical analysis to tell you how many possible combinations you could work into AdWords, but I suspect it's a lot. well, I don't want to scare you away, because there are some simple rules and techniques you can use to get results right away. Tags: adwords Google google grants NPTech NTEN.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

There was an excellent discussion about silo busting techniques and the role of leaders in bringing down the cubicle walls. I’ve been finding RowFeeder useful to do a quick and dirty content analysis and grab all the tweets into a google spreadsheet. The content analysis gives you some insights into what lines were Tweeted most.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The 30 participating organizations in the report are members of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a group of independent, nonprofits with a shared commitment to responsible budget and tax policies. Are there any tools or techniques in particular that have helped you find or contribute to the conversations taking place across the web?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2010

Much has been made about the dichotomy between signature versus heuristics-based scanning, and Symantec is now able to "funnel" their analysis using both techniques for more active prevention and detection. Tags: Security Server Applications Software Web 2.0 Photo: chotda.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Learn the techniques of simplify and apply to your social media use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The best thing about having a transcript like this it allowed me to do a pattern analysis and learning assessment of the tweets. This will help improve the networked learning design for next time. Tags: Training Design. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Techniques for More Engagement. What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. Tags: Experimentation Tips Tools and Tactics Training Design Facebook. You need to grab the month’s worth of measures and look at them against your content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

” I created a list of grantee’s Twitter Profiles and shared back the analysis of most tweeted words and hashtags. In addition, I wanted to explore TwitChimp, a tool for making Twitter lists, that Robin Good dubbed, “ the ultimate Twitter list curation tool.” Most Frequently Tweeted Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  We've done analysis that shows a fairly standard "engagement curve" for when and how engagement metrics show up for any post.) Tags: socialmediametrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” Once we’ve hooked them, we engage with our community until they own the idea and run with it. Source: grist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I'm passionate about listening - the skills, tools, techniques, and how it translates to continuous improvement of strategy and understanding the value it provides to organization's mission. Seeing the Forest Through The Trees: Pattern analysis and synthesis of findings. Tags: listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Learn the techniques of simplify and apply to your social media use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

The big deal is that all of this data is in one dashboard, so I can jump straight to analysis, making my weekly report a whole lot easier to produce. It is important track conversions and Spredfast can be integrated with my integrated my Google Analytics account, and I tag all the links I send out in conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 This drove traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

The listening as a first step is familiar - it's free market research, it's brand monitoring, it's an analysis of press mentions. One of the approaches I've been thinking about lately is how professional learning through social media channels can be put into practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. Task Analysis. Times Sheet Analysis. Budget and Financial Analysis. Investment.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Provide better data collection and analysis. The FCC should also require disclosure of providers’ network management techniques as well as specific information about the quality of the service being purchased. Tags: broadband free press internet access NPTech NTEN sheldon mains universal access.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? Each panelist will provide in-depth analysis of a notable social media screw-up they’ve been involved in, isolate key failure factors, analyze the broader lessons, and talk about how these specific organizations improved on their mistakes.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Their full range of tools and services include: Electronic document capture, tagging, and filing systems. Effectively targeting corporate philanthropy programs requires dedicated strategy, tools, and relationship-building techniques. Reporting and analysis through the Revenue Opportunity and Action Report (ROAR).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

I was up too late editing a screencast to do a content analysis yesterday, instead I found a great thread on Nonprofits and Vlogging over at Social Edge facilitated by Patrick O'Heffernan. Ask your organization's web site udience to upload their video clips to whatever video service you're using and tag them with your organization's tag. (I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain to describe this. Now wonder some arts organizations - museums, orchestras, and now operas - have embraced crowdsourcing as a creative technique. Tags: crowdsourcing. Crowd Voting: This category uses the crowd's judgement to organize vast quantities of information.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 2, 2005

Some of the key changes we see are that there are new tools and techniques that allow people with common interests to find each other and form virtual communities around these common interests. Tags: nptech , net2 , TechSoup to be continued.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. Tags as a metric. Can you use the number of photos tagged as a metric for something on say, flickr. I must also memorize how to skip around in powerpoint without flipping through slides.

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