Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2013

Managing intellectual capital usually includes the development of wikis, communities of practice, expertise databases, and other repositories of all sorts… but let’s pause here and not get ahead of ourselves (trust me, it’s easy to do!) Analyze your Results - Complete a qualitative analysis across and within levels of your stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

To do this analysis, you need to ask for both positive and constructive criticism. The technique is called Plus/Delta. Jane Bozarth’s “ From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques for Trainers ” includes some excellent templates and examples for training evaluation surveys. 3. The Evaluation Survey.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

We have compiled this list through interviews with public- and private-sector leaders; analysis of initiatives, organizations and government programs; reviews of industry and mainstream news coverage; and submissions from thousands of online participants."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) Do you disagree with any of our interpretations?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Business analysis programs to help you report on and analyze your organization's data. Simple wiki services to foster collaboration across locations and countries. Bilingual survey and polling programs to help you get feedback from your community. Accounting software — perfect for organizations that work across borders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Yesterday, when I got the email announcement CpSquared (The Community of Practice on Communities of Practice) about its new wiki , I went over to explore. This evolving wiki is already quite rich in useful resources and at this stage has three areas: A Communities of Practice Bibliography. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

I didn’t get a chance to attend many sessions because I was in Atlanta a short-term, but I am grateful for the wiki journal report by Kathy Reich from the Packard Foundation her key takeaways. &# She had a number of people approach her!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools. The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. It has many examples of using blogs, wikis, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, SlideShare and other tools for both face-to-face workshops and e-learning. by Jane Bozarth, Editor. This like having a playbook from the best of the best instructional designers and trainers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. Do you need sentiment analysis? .” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki. Whatever raw data is put out there and no matter how sincere the invitation to dive in and swim around in it… few people, if any, end up being willing to spend time to actually do the analysis if they’re not paid to do it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

To create the report, an international body of experts in education, technology, and other fields convene on a wiki to review research, practice, and significant trends. The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2008

Library clips picks up the thread with a detailed analysis of enterprise email and blogging processes and talks about where blogs shine over email for particular types of communication. Speaking of other tools, Stewart Mader, of Wiki Patterns, is running a series, " 21 Days of Wiki Adoption. and Office 2.0

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

This also applies well to what a lot of our clients who are focused on accomplishing - trying to have their policy analysis content reach the widest possible audiences and have the largest possible impact. So in the short run, I'd say put policy analysis and policy content. How to do well with "ideas discovery"?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools. Let begin by telling you what my role is not - it isn't to sit alone and write content and curriculum from scratch and use a wiki as a content management system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Defining the platforms – be it a wiki forum, open data sets for analysis, or a webinar – that provide the best pathways for learning to take place will make the process that much speedier and easier. And it turns out, those are pretty important questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

I learned a lot about the network approaches and was particularly interested learning a bit more about social network analysis and mapping processes. The game wiki is here. Exploring what it means to work with a network mindset. During the session, I live tweeted the notes using the hashtag #packnet. You can read the notes here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Web Analytics, Statistics, and Social Networking Analysis The Net2ThinkTank: What is The Return On Investment Of The Social Web For Nonprofits? This is a really interesting analysis of Social Networking/Online Community behaviors or personalities based roughly on Myers-Briggs. I've added a wiki to my Facebook profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Podcasting. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). Text messaging. What People Were Saying. The new platform and the new tools are all about communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

We Are Media, a wiki-based community project curating resources about using social media in nonprofit organizations. We are also at the leading edge of research into, and analysis of, the voluntary sector. For more: Messages, Stories, and Conversations: Creating a Strategy for your organization and your supporters.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

" Facebook gets into texting game with Facebook Messenger — Tech News and Analysis – "Facebook has already started to supplant traditional email providers as a dominant way that people communicate online. If she can’t answer it she’ll find an expert who can!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster. In my initial analysis of mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet , I did not look at hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

I will use a blog rich in video and audio to share my discoveries and analysis. Another change blogger, SocialButterfly has created a Changeblogger wiki where other change bloggers can add their information. Britt included links to change bloggers and started a Changeblogger Facebook.

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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. Working Wikily: The Secrets of A Wiki Gardener.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

For the full list, check out our team wiki. Do a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) with respect to Open Government opportunities. My group focused on how we can foster leadership and reduce cultural barriers to speed the implementation of open government (pretty easy right?). Here are some highlights below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Recently, I was on a call with colleagues to plan our NTC session on training , and co-presenter Cindy Leonard said to me, “You are using ADDIE !” Development.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I jumped at the chance to participate, as I have a background in humanitarian emergency analysis and am a self-proclaimed geek. A Crisis Wiki to serve as "yellow pages" for folks supporting the relief efforts in Haiti. The movement started last June with the first Crisis Camp barcamp held in Washington.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

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. Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting? How did that relate to the learning objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. It answers the "Was it worth doing?" Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

and contributed it to the WeAreMedia Wiki. Strategy My colleague, Allison Fine, in her analysis of the study wondered why groups would choose to set up a house social network rather than use a commercial site and what are the benefits and drawbacks of doing so? If not the latter, chances are the effort won't be as successful.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

But here, there are many "evergreen" posts dating back to the beginning with design ideas, analysis, links, and interesting projects. To contribute to the site , you will need to register an account with the wiki host. Once you've done that, you can edit any page on the wiki and create your own as well.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

A 2008 update on these initial reports, User Survey Analysis: Secondary PC Market Offers Growing Opportunity , continues to support both the supply and demand growth projections. As sales of new tablets and smartphones increase, they will also find their way in to the used market.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

nonprofits for free, but even happier that Google is integrating jotspot , a wiki app, into Google Apps. Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. Some transitions at npower and omidyar. Google Aps. Ian Wilker is happy about the Google Apps Education Education being available to. More buzz here.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Another great trick to use is the "quick win" Find a tech project that meets a specific organizational need and can be quickly implemented with quick payback -- for example, a wiki to support a cross-departmental collaboration. "Quick Wins" can do wonders for building relationships in support of tech for the mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. The analysis questions are "What's the real value of the home page?"

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