Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2012

This post is republished with permission from GuideStar International's blog. Big data, open data, charity reporting, and crowdsourcing were the order of the day at the recent Transforming your charity by bringing your data to life. service their community through the use of data. of their communities.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

also oversaw the development and implementation of major citywide applications, such as online mapping and real time data feeds from 259 databases.As We were impressed with the innovation he has fostered in DC government as we've blogged previously. Kundra spoke at our Web Executive Seminar last year, " Web Sites Without Walls."

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Data and analytics can play a big role in improving nonprofit strategy. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong. What charts or slides did the group focus on? Data analytics could be fresh garlic.* The Testing Whiteboard doesn’t provide some perfect, omniscient data. (As

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 18, 2022

To assist with your recruitment efforts , survey your members and be sure to include questions addressing basic demographic data. Try using icebreakers, gamification features, videos, a slide deck, breakout discussions, group activities, or roleplay to ensure the session is memorable. Recruit a diverse group of members. ?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

This session talks about the importance of data and metrics to your work and offers how-to guidelines on ways to map and monitor your community and your work. Slides and notes. Blog post. But what to measure? How to evaluate? Related Links : Nonprofit Webinars website.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Based on data gleaned from the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report , below are 27 stats about how NGOs worldwide are using online technology. Within the report you can view the same data broken out by continent. 38% regularly publish a blog. Webinar Slides: Presented 2/2/17 to 1,600+ NGO staff. 3% use.NGO.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

You can review the slides below, and click through to slideshare where you can view all of the speaker notes as well. For a presentation about blogging, facebook and twitter for blind or partially sighted people , visit: [link]. Social Media for Small Enterprises. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Anything else?

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M+R

AUGUST 23, 2023

Data from this year’s Benchmarks made it clear that TikTok is being used by many nonprofits—30% of Benchmarks participants were active on the platform in 2022. This is a great way for your nonprofit to share facts, policy information, and “Did You Know” slides!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. You also need to think like Jane Goodall or a primatologist - who does field observations, sifts through qualitative data for patterns, etc. Pick the right hard data points. Unique Blog Readers. Investment. Must be more than math.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2009

Source: Social Visualization, Lecture Slides, Martin Wattenberg, IBM I've been reflecting on the Nancy White's SpiderGram activity that helps you visualize the orientation of your community as a prelude to selecting the right online collaboration tool. I landed on the syllabus for a course in data visualization at Harvard University.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets , but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data. Great data visualizations don’t necessarily require an expensive software package or a programmer on staff. If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart. Low budget?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Here’s a quick break down and comparison of the two options based on an assumed organization sporting 1 terabyte of data storage, 81 mailboxes, and 4 virtual machines consisting of 22GB of ram and 5 CPUs developed by Jason Firch , of Exos Cloud: On-premise computing. What could your nonprofit do with an extra $54,574 each year?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

adoption strategies and often use this slide and talk abut low-risk experimentation. Brian Kelly, whose blog feed I've added to my "Circle of the Wise" feed folder, has a section on his blog called ' Experiments. Claim your Blog??? Reasons For Experiment To explore ways in which a new blog can be found.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Share Human Stories, Not Data While impact numbers and other data can be a powerful representation of your organization’s successes, your storytelling should show the impact you’ve had on people and not just which numbers you’ve hit. If the story is on the long side, it’s best to link to its place on a blog or elsewhere.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

I have a new post up on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog and I’d love to hear your thoughts! You can read the full post and comment on the SSIR blog or be part of the conversation below. You can review the slides from my whole presentation, as well as all of the speaker notes, here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” Using Google Hangout, you can switch between slides and camera, although when you are in slide mode, you can’t see the remote participants. The Google Hangout was projected on the screen. ” So we had several back up plans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2013

How to be a data nerd – I’m interested in how those of us who are not natural born data nerds can move in this direction effectively or at least partner with data nerds. I’ve been using Feedly since 2008, when Kevin Gamble from the Extension community mentioned it during an online workshop that I facilitated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. The above slide was used to illustrate the iterative nature of a developmental evaluation of a complex systems social change initiative. Meaning Making–Cross department interpretation of data in real-time. Based on a logic model.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. Although it may seem like this is an easier way to manage data, it comes at the cost of the following drawbacks: Security: What happens if your computer is stolen and someone gains access to all of that donor data?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Forj

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Several years ago on this blog, we reviewed two web-based content development apps: Claro (from domiKnow) and Composica. This job aid does not have to be just a printed list of slides (though it could be) but rather can be a well-designed checklist or visual of course content that learners can use on the job to improve their performance.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Check out the blog to keep on top of the gossip from our community. Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Joyce Bettencourt has a roundup on the future of slide decks (includes video!). Event social media open data NetSquared tsevent crowdfunding'

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Here's peek into what we've been up to: TechSoup Global has two new posts on the Markets for Good blog, an effort by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, and Liquidnet to improve the system for generating, sharing, and acting upon data and information in the social sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. I also encountered quite a few people asking very similar questions, or looking for the same resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

” As you can tell from the slide, we have a Harry Potter theme for the session. Learning Analytics: Big Data Applied to Training. In a couple of weeks, one of the sessions I’m facilitating at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Jose is called “ How To Be A Wizard at Tech Training.” Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

I decided to go offline and take a break from blogging, pinning, Facebook, Twitter, and all the rest. But in the quiet and last days of 2012 and the reflective moments in the new year, it was time to face the new year! It was the first time in a long time that I took a long social media break.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Note that Roberta also included her phone number for other members of her online community, but I've omitted it here on this public blog.]. *. Because that's the feeling at the top of a water-slide, too. And when the cost difference between downloading a little data and downloading unlimited data went away, we all got YouTube.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Since my slides are mostly screen shots, I’ve shared a bit of context below. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. View more presentations from womenwhotech. Google Analytics – [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. I think these workplace skills are important for nonprofits, especially making sense out of data.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. In addition to the benchmark data, the project also includes an e-campaigning survey that has been carried by Jess Day , an independent e-campaigning consultant.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) does it give your contact information outside of the social network (website, email, blog, or address)? This post originally written September 8, 2009.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

When this data is put into a connected graph, patterns emerge which can show you who the influencers are in your community, as well as show you people who are talking about your community that you may not have known about. Smith's slides from this presentation. She blogs regularly and tweets at @ThatGirlCrystal. View Marc A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

What reading level is your blog? Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. Jon Stahl has a live blog post of remarks by the speakers. This is a must-read.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

which followed a very strict formula that frustrated some participants who wanted to be treated like artists, not contributors to a data experiment. In Children of the Lodz Ghetto, every data entry is verified by staff in a three-step process as well as reviewed and commented on by other users. This was particularly true for Click!,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

The basic premise remained the same: to give training tips, model them, and to provide “meta” data that gave a glimpse into the minds of the session designers. The session slide deck is also available on Slideshare.net. This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog.

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