Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2010

She was very helpful and walked me through comparisons of the phones I was considering and the different plans from providers. Over the weekend, I braved the holiday crowds and spent some time putting my hands on the recommended mobile phones at Best Buy the same place where I purchased my iPhone a year ago. Original Photo by Joi Ito.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2008

For comparison, I benchmarked myself against Chris Pirillo. s visibility on the social web. It measures mentions on these twenty sites. I scored 359 on September 1st. It isn't clear exactly how it indexes and computers your score. Something isn't quite right here if my score is higher than Chris!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2007

I don't have comparison of the same time period. Again, I don't have comparison of the same time period. Flickr has 471, 092 photos tagged with dog compared with Dogbook's 167,713 people who have the app on their profile. Flickr has 553, 576 photos tagged with cat compared Catbook's 77,808 people who have the app on their profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons. What I found most valuable was the tip about getting a baseline measurement before you begin. Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

The scan shows a comparison of the brain after sitting vs walking for 20 minutes. There is more red in the walking scan which shows more connections in the brain and more ability to concentrate and that is good for learning. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2008

It presents a side-by-side comparison of features for 7 lower-end blogging tools commonly used by nonprofits. We're going to kick out this week's NTEN We Are Media Toolbox fun with blogging tools. One of the best resources on blogging for nonprofits comes from Idealware, the blogging tools report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

Comparison of old/new metrics. Demographic drill down (34% work as professionals). Facebook users are aging. How to apply it. I also found an indepth analysis of user behavior on Facebook and some specific thinking about metrics. Nature of conversation on Facebook. Segments by app usage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

Step B: Identify the comparison. Always think carefully about the message that most directly support the viewer’s needs and then select the measure that support the message. Gene Zelazny offers this simple framework: -Step A: Determine your message. Step C: Select the right chart. (5) 5) Choose the Right Display.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. We predicted it might be smaller as the campaign is disruptive to the usual pinterest pattern. Please tell us if you know of one!

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Sierra Leone Case Study Benchmark Comparison 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2007

" (Have to do some comparisons). My tagline was the result of discovering a lot of referrals from google on the word "beth" - but they those referrals were not staying long. So, I decided to make my blog title more description - to be a tagline. "How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

People are better at judging length, so bar charts are a decent option also useful for comparisons. It’s difficult to interpret area, so if you use a pie, restrict the number of wedges to 4 or fewer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2007

With number of options for social networking and fundraising out there, maybe we will see an Idealware article that does a point by point comparison of features and functionality?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2006

It lets you select any two or more wiki packages and then it dynamically creates a feature-by-feature comparison. This is a cool site. Great model! I compared wikispaces with pbwiki - the two user-friendly hosted wiki apps that I like. Speaking of wikis, there's gonna be an online wiki and nonprofit event next week over here and here

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I need to explore whether there is a way to see at glance and side-by-side comparison which of your posts have been added to del.icio.us, stumble upon, facebook, etc. She responded with the instructions (I posted here ). I decided to make a quick screencast. Now, I have some questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2019

In comparison, a recent Gartner study that found that 59% of business enterprises have some form of AI deployment in operation today. Gartner estimates that the average company has four AI or ML projects in place.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2005

Here is a review/comparison from TechCrunch. I had been wondering what the selection of flickr like tools where you can share your videos was like. Technorati Tags: net2 , nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

One quick pointer on the date range comparison (around seven min mark). So if your first time period starts at a Monday then just move the bars of the start date in the comparison time period to a Monday s well. " I did learn one more thing that is a best practice. Good best practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I'm still looking for the best places to find numbers on Social Networking sites (like number of users and growth -- I'd love a chart or graph of comparisons to MySpace, Facebook, and Linked In. I'll try to do a voice over at some point. I'd also like to see an age spread that is more recent than the Businessweek chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

But the benefits remain substantial by comparison to working with one organization at a time. In areas where the use of high-tech communications is not yet widespread, working in networks can be slower and more time-consuming and require a more high-touch process for supporting the network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. You can search by keyword and also see who else has favorited a particular tweet in order to identify like-minded contacts. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

The scan shows a comparison of the brain after sitting vs walking for 20 minutes. There is more red in the walking scan which shows more connections in the brain and more ability to concentrate and that is good for learning. Chuck Hillman from University of Illinois Neurocognitive Kinesiology Laboratory.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2006

I'll leave it to Idealware or TechSoup to write the definite comparison and maybe they'll link to this post! My contribution to the list was not to focus on vendors, but to point to a wonderful document that I helped write with Nancy White, John Smith, and others about facilitation techniques for phone conference calls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Realize that there may not be an apples-to-apples comparison but examine how your social media efforts are helping you achieve your bigger organization goals. Dan offers this advice to other nonprofits about social media measurement: Examine existing strategic plans/board outcomes and ask “How can social media support those?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Then at the end of the month, allocate a half hour to look at the numbers for the month in comparison to other months – and look for insights and trends. In the content line, I put a link to the actual post noting the type, voice, or if it was a fan posting. I also make notes about what promotional tactics I used.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

She also said that the pressure of measurement is not lessening and the drumbeat is getting louder. But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. You can search by keyword and also see who else has favorited a particular tweet in order to identify like-minded contacts. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. Mental Models: These visuals describe how people (individuals, groups) think the world works, such as theories of change, power structures, and cause-effect models in general.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

The other resistance was about having to get notification emails when people comment on one's post but I had made a two column comparison that showed emailing one article resulting in 240 emails org wide vs one blog post resulting in 4 deletable notifications to the blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2005

Maybe Marnie has already written something about social bookmarketing tools -- maybe a feature comparison in the context of intent or workflow.? I asked her about the pros/cons of delicious versus furl versus spurl et all. She said it depends on what you want to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

In comparison, 10 years ago, these managers spent “only” 60 to 65 per cent of their time engaged in those activities. . While there are many positive aspects to increased collaboration, there is also downside. Having too many platforms and tools for collaboration can confuse and annoy your team and partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Thanking donors individually on Facebook and including the link to the fundraiser triggered donations based on comparison of time posted and donation made, second most effective solicitation was a personal ask via private message. Approximately 85% of the donations were converted from my personal profile on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Jordan Viator. writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Deborah Finn. is the woman behind the hilarious lolnptech spoof. Social Change Activists.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

You should also review how you’ve traditionally done the work or solicited the input or encouraged the action in the past and note what worked and what didn’t work previously to use as a comparison to crowdsourced efforts. When you are clear on what you need done, explore crowdsourcing platforms built specifically to do what you require.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

In comparison, this was a shorter time amount of time, different instructional styles across faculty, and the overall frame was social innovation. Lately, I've had the experience of running the game as a 3-hour workshop as part of a second day of peer learning workshops on Network Effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

We originally started campaigning on MPAs (marine protected areas), but then we realized that the conversation was really small in comparison to some other issues,”says Fitzgerald. “We “We can compare the size of conversations quantitatively, as opposed to just going on our hunches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

In addition, some comparisons of the pros/cons between Facebook and Myspace policies and the larger organizational policy issue related to embracing Web2.0 Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Then at the end of the month, allocate a half hour to look at the numbers for the month in comparison to other months - and look for insights and trends. In the content line, I put a link to the actual post noting the type, voice, or if it was a fan posting. I also make notes about what promotional tactics I used.

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