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. Transdisciplinarity: literacy in and ability to understand concepts across multiple disciplines. How do you do it?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

You may already know that I plan in earnest to provide my personal President’s Updates as quarterly informal reports, but that all too often I fall behind on this well-intended schedule—as is the case with the update you’re reading now! We’ll embrace failure as part of the learning process and as a metric of a true "labs" atmosphere.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

The formula for Writing Great GPT Prompts The best formula for getting unique responses from GPT tools involves a combination of effective prompts, customized settings, adding contextual data, and iterative experimentation. Data : Here is a list of XYZ’s services and a recent email to customers {data}.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Meet Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, “Data Scientist,” and are on staff at DoSomething.Org. They work in partnership with DoSomething’s program staff to collect, analyze, and make sense of data to improve impact of DoSomething’s programs. DoSomething.org does not consider this overhead.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2024

But failure to use data effectively can also be dangerous. If you don’t have a data governance strategy , a technology assessment can be a good way to launch this process. You may discover that some staffers aren’t benefiting from the data at their fingertips because they need additional training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Because of the volume and using free tools, Wendy had to do a lot of heavy cut and paste to analyze, summarize, and distribute the information.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 19, 2022

As a grantmaker in a digital world, gathering data seems to be the easy part. You have data on your grantees flowing into your grant management system (GMS) through applications and their updates. Your own historical data on grants awarded accumulates with every grant cycle. Using Lists in Your Grant Reporting.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

For example, if you ran a literacy organization and you had a blog post about how one of your former beneficiaries just became the poet laureate for a nearby city, that would be an excellent candidate. The literacy nonprofit talked about above might name their recurring donors their “Bookworm Brigade.”

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

” Well, opting for a pre-built fundraising platform has a ton of advantages, mainly because it streamlines various critical elements: Built-In Features: Fundraising platforms come equipped with essential features like impact metrics , donation tiers , peer-to-peer capabilities , ticketing options, and easily accessible donate buttons.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And all kinds of information on our website, you can watch videos, get a really good sense of what we have to offer. So, if there was anything that piqued your interest or you said, “Oh my goodness, I would love more information about this particular area,” we can point you in the right direction for that.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

Consider the following donor data points: Age. For instance, people working in creative fields might appreciate more visually-driven content, while those in the business or technical fields may prefer more data-backed content. To effectively evaluate and adjust your marketing strategies, track specific metrics on each platform you use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

If you are a FB Page administrator, you probably noticed the new metric Facebook has on the bottom of every post showing how many people it reached. This is a way of working that “data-driven nonprofits” use. This information is useful to us whether or not we’re talking about promoted posts.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

With regard to public-facing institutions, there were interesting distinctions drawn about the way libraries and museums provide information. Libraries are in the “just-in-time” information business, set up to help visitors find the specific asset or information sought. Do they need knitting information? Do they want it?

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