Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Nonprofit dashboard reports, which communicate critical information in a concise, visual, and more compelling way, are mostly used by board or staff for discussion at internal or private meetings or used as part of reports back to funders for grants. . Is it risky to provide statistics about finances and results on a public Web site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

I’m inserting a direct quote from Robin: “One point: I believe that curators, as I see them, should rarely if ever be driven by analytics data or statistics but to their personal experience and viewpoint. I feel that intelligent use of data can be used to measure one’s effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

” That to say that you need to know your audience and how they get their information. Then add information related to your organization: what are their values as it relates to your cause? You can use a simple online survey tool like Google Drive or SurveyMonkey to collect information about your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2009

This is more than putting information out on the web. The session started off with some context about how the organization got started and why , and an overview of programs. Obviously, one of the great benefits of an "open board meeting" is getting feedback on what the organization's is doing and the sharing of information and ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

This information is invaluable to your nonprofit – Giving you the ability become more effective with your online efforts. You may not know exactly what to do with this data all the time, but to be without it is to let opportunities slip through your fingers. 17 statistics to monitor on your blog by Darren Rowse. See #1 above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2007

What is amazing is that she has obviously created a data driven culture in her organization. We've always prided ourselves in our information services, as we are regularly in contact with over 550 local groups. It has a really useful 'friendly' interface, with menu's as to the types of information that you will want to look for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? What would be of most value to your existing audience – information, ability to transactions, and how? Also, there is secondary data to review and your web site analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

Already that morning, keynotes had give some powerful adoption statistics. For example, 13% of handhelds are smartphones, but account for 78% of data traffic and there are 180 billion text messages monthly. 3.) Data ecosystems – integrating client data into mobile phones as the “last mile&# for delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The Web section offers a sampling of numbers only data. What it doesn't show me is any trends over time or analysis based on gathering data from several types of resources. The public now has access to statistics about attendance, the art collection and even our budget. So what's so cool about our dashboard? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. To understand how to identify actionable reports from the complex sea of information collected in an analytics tool. To understand the definition web analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about storytelling with data from Alexandra Samuel. Her most controversial point was: “Rigorous data gathering and analysis can get in the way of effective storytelling by non-profits.”. get training for that) or b) when we need a more rigorous approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The question came from a diversity consultant while we were discussing how young people today are being brought up on social networks AND some statistics about age and email/social network use. No real hard data in them though, more trend/zeitgeist-type analysis. How many people of color participate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2005

Delicious feels so social to us, we want to know who else has tagged the information, we want to know who they are.??? t come out with a pleasing way to display the information. Clustering the data. From there, you do math to make connections to what other people are using with the help of statistics. Ownership of Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social. I’ve also collected infographics that summarize global data on various platforms on a pinterest board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

welcomed everyone "The people on the end of your web site will be informed than the CEO. He mentioned that "digital natives" get their information from their peers. With so much information coming out, how we can get our message out and heard? You need to get past the information overload and information clutter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

They follow the scientific method which includes coming up with hypothesis question, collecting data, analyzing results, and getting insight to their questions. As I was helping her translate the data in excel spreadsheet into a line graph, I realized that the project was essentially an a/b test.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A willingness to share information and content, also known as transparency ; planning is discussed and user participation is welcomed. Extension programs use wikis, flickr, blogs, tagging, and other tools to share information and content. This can inform. Adding a new data point to it. How will you apply the information?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I felt very strongly that the information gap about non-profits in the country severely impacted philanthropy; it was so hard to find out who was doing what and where in the country, and then screen them through due diligence filters in order to give a guarantee that these were credible non-profits. Why did you set up GuideStar India?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

The infographic summarizes crowdfunding data points including average gift size and average crowdfunding campaign totals from platforms like Causes, Causevox, FirstGiving, Razoo, and StayClassy. Some statistics from the infographic: $88 is the average donation size. share information and tools, earlier and more easily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Maybe it is the feeling that measurement requires data collection and that will cause even more information overload and why we put the task on the organizational back burner. We all need to be curators of our analytics data. Here’s where I think the AMEC Valid Metrics Grids will be very useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

He notes: "The bottom line on statistics -- we're seeing pretty routinely that. I've been doing this informally, what I've learned I'll put into a separate post. The numbers and data alone are almost meaningless unless you take those numbers think about how to make improvements, set goals, and reflect. Compute it and you???ll

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The unique visitor count doesn't include the people who aren't looking for information about social media and nonprofits! The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics. The reflection involves qualitative data -- anecdotes, reflections, stories, and pattern analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. Clicky is essential for short-term campaigns because it provides minute-by-minute visitor information, whereas most analytics tools only show traffic daily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. That means we must practice mindful consumption and sharing of information. Photo by BirgerKing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. That means we must practice mindful consumption and sharing of information. Take a guess.

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