Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

It’s a no- to low-cost database that is a rich source of information about potential major donors, board members, employees, and strategic allies. LinkedIn isn’t some stodgy place where people post their resumes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

One of the smartest, funniest, and best trainers in the nonprofit technology space is my colleague, John Kenyon. He leading a workshop in North Carolina at RTPnet on Open Source CMS and CRM systems. I wish I lived near by - because I'd definitely go. Here's the description: Learn all about CMS???s, s and Open Source software ??? in plain English.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Machine learning is most likely being used to help with the data coding and categorization in the underlying databases. The interactive mapping tool harnesses COVID-19 incidence rates, community vulnerability scores, and detailed nonprofit profiles to help donors invest in the communities most affected by the pandemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Do you need access to a database? Have participants use sticky notes to do a rapid brainstorm answering these questions related to your online collaboration platforms: Information : What kinds of information do you need to share? Is there a centralized task system? A shared calendar? An intranet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2018

Let’s take a look at a few examples: Major Gifts Officer: A new platform called First Draft developed by Gravyty uses AI to identify and draft emails to prospects in an organization’s database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

But, think about it – if you had a database of images and knew what the emotional responses was from people. Now instead of only relying on subjective responses, scientists can focus on patterns within the visual cortex using AI to better understand a subject’s feelings. This has implications in the mental health field.

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MARCH 19, 2019

Completion of Fundraising Campaigns or Big Project: Did your organization just complete a successful fundraising campaign or maybe you just launched a new web presence or database. Celebrate that milestone with anything festive that fits your organization’s values, is inclusive, and everyone finds enjoyable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2016

Brian mentioned that they view this as a research process and hope set up a database of ideas that people could draw from as they further develop solutions. My definition of a good solution would be when LinkedIn uses airplanes in order to connect start ups & small businesses to successful refugee entrepreneurs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Today we have proudly announced that we are releasing our entire database of volunteer opportunities to outside developers under a Creative Commons license to expand the non-commercial use of our free service. With our decision to open our database of opportunities , we are stepping proudly into a new era of change for VolunteerMatch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Speaking of data, when you donate, CNET reports “ your information will go into Facebook’s database of members with credit cards attached to their accounts. ”. Unless you catch a supporter commenting or sharing the news of their gift, Sohini Baliga points out that your organization will not be able to thank and cultivate the donor.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Finally, be sure you keep any disaster-relief donors segmented in your database so you both know how you acquired them, and know that they respond to specific and timely events. But be sensitive to the tone and frequency of your communications, so they don’t feel too “rah-rah” or overwhelm your list. This can help you with future outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

I was very excited to read this post from Steve Andersen, ONE/Northwest's Database Program Manager about his work with organizations to help them better. organizations document what they're doing so he can help them build databases. understand their business process (like donor management). that can support those tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Connect is about connecting alumni to useful content, each other, the school community, events, and your database. Also, larger organizations might have silo issues, with walls between alumni outreach and development functions. Action is taking any action related to a specific organization goal. It could also be about volunteering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

It also creates a resource called the Horizon Navigator an online, open-content database of free research on emerging technologies, is a dynamic social media platform overlying an innovative set of intelligent search tools and a comprehensive collection of resources.

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AUGUST 20, 2014

There are a lot different styles, philosophies, and techniques for facilitating groups of people. Check out the International Association of Facilitator’s Method database which contains more than 500 entries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Maybe the program participants skipped a survey question because they didn’t understand the wording, or maybe the program staff forgot to enter the information into your nonprofit’s database. Either way, you need to know how much missing data you’re dealing with so you can find a solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Getting the card is just like adding a new person to your organization’s database. The Historical Role of the Database. Common wisdom says that you can measure an organization by the number of people who are in its database. I’m NOT saying that you put your database out on the web naked as a jay bird for all to see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

s database of related sites. Via tweet from Hey Jude, he shared TouchGraph. The site says: The TouchGraph Google Browser reveals the network of connectivity between websites, as reported by Google???s You enter a URL, it crunches a bit, and returns a node map with lines to sites that are ???similar??? according to Google.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Database Manager. The book mentions that 40% of nonprofits have one to two digital staff, according the Nonprofit Digital Teams Benchmark Report - so these staff job descriptions might be integrated into other positions for smaller organizations. Internet Director. Web Producer. Online Campaigner. Social and Mobile Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Mission Critical: Databases/Constituent Relationship Management (1/24/2008). Here's the topics (I'm doing the last session with John). Getting the Big Picture: Intro to ICT Systems and Analysis (1/10/2008). Building the Foundation: Hardware, Software and Networks (1/17/2008). The eNonprofit: Effective Internet Presence (2/7/2008).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Users can also add restaurants and retailers that sell sustainable seafood if they don’t find them listed in our database. And other people can search the location-based database to find sustainable seafood nearby. We’re also experimenting with the introduction of game mechanics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2010

One area of iPad development are "productivity" or "enterprise" apps that allow users to link back to a CRM or other database. I ran into Peter Conlon, the CEO of Ammado , an online giving platform, was eager to not only show me his iPad, but that one could make a donation online using their widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

You submit the userid and then have to come back a few days later unless it is already in the database. I wrote about an experiment I did last year using this tool. One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time. Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

I would be happy if we could connect publicly available data with our internal membership databases.”. Final thoughts from the panelists: Social CRM, gatekeepers, and learning in public. Brigida: “ Social CRM is the future. Lewis: “Social media is everyone’s job, but you need one person to be the gatekeeper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

I think it's because they're not in the malina database, but you should follow them. I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. There's lots of friends in my network that you explore. Here's a mosaic: Get your twitter mosaic here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

As Michael Hoffman describes the practical benefits: Imagine you run one program for your main donor database and another program for your email and online data. s online interactions, and the two databases talk directly to each other. With an API, you can write new software code that hooks one application into another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

One of the resources that is mentioned in the book is a Progressive Technology Project’s database technology set up to track this work. The report included a section on recommendations, including building the metrics tool box and building movement capacity to use metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

And, when you add new places to the Foursquare database, it can get interesting. And my friends can now know (if I choose to share) the mundane location-based facts of my life, like where and when I buy coffee in the morning and how often I go to the grocery store or the gym.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Understand the difference between a database and a base of support. We must build a database of committed marathon runners, rather than emotional sprinters. You need to blend the best practices of marketing and social movement building? We must help people see beyond the what and start looking at the why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I interviewed technology practitioners from the poverty law community about how they approach ROI and significant technology systems investments like client databases, document assembly systems, or video conference systems. Only then will you be able to tap into CRM or e-commerce databases to validate your framework.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

VolunteerMatch One of the largest online databases for volunteering, where over 71,000 nonprofits have listed local and regional events and projects. The team and advisory group assembled for this project are impressive, so expect big things. Go Abroad Want to volunteer on vacation? iParticipate Follow the stars.

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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!) Instead, make sure you are offering personalized outlets to stimulate both feedback and questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2007

If your organization is struggling with software selections for online fundraising, databases, or newsletters - it is well worth your time and money to sign up for these webinars. In fact, looking down the list of upcoming Webinars - I really need to go to all of them. It's great to be able to ask your specific question and get it answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

While Marnie didn’t say this, sounds like a silo issue or maybe just a matter of one database not integrating with another? -TechSoup Global could have leveraged its resources in other programs to help with outreach. They were not prepared for their success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

It doesn’t lend itself entirely to workplans, databases, and deliverable deadlines. And the development of systems is a challenge, since learning, even when objectives are well-defined, is an organic process. How will we know when our learning is good enough? This is a really important point to agree on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

You submit the userid and then have to come back a few days later unless it is already in the database. I wrote about an experiment I did last year using this tool. One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time. Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2008

Your database is a mess 3. don't do social media if. or the ten tell-tale signs your organization shouldn't jump into social media: 1. Your computers are falling apart because they are six years old, 2. Your haven't updated your web site since 2001 because your volunteer left and you don't know the password 4.

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