Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

So we’re especially proud to announce the launch of Miradi version 3, the enhanced version of our user-friendly environmental conservation software. The software also helps conservation teams prioritize environmental threats, develop objectives and actions, and select monitoring indicators to assess the effectiveness of their strategies.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

TechSoup also has a new foundation resource area for software donations. As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. Find out more about what TAG offers on their members benefits page. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

There are key components of advancement support missing in the current software (one of the two areas above, or Events management, or Volunteer management, or on-line fundraising, or Campaign Reporting, or…). Our current vendor has gone out of business, or has stopped supporting our current software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Britt Bravo looks back on a poll from last year about recommending social networking software and points to recent spoofs about Facebook and Social Networking. Tag your post with "net2thinktank." You'll also need some video editing software. Rashmi Sinha offers some thoughts on how to do it. It's recently been updated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Stephen Downes describes the difficulty of measuring ROI of E-Learning with the best quote yet, "Measuring learning is still like measuring friendship. " What do you think about measuring social media? Enjoy this post about nonprofit open source software. Random Mutterings is by Shannon Turlington.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 25, 2023

This new analytics software is taking the place of Universal Analytics , its predecessor program. After that, choose which enhanced measurements you want to use (if any) from the menu that appears. This can be the hardest part of configuring Google Analytics because it requires adding a Google Analytics tag to your website.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 8, 2023

To identify native solutions, look for the “Native App” tag under “More Details” on the app’s Salesforce product listing. For example, you might be searching for software with your annual trade show in mind, but what about quarterly board meetings, employee certification courses, or department luncheons? Understand your event’s needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Michael Stein (East Coast) tells us the difference between membership management software and crm. " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This means their software is designed to be used by donors at auctions so that they can easily bid on items. Boardable — Top Fundraising App for Board Management Boardable is powerful nonprofit board meeting software that enables your leadership to communicate virtually. Plus, OneCause is a mobile-bidding platform! Compliant reporting.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Some who sell software to nonprofits think that organizations with small staffs and tight budgets aren't interested in or capable of having a fundraising CRM that flexible. Measure program? Tagged: Blackbaud , Common Ground , platform , Salesforce. Try that with DonorPerfect or eTapestry. Or they could use it as-is.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. These exercises can measure knowledge gained, skills learned, or even attitudes or mindsets changed. This tests knowledge acquisition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Michelle Murrain is doing a post about 100 free and open source software tools. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Tech Soup

MAY 20, 2013

TechSoup also has a new foundation resource area for software donations. As someone interested in online communities, I’ve been following the work of the Technology Affinity Group (TAG) for some years. Find out more about what TAG offers on their members benefits page. Hold a yearly conference. Organize regional meetings.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

Bloomerang Payments leverages industry-leading anti-fraud measures and PCI compliance to protect donor data. Tag supporters in your posts to thank them for contributing. Browse through software reviews on sites like G2 for unbiased reviews from organizations using each platform. Seamless payment processing. Mobile app.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Web analytics tools gather data that can help nonprofits better engage stakeholders, drive donations, and measure the success of their online presence. Tag managers reveal how visitors interact with pages on a site. About half of them use comScore software on their websites to discover audience demographics.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

Having a way to report in-platform on key conversions will still be essential to optimize your media spend, but they shouldn’t be the primary way that you measure your results. Expect this type of tracking to become more widely available as a feature in marketing software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. " 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. Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 13, 2010

A/B testing is a term for testing two different versions of any piece of collateral: a website, an email newsletter, direct mail, an advertisement — anything with a desired, measurable response. When you run an A/B test, you randomly present visitors with one design or the other and measure each design's performance.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Choosing the Right Software. TechSoup also offers professional-level image-editing software from Adobe: Photoshop Extended CS6. The Elements products also include a common Organizer that allows you to easily tag and find photos (similar in function to the Bridge application used in the Creative Suite programs).

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Google wasn’t the original creator of what’s now known as Google Analytics, a company called Urchin Software Corporation was. It’s important to both rethink what’s possible, and what you’re really measuring. Understanding the history of Google’s analytics suite is useful in better understanding GA4. Implement it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. I'd love to see more detail, like an overview the strategies or how they measure success. What do you think?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 4, 2010

And that’s the true measure of our impact: it’s what our partners and users do with the technology and the knowledge we provide that matters. One of the great rewards of my job is receiving copies of those many emails praising our team or our software or our content for the difference we’ve made. Thanks for being part of Benetech!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

Last year , we noted that IT managers in the enterprise sector were ambivalent about cloud computing or "software as a service" (SaaS) as deployed and used in the enterprise. Tags: Firewalls Running Your Organization Security Security Social Networking Software Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Measuring Success Measuring of this investment should be dependent on a few KPIs. . This should be measured immediatly after superbowl, then after March 1st contest announcements, then 1 year after the programs went into funding. Tags: contest. So, if you want to follow along on Jeremiah Owyang's scorecard - here it is.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2021

In this first instance, the advertiser would experience a lower reach and higher CPM (“cost per mille” or cost per thousand is a measurement of the cost an advertiser pays for one thousand views or impressions) compared to when the same audience was targeted previously. Declining email open rates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2009

That’s why we, in conjunction with the Conservation Measures Partnership, have developed Miradi , our groundbreaking software application for running biodiversity and conservation projects. Tags: climate change trees Miradi Blog Action Day Palo Alto environment biodiversity. Miradi (Miradi 3.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

The coolest thing was that they then explained that there was a big opportunity for someone like Benetech to write software to help them with this kind of expansion. They just need software to help cities understand the size of their challenges around these issues. Tags: WEF Skoll Brilliant social enterprise Waste Concern.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2010

The environmental nonprofit, Greenpeace International , made a big splash in the green IT world this week by launching a new policy campaign to measure the energy efficiency of the data centers that power cloud computing differently than in the past. Tags: GreenTech Software Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

After some rapid experimentation and testing different types of tweets and measuring results , for me -- wisdom/humor. I asked her to elaborate and she shared this about SCRUM , a methodology for agile development in software. Tags: experimentation twitter. Which of these do you think gets retweeted most often?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

The discussion will open your eyes to the risks you should be aware of and to the measures that can help prevent data loss. Tags: Backing Up Data Backup Hardware Online Seminar Physical Security Running Your Organization Security Software Tech Planning TechSoup Help Troubleshooting and Maintenance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. I’m sure that Four Kitchens, and most open source software developers agree with that perspective. Tags: CMS Open Source drupal idealware plone security. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Sponsored by Dell, the Center uses customized software produced by Radian 6 to monitor and analyze social media in real-time. They also tag and analyze responses. After answering these questions, you should have a good idea of the requirements you have for a tool to measure your social media marketing results.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Whether you're reporting to your board, supporting teams in different departments, or just trying to get through to a specific type of donor, we've broken down all the ways your CRM + donor software can help. How CRM + donor management software can help your teams work better together. Marta Major Gifts.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2011

The following tools may help you listen, monitor, measure, and ask. Measurement by Channel. For Facebook : Edgerank for measuring the efficacy of your Facebook page , although, frankly, I've never had any luck raising serious money with. " For Your Emails : Your e-newsletter software. The polls on.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Simply put, the cloud by its very nature offers you better, more effective software solutions while saving your organization time, money and effort. Someone else handles making the software go. It is hard to build open APIs into software created before the invention of Open APIs. Reliance on third party(ies).

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Measures: eCRM analytics, donations. Comprehensive evaluation: SWOT analyses, technical and end-user assessments of options, clear understanding of business needs versus software assumptions, creativity. Tags: liveblogging 09ntc it planning strategy. Area: constituents. Initiatives: start montly newsletter.

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