Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

If so, then we’d like your help filling out a survey. Of course, Mashable readers will get the first look at your survey information. So help us out, and take the survey. That in any time, but especially bad economic times, we need our nonprofit industry working to help ailing parts of our society?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Clicked the wrong button. I was surprised to see the above exit survey pop up. So, yesterday, after getting two announcements in a row from the same organization that should know better, I went to change my preferences but by mistake ended up leaving the Cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2006

re surveying thousands of staff at nonprofits big and small to find out what it takes to make technology work for them and what qualified staff they need. This survey is available at [link]. We want to give them, and the entire nonprofit tech community, hard numbers that show how to best invest in technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Nancy Schwartz of the Getting Attention Blog is starting off the year by surveying nonprofit communicators on key goals and challenges. ll find the survey here. Here are a few of the questions: Looking back at 2006, what was your biggest disappointment or frustration? And what was your greatest success? s important to them.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2005

I got an email from Teresa Crawford who is working with Aspiration on a software survey. I just took the survey, it didn't take much time at all. And, if you complete the survey, you're entered into a drawing for a Treo 650. Fill out the Nonprofit Software Survey at [link]. We need your help: 1. Fill it out! Pass it on!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2005

There is an online survey and anyone can participate. It is a general social survey of the weblog community to help understand the way that weblogs are affecting the way people communicate with each other. The survey asks about demographics and blog reading/writing habits. Technorati Tags: nptech

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2006

If you're making less than minimum wage in the nonprofit technology field, but should be paid a king's ransom, take the NTEN staff salary survey. photo from tspaul in flickr. You want fries with that? Having this information will help us all. Hurry, it closes on Friday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Back in 2000, only 30% of employees were considered “highly engaged,” and eighteen years later, after spending literally billions of dollars on engagement surveys, we only managed to increase that number to 34%. For nearly two decades, the Gallup corporation has been measuring employee engagement, and the numbers have been pretty pathetic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It is tempting to think of this step as only doing a survey to answer the questions, “Did the workshop accomplish its objectives? If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup. Too often, our participant surveys only focus on the first level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

From this need, Co-Chairs, Lauren Alexanderson, Amy Cotter and I created a benchmarking survey focused on some of Beth Kanter’s indicators such as the Crawl, Walk, Run, and Fly index and other social media concepts such as social media goals, measurement and limitations from SM4GH member experiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This session presents a new form of social media analysis that combines social and survey data. We’ll share the results of three demonstration projects based on social media and survey data from 6,000 respondents. What questions can you answer by combining social media and survey data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2013

The report will be based on data and responses collected from this sector-wide survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W5P8NKH. All survey responses will be anonymous and will be only reported in the aggregate. So, stop reading this post and go take that survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/W5P8NKH.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2014

The Accelerated Millennial Manager ” by Devon Scheef and Diane Thielfoldt of The Learning Café is a summary of a research survey from 2011 through 2013 of 400 millennial managers, their managers, peer managers, team members, HR, and business leaders. Or is there a set of skills fundamental to every level?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2006

As part of research for his degree, he is conducting a survey about the Benefits of Blogging in Nonprofit Organizations. He was born in Lima, Peru and is studying for his masters in Information Systems in Hawaii at HPU. He is currently working on a paper about: "How do blogs benefit nonprofit organizations in U.S." Check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

State of AI in Advancement Survey : According to the Nonprofit Times article on the survey , AI Uses Among Nonprofits is still in the very early stages. The survey will be implemented regularly to benchmark adoption of AI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

The report, “I nto Focus: Benchmarks for Video and A Guide for Creators ,” is based on a survey of 500 nonprofits and interviews with experts (including me). The survey reveals that organizations are counting what is easy to count: views, likes, and clickthroughs. Free webinars are being offered to share the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

A simple online survey. It isn’t hard to see why we forget about one of the best ever social media measurement tools: surveys! Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy. Surveys can also provide useful data to track progress along the way. Exhibitions team. Learning team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Highlights from Microsoft’s Nonprofit Sector Research on AI Devi kicked off by sharing a sentiment analysis from a recent survey of nonprofit leaders that fall into one of two different perceptions: comfort and concern. Below is my fully human-generated reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

This is the question we’re asking arts groups across the country this month, refreshing our national landmark survey of 2011. The survey is currently in the field but initial responses show broad adoption and rising confidence and sophisticated use of online and social tools. How Strong Is Your Social Net? Guest Post by Mary Trudel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

And, of course, your evaluation will also include looking at the data from surveys and interviews with participants after the event. Survey participants and incorporate their feedback. It isn’t just about writing it down, it is also reviewing what your captured with your team in an “ After Action Review.” The Process Steps in Detail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It also important to think about to development skills internally regardless and the Playbook offers a good list: Being “data-minded”: Someone who currently has or can build skills for creating charts, graphs, pivot tables and Excel formulas; someone who is interested in building surveys, exploring data and helping to make meaning out of numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

They use a variety of methods including focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one conversations. These are the two busiest months of the year for food banks and pantries and implementing new surveys would overburden already stretched staff. CEO implements text-based smartphone surveys with both numeric and open-ended responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

According to a survey recently released by Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, the answer appears to be ‘not by much’ or at least not fast enough. The survey will be one of the centerpieces of discussion at this year’s GEO conference being held in Seattle, March 12-14. Is grantmaking getting smarter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For example, a marketing coordinator may identify tasks such as writing a first draft for content, or analyzing hundreds of open-ended survey comments. Staff should be encouraged to think about day-to-day tasks in their job, especially ones that they find time consuming or difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

I have a survey that allows me to understand the composition of the group in aggregate as well as the maturity of practice levels for each individual participant according to “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly.” ” When you use automated excel or survey monkey charts, it encourages you to skip that important step.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data. How do you go beyond just doing a survey or collecting metrics? The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2021

According to a recent Pew Internet survey , most respondents say they have been able to get work done. Weekdays and weekends feel the same. Our sense of time is distorted, making it easier than ever to work (or think about work) all the time. However, this may have come at the cost of working more hours per day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

She advises using various parts of the Grunig instrument which you can be done for free using Survey Monkey or Zoomerang or a poll on a blog. She suggested a more realistic approach – to measure along the ladder of engagement through the actual interactions – comments, click thrus, retweets, expansion of the network etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2006

This is the results of a recent poll that N-TEN published in its March Newsletter. The respondents would be nonprofit techies, although it doesn't indicate the sample size.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

According to the survey of funders about capacity building completed by GrantCraft , the top five areas of capacity building that funders most likely support include: leadership, strategic planning, financial management, governance, and fundraising. Capacity building is about improving organizational (or network) effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

Medical, behavioral, social and public health research still largely rely on traditional sources of health data such as those collected in clinical trials, sifting through electronic medical records, or conducting periodic surveys. Researchers pay SmallStepsLab for this access as well as other enhancements that they might want.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Cloud Computing Survey Results from TechSoup Global. What Do We Think We’ve Learned With This Survey? And surveys, like this one, like NTEN’s State of the Cloud , help us. As you go through the survey, I’m eager to hear what you think, what you learned and what you believe we can do together. Read all the interim reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

In February, Idealware distributed a survey (thorough an informal email outreach) to over 500 nonprofit professionals who were using Facebook at their organizations. We asked survey respondents whether or not they felt they had attracted new constituents (donors, members, volunteers, clients, or event attendees) through their Facebook page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2010

From the looks of our post-event survey data and Google traffic reports, social media played a big part, particularly Facebook. Here are some highlights from our post-event nonprofit survey*: • 55.4 And, here are some highlights from our post-event donor survey*: • 61.2 Survey remains open. About Jeff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

is a question that has been investigated by numerous studies and surveys across many industries. Maybe not for professional fundraising or program staff, but other staff jobs, particularly minimum wage it might according to Mark Horvath. Is AI going to be a jobs killer? The answer is unclear.

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