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JULY 27, 2017

Idonethis – A simple app that helps you and your team track what’s been done. As soon as you tick off completed tasks, you add new ones. Tracking what you have done allows you to track what you have accomplished and reflect on it, not bury myself in busyness. Here’s a guide to this useful productivity habit.

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MAY 7, 2019

The event’s technical host, MCI Canada , used a unique setup that facilitated being able to hear many more speakers, tracks, and sessions in two days than a traditional conference could allow. . — BlockchainRevGlobal (@rev_global) April 25, 2019. pic.twitter.com/840Qdb5svo. BlockchainRevGlobal (@rev_global) April 25, 2019.

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AUGUST 7, 2008

Dipity is a timeline tool that let's you edit a timeline collaboratively or pop in an RSS feed. More here. I put the RSS feed for the WeAreMedia wiki in - and it displays the changes in a timeline. I wish I had known about dipity from the beginning -- gives you a sense of participation. It only captured the last couple of days of changes.

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JULY 23, 2014

I’m excited to be co-facilitating the Impact Leadership track with colleagues John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. While participants in each track will explore their topics in depth and in the context of a facilitated structure, there will be inspiring keynotes and opportunities for networking for all participants.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

A donation thermometer to help keep track of how much has been raised so far. Step 6: You track participant performance and reap the rewards. . Look for features like: Event pages that can be fully customized to your campaign. Registration pages and forms that are accessible through the event page. Click here for a free template.

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JULY 25, 2013

.” Recently, I had an opportunity to meet Tal Frankurt, CEO of Cloud for Good, where he shared some thoughts about how a well-designed SalesForce database could be an excellent tool for managing, measuring, and tracking relationships with donors. We used to only track the gifts we won or lost.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Bullet Journal (BuJo) started as “an analog system to track the past, organize the present and plan for the future.” Establish and track daily habits. I have found this productivity very useful in my own work and Ma’ayan was kind enough to write up this guest post for nonprofit professionals. .

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DECEMBER 28, 2018

We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good. We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good.… Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits. Here’s this month’s roundup. … Read More

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

And, if you to want get everyone moving there is another slack app called Health Hero which is a fun way to compete with colleagues by tracking steps from your favorite health/fitness apps. It offers customizable reminders to check in and track progress in a fun way.

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JULY 6, 2016

For the past two years, she does tracking in a spreadsheet by asking questions related to reaching her goals and grading them. It is important to track yourself – it adds some accountability, but we found in our interviews with nonprofit professionals that people do a range of tracking from informal to spreadsheet nerds.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2019

We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good. We are tracking reports, articles, and new items about AI and Social Good.… Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits. … Read More

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AUGUST 27, 2014

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t I am huge fan of fitness devices and I personally have gotten a lot of benefit from being able to track my personal health metrics.

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DECEMBER 13, 2016

While there are a variety of different gadgets that you can use to track your sleep, I use the Fitbit Charge 2. I started with tracking my baseline activity level: about 2,000 steps a day. Identify a goal, track your progress, and reflect on how to improve your results.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2016

For each source you want to track to the same page, you’ll need a different URL. and then text that describes what you want to track. Match each URL to a source you want to track. If you’re tracking website analytics with Google Analytics, you can easily use it to see the traffic to each different URL.

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JUNE 4, 2018

Check out this year’s agenda and nonprofit track starring Teach for America, DonorsChoose.org, Relief International, PATH, Global Fund for Women and more. The first 800 eligible nonprofit leaders will receive a full scholarship (a greater than $1000 cost savings)! The simple application to request a scholarship is here.

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OCTOBER 10, 2018

We track how multiple technologies are converging and influencing behaviors, such as personal devices using gamification and social media tactics to drive community support.

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JULY 18, 2014

Tracking for Impact and Learning. Their dashboard already did a great job at tracking impact metrics about the reach and size of their audience, but they wanted to go deeper in tracking engagement and taking action. Data Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

“Listening” or tracking what people are saying about your brand or issue has always been hailed at the first most important step in building your social media or network strategy. Listening is the process tracking brand mentions or related key words and transforming a “river of noise” into [.]

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FEBRUARY 25, 2013

And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking. We have always done this by tracking policy outcomes and media coverage. I started with this basic tracking worksheet. For campaigns we manage ourselves, I do the tracking monthly. A small investment in planning and tracking adds up to a major increase in impact.

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DECEMBER 5, 2018

If people are digressing or spending too much time on a topic which doesn’t merit the discussion, the rabbit hole monitor stops the discussion and brings the meeting back on track. They can use the ELMO technique!). Virtual meetings are also prone to non-productive discussions.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Last week I facilitated the “ Impact Leadership Track ” at the NTEN Leading Change Summit with John Kenyon, Elissa Perry, and Londell Jackson. Our track was one of three tracks for participants to dive deep into a topic and learn from peers through dialogue. Photo by Trav Williams. Here’s what we did: 1.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2012

During the discussion, one of the partners asked about how they track whether engaging with their audience on Facebook or other social channel might lead to donations. ” Kevin Conroy, the “data scientist” at Global Giving, answered, “Set up goals and tracking URLs in Google Analytics.” So what?

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JULY 17, 2019

According to the article, having the back-end infrastructure in place is essential to manage multiple chats, hundreds of incoming messages a day, track their impact and learn from the findings. Here is where AI can help – with the learning and tracking.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. Did you use any “real time” tracking of your tweets and make any adjustments along the way? In addition, we track key purchases on a weekly basis (Tuesday through Monday). Any practical tips or suggestions in setting up and doing this tracking? What tool did you use?

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. RowFeeder fits the bill.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

A big topic of discussion as the field is maturing is how to track on-the-ground outcomes for people and communities, in addition to counting clicks, views, downloads and tweets. Code for America , one of the organizations that we worked with, is already implementing outcome assessments.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2013

These are creating an age of context – where because so much data is being collected about you – that everything will be tracked and customized. He said, “yes you will be tracked, but your experience will be customized.” ” This is the context for Lucy Bernolz’s work on privacy and big data.

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MARCH 6, 2014

I tracked down Carie Lewis Carlson, Deputy Director, Online Communications for the Humane Society of the United States to learn a little bit more about Ellen’s generosity. Carie says her staff started hearing about the donation on Twitter and used Twitter search to track down the source. Ellen will divide up the money between St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

There is an evolving category of tools (some free, some not) that can help make the tasks associated with content strategy, engagement, and tracking less onerous. If you know of other tools (or tips) that make you more efficient managing content, engagement, and tracking on social media, please share them in the comments.

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JULY 28, 2017

The research involved having participants track their daily workdays (overall mood, specific emotions, and motivation levels.) Early on, she discovered that a central driver of creative, productive performance was the quality of a person’s inner work life—the mix of emotions, motivations, and perceptions over the course of a workday.

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MAY 14, 2010

to track how your online social network activities are driving offline actions. They include: #1: Use Google Voice Number on All Social Media Profiles and Track #2: Promote Offline Events On Social Media #3: Offer Coupons Exclusive to Social Media Channels #4: Host A Tweet Up #5: Connect Social Media and Email Campaigns.

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JANUARY 9, 2012

These metrics are more qualitative in nature which makes them more difficult to define, capture, and track. One of the resources that is mentioned in the book is a Progressive Technology Project’s database technology set up to track this work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Now it is time to track your campaign goals against actual results. This post from Social Media Examiner offers five ways to track the results of your influencer campaign. This involves reaching out and asking them to share your content or better yet co-create an e-book, guest post, Twitter chat, or other content.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Here’s how they are describing it: We are looking for stories of the unsung, unnoticed and uncelebrated individuals in communities across the country that have a successful track record of tackling social challenges because their approach is bold, uncommon, experimental, unconventional, fearless.

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JUNE 22, 2011

Surveys can also provide useful data to track progress along the way. Jo Johnson from the London Symphony uses survey data to help track conversions from conversations on Facebook to ticket purchases at the box office. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah Owyang , founder of Crowd Companies , describes it as drones, robots, chat bots, and AI. He should know, having tracked and observed the disruption caused by online technology over the past decade. Click to Check Out Beth Bot. What is the “autonomous world?”

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OCTOBER 14, 2013

Among other things on the webinar, we discussed some best practices for developing a proposal, such as: Align with the tracks and impact areas. The Conference workshops will be categorized into both tracks and impact areas this year. View the recording of the webinar here.

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