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Digital Analytics Basics: Free Online Academy from Google

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For many nonprofits, Google Analytics is the tool of choice for measuring traffic, reach, engagement, and action primarily because it is free. While it is somewhat easy to use, some of the more valuable features may require a little tutoring to understand and use. The syllabus includes: An overview of today’s digital measurement landscape.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

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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Great reads from around the web on June 6th

Amy Sample Ward

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." After all, building and maintaining a meaningful social media presence requires a significant investment of time — and it’s not always easy to measure the return on that investment.

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How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. In 2012, leaders at the Rockefeller Foundation posed that question to our team at Monitor Institute, kicking off a year and a half of research and analysis.

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The Capacity-Building Frontier(s)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

3) If we want to collaborate; if we see the advantages of shared knowledge and collective action, then technology can help us make it real. Our grantees should have similar tools for collaboration to help them make smart decisions with limited resources in real time. (4) None of that will go away. But our jobs are getting harder. (2)

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Learning in Public: To What End?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And in this networked world where social change and social movements can be seeded overnight with a viral video on YouTube, such public collaboration on complex social issues can have multiple benefits. This learning model has served us well, and above all it has been safe and comfortable. And finally, the so what?

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

If you wait until next fiscal year's budget—especially for organizations that budget the second half of the calendar year—you may be too late and be faced with drastic measures. Second, model out and scenario plan for revenue declines of 5, 10 and 15 percent. This is a time to make informed and collaborative decisions.

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