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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems.

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Leading with Accountability: What Accountability Strategies are Critical to Foster Nonprofit Donor Support?

ASU Lodestar Center

Given that nonprofits must operate in a wide variety of complex environments, they must work diligently to continuously create innovate strategies to meet the needs and expectations of their diverse stakeholder populations (Benjamin, 2012). Ethics,” 2017). Ethical Leadership. Social Auditing.

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Learning in Public: To What End?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. I mean if we’re going to learn in public, it better be a collegial and supportive environment. The time, money and effort also sounds overwhelming.

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DIY Nonprofit Technology: 4 Steps for Measuring ROI on Your Next Tech Project

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is from the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. What are the associated costs if you continue in your current environment? Capture tangible measures like time and cost savings, but also evaluate the intangibles.

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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework

Tech Soup

Since not a whole lot is out there yet on the role of mobile devices in telework, I thought it’d be interesting to have a look a look at that. From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. Telework and the Environment. Telework By Any Other Name. Telework and the Polar Vortex.

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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That said, we are especially committed to achieving focused impact in the areas of Education, the Environment, the Economy and Emergency Preparedness & Response. For the rest of this year, and into 2012, Points of Light anticipates running more frequent online campaigns to drive social action.

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Overhead: Time to Pull Our Heads Out of the Sand?

Connection Cafe

There has been little consensus about the impact of focusing on overhead as a means of evaluating nonprofit organizations, either among nonprofit leadership or researchers. environment, education) and sizes (e.g., grassroots, national) of nonprofit organizations. © 2015, Pamela J Barden. _. Mittendorf, B. 2013a, April 23). Langley, A.,

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