Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

The patch relays the info to a cloud app for analysis and in due course the info shows up on a doctor’s smartphone. A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. Please log in and give us the scoop.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 9, 2014

Here are this week’s nonprofit highlights: It’s here: The 2013 Charitable Giving Report. It’s the largest analysis of actual overall and online giving data in the nonprofit sector and includes perspectives from across the industry. If 2013 was the year of the blog, 2014 is the year of the nonprofit blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

We talk about finding the right tool for the data collection job and tools come in three different categories: analytics tools, content analysis, and surveys. In particular, their free reports give you your social audience’s pulse on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Google+, and other platforms. Then check out Simply Measured.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 11, 2015

The firm analyzed the Zoo’s mailing list and the results of a survey the Zoo had conducted that asked donors what interested them the most at the Zoo. The analysis found that donors who cared most about conservation and research, animal care, and general zoo activities gave more than other donors. .”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Despite declining sales, well over 300 million PCs will be sold worldwide this year while tablet sales are in the range of 200 million in 2013. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2013

NTEN''s Communities of Impact recently conducted a small survey (n=69) of nonprofit professionals asking how their organizations are engaging with data. We are now in the process of conducting follow-up surveys, and a few interesting insights have begun to emerge. The number one reported data storage tool was Excel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. This year’s study – the seventh Benchmarks report – analyzes 1.6 The report provides benchmarks for FB and Twitter, including engagement rates and fan growth rate. Four fifths of respondents (80%) report that their communications staff have one year or less of experience or training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve spent some time taking a look at various reports, studies, and International organizations and the use of networks and social media. Social channels continued to show strong growth over the past 12 months, with top social networks adding more than 135 million new users in the course of 2013. 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Lack of stewardship has a price, and nothing proves that more than the AFP Fundraising Effectiveness Survey. While we raised more money, a $34 million net growth-in-giving, for every $100 gained through new, renewed or increased support in 2012, $96 was lost in 2013. Ditch the annual report book and start doing an annual infographic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

It doesn’t mean that we’re going to do a survey once as a fancy report for a Foundation. It was designed and built on the notion of data collection and analysis. In August 2013, they sent an opt-in text message to area codes in El Paso and Chicago. million messages lets them do predictive analysis.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. TechSoup's online community manager, Michael DeLong, also predicts that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs will increasingly integrate an overall mobile strategy into their work in 2013. Mobile chip sales will overtake PC revenues in 2013.

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