Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2009

was adopted (or not) in the nonprofit workplace over the past 10-15 years, you'll notice that fear and silo culture are nothing new or unique as barriers to adoption. He often uses the metaphor of not having your web strategy or data be an island. In the past, adoption of technologies like Web 1.0

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

See how nonprofits are scaling their missions with data and automation. Join us to learn how to create personalized student experiences and enable lifelong relationships using the Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Student 360. In uncertain times, communities look to you for support and hope.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

See how nonprofits are scaling their missions with data and automation. Join us to learn how to create personalized student experiences and enable lifelong relationships using the Customer Data Platform (CDP) and Student 360. In uncertain times, communities look to you for support and hope.

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NTEN

JULY 13, 2012

While we took a look at the number of tech staff benchmark in the first post in this series, I'd like to now turn to the org staff-per-tech staff benchmark. The tech adoption levels refer to the organization's overall approach to technology decision-making and application (more details about Tech Adoption in a later post).

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

State boundaries more like digital country borders protecting State residents data differently. Right now it is very much the Wild Wild West with data privacy in the US. Know your data The practices are in alignment with nonprofit values AND good practices anyway. What is weird is that these acts begin to treat U.S.

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fusionSpan

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Login in allows you to track your progress, create your own trailhead orgs, and begin learning the Salesforce basics! By investing in Salesforce, your Organization is adopting the #1 Cloud Platform, and your Organization will begin to immediately feel the benefit of the clicks, not code configuration that Salesforce provides organizations.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

And on a personal note, you can practically eat off the floor of my data. I love data. I love figuring out how to get data in and out of systems and designing technical workflows to meet a nonprofit’s business needs and grow their mission. Now, it’s like they’ve adopted me and I’m moving in.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

How easy is the solution to adopt/learn? When considering cost of solution, keep in mind the solution you adopt will often be defined by the budget you have allocated for the project. configuration, data migration and training). Through the review process you should be trying to answer these three questions. of the solution?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

How easy is the solution to adopt/learn? When considering cost of solution, keep in mind the solution you adopt will often be defined by the budget you have allocated for the project. configuration, data migration and training). Through the review process you should be trying to answer these three questions. of the solution?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Aggregating data over time will give you a much clearer picture of your subscribers' interests. By including tracking codes in the links you send out, you build a bridge between the data in your email platform and your web site analytics. We'd also love to hear about your favorite metrics. E-mail Metrics. Click by Interest.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

But it can (and should) be adopted into your organization's core strategy. What Does the Data Say? 'In In god we trust; all others must bring data.' – tech parable. They know the vast amount of data they have access to, where to find it, and what it means. They demand an in-house tech team. X-Ray Glasses. Efficiency.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Perhaps one of the most challenging questions a nonprofit can ask is, "What should our org's commitment to the use and leverage of technology actually be?" How does the orgs technologist bring synergy while leaving the techno-babble behind? How do you separate the tactical from the strategic? Conclusion.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2011

We all know that multi-channel marketing isn’t new, but data on what exactly organizations are doing with it isn’t necessarily well documented. Motivations for adopting an integrated marketing philosophy vary. Percentages of funds raised online are all over the board in terms of org size. Author: Sara Spivey.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

The data shows that both digital immigrant and digital native donors have embraced the multichannel wonderland. There is perhaps no more telling data point than this: online donors 65-years and older have the highest retention rate. It’s in our org charts. Thankfully, we have lots of data to settle the argument.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2017

“Sticking to the basics, getting those calls to action right and having clean data, those are the important things. Start tracking your organization’s data. So use your data to get a list of social media influencers and then ask them to share your posts on their accounts. Blackbaud, we of course provide that data.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It’s fairly easy to extrapolate that even with the poorest of clients, we’re seeing web adoption especially as traditional sources of information for job and apartment listings leave print media. You cannot use the digital divide as a fig leaf over open site statistics anymore. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07 No one disputes that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

awesome person, mother to adopted children from Cambodia and board member for her org, The Sharing Foundation ???could that is if the back end of the donation tool tracked that sort of thing or at least gave me data to map it out. t been able to shake the urgency in Beth Kanter ???s s reports on Twitter. could actually.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SERVE $3,032,759 MORE CLIENTS OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Step 1: Removing Resistance.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on. And organizations and movements can certainly use twitter to organize – I think that’s a great strategy – as long as the majority of those to be organized are on twitter – which is quite a stretch for most orgs or movements.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2011

She liked what she saw the org doing, and went to fill in an online form on the organization’s website. This loss of memory, and the months that passed before a new ED was hired, saw this supporter adopt a new cause – wholeheartedly, in fact. Please be the supporting actor/actress to your data guru.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other Examples: An Adopt-a-Family campaign for families in need Movember: growing a beard for charity in November. While we know that not all orgs have this same brand awareness, we believe that less can be more, that simple can be best. It’s a great idea to create a toolkit that your fundraisers can use to guide their work.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 19, 2021

Timing seemed perfect to engage the entire staff in building a new CRM with clean and current data. TPF4Y needed a single source of truth for their data that would give them a 360-degree view of their constituents, allow them to track donors and volunteers, and make data-based decisions on programs. Jared Henning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2007

Adoption - Yes or No or Shades of Gray? buzz at the UK National Circuit Riders Conference this week was not tool talk, but issues related to adoption of the tools. The 59 Smartest orgs online is a list of 59 organizations that make good use of the web2.0 Danah Boyd analyzes the recent Pew data on Social Network Site use.

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Cloud 4 Good

JANUARY 31, 2022

Authentication is achieved through a combination of things an individual may uniquely know (like usernames or passwords), have (like a mobile phone authentication app or USB key device), or be (like fingerprint or other biometric data). This awful scenario is a clear case for the adoption and enforcement of MFA. .

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2023

Moving from ten-key data entry to point-and-click data manipulation required nonprofit finance teams to think differently about their processes and what’s possible, similar to what’s happening today with AI and blockchain. Once team members got used to the 10-key number pad, they were highly efficient at data entry.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Prior to their engagement with Cloud for Good, a significant amount of NESFP’s programmatic and partner data lived outside of Salesforce, thus causing significant data silos and little-to-no growth on the platform. They made good recommendations and we adopted almost all of them.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

If these organizations shared data, they could improve services and have a much clearer understanding of their impact. Each organization plays a unique role in the sector, contributing our own solutions to the complex problem of helping nonprofits adopt and use technology to create more social change.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

It morphs this way and transmogrifies that way and reveals new cracks in the systems we use each and every day -- from our cellphones to ATMs to voting machines -- providing fertile ground for those with malicious intentions to infiltrate our data and productivity. You might consider moving to OpenID.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 3, 2022

Prior to adopting Salesforce, EFE was without a scalable database solution, relying instead on Excel spreadsheets to record and share organization data. “We We needed a strong database solution that enabled security controls and united our data,” said Ashley Barry, Director of Strategy and Learning at EFE. .

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2023

Managing the Financial Technology Mindshift Moving from ten-key data entry to point-and-click data manipulation required nonprofit finance teams to think differently about their processes and what’s possible, similar to what’s happening today with AI and blockchain. They didn’t even need to look at the screen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. Specifically she speaks to why she isn't a stronger advocate and some of the issues related to " Second Wave Adoption." " Web 2.0, 20 practices.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Every time we turn around, somebody’s bringing another piece of technology, something that generates data into our organizations. You invest money and budget, data stored in there. The second really big sign that you’re not getting a return on investment, you don’t know whether you can trust your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

Choosing which of these tools to adopt starts with outcomes, strategy, message, and knowing your audience - and nothing to do with the tools. Look at your data for answers. It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2011

In addition to the ways the Salesforce platform is helping organizations integrate with social data, I pointed to a few other tools that are available for anyone to use. Orgs that are split across teams or geographically could find that Chatter is the virtual water cooler they need. Comments, files, and links can be shared.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

Yes, NGOs can and should be raising more $ online (and here in Greenpeace China we are doing just that) but I have yet to see strong data that supports us shutting off the DM facet just yet. I cringe when I see the tons of mail environmental orgs send every year. My 2 cents. I get a lot of this mail because I take action alot online.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

In their report Data Capitalism and Algorithmic Racism , Yeshimabeit Milner and Amy Traub demonstrate how this behavior exacerbates racial inequality, ever more surveillance, and other discriminations that predominantly affect people of color—by, for example, digitally channeling lower-income users toward predatory services (e.g.,

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

As a free and open-source CMS with a vibrant user community, WordPress appeal is understandable for cash-strapped orgs who might still have a nascent online fundraising strategy. Quite eye-opening to discover so many nonprofits adopting Bootstrap since it’s fairly recent 2011 release. Where did we get the data for this study?

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