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How To Get Insight From Data Visualization: SHUT UP and SLOW DOWN!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He has some terrific advice about how to apply visual thinking to your data visualization and to get insights. But first, he simplifies what visual thinking is: Look, See, Imagine, and Show. This font lets you take simple strings of numbers and transform them into charts. Look: What is out there? I thought was done!

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That’s why I’m sharing the tips, tricks, and insider advice to transform you into a data nerd. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. My Nonprofit Needs a Data Nerd and How to Find Them!

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How to Get Started Using Event Metrics for Fundraising Success

Connection Cafe

Post event surveys revealed the number one reason participants didn’t fundraise in 2012 was “No one asked me to”. Chart your progress over the event season; you may find you need to change tactics mid-season to achieve your goal. Recruiting new participants every year can take more effort than retaining existing supporters.

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How ACLU NJ Defines Social Media Success: The First Important Measurement Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What advice would you give to others? Our main advice to others is to create an environment in which each participant is free to speak candidly and without the fear of going off topic. If you have a large team/organization, you could ask this on a survey and share back the data. The one with the most money wins.

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Social Media Trainings: How do you use pre-workshop data about your participants effectively to shape effective instruction?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I don't always get a chance to do pre-workshop surveys, but in this case I had the opportunity to add two questions onto the registration form. Typically, I have two groups of participants and as the chart above indicates, this group is no different - except that I probably have a greater number of people in Group 2. (1)

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. version of that advice: It's the same! and I hoping some of my readers who have experience in delivering lots of Webinars will share some advice. This was circa 1997. I arrived two hours early.

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Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school. Grossman recommends that when you have something you want to get your employees input on, post a question on a flip chart in your department or office.

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