3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

Third Sector Labs recently presented a data migration webinar with host Bloomerang. The topic – “10 Decisions You Will Face with Any Donor Data Migration” – focused on preparing for your next CRM or data migration while addressing 10 tough decisions nonprofits encounter along the way. 1-2 = 61%.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

In case you aren’t familiar with a member engagement score, here’s a quick overview: it’s an analysis to assess member and customer behavior over a certain period of time (we recommend 3 years). Start by looking at your data from a wide lens. Use aggregate scores to validate and improve member value.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

And please reach out to benchmarks@mrss.com with any questions. The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. Participation primarily involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will combine (anonymously!)

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

We have been asking nonprofits a very important fundraising question, and getting some surprising results. The question: Is it easier or more complicated to execute a fundraising campaign today than it was 5 or 10 years ago? Isn’t all this technology and data helping? The back story. Note Q2 in the poll. And how about Q3?

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. Store the data. Model the data. Analyze the data.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources. Then map out your technology and data ecosystem so you know what you use and how it connects. Once you have that outlined, see where you can connect your systems through APIs to pull data in and across platforms.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Making the switch is vital — if you’re still using the old version, your data is no longer being tracked. You’ll be pulling in rich data in no time! This granular-level data uncovers the precise path a donor took on your website that led to a donation. This topic can feel too technical and overwhelming, but not to worry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Family members.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Putting together an ROI report can be time consuming, but can also lead to great data and help you find ways to trim costs without shirking quality. I know, so many questions you must ask yourself as a nonprofit executive about tech–and you might not have a background in it! Risk Analysis.

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ROI Relationship Aggregator System 206

Candid

MARCH 28, 2022

The dashboard answers many of these questions, including more specific ones. In aggregate, nonprofits rely more on earned income than donations. What questions do you have about the U.S. Have a question it doesn’t answer? 2] Analysis of foundation funding is based on all grants awarded by U.S. We created our U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything).

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. You need to look behind the scenes to get the real answer to the question “What products are most valuable?”. As we discussed in our recent blog post about retention, data isn’t one dimensional.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. Don't let your data fall victim! Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online. But let's start with a few simple principles to jumpstart how your organization can improve its use of data online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

On Saturday, I had the honor of presenting at Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp and one of the burning questions was about efficiency. What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. To prove I’m doing that, I need data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

What is a productive way to experiment and learn to the answers to these questions without wasting time? But, if you want more suggestions, see 22 Must Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Nonprofits on Google + that Heather Mansfield aggregated. Next, I put together a circle of nonprofit brands that I could observe and learn from.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The data is there, and the demand is there; it’s just a matter of doing the work. We think it’s likely that we’ll see a successful pilot integration of EHR data with an external LMS in the next three years. Cutting back on the administrative headache of tracking credits for certificants is an imperative for the eLearning industry.

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Care2

JULY 29, 2010

The Care2 Social Network Tracker tells you which of your donors and activists are on social networks, what social networks they are on and how many friends they have in aggregate. Give them helpful resources and answer questions they have about your issue or organization. StumbleUpon. LiveJournal. LiveJournal.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Data-Driven Lead Tracking. One of the truly beautiful things about virtual events is the wealth of data they can provide. Some of the data you should track includes: . The data collected through virtual events or conference registrations can give a sales team a lengthy list of qualified prospects to pursue. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Seattle startup Evri uses data from Twitter in a very interesting way. Aardvark is a question and answer service that determines what topics you know about and who your friends are, then lets you ask the service questions. Pushing Financial Data. Twitter as Trigger. The Real-Time Web of People.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 15, 2015

The idea led to a report that would answer some key questions about web usability — questions that hadn’t been answered ever before, How many schools have adopted responsive web design? In certain areas, we extended our analysis by segmenting the data by school type and size. Have schools adopted HTML 5?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people? It’s free but you can purchase additional data for reasonable amounts (for example you can get Klout Scores ). Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting? Hashtag Stats.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

Child looks at three sources of data, each of which have been the basis for the claims advanced by some of those luminaries noted above. Well, total aggregate unrelated business income has grown in the sector over the last few decades, but so has the number of nonprofit organizations. It's not my analysis. Whither the turn?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

What data matters most? You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? I like how you are weaving together both number data and qualitative data and how you plan to collect stories. Maybe another way to think about it is measurement as data collection, but focused data collection.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

When it comes to nonprofits – and particularly, nonprofits on Facebook – we're all looking for the answer to the question: What's the ROI? Every quarter, our data analyst, Mathew Grimm, emails out a report of every list source and how they're performing. The truth is, ROI can be calculated in a variety of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact. Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Organizations use both hard data points and qualitative data to listen and learn. We've been able to answer questions for people who want to donate blood but don't know the rules, or who have misconceptions. Listening helps her aggregate stories for her blog and has helped her grow the readership.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

The world is undergoing a data revolution, and the social sector is no exception. Social enterprises are collecting more and more data: data about social problems; data about intervention outcomes; data for collective impact; data for learning; data for dashboards to better operate their enterprises; data for funders; and the list goes on.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Request a demo Explore pricing cameron.patter… Wed, 04/10/2024 - 16:55 Simplified data management and reporting Case management software that streamlines managing case information and reporting — freeing your staff to focus less on admin and more on creating greater community impact. That wasn’t anticipated or part of the rollout plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . The solution is always to get more money or resources for the institution in question or to apply power - none of which is in the power of the person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? The semantic web and the continued evolution of search, data design, and user interface design will help. "nptech" = "nonprofit tech")and potentially aggregate them into buckets or paths that make them more browsable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. How can Google Analytics reports data help improve your Web site's performance. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. What is the visual metaphor?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Note from Beth: In a report entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, authors Beth Novek and Daniel Goroff address the challenges of obtaining better, more usable data on the nonprofit sector to match the field’s growing importance. Liberating 990 Data by Beth Simone Noveck.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Managing data about supporters. Software purchases and any costs associated with implementing those technologies, such as data migration. The goal is to understand which solutions you’re currently using and how well they perform with the following questions in mind: What works well? Receiving donations. Hosting events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social. I’ve also collected infographics that summarize global data on various platforms on a pinterest board.

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