Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2014

This is a graph of aggregate data from Jawbone,a wristband that people wear that tracks their steps throughout the day and their sleep patterns during the night. (h/t h/t Robert Scoble ) This aggregate data shows exactly when and how many people in the San Francisco were bolted awake by the recent Napa Valley earthquake.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 23, 2018

How Measures of Market Structure Shape Nonprofit Fiscal Health,” a group of scholars set out to answer the question of whether or not there are too many nonprofits in the U.S.—or, The study attributes this to differences in resource structures across nonprofit fields. In a new study titled “ A Field Too Crowded?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Marnie Webb has been thinking about how the nonprofit sector might be different if organizations believed in abundance and re-thought their organizational structures and how they delivered programs as a result. “ Marnie talks about the importance of data aggregation and synthesis skills as a new competency for nonprofits.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Data connectors can consolidate data from many different platforms, not just UA and GA4, significantly streamlining the data aggregation process and providing a more comprehensive view of your organization’s data.

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sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

Grants data we receive has sometimes been anonymized at the grantee level or provided in aggregate form to further mitigate risk. The exact answer to this question will depend on each organization’s internal structure. To some extent, Candid has a front-row seat to this decision-making. Who needs to be involved in the response?

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Content strategy is an aggregate of a few best practices—equal parts planning, delivery, and consistency. Structure and Process are more about the delivery and maintenance of your content and your content team. The Structure quadrant answers how content will be organized to be findable, categorized, and personalized.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

And here are some examples to consider: SocialActions – a great example of social media powering the sharing and aggregation (and thus the collaboration and partnership) of social action opportunity portals all over the world. 4Change will be structured around a series of questions which all participants can respond to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Here’s a couple of themes that come up from a few of these nonprofit CEOs: Looking at Aggregate Professional Networks of People in the Organization: I’ve been hearing Meg Garlinghouse of LinkedIn talk about “filling structural holes” in networks and shared a couple of those ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

The analysis looks at frequency of interaction, relationship structure (two-way, one-way), and helps reveal structural similarities. Seeing these relationships in aggregate helps you make decisions. Who is in the edges? Who isn't connected? Who should I spend my time responding to and cultivating? Can you guess who they are?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

In fact, there is a huge tendency for employees to get disgruntled and de-motivated by the compensation structure. 3 The keys to making this work are excellent training and professional development, and a clear, transparent, and structured process. We’ll aggregate the responses and compile the data into a big.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Others are more formal, structured conversations that happen weekly at a particular time. #4change is a regular chat about social media change. blogchat which is facilitated by @mackcollier and uses wthashtag to aggregate the conversation. Some of the #hashtag communities are ongoing and unstructured like the #nptech tag community.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? That means collecting the data at the source, aggregating the data, verifying the data, creating meaningful reports, and analyzing the data for decision-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

The analysis looks at frequency of interaction, relationship structure (two-way, one-way), and helps reveal structural similarities. It will tell you which of your donors/activists are on social networks, what social networks they are on and how many friends they have in aggregate. Who isn’t connected?

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Care2

MAY 18, 2011

When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. When we do that, we can compromise the relationship we have with our supporters and donors, and limit our capacity for building momentum towards action and a movement for our cause.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

When building a campaign and exploring your options for the structure, actions and engagement pieces, look first at your organizational metrics. When we do that, we can compromise the relationship we have with our supporters and donors, and limit our capacity for building momentum towards action and a movement for our cause.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

The sessions were smartly structured with different lengths and formats, ranging from panels to workshops to participatory performances to an intense "courtroom" in which co-creation was put on trial. I felt like I made new friends in aggregate, a whole community of people who I look forward to seeing again.

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JUNE 7, 2022

This collection point may serve as a system of record, a source for analytics strategy, a repository of otherwise irreconcilable data structures, as a historical archive, or innumerable other business functions. Generally, the information is valuable in the aggregate but not at the individual detail level. .

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We actively seek participation and develop structured opportunities for visitors to collaborate with us. To me, this is an example of how the aggregation of participatory practices fundamentally changes the role that an organization has in its community. Visitors can comment on how we can improve or what they would like to see.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

He also make a few other points worth noting: I had the feeling everybody shared an enthusiasm for the potential that development can have, but I also only saw a few clear structured projects. Aggregators can help, and so do social bookmarking sites, which show evaluated ranked webistes. He basically argued that web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. And yes nonprofits mimic their corporate brethren with siloed structures. Ironically, if we have time, the last matter is the least difficult. And that is the crossroads. Movements versus campaigning. How can you tell the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Crowdsourcing collective wisdom refers to the aggregation of anonymously produced data from groups of independent, diverse and decentralized people (crowds). A crowd’s aggregated collective response to a question or challenge creates a perspective or a position. In Surowiecki’s terms this represents its collective wisdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

But is there a way to make it proactive and more organized rather than reactive with no structure or organization? What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. I think that the scanning the NpTech Tag can provide a zeitgeist.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 12, 2015

It’s a little different in the nonprofit sector because you typically have two to three points of view because of your audience and the way your organization is structured. From there you can aggregate the responses and shape your marketing tactics to achieve an ideal brand. First is all of the people affected by your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. After some back and forth conversation, including asking for his input when they changed their fee structure, GiveWell became a supporter and user for Network for Good's services.

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Forum One

JULY 14, 2009

This includes, for example, making the wealth of information buried in monitoring and evaluation reports more accessible and structured in a way where information can be gleaned across projects, activities, and yes, donors. 3 - Improved linkages of results and outcomes back to activities and dollars spent.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 5, 2006

All museums are models of aggregated content; heck, we're the boxed music sets of physical content. The question of whether or not to aggregate is closely linked to the most exciting--and most complex--element of exhibit design: the creation and dissemination of the meta-structure, the story, of the exhibit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. Hashtag Stats.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

people able to draw on own knowledge), and aggregation (i.e., Surowiecki also writes about several key criteria needed to develop “wise” crowds, namely: diversity of opinion, independence of opinions, decentralization (i.e., a mechanism for turning private judgments into a collective decision).

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

One way of conceptualizing this is using blocks to make a structure. Metricly aggregates your data across the Web, allowing you to compare and combine your metrics in one place, and making it easier for you to stay on top of your business. Some Awesome APIs and Uses for Them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2009

In which case the landscape for philanthropic giving—the structures and tools that donors use to organize, aggregate, learn, give, and bank (literally) their philanthropic financial resources will change yet again. But we’re getting there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2005

Thankfully, the panelists set up a blog that is aggregating everything related to the session using tags, rss, and all the stuff they talked about but couldn't demonstrate. This is the perfect topic for a small group and then report out to large group structure. She's a great stand up comic and so is Marnie. I learned a lot!!!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

I guess I look at it like this: if you give a hundred people tools to lay bricks, you'll likely get a hundred small structures. Resources Mashable, Twestival Social Media for Social Change Other links aggregated on my original post, " Look Out, Here Comes Everybody To Raise Money for charity:water on Twitter ". freeagent twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

It integrates online community discussion forums, structured learning like webinars, content, with participants' social profiles. I like how it aggregate the social ant trails of the community. This is a lively community, mostly because of the expertise of people like Maddie, Lindy, and Tony who are skillful community managers.

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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. . We see the Local Food Movement, Slow Money, Local Resiliency all growing. But while these new stories are now visible they are not yet mainstream. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2005

and messy information I'm aggregating. Probably an important piece to include in any training that one might do to initiate other nonprofits mortals to add their s to the new structure of the web. I haven't needed to drink any pink stuff. The latter is a shift and at first it doesn't feel comfortable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

As Louis Gray points out in his post, "Now that comments are being bandied about like currency, both at the blog and through a myriad of RSS readers and social aggregators, maybe it's time to think about the whole structure of blogging and commenting in the first place." " So, maybe it looks like this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

The tagging community that lies beneath the npdigg structure has taggers, consumers, aggregators, and meta aggregators. It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 applications have changed the rules of online community.

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