Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I happened to mention that I was seeing reports from nonprofit folks about the recent change in the Facebook Algorithm and Megan Keaney Anderson offered to write this guest post. How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. What has changed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. They got enough comments in two hours to fill a truck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In order to do this, they need to work with free agents, hyper-connected individuals who are passionate about social change, but don’t work within institutional walls. Our session will explore how and why this needs to change. What are the change issues for traditional nonprofits that want to become “networked nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Highlights from Microsoft’s Nonprofit Sector Research on AI Devi kicked off by sharing a sentiment analysis from a recent survey of nonprofit leaders that fall into one of two different perceptions: comfort and concern. Below is my fully human-generated reflection. 65% are using it to clean-up their Monday morning inboxes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

The long anticipated changes to Facebook brand pages – switching to the timeline format – is now available to all brand pages. But Facebook hasn’t played god with us and flipped the switch – they’re actually giving us a month to absorb the change - and create a plan, design, and test it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2018

Towards the end of the day, the New York Times published a story about a big announcement from Mark Zuckerberg about a change in the algorithm and newsfeed that it would prioritize what their friends and family share and comment on while de-emphasizing content from publishers and brands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. Why was it a success?

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Whether the visitor is a known or unknown user, the experience is tailored to fit their profile dynamically through data analysis, behavior, user attributes, and characteristics to create a more meaningful experience. Decide what will change based on user segmentation and where this will occur on the website.

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Forum One

JUNE 2, 2022

Embark on a gap analysis to discover where you are today, where your plans are headed, and what changes you may need to make. Transformational service changes will realistically touch many departments, but understanding who will lead, and who will support and champion the process, are key to success. 2) What about accessibility?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Thanks to Deanna Zandt for being so thoughtful and smart in her analysis: "Let’s break down why the meritocracy myth is both so pervasive and problematic. The Internet is indeed a blank canvas in many ways.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Patrick provided me with a profound analysis of the human rights sector that formed the basis for what would turn into the Martus initiative. He is now the Executive Director of the Human Rights Data Analysis Group , which earlier this year spun off from Benetech to become its own independent organization.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

A few comments about the poll results. Your new CRM may require a change in processes. CRM Data Mapping Data Migration data conversion data migration data quality donor database fundraising data analysis' 1-2 = 61%. 3-5 = 35%. 3 – Who is responsible for maintaining data quality in your organization? Not sure = 11%.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 4, 2020

So many circumstances have changed and will change. Has there actually been a change in social media engagement? Has there actually been a change in your website traffic? How has it changed recently compared to past months? Have any of these traffic tactics changed? Let me know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

This week I interviewed long-time blog reader, Alison Lowndes who I first met via my blog as a regular commenter. We reconnected, of course, through a recent blog comment. The algorithms also use predictive analysis to make recommendations on future investment in research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

Alex Steed is a self-described millennial activist and he has just announced his Millennials Changing America: The Next Generation of Organizing where he will visit over 30 cities across the United States to meet, interview and report how young people are using the Internet to leverage their social and political power. What's that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

The technique I use for getting verbal on a workshop is to ask what would participants keep, change, or delete? You have to listen to every comment and accept it as a gift with enthusiasm and a smile. What is one change that you can make in your practice or one idea that you will put into practice as a result of this workshop?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

I may be wrong, let me know in the comments). What I most like about his approach is that he makes data accessible to those of us who do not have advanced statistical analysis skills. He makes data visualization and working with data fun – and of course offers lots of practical insights. Why this resource?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

And as Mari mentions on a comment on a thread on her page: “We truly never know with Facebook… it could be a slow rollout like personal Timelines (though speculation is that was primarily due to the timelines.com lawsuit)… or it could be a sudden BAM, everyone is upgraded, have at it!!! Here they are: 1.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

One section of the study pulls together multiple data points for a gap analysis around member benefits. The analysis shows organizations are doing well in several areas that are important to members. Here are some ideas for gathering and assessing member feedback: Regularly read their comments on social media and your online community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

I shared the video on my personal profile and it prompted quite a heated discussion in the comments between my colleagues. The controversy on my Facebook wall boiled down to those who felt the emotional pull of the story and those who had an alternative view. And so the debate on my Facebook wall continued with very thoughtful comments.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Producing an awareness video is about creating a story of change. Begin by raising awareness about the way the natural world works and show the viewer just how much change can happen when there is purposeful effort put to it. It merely shares a story of change and leaves the rest up to the viewer to interpret.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. The ultimate purpose of data analysis and evaluation is to share findings with other leaders at your organization and use that information to make adjustments and improvements.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

One section of the study pulls together multiple data points for a gap analysis around member benefits. And be sure to note the data about how member priorities change throughout the member career journey. Some ideas: Regularly read their comments on social media and your online community.

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JULY 27, 2021

The third main responsibility of a social media manager is community management–answering questions, DMs, comments, maybe creating policies if you work in a controversial or polarizing issue and need to make sure your community is safe. You have to do those four tasks on each platform! If you’re on Twitter, same thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

And that’s just what happened to the HSUS Farm Animal Protection campaign, an effort to call attention to and reduce the suffering of farm animals raised for eggs, meat, pork, and milk. The above photo and statement was posted on Friday and within 48 hours was shared over 21,000 times, 18,000 likes, and thousands of comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org’s combination of entertaining content and environmental reporting – dubbed the “The Daily Show of the environmental movement.&# They have inspired a whole new generation of environmentalists who don’t take themselves so seriously while creating on the ground change. They’re after societal change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Measuring Networked Nonprofits: Using Data for Social Change is the topic of the book I’m co-authoring with KD Paine. One of the chapters is on organizational culture – what’s in the DNA of a “data-driven&# nonprofit and what are the incremental steps for change? How to measure behavioral change.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

But then COVID came – and suddenly, food bank fundraising was changed (quite possibly, forever). If you’d like to chat more, please don’t hesitate to contact me , or share your insights in the comments below! There we were, oblivious to the storm coming our way. In early 2020, all seemed normal. Unprecedented challenges appeared.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Silver – Health Website.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The National Council on Mental Wellbeing drives policy and social change on behalf of over 3,100 mental health and substance use treatment organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. National Council for Mental Wellbeing. Silver – Health Website.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

That is why social media content analysis is important to any campaign. Obtrusive and Unobtrusive Analysis. Because workers were getting attention, no matter the nature of the changing conditions, they reacted positively. Instead, we learned how to better control for the effect in our analysis.

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

Although the findings of the recently released 2011 donorCentrics Internet and Multichannel Giving Benchmarking Report haven’t changed much since the last edition three years ago, its release has (re)fueled the conversation fire in the #nptech community. flickr.com/photos/mikebaird.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Weisbrod refers to massive changes characterized as a pattern of growing commercialization of nonprofit organizations. In fact, given the changes in the sector over that period, reliance on commercial income is startlingly consistent. It's not my analysis. percent of the growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. We came up with the term “Ambient” data to describe unstructured data out that is generated through social media channels – tweets, status updates, comments, etc. Long Live Strategy.”

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The analysis is approached from a user’s perspective, and highlights the types of problems consumers frequently encounter with the service. The paper will be open to comment til the end of January 2010.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2006

I learned about it from the site Changing the Present , a donation portal that also lets you set up a wish list of causes to support in lieu of gifts for the holidays or other occassions. " Peter gives us analysis of the landscape: Building a community of small-scale philanthropists sounds like a novel idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

They are the respected voices who others turn to understand sector social change issues. CEOs are seen as experts on your brand, social change issues, and programs, thus their opinions are extremely valuable and trusted by the people in their networks. Please share in the comments. How are they a chameleon online?

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