Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. Twitter history is useful for documentation and presentations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

Oftentimes with other applications, data needs to be prepped before it can be converted into visual form (such as a graph or chart), whether that means adding a column, combining data sets, inserting a new formula, or the like. Another option is to copy and paste them into Microsoft Office documents or other documents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. Click to See Larger Version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. We decided to use an understanding exercise, a SWOT analysis related to the topics. Each facilitator’s “corner” has two pieces of flip chart paper on the wall which was divided into a two x two grid and a stack of colored sticky notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. A frequent question Peter is asked about how an organization can become more innovative. “What are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tools that incorporate a dashboard can help organizations visualize and more easily analyze their data by taking that information and turning it into charts and graphs. The output of a dashboard can in turn be used to generate reports that document an organization’s progress.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Most people are familiar with PDF documents, and if you don't use Acrobat, you've probably at least used the free Adobe Reader to view a PDF that someone else created. Acrobat's most notable feature is that it allows you to create PDF documents from a variety of source files, but there are a lot of other uses too.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Most people are familiar with PDF documents, and if you don't use Acrobat, you've probably at least used the free Adobe Reader to view a PDF that someone else created. Acrobat's most notable feature is that it allows you to create PDF documents from a variety of source files, but there are a lot of other uses too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Others have also documented and used the technique or taught others how to do it. We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics. Each facilitator’s “corner” has two pieces of flip chart paper on the wall which was divided into a two x two grid and a stack of colored sticky notes.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

If you implement a new survey system to use on your website and emails but then neglect to develop an easy, scalable way to actually export the survey results to your database for analysis, what’s the point? Here’s a very basic example of a TCO chart detailing the costs of implementing a new CRM platform: Begin researching vendors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Captricity is a tool that extracts data from forms and documents. Once you’ve gathered data from important stakeholders, completing a SWOT Analysis can help you map the internal and external factors that are assisting or hindering you. Try the free version. Integrate feedback and make a plan to move forward.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

It also has hosted email via Exchange Online and online document sharing with SharePoint Online. Power BI — transforms your nonprofit's data into visuals including graphs and charts from your own CRM or from your website using Google Analytics. Tableau —professional-grade data analysis and visualization software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Document on the fly.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Based on this nine-month experience, we produced the Collaboration Report , a comprehensive analysis of our learnings and best practices. Either way, there was agreement that all these approaches were just talk unless there was some way to document what each party committed to doing in order to build in accountability.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Kitchener, Ontario: Documenting Things. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Genève, Switzerland: Atelier de Co-construction/Com­pilation d'Une Charte Éthique Numérique. Monday, November 7, 2016.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. In less than two years, a simple website created to track election violence in Nairobi is now being used to: monitor crime-related data in Atlanta, GA. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. In less than two years, a simple website created to track election violence in Nairobi is now being used to: monitor crime-related data in Atlanta, GA. monitor election results in Mexico and India.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And that starts kind of with a readiness assessment and a gap analysis. You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top. Aaron: You know, I’ve seen org charts. Industry professionals have been doing this for decades. That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? Steven: That’s cool.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth. Problem: In years past, Hagar relied on an extensive library of Excel files to document contact with each client that would come seeking help. Learn more about how Salesforce helps The Code to work smarter, not harder.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It also offers an interactive opportunity to discuss key forms and governing documents(Form 1023 and Forms 990 and 990-PF.). As development research, prospect management and development analytics professionals, we provide the information and analysis that ensure our organizations focus on our most essential prospective donors.

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