Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it. If you missed it, you can read Part 1: Systems Mapping for Nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

I was thrilled to get to participate again this year, and led a session with two amazingly smart and talented women: Shana Glickfield, The Beekeeper Group, and Jessica Bosanko, M+R Strategic Services. Community Mapping. To get started, first brainstorm and identify the various groups or segments of your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. There are apps that allow participants to use “ virtual sticky notes ” to do an exercise but these are not well designed for group collaboration. What’s in your facilitation toolkit?

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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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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). We love how Girls Who Code built an interactive map of the U.S. offers a profound analysis of #MeToo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

But people don’t always have a choice if there’s only one group providing clean water in the village.) Batchgeo is a free mapping tool that helps you visualize the data that lives in your spreadsheets. If customers don’t like a product, they won’t pay for it! Captricity is a tool that extracts data from forms and documents.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. In April at our NTC conference panel, we'll dig in and discuss some strategies, advice, and real examples from groups that have had success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Madeleine is co-founder and principal of Arbor Consulting Partners , a research and consulting group led by senior social scientists. Do you know what the group's value proposition is? Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. I tend to map my "working the clouds" work in short, time boxed bursts.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Find your local #Tech4Good group. If there isn't a group nearby, we'll help you start your own NetSquared group. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know and I'll include you in the next community calendar, or apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With interactive maps, private meeting scheduling, and a personalized agenda, attendees have everything they need to get more from the event. Backlink analysis. Get an idea of who is linking to your site, the anchor text they use, and their domain authority with Moz’s backlink analysis. Keyword research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. The workshop was the first time I had used the game with fleshed out scenarios for the small groups to work and an assignment to have a discussion around planning questions: What's the goal? What's your strategy map?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart." Tried to create a report and couldn't find a chart or graph that would clearly illustrate your point? Now think about making a chart comparing donation amounts for the past three years. But what about bar charts?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning often gets a bad rap, but time spent mapping out your organization’s future can save you from spinning your wheels, being busy but not effective. Surveys can be a good way to gather information, as can focus groups, listening circles, and other types of small-group meetings. Yuck, right?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

By using shaded maps, clear data points, and red/yellow/green indicators, users can easily identify areas in need of improvement. This includes groups who are steeped in policy and others who know little about how policy is made. Users can then choose to share the data or download the data to perform their own analysis.

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

Get free advice from nonprofit technology groups, attend virtual events, or sign up for a competitor’s email list to see what’s working and what’s not. Define who you are trying to reach and what they care about, then do a single event, a trial campaign, or a single video with a small group before announcing a series.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Are you looking at a map or the rearview mirror? What you really need are metrics that provide you with a plan of action, or a map, to help bolster your fundraising efforts. . Map Metrics. You need a detailed analysis to make an actionable plan to improve your fundraising efforts. 10 Key Data Points.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And that’s a group of organizations, nonprofits who are relatively new in their fundraising and really new to the capital campaign landscape. And so before their case for support was even dry, before they mapped out their gift tables, their leadership team was. . You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

The data is useful for business intelligence analysis, portfolio analysis, and other public good applications. For example, the GCAR platform powers the publicly-available map and database of grants which is a great way to quickly see where initiatives are being supported across the globe.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

Both leadership and front-line staff need to invest in basic statistical analysis training so we can ask the right questions and seek the right kinds of data before launching into solution mode or resting on our laurels. The problem is, most of its storytelling power is usurped by the Excel charts that typically imprison it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

In addition, Sinatra mentions that figuring out their ‘no matter what’ messages was important to mapped out in advance. ” In addition, individuals on staff and advocates made use of their individual profiles on Facebook sharing special cover images that people to use to celebrate. (4) Click to see the full infographic.

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