Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. But the connections might be so be numerous, or the formal org charts might be so misleading, that you can’t “see” what is happening easily.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Without that, the SOA can misrepresent the financial health of the organization and lead to future funding issues. How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). Preparing your statement requires accurate, up-to-date financial information.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

To explore how these salaries compare with other staff, we first limited the analysis to 646 organizations that reported a salary for their CEO and at least two other full-time staff among the 35 listed roles. Analysis set of grantmakers’ full-time CEO salaries Min 25th percentile Median Mean 75th percentile Max No.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Loaded with analysis tools, it also contains a video feature that lets you see exactly what problems exist that are making your site sluggish and quick tips for correcting any issues. By providing a “grade” breakdown of your site’s performance, WebPagetest makes understanding your page’s speed issues easy to understand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.” from MIT in rocket science.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. Daniel’s Fund.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

If your organization serves individuals dealing with mental health issues and if any of these funders serve your community, visit their website and discover if there’s a funding opportunity for you. Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. Daniel’s Fund.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free! You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data.

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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). DREAM also hosts its annual report on Issu, a great third-party platform for a well-designed digital reading experience. offers a profound analysis of #MeToo.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. At the end of the mapping exercise, you can write an overall goal, like connecting offline, or fundraising, or maybe advocating on important issues, and the main platforms where it takes place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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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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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

During this hour, the Foundation Center's George Ford and Jake Garcia will take a look at how grant seekers can use the interactive maps and charts in Foundation Directory Online , the Foundation Center’s grant seeking database for nonprofits, to identify prospective funders. Register for the webinar here. Who Are the Presenters?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

HotJar — Top Fundraising App for Online Behavior Tracking Using HotJar is a great way to solve issues identified through Google Analytics. By identifying the trends and behavior of your organization’s site visitors, you can better understand where the issues on your site lie. Crawl your nonprofit’s website to uncover SEO tech issues.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

A lot of the organizations we work with and others we see in the policy-issue, advocacy, "intellectual-commerce" realm, are interested in their work being more influential. One way to look at the stages of increasing value to web site users is shown in the chart above. Don't we all !). Interested in any feedback!

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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. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream. Wait for maturation? What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2012

You know those times when you are looking for a blog that provides you with meaty analysis on contemporary issues in arts engagement? When you want cogent arguments with charts to back them up? Here's what I love about Createquity: In-depth analysis of arts research reports. Honesty and directness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? But, there's the whole issue of being efficient - and if you have super human getting things dones with social media skills , then it will take you less time. Key skill is pattern analysis. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE??? Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart. The follow up email interviews to the survey were designed to gain an insight into this issue but are not very comprehensive. project 2007 Survey , a British-based, of 1400 respondents, on the use of Web 2.0

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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? Rank these considerations by priority, starting with the tech gaps or issues that need immediate solutions.

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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. Task Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Rolling out a well-thought-out business plan is like charting a course through treacherous yet conquerable terrains. Step 2: Conducting a Market Analysis for Your Non-Profit Conducting a comprehensive market analysis is crucial for non-profits to understand the landscape they operate in and make informed decisions.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. It's enough to report on and start people thinking about the issues, but the field is pretty darn new. Get the report and read it. It points to some great momentum in online giving.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

Keeping in mind that this study focuses on those who make financial decisions for an organization , e.g. the CEO and the CFO, the following chart shares some interesting data. 19, Issue 2 – 2011. ^ [2] Ibid. ^ [3] The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

You can see the administration gets that -- from the jobs map and the chart of how money is being spent. They've gone out of their way to ensure you can use their content to share your own opinion and analysis. Give the raw data: Most of us are looking for the quick snapshot that tells us the key points about complex issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

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. The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector. They shared how they worked through this internally.

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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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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

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Some tables got very focused on some philosophical issues related to goals and stuck. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed. My problem now is that I don't do a lot of processing with a pen or marker/flip chart anymore -- but I was standing up there, so I jotted some notes down on my moleskin.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. Foundations are in the business of making the world a better place by providing grants to organizations they see making an impact on the issues that they care about deeply.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. RootsCamp is an annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together. 11/17/2016. RootsCamp 2016.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

The two-day MAD activities started with a day full of sessions designed to unite and rally the 300+ advocates around the issues at hand. There were sessions specific to each policy issue, as well as sessions about how to frame your message. Nothing packs a more powerful punch than having the hard numbers to back up what you’re saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

The process of creating a social media policy includes discussion about the issues, reviewing policies from other organizations , and reviewing and approving the policy internally. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

[link] Twopular: Tracks the most popular trends on twitter including who is the top people tweeting specific trends (aka trendsetters) and a bar chart listing the hours a topic trended. One of the down sides of Twopular is that if your issue/hashtag is not in the top 10 trends, you won’t see stats in the bar graph.

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