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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Investing in a fund accounting software simplifies processes and reporting, making it easy to avoid potential pitfalls. How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). How to Avoid: Implement a routine process for comparing financial figures across months.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Visualizing the Tate's Collection: What Open Data Makes Possible

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The data is in a computer language called.JSON that is commonly used for data sharing and processing. Jim Davenport, an astronomer living in Seattle, charted the height and width of all of the works in the Tate''s collection. Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks.

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Reflections and Follow Up Questions from Techsoup/NTEN Share Your Story: Social Media ROI Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Click to See Larger Image I have been noodling around with this chart to show that insight comes before dollars, but if you measure and improve your initial pilot efforts over time, eventually the dollars do come.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Here's a recent analysis of the "best" posts on my blog and I need to go figure out what the numbers mean. Again, I have not consistently written down and charted my technorati rating, but I do know that trend has been to more or less go up.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I can't easily measure this metric unless I set up some sort of Ruby Goldberg contraption like cut and pasting a month's worth of posts and cut paste into word, count the number of posts, and then chart in excel. I agree, but is a ratio the best number? For April, I had 52 posts and 29,332 words. which is very hard to so.

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