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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 10, 2010

Analysis of cumulative online giving (i.e., During disasters, donors are more likely to consider new giving options, while in December, they're more likely to give based on relationships with the charities. The full study and accompanying data, including stand-alone charts, are available at www.onlinegivingstudy.org.

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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. The exact opposite is true. Images: SAP.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Communicating stories and opportunities to engage in ways that deepen your relationship with your supporters is a critical strategy for any mid-level donor program, and digital can support that. Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. Cultivate and engage. First, your active mid-level donors, who you want to retain and upgrade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

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. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. It makes really easy to do a quick content analysis, figure out what content resonated, and build community. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. It is a Twitter analytics tool.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. The goal is to develop sustained relationships through habitual positive exposures. Participation builds sustainable relationships.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Elearning space defines it as: “Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.” Denial: You can’t measure social media!

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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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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

You can check the latest engagement details for individual supporters and use that information to build better relationships with them. The member directory helps you keep track of every board, committee, and staff member so that you can nurture relationships. Backlink analysis. Keyword research.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

How does the techie learn to listen to the needs, build relationships, and develop solutions that meet the organization's goals? Most good relationships being with understanding, a mutual agreement on a course of action or common direction. It's All About the Relationship ~ Getting Connected Even if You're Not Wanted.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

What they do and don’t do has a big impact on donor relationships and the metrics we’ve uncovered. The Big Finding: Relationships Matter! It’s about the relationship between the nonprofit and the donor who wants to support a cause. We found the following: Fundraising is still about relationships.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

It's all about building trust and relationships. Peter and Madeleine describe networks as "platforms for relationships." And the goal of those relationships can be learning, collaboration, policy, service delivery, advocacy, mobilizing or action. Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. What's the pork chop factor?)

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

We've long believed that being able to exert influence comes down to becoming a trusted voice, to building strong relationships, and - having done those - to shaping how people view an issue and the possible solutions. One way to look at the stages of increasing value to web site users is shown in the chart above.

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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? Key skill is pattern analysis. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content. Download it here.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

CRM (constituent relationship management) applications are becoming the center of our nonprofit IT systems. Dynamics 365 — Microsoft's online CRM or constituent relationship management database. Tableau —professional-grade data analysis and visualization software. These can greatly simplify a nonprofit network.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Concurrently, she is also the founder and senior partner of a practice that helps executives and emerging leaders forge the capabilities and relationships to accelerate growth and expand impact . Ami McReynolds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  Chart of an emotional visit to Starbucks.     Customer Relationship Spectra:   What kinds of visits.  The second time you go through your data - you can't do discovery - you need to do analysis.     The last impression is the most important. 

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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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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Some indicators that a card sort test is a good activity for a design project include: A website that is structured according to the org chart so that each department has their own section. To guide the sitemap revision process and introduce new ways of thinking about content relationships and groups. Methodology. In-Person or Remote?

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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. We developed a one-page chart that can be filled out quickly, but it covers key components of deeper engagement: Who will be the lead from each organization? What is the shared activity they will do?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

Research finds significant relationships between board and organizational effectiveness. 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.

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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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And that starts kind of with a readiness assessment and a gap analysis. They have some existing relationships. What does that look like in a healthy relationship? You know, that all flows up the org chart to me at the top. Aaron: You know, I’ve seen org charts. Aaron: [inaudible 00:37:50]. Brian: Yeah.

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 9, 2020

The flow creates continuous improvement and continuous analysis. “Sustainability starts with a commitment to apply the same principles and stewardship to finance as we apply to fundraising and donor relationships.” Insights result from analysis and discussion. It’s a cycle. It’s a system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

The nature of your contact with your network or friends and how you build it - transactional versus relationship building? 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. Observations. Some excellent ideas here.

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fusionSpan

JUNE 1, 2023

Salesforce is one of the most popular customer relationship management (CRM) tools used by non-profits and associations. Salesforce List Views are an incredible asset to associations, but it’s important to emphasize that they cannot perform data analysis or generate summary reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Finally, allocating time for a reflection about what worked, what didn’t based on an analysis of the data is critical.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

The trends are: The decline of hierarchical management or the flattening of the organizational chart. My lens on this topic is from the leadership and professional development perspective and what was most insightful about reading this book was the chapter on FLUID which includes a wonderful historical analysis of bureaucracy.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes. (One place to look).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Creating is more appealing then analysis to most. Doing or Creating is More Fun Than Measurement: People are more likely to build instead of measure even if they are building on a fault line. How can create a culture of fun around measurement so that we can’t keep ourselves from doing it from the beginning of a project. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. How many by when?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

It also uses the NPSP as its CRM (constituent relationship management system) tracking interactions with donors, contractors, grantmakers, advisors, board members, volunteers, customers, and students. Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth. Destiny Rescue.

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