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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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms. Sample impact report from Oxfam America. . . Sample impact report from Oxfam America. . .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Analytics Teach Training Train 97

Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2017

You've found the time to download the latest State of Grantseeking reports. Let's look at how to get the most valuable and applicable data from the State of Grantseeking reports in the least amount of time. In fact, you have them all — total, by annual budget, by mission focus, by service area, and by U.S. So Now What?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

To prepare, come up with statements based on a participant assessment, interviews, or survey and that are related to your training topic. The statements should express a point of view. We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics. Next, try provocative statements. We were given ten minutes.

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Participatory Facilitation Technique Asia 76

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. 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. Get your data out of your reports.

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Policy Data Content Share 36

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

Marketing research done on a regular basis will allow you to make better decisions, chart changes over time, plan initiatives, and assess your success. Go online to find trade association reports, government data, academic research, and databases such as CPANDA. It is best to keep surveys as short as possible. Look it up.

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Research Marketing Method Attitude 20

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example. For professional projects, like an electronic annual report, you can combine several types of files (video included) as a PDF Portfolio.

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Adobe PDF Files PowerPoint 36

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example. For professional projects, like an electronic annual report, you can combine several types of files (video included) as a PDF Portfolio.

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Adobe PDF Files PowerPoint 36

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success. Post event surveys revealed the number one reason participants didn’t fundraise in 2012 was “No one asked me to”. Number of participants. Encourage participants to fundraise.

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Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 2 Again, the study surveyed nonprofit financial managers such as CEOs and CFOs. posted by Pat Lewis , Senior Professional. in Residence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  Chart of an emotional visit to Starbucks.     We've got more tools, more reports, and more stuff than we know to do with. 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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Marketing Measure Metrics Hunger 50

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. Staff Surveys.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

A first-of-its-kind, comprehensive national survey found that 86 percent of nonprofit board members in the United States are non-Hispanic whites. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. Castro Institute at Phoenix College; and the Arizona Center for Investigative Reporting.

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Arizona Tucson United States Nonprofit 40

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. I did the reports out for each scenario which worked really well.

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Social Media Game Media Social 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Idealware looked into this question about nonprofits and Facebook as well as other questions in its recent research study, Using Facebook to Meet Your Mission: Results of a Survey , available for free download with registration and discussed at free webinar on June 16 at 1 PM PST. Creating is more appealing then analysis to most.

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Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

The last few months have been a time of deep reading and thinking many reports, research, and books. One book that resonated not only with this work, but my previous work on networked nonprofits is nonprofit technology colleague Maddie Grant’s ” When Millennials Take Over ,” written with Jamie Notter.

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Review Chapter Leadership Analysis 50

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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Measure Social Media Tools Media 115

Care2

JULY 2, 2009

Think of it like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. link] SocialToo: Creates surveys and tracks social media stats. The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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Social Media Track Media Tools 70

Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2023

From membership to social to programs to surveys to fundraising to research, it may seem like every department in your organization is drowning in data. A CEO who loves spreadsheets might not get the most out of a slick new dashboard and your program team probably doesn’t have the time to read a 30-page monthly report.

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Data Strategy Literacy Government 63