sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

How to Avoid: Organizations should consider adopting the Unified Chart of Accounts for Nonprofits (UCOA). Skipping this analysis can lead to missed opportunities for adjustment and improvement, potentially causing long-term financial issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

My colleague Sarah Granger , a nationally recognized expert on online culture and social technology—shows us how digital media is shaping our lives in real time. It will help you understand when to use a pie chart versus a bar chart – but it goes beyond that. I hope you have a fabulous holiday!

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Good data, however, and the technology systems that depend upon good data, are THE key to your fundraising success. Use charts and diagrams to help them visualize your organization’s impact. 4 – Fundraising strategy, technology, and data alignment. Tweet the numbers, not just the call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. 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.”

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology. Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. But wait, paper???

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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). It shouldn’t be surprising that a nonprofit focusing on closing the gender gap in technology has a beautifully-coded annual report built right into its website.

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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. It’s easy to use and intuitive and a great option for beginners wanting to test out their new site. WebPagetest.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Your goal: why do you engage with them.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2020

We’ve all seen the charts, where our actions directly affect outcomes. As technology and creativity will increasingly empower the next generation of socially distant fundraisers, cutting-edge nonprofits will turn to advanced data strategies to identify and communicate with them. Are we flattening the curve?

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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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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

As a nonprofit professional, you’re probably all too familiar with some of the many ways in which technology has completely changed how work gets done in our sector. Either way, it’s critical that you and your organization get a strong grip on technology if you want to continue growing your reach and impact into 2020 and beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help participants evaluate the session in real-time – replacing the use of a flip chart in a plus/delta analysis. They all arrived precisely on the dot!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

At the 4 th level of 100% adoption for your prospect management system, your organization is now able to provide a deep analysis with reportings based on a sound system and full buy-in from all staff. High-level analysis questions by senior leadership and during campaign/advisory board meetings: How many active proposals are pending?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tools that incorporate a dashboard can help organizations visualize and more easily analyze their data by taking that information and turning it into charts and graphs. Even text can be measured with text analysis tools that can provide statistics on keywords and gauge sentiment.

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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 ). If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. We facilitated audience feedback and insights.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Her work enables NetHope members to be more effective and efficient through the use of technology . Ami McReynolds. Chief Equity and Programs Officer. Feeding America. Eleanor Meyers. Interim Chief Operating Officer.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Perhaps one of the most challenging questions a nonprofit can ask is, "What should our org's commitment to the use and leverage of technology actually be?" There is little doubt that technology aligned and used properly can bring efficiency in extending and meeting goals in support of the mission.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Jim Davenport, an astronomer living in Seattle, charted the height and width of all of the works in the Tate''s collection. These experiments prompt questions, identify gaps in the data, and promote new forms of collection, dissemination, and analysis. Projects Technology Tools Worth Checking Out usercontent'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

My colleague, Dirk Slater , has written about how he applies the Spectragram technique in his technology/activist trainings. Digital Fundraising (technology, skills and staffing) (Facilitator: Meredith and Martin – Homemade Digital). We did a classic brainstorming/SWOT analysis exercise related to our topics.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 10, 2016

Track Data Through a Flexible Chart of Accounts. To effectively track data for internal and external use, your software needs to have a flexible chart of accounts. This provides flexibility to drill down to the project level in reports for better performance analysis. Smart cloud technology makes it possible.

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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.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Why This Fundraising App Made Our List OneCause’s fundraising technology made our list because it is completely built for mobile. With both nonprofit-facing and donor-facing technology, they make it easy to manage all aspects of your next event right from your phone. Backlink analysis. Keyword research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

I might also add that a Facebook Page will provide better analysis in terms of users, time online the time , demographics compared to a Facebook Group. Successful communities on Facebook offer an attitude of openness, transparency and enthusiasm - not a technology platform for advertising. analysis of using Facebook groups).

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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

JANUARY 6, 2008

" They are taking a multi-disciplinary look at applications, including a focus on persuasion technology. The visual shows the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). According to this analysis, Causes probably falls in the Adapted Patterns/Competition.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Every day, American nonprofits, charities, and libraries rely on TechSoup's product donation program for the information they need to make smart decisions about technology. It's how you use technology that makes all the difference. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Chart from David White, JISC funded ???SPIRE??? technologies. Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart. I also think that in tagging communities we see some nuances of behavior based on frequency or at least based on an unsciencetific analysis of NPTech Tagging data.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2019

You ascertain averages, browse benchmarks , and create charts. This type of analysis has served us fairly well to date. Many organizations don’t have the luxury of having data scientists on staff and instead use technology solutions to do the heavy lifting for them, making it accessible to organizations both big and small.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials. Adobe Acrobat can convert Word or Excel documents into fillable forms, and the Form Tracker functionality allows you to conveniently collect data and export for further analysis.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

These might include pictures from an event, spreadsheets and charts for your financials, and multimedia for some client testimonials. Adobe Acrobat can convert Word or Excel documents into fillable forms, and the Form Tracker functionality allows you to conveniently collect data and export for further analysis.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Power BI — transforms your nonprofit's data into visuals including graphs and charts from your own CRM or from your website using Google Analytics. Tableau —professional-grade data analysis and visualization software. QuickBooks Online Plus — Intuit's flagship accounting application, now cloud-based.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

But raising funds online is not about technology, any more than raising funds through the mail is about paper. Analysis of cumulative online giving (i.e., The Big Finding: Relationships Matter! When we talk tech, we tend to focus on the latest new bell, whistle, or widget for fundraising. Happy online fundraising!

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