Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2009

Most of my work in social media and nonprofits has been focused on the how to integrate a social media strategy as part of an organization's external communications plan or "outward" facing to engage audiences, consumers, and supporters. Wikis for Communities of Practice conference. Technology for Communities project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room. More analysis from Steve MacLaughlin Eric Johnson shared Text to Save Lives. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Exploring FriendFeed. Causes Raised $2.5 Can you answer it? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. I think it means nothing. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

Why are Silicon Valley community-based nonprofits struggling to meet demand, and having a hard time maintaining their organizational health? And how might we help bring these two groups together to create healthier nonprofits, healthier networks, and ultimately, healthier communities? Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

JournaMarketing has a post called " Why Your Blog Is Worthless without Connectedness " which harkens back to an ongoing debate we've had in this space -- is a blog just a web site or a community? KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Floodlight, an interesting data storytelling tool for communities is also featured. For example Edgeflip , a new initiative plans to turn the ad hoc data analysis tools developed for the campaign into software that can make nonprofits more effective at raising money and recruiting volunteers. Data Won the U.S. Open Government Data.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Whether the visitor is a known or unknown user, the experience is tailored to fit their profile dynamically through data analysis, behavior, user attributes, and characteristics to create a more meaningful experience. Consider how these various elements connect and work together to vocalize your mission and brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

If you're still not sure where cast your votes and want to check out what others think about the projects, take a look at the community slate of recommendations and elsewhere on the Web. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Whether the visitor is known or unknown, the experience is tailored to fit their profile dynamically through data analysis, behavior, user attributes, and characteristics to create a more meaningful experience. In summary. How do these various elements connect and work together to vocalize your mission and brand?

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

By facilitating and encouraging volunteer engagement, you benefit your organization and foster a sense of community and purpose among your supporters. Leveraging these platforms expands your reach, attracts new visitors, and cultivates an engaged community of passionate supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven. 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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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you were unable to attend the conference, we hope you can use the summary below to inspire thoughtful conversations at your institution and help in your planning for the new year. . . Conduct an impact analysis and use it! private and public 2-year and 4-year institutions. . Fundraising during a global pandemic .

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The increased presence of corporate counterparts in contracting could present an even greater threat to the unique value that nonprofits bring to their communities. The Philanthropic Consequence of Government Grants to Nonprofit Organizations: A Meta-Analysis.” Brookings Institution. Retrieved from [link]. Retrieved from [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. What if we thought of the NPTech Tag as a way to aggregate and facilitate a more focused distributed conversation and the summary is, well, a summary. Do you read the summaries?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

The HashTags site, a centralized directory of hashtags on Twitter, also offers a good definition: Hashtags are a community-driven convention for adding additional context and metadata to your tweets. Tagging communities or unbounded networks that might come to life around a tag are not new. I think it takes more a unique tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Nicole Lampe, Resource Media, blogged two summaries based on the ideas and discussion: The Future of Conservation: A Return to Our Roots. Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

This time, she includes some summary and analysis of the recent Ask-Expert session with Wendy Harman , who happens to be Chief Listener over at American Red Cross. (OK, Tags: NPTech nonprofit technology community buzz NTEN nten member. is "Your Dream Job Title" If you haven't added your $.02,

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2014

The 5 ways to tap Giving USA data for year-round success: Go beyond the helpful, free executive summary The Giving Institute provides on its website , and secure a copy of the full report. A simple analysis will help you see if the contributions you receive are overly weighted in one specific area, or lacking in another.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 12, 2018

This process represents a fast, reliable way to uncover summary wealth insight for large patient populations. If my provider ran a wealth screening on me post-treatment, it would have basic insight—like a summary of my publicly available assets and a few other things. Let’s start with a little about wealth screenings.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The ACLU website has a good summary of the USA Freedom Act. The nonprofit privacy rights community was fully mobilized including the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Fight for the Future, ACLU, Free Press Access, Demand Progress, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, Mozilla Foundation, and many commercial web companies. and Android.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media. Watech4good Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Photo by Mr. Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

A total of 757 Twitter users Tweeted using the hashtag #OceanLoveEarl – the network analysis map revealed that there were other “hubs” or “influencers” in addition my personal network including the beneficiary nonprofit, Surf Rider Foundation, and individual influencers in my network.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

The system has support for a number of different interactions, including a strong event module, and you can see a useful summary of each constituent’s relationships and activities. There’s community support for the basic product, or The Fund for the City of New York offers a setup and support package. by Fund for the City of New York.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

buzzword is their way of making integration happen in a low-cost way and build community, it???s Completely open community within. Judi finishes her analysis with the big picture, noting the downside is cost: Think of all the tools out there with open APIs that we???re I will summarize more in the weekly nptech tag summary.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

By tracking outcomes and indicators using an automated process and aggregating the data in one place, organizations are able to spend less time on ad-hoc data collection and analysis and more time on important decisions that drive operational effectiveness. Outcomes = Opportunity.

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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. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. Task Analysis. Times Sheet Analysis. Budget and Financial Analysis. It answers the "Was it worth doing?" Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. Would love to read a summary of the campaign results and lessons learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NpTech Community Snippets Who let the (NpTech) dogs out? Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Post, Post It Passion Exercise from Youth Noise, Youth Summit Blogging and New (to me) Blogs Blogging 101 Community Blogging describes how to avoid the slow hard agonizing death of a blog: Make it a team effort. There's an interesting post on the roles and behavior of online communities of practice. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

To help Americans take back their power to control their lives and their communities. . The idea itself is tested by the immune system of the wider community. Summary: Followed by a more detailed explanation. Situation : We are living in a time of a major shift in culture. Why should we measure story in a new way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Here's a quick summary of my notes: In Fanton's welcome, he noted that it is easy to get caught up in the novelty and hype of virtual worlds, but whatever the complexities, "we think they will grow and become integrated into our daily lives. Something to make the virtual world better and empowering the community in a unique way.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Request a demo Explore pricing cameron.patter… Wed, 04/10/2024 - 16:55 Simplified data management and reporting Case management software that streamlines managing case information and reporting — freeing your staff to focus less on admin and more on creating greater community impact. It’s made my staff’s job easier. more services delivered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

Excellent summary posts. Mary Hodder After 45 minutes of intense anger and frustration from many audience speakers in the room toward Technorati link counts and top 100 , I suggested we create a community based algorithm, based on more complex social relationships than links. Lisa Stone 's post setting the context for the debate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

In summary: Myth I: Religious giving is falling. In my experience with faith based communities, my main observation is that there always seems to be a group of individuals who make up probably less than 10% of the community who account for the majority of giving and volunteering. 1] Some myths are upheld and some are dispelled.

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