Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." 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.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

And if you need a little inspiration, then look no further than your fellow NTEN community members, some of whom have recently received recognition for their work. Socio-economic variables can be extracted from the ACS directly into a Shapefile for mapping or other forms of analysis and modeling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2016

This activity allowed the learner to move, engage in small group discussion, and apply analysis to the content. This post was originally published on the NTEN Blog. Cindy Leonard is the Consulting Team Leader at the Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Each year, we at NTEN work hard to make the NTC a more environmentally sustainable event -- this year we even have carbon offsets for travelers! Heller Consulting. Join Keith Heller of Heller Consulting for a FREE webinar series clearly explaining what CRM is, what it does, and how to make it happen in your organization.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

This September 3-6, NTEN will debut the Leading Change Summit. In addition, Matt co-founded and served as Director of Technology for 2MC, a Chicago-based internet consulting firm. How do we measure social change? Matt will show us how. Matt is the recipient of the 2011 Edelman Chicago “Eddy” Award for Innovation.

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NTEN

JULY 16, 2010

Presented by: Marissa Goldsmith, Beaconfire Consulting. When: Thursday, July 29th, 10:00 am Pacific Time / 1:00 Eastern Time Cost : $50 for NTEN Members, $100 for non-members 3.6 Tags: NPTech NTEN. You'll receive recordings of every breakout session, so don't worry about missing anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

My colleague Amy Gahran, a mobile expert, has an analysis here. Says Madeline Turner from Blackbaud, “ The Future Is Here ” Take the Test, But Don’t Freak Out If You Flunk: John Kenyon , a nonprofit technology consultant, was the voice of calm. My blog passed the test! Test the site.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

RoundTables are monthly hour-long chats, free for NTEN Members, moderated by an NTEN member from the field of Consulting, Communications, or IT -- depending on which RoundTable it is. Another great resource is Twitalyzer, which gives you free data on trends, sentiment, tweet and tag analysis. Thanks to everyone who came.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. NTEN Presents: Oregon Nonprofit Tech Roundup. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help and Consultations. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Is Content Strategy a fancy term invented by consultants? Invented by consultants? Content Audit & Gap Analysis: Before you dream up what new content you need , you should know what you already have. Now, your ready to do the Gap Analysis. Fancy term? Content Strategy is basically the how-to of online publishing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

The tool is quite fascinating because it combines a light weight social network analysis (see this page. Beth Dunn is a consultant and MBA candidate. I don't understand by @ntenhross (Holly Ross, Director of NTEN) and @amyrsward (Netsquared community builder) aren't in my cloud. Jonathon D. Colman does SEO for REI.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Portland, Oregon: NTEN Presents: Oregon Nonprofit Tech Roundup. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help Consultations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

As a 10,000 footer, NTEN’s new Donor Management System Survey is of keen interest. What’s interesting is that they did a size of org and recommendation analysis – to break down recommendations by size of organization. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Baltimore, Maryland: Fundraising Tech 101 and Tech Help/Consultations. Upcoming Tech4Good Events. Tuesday, August 8, 2017.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Kitchener, Ontario: External Services and Consultants. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Booth Give Away: Win one day of Salesforce.com consulting! Idealist Consulting in booth 6.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

If you’re looking for tight donor and constituent integration with a Web site, this may be a good option, but otherwise you may find the reporting and analysis layer lacking. Installation is a breeze, but with so many potential options, you may want to hire a consultant or have the Organizers’ Collaborative set it up for you.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Want to know how non-profit organizations are using geographic analysis and the power of maps to support their missions, report to stakeholders and funders, apply for grants more effectively, or conduct fundraising and marketing gap analyzes? Booth Give Away: Win one day of Salesforce.com consulting! Idealist Consulting in booth 6.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Determine the compliance gap; perform a gap analysis to determine where you are not compliant and what it would take to become compliant. Just be sure that whatever consultant or advisor you hire has experience in dealing with both the business-aspects of privacy as well as the technology-aspects of privacy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. That part looks very interesting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

By Sean Watson, Nonprofit Technology Consultant, TechEffect. Unless you want an entire troop of gorillas fighting you every step of the way, thoroughly involve your team in every part of the process analysis and decision-making. Meanwhile half of your donors are unsubscribing from mailing lists because they hear from you too often.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Washington, DC: May NTEN Happy Hour: Google Grant + Google Analytics = Better Results, Nonprofit Grant for Free Advertising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Holly Ross. Rachel Weidinger. Jordan Viator.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis. At the most basic level, it means clearly providing links to both the underlying data tables and to your longer form analysis. Tags: NPTech data NTEN Newsletter kurt voelker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I also contributed a chapter on the topic to NTEN's Managing Your Technology To Meet Your Mission due out by Wiley I covered the building blocks of a classic ROI process, but translated to a nonprofit context. Note that qualitative data is important - you need both to do an ROI analysis and to communicate the results.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. I think some nonprofits should read it. It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. Ian Wilker is happy about the Google Apps Education Education being available to. More buzz here. Listening is important.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

At our last analysis, our Facebook recruits had donated a total of $3,793 in the last 12 months, with an average gift of $79. Heather Shelby began her career working as an email consultant for Members of Congress, transitioning into the nonprofit world a few years ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

Thanks to NTEN for sharing live webinars of the NTC sessions for those of us that couldn’t make the actual conference. ” led by Charles Lenchner who currently works for the Working Families Party and consults with Democracyinaction.org and Change.org. Power analysis Protest Lobby Recruit allies Phone bank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. Or, if they do, the nonprofit will not have a full-time Web Analyst , although might work with a web analyst on a consulting basis. Young Einstein. Learning Goals.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Michaela Hackner and I recently hosted a pair of NTEN webinars titled "How to Become a Facebook Rockstar." If you wish to really dress up your pages with more sophisticated formatting or functionality -- and have access to tech-savvy staff or a consultant -- look into creating a custom landing page using the Static FBML app.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Good analysis. But like any technology decision, it requires thought about how useful that technology will be, and whether, and how, it will serve your mission. { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 09.28.06 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I hope that information helps you in your analysis. I should mention that ReadyTalk has been the official webinar provider and sponsor for NTEN [link] for the last few years…congrats on your recent appointment to the NTEN board, btw. We offer special NTEN rates for any memebers out there. One last thing.

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