Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Evaluate your initiatives regularly, set up feedback boxes on your website, and create regular nonprofit focus groups. Think of it like mapping a route to take. It will give you access to new voices while also keeping that flow of useful ideas coming your way. E valuate initiatives regularly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. Step 3: Map your stack This is the part where we get to the real nuts and bolts of how to get all the data you need working together for you when you need it and in the format you need it in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

The chat was a prelude to a convening on April 25th at the Robert Wood Johnston Foundation of 40 thinkers and practitioners, bringing diverse perspectives and expertise into discussions to develop measures for evaluating the impact of social media on philanthropic outcomes. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

QUESTION: Do you also help clients evaluate database management systems to determine a best fit for a client? CRM Data Mapping Data Migration data conversion data migration data quality donor database fundraising data analysis' Your new CRM may require a change in processes. GARY: Yes we do. Please do not hesitate to call us.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Recommendations.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate peer organizations to identify your peers’ strengths and weaknesses, compare them to yours, and find opportunities to differentiate your organization. Conducting a marketing opportunity analysis. Start by mapping the journey your supporters follow when engaging with your organization. Peer organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. More importantly, after every class I facilitate, I do a debrief with students as part of evaluating the training. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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Forum One

JULY 27, 2021

Consider whether you are able to export data for analysis in other systems and move the data to other platforms as needed. Be sure to evaluate any existing integrations that may be available and keep this in consideration when evaluating licensing and overall costs. More on this: Mapping Your Digital Ecosystem.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 10, 2021

Now, perform a system check on your current technology and evaluate the business process mapping and data conversions needed to complete your technology transition. With help from Cloud for Good specialists, an analysis of your current LCRM solution and supporting data will be performed and documented.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

In this guide, DNL OmniMedia will cover the ins and outs of conducting a nonprofit technology assessment from start to finish through the following points: Preparing for the Assessment Conducting a Technology Assessment Step 1: Discovery Step 2: Analysis and Strategy Step 3: Documentation Step 4: Review.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

We’ll share benchmarks from other nonprofits you can use to evaluate your own communication. Conducting a comprehensive landscape analysis: undergoing a full technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics audit to understand the state of play. was a huge part of knowing what digital tools and platforms mattered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions. We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation. Do you need sentiment analysis? Disaster work. In which formats?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

While there are many technology consultants available, take the time to evaluate what they specialize in and the services they provide. Be sure to include evaluating consultants in your timeline, as this process can often take weeks to months. Technology consultants may offer services in a variety of areas. Set concrete guidelines.

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sgEngage

MARCH 17, 2022

This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . For example, one collaboration’s gap analysis revealed that a city’s private funders offered minimal support in the areas of health and drug addiction prevention.

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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. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible. What need will you address? Will donors give money to sustain the program?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2015

Acumen — For finding a cost-effective way to evaluate its work. Direct Relief — For using interactive mapping to fight Ebola. Direct Relief made the list for "mapping and data collection [that] allowed the group to track the spread of the disease and identify where help was needed." The Howard G.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions. .”

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Boston, Massachusetts: Measuring, Evaluating, and Improving Nonprofit Effectiveness. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Skill Extension: Maps (on the Green Line) | Sponsors: Maptime MSP Meetup, CARTO. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Real-time analysis of every data point associated with your major gift program can be a hassle. Here are some tips to help your team be successful when implementing Blackbaud FPM: Evaluate your team to ensure it’s the right fit. How changes to your program overall will impact your efforts. Moves Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. The Working Wikily blog describes this effort as a "flash cause," I'm not sure, I think it is hybrid.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Also, the idea of faster tools like social network analysis that give us real time information and the need for someone who is embedded in the network as a real time evaluator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Take my information overload quiz. Take Breaks.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many in philanthropy now have titles or job descriptions that include creative words like knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis. I suggest three prompts for mapping out the nature of a question. What is the history in the question?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

that is if the back end of the donation tool tracked that sort of thing or at least gave me data to map it out. Maybe the Case Foundation will evaluate this project and provide some methods for doing this type of analysis. Now, I could quantify it. sort of it with a network diagram.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover how to create a donor data migration strategy with deep dives into data mapping, data cleaning, and testing. Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. What is Data Mapping?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. SXSW Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. How do you evaluate your programs and services? Quite the opposite. What does it look like?

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Specific process mapping is usually integrated into the implementation process once a vendor has been selected. What is the difference between business requirements gathering and business process mapping? . Business process mapping involves performing a “deep dive” into a specific business process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best. Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. What else might you add or change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. What's your strategy map? One group mapped out a strategy for how they would present this plan and map to others on staff to involve them in the implementation of the strategy - individuals using the profiles. What worked? What didn't? What's the outcome?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 20, 2007

But love is just a starting point, not a road map to success. Some of these essays in this section offer some much-needed perspective on that road map, a perspective lacking in some of the more specific case studies. The lack of analysis across projects frustrated me throughout this book. low percentage of on-topic content).

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Outlining this general budget upfront ensures that you’re mapping out a plan that your team can actually execute from the start, rather than a dream scenario that’s simply impossible with your current funding. Develop methods for evaluating the success of each benchmark goal. EveryAction Guide. Review the process in this guide.

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