Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

At this year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, I’m thrilled to be doing a panel on nonprofit technology training and it has a bit of a star wars theme, “ Learn You Will.” I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

As technology evolves, there are new ways nonprofits like yours can take advantage of advancements to save time and raise more money. At the forefront of these new technologies is artificial intelligence (AI). Data analysis AI is a great tool for enhancing your data analysis across your organization.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Miscellaneous (3 percent).

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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. Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique). Help participants digest and reflect on some content shared during the session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Going beyond content delivery, I also use a lot of participatory and hands-on learning techniques to help students gain a deeper understanding. They have to do a network map and analysis as well as strategy for a development organization in their area of student. Then students complete exercises, either in small groups or solo.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data. All of these work well with small groups and inside of organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Descriptions of key digital measurement concepts, terminology and analysis techniques. Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. Guidance on how to build an effective measurement plan. Best practices for collecting actionable data.

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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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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Rapid advances in technology and modern workforce needs are transforming the way, workforce learning & training is delivered and training courses are created. One can evaluate training effectiveness, learner’s preferences, and usage patterns through analysis and visualizing software, Tin Can and other analytics tools.

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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.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training. So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Some of the techniques include analyzing narrative data in a structured way to test and refine a theory of change. And so it goes …….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. For the past month-and-a-half, I’ve been working organizing our data collection, storage, analysis, and dissemination efforts.

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sgEngage

MARCH 12, 2023

As you start to feel the priorities of your community evolving, here are four ways to evaluate and respond so your grantmaking organization stays relevant to your community’s changing needs. Here are some tips on how to build a data analysis strategy.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 4, 2014

The topic – “Drive Your Fundraising Success with Strategy, Smart Technology and Better Data” – focused on the importance of aligning fundraising strategy, technology and a data in order to maximize the efficiencies of all three. We opened the event with a short audience poll about fundraising technology.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. Modern nonprofits use a wide range of technology tools and software in their digital marketing efforts, including but not limited to: Their websites. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage.

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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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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. One last thought on evaluation. From a museum perspective, I'm more interested in evaluations of the audience experience of participation.

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Allegiance Group

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Attend If You’re: A professional in advancement services, alumni relations, communications and marketing, and fundraising in District II To Register: [link] MARCH NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference Portland, OR, and Virtual March 13-15, 2024 Also known as NTC, this annual event spotlights essential nonprofit technology best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. May be created and consumed using mobile technology and distributed using other social media tools. What do you think? And if you???

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 29, 2011

As a technology consultant for nonprofits, I work with many organizations, often helping them implement and optimize their use of software to collect various types of data, and I see that when you regularly capture and use your data, it can help you to run your organization more efficiently and serve your mission more effectively.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Nonprofit Technology, and more! Learn best practices and the latest techniques and technologies to meet your greatest challenges. From communications to fundraising to technology to leadership skills, the conference offers something for everyone. Technology affects nearly every effort to achieve our missions.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

ROI -- or Return on Investment -- is a pre- and/or post-evaluation process and analysis of three factors: benefits, costs, and value of a specific technology purchase over time. If you approach ROI as a financial analysis only, you're missing the point. Focus On Value. Simple and Streamlined. Look at Work Processes.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Evaluation In this stage, the potential donor begins to consider making a donation to your nonprofit. Identifying potential donors involves research and analysis that highlights individuals or entities that share the same values and interests as the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

How can a non-profit today use mobile technology, social and web in a way that increases participation, ensures success and provides easier management campaign and their resulting data points. Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Flickr Photo by Star Dust. The NTC Conference.

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Forj

AUGUST 30, 2017

Web Courseworks’ customer CHEST (the American College of Chest Physicians) educates hundreds of practicing physicians, annually, on technology and procedures relating to topics like difficult airway incubation and specialized ultrasound techniques. A net promoter score and faculty satisfaction scores derived from evaluation reports.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Growth hacking is more of a mindset of experimentation than tactics and techniques. At the same time, technology advances, global consumer trends, and the urgency of so many causes have given rise to the networked individual who is rewriting the rules of engagement. Technology. Read our latest analysis of p2p fundraising.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. I shared some thoughts about using Social Network Analysis tools to analyze your Twitter network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

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. Your initial experiments will be designed around trying out the tools and techniques.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2012

I’m here at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco this week. I am on a panel about measurement: Picturing Your Data is Better Than 1,000 Numbers:Data Visualization Techniques for Social Change. Data and information visualizations for advocacy, evaluation, social media, network analysis, operations, and more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. I used some metrics and measurement techniques suggested by Avinash Kaushik to look at the commenting. The Web is changing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

In the US, there are several terrific benchmark studies of nonprofits and technology , including some on social networking but these are focused mostly on US nonprofits. I spent some time searching for similar studies or compilations for international organizations as well as some specific examples. Benchmark Studies and Examples.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The bottom line is that, despite how technological and automated organizations have become, at their core they remain a collection of human energies that are merely being applied in an organized environment," explains Shaner. Listening is the root of collaboration, root-cause analysis, and effective teamwork.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.” Assessments and Review :: evaluating past performance to inform future mobilisation efforts. What do you think?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 9, 2008

I'm excited about the chance to continue to make my case that Just Another Emperor utilizes spin techniques rather than balanced research in its quest to make the case for its policy recommendations. Look at the spin technique being used here. One of the spin techniques I cite Edwards as using is the ad hominem attack.

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