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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

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Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it. The Playbook offers a clear definition and steps for using basic statistical analysis, even if you are not an expert.

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Your Audience’s Content Is King (and Your Content Is Subservient to It)

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That is why social media content analysis is important to any campaign. Obtrusive and Unobtrusive Analysis. For example, they know they are taking a survey or they know you are checking the engagement stats on your Facebook page. Instead, we learned how to better control for the effect in our analysis.

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Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People

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A conversational panel or keynote does some blending of learning modalities – it includes some content-delivery and structured small group and full group conversations. There is a lead facilitator – in the panel or keynote model – it’s the Oprah with the mic. Hashtag Stats.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

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Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. It can also influence traffic.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

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How to find the right funding mechanism to facilitate collaborative teams? Partners in Learning program -- gave stats. Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. Interested in games as an objective component to study.

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A Few Good Pinterest Tools, Tips, and Resources

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You might also want to spend some time doing a little research on site and browse some of the pinterest stat sites. And while there is some bogus stats that attempts to give you a dollar amount per pin, the site does generate some useful data for you. Repinly is a site that analyzes Pinterest users and content.

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Likes on Facebook Are Not A Victory: Results Are!

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As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating several peer exchanges on the topics of measurement, social media, and networked nonprofits. Momsrising knows from years of message testing and research , that to change minds about an issue, wonky stats fall flat.

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