Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Recent TCC Group research, based on an analysis of reliable and valid organizational assessments for over 2000 nonprofit organizations nationwide, found that one of the best ways is by not meddling too much with nonprofits’ program design. How can funders be most helpful in supporting these efforts?

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AUGUST 10, 2011

Flickr: Alexdecalvelo SXSW Interactive is offering 5 scholarships to attend the 2012 conference. Kicking off on March 9th, there will be ample opportunities for hands-on training, networking, and big-picture analysis. Applications are due August 26th, at 11:59 PM PST.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Flickr Photo by kayaker1204. Insights from a different point of view on our communications and marketing, governance structure, financial analysis, and technology infrastructures can only help our organizations improve. Guest post by Cindy Hallberlin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by AnEye4Pictures. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

That shift is easier when you have some good techniques for actually get those tasks done. Here’s five ways to avoid procrastination and be more productive: Flickr Photo by TBN97. While some procrastination can be beneficial, it can reduce your productivity if it gets out of hand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. Photo/video Views (optional if I’m testing as content strategy). New Fans (Likes). Unsubscribes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links. Geoff Livingston keeps the social media measurement conversation rolling with this great question about what to measure … Flickr Photo by Jek in the Box We launched the Zoetica Salon this week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. Flickr Photo by Minarae Note from Beth: I was thrilled that Paul Connolly agreed to write a guest post sharing some of the public learning taking place through the OE Goldmine Project on the Packard Foundation OE Wiki. He can be reached at pconnolly@tccgrp.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. Defining the platforms – be it a wiki forum, open data sets for analysis, or a webinar – that provide the best pathways for learning to take place will make the process that much speedier and easier.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Key skill is pattern analysis. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. Share Your Story: You share the impact of your organization's programs through blogging, podcasting, sharing photos on Flickr, or YouTube or other video sharing site.

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MAY 14, 2013

The idea was to embed the functions of existing social sites like Meetup , Flickr , and del.icio.us. You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. What Is Web 2.0? Citizen journalism.

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JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. —– Photo credit: richardjingram on Flickr. I had a lot of fun yesterday giving a webinar for the Nonprofit Webinar series ; it was a whole hour discussing community engagement!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. In the preliminary analysis we are seeing some useful trends and some areas that will require more examination. We are in the beginning stages of understanding the survey data and how we will share the results more widely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

It recommends links and photos while you write. I also didn't like the photos it recommended (and in fact one it suggested was all rights reserved). Sometimes I get an idea based on a pattern analysis or connecting several seemingly unconnected posts/ideas together. will save you time and increase traffic. thanks everyone!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

Notes from DigitalPodcast and analysis/notes from Jeremiah Owyang. A cool app created with the Flickr API that is twitter on flickr. Let's you see in real time photos tagged with the same tag. Glazer says we aren't there yet - fragmentation is an issue: authentication, OpenID, never-ending friending, and applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Flickr Photo by Vox Photo. Posted 32 links to blog posts and articles raging from policy analysis to personal stories. They recently held a blog carnival and are sharing some reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Flickr Photo by Powerbook Trance. The second time you go through your data - you can't do discovery - you need to do analysis.  Embrace testing, failure, curosity, persistant analysis, and refinement Attitude: How do they feel? I'm speaking at the eMetrics the premiere conference for Web measurement geeks. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. They also look at qualitative data, including doing a content analysis of their member feedback. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I jumped at the chance to participate, as I have a background in humanitarian emergency analysis and am a self-proclaimed geek. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins. The movement started last June with the first Crisis Camp barcamp held in Washington. link] / CC BY 2.0.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. We engage in multiple social networks, some that you probably also use: Twitter , Facebook , LinkedIn , YouTube , Flickr , Slideshare , our own blog , and a few other networks. So, I’m going to explore this theme over the coming weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

Photo by Mansikka. They're like tags on Flickr, only added inline to your post. In my initial analysis of mega list of 90 Foundations that Tweet , I did not look at hashtags. What is a #HashTag? A hashtag is this symbol: #. You create a hashtag simply by prefixing a word with a hash symbol: #hashtag.

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DECEMBER 18, 2008

Flickr Photo: Dunechaser I'm shovelling my way out of both snow and email this week. . I had heard of these guys before, but finally signed up for a sample analysis of the NTEN community. The snow part has been humorous ( because Portlanders don't do snow ). The folks at TechRepbulic take a look at what we can learn from him.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

flickr: ryancr Not to toot our own horn (although we love to do that around here) but do you know about our RoundTables? Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps. Another great resource is Twitalyzer, which gives you free data on trends, sentiment, tweet and tag analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. The report also shares some traffic data for the popular tagging sites, Flickr and Delicious. This is interesting to me because of the analysis of the NPTECH tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2008

Photo by Mushon. Add them to flickr with this tags: npwiki and nptech. I'll round them up and do a pattern analysis. I put a question on Twitter, " What are your best Wiki adoption tips? But, I'd love to see a range of examples that de-construct the development of a wiki in a nonprofit setting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2009

Flickr Photo by Minifig If you're thinking about how to streamline using Twitter, Vladis Krebs offers excellent advice in " So Many People, So Little Time." Identifying these people or what Krebs calls "nodes" is core of social network analysis. He recommends using social network theory to design your Twitter following strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. First there was a flickr group for NpTech Dogs and then we started seeing NpTechers with dog profiles on their Facebook profiles. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. Marnie Webb is on a road trip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low. No real hard data in them though, more trend/zeitgeist-type analysis. Photo by MckaySavage. I was hoping to find a better photo of young people at the computers for future presentations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. You can also share the impact of your organization's programs through podcasts, sharing photos on Flickr, or videos on YouTube or other video sharing sites. But don't ignore the other two areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. So, for the purposes of an ROI analysis and reporting to decision-makers, maybe you don't emphasize those values in the report or be the only value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic. Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. After doing a problem analysis, we re-framed the question as “ How might we incorporate self care into our nonprofit work culture as a way to define productivity in a networked society? ” These ideas take more a systems lens to educating the sector about the importance of self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. Seeing the Forest Through The Trees: Pattern analysis and synthesis of findings. The most important listening literacy skills are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Flickr Photo from Lanier67. " The slide show shares the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). Some rights reserved. I wrote a thinking outloud post wondering " How do Social Networks incorporate the ladder of engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Flickr Photo from Bearman 2007. It's that quiet week between Christmas and New Years. Lots of time for reflection and to write that end of year post. Ah, but what format to use. It boils down to two choices: gaze into your crystal ball and predict the future or look back at the year just ending for the best (or worst) moments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. and offered an analysis here.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Post photos and videos from your organization's latest events. If you already have good content on other social services such as YouTube or Flickr, you can publish that content onto your Facebook Page through the use of Facebook Apps. But Michaela's favorite Flickr app is Flickr Tab. However, don't just post text.

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