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Putting Your Twitter Followers on the Map, Literally

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. Despite a few glitches, you use this tool to see if your audience is local or global. What did you discover by putting your Twitter followers on the map?

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Collecting data during a humanitarian crisis

Candid

In the social sector, the questions that often emerge are: Which organizations are addressing the crisis? As the largest source of data on philanthropic and nonprofit organizations, Candid fields many of these questions. . While we recognize that a global crisis fuels a global response, as a U.S.-based

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This week at the Packard Foundation, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Social Network Analysis for Non-Profits, Part II

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In October, I had the opportunity to meet Steve Waddell whose research focuses on Global Action Networks. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques. He co-authored a paper called " Visual Diagnostics and Mapping for Scaling Change " and we had an opportunity to discuss it.

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One very long weekend in New York City for Megan Price

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We were all there thanks to the efforts of Drew Conway, Jake Porway, and Craig Barowsky (Data without Borders’s founders) who had the crazy idea of bringing together well-intentioned data analysts and non-profits with data in need of analysis. For example, to answer questions such as in which precinct do the most pedestrian stops occur?

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We will never know philanthropy’s full response to the COVID-19 crisis

Candid

Next year, we will issue a new report to revisit our figures for 2020 and try to capture the global response to the pandemic in 2021. As we review the latest data for 2020, though, we’ve realized that we have little chance of ever fully understanding philanthropy’s response to one of the most serious global crises of our lifetimes. .

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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Community Mapping. >> Content Mapping. >>

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