Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

But, it is important to have a framework like Gartner Technology Hype Cycle to think it through. There are three choices: Early Move: Willing to combine risk taking with an understanding that risky investments don’t always pay off.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. Maybe I'm jaded. But having been in the nonprofit technology since 1993, I've seen a predictable pattern of cycles with new tools and technology. Technology Trigger. Inflated Expectations. Trough of Disillusionment. Slope of Enlightenment. Plateau of Productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

After reading the articles while waiting to board my plane in SFO and noticing groups of young people walking around in groups using the Go Pokemon app in the airport, I decided to download the app and see what all the hype was about. Here’s a good analysis by Ralph Koster that Robert Scoble point out. This primer helped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2007

" Meanwhile, Clay Shirky, vocal critic of virtual worlds, in general, and Second Life, in particular, writes a follow up post blasting Linden Labs for the hype around their numbers and others speculate about the media backlash for 2007.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2013

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries. Libya, Djibouti and Jordan have also granted restricted access to micro data to selected individuals and organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

But, it is important to have a framework like Gartner Technology Hype Cycle to think it through. There are three choices: Early Move: Willing to combine risk taking with an understanding that risky investments don’t always pay off. Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Conduct an impact analysis and use it! Blackbaud’s Steph McCluskey broke down all the hype around a lumni participation rates and encouraged us to shift our focus to maximizing our donors instead. This enables you to develop a change management plan. . Get the right stakeholders involved and keep them involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

Technology providers also try to avoid getting seduced by the hype cycles. As Jon Stahl notes, in reaction to the recent Overbook Foundation Report , I wonder how much of this anxiety is the product of nonprofit sector consultants and pundits hyping Web 2.0 How short was the hype cycle of MySpace? tool after Web 2.0 Of YouTube?

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Through the Laura and John Arnold Foundation he set up with his wife, he plans to use the money to ambitiously solve some of America’s biggest problems like obesity and crime through data analysis and science, with an unsentimental focus on results. ?He Pundits: Stop Sounding Ignorant About Data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

I appreciate your analysis of the claims that the sector is becoming more commercialized. Have you shared your analysis with those who have argued otherwise? It's not my analysis. Another analysis that fits with Michael O'Neill's "Plus ca change." Good post Mark. June 3, 2011 9:36 AM Mark Hager said.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Each panelist will provide in-depth analysis of a notable social media screw-up they’ve been involved in, isolate key failure factors, analyze the broader lessons, and talk about how these specific organizations improved on their mistakes. We’ll let you know what worked and what didn’t.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Judi finishes her analysis with the big picture, noting the downside is cost: Think of all the tools out there with open APIs that we???re Michelle Murrain, NTEN board member and NOSI leader - and author of Nonprofit API white paper has insightful analysis. re already using as nonprofits to broaden our reach???Plaxo,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2007

Here's a quick summary of my notes: In Fanton's welcome, he noted that it is easy to get caught up in the novelty and hype of virtual worlds, but whatever the complexities, "we think they will grow and become integrated into our daily lives." and offered an analysis here. Nonprofits in Second Life Blog coverage.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Facebook isn't just all hype. For deeper analysis and improved understanding of what Facebook is tracking, click the "Export Data" link at the top of the Insights page. It's an extremely popular site with over 100 million U.S. It recently overtook Yahoo.com to become the United States' second-most visited site.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Enhanced Data Analysis AI can also analyze data more quickly and effectively. A Different Kind of Chatbot: ChatGPT Lately, there’s been a lot of hype around ChatGPT. Amazon Comprehend Amazon Comprehend is a natural language processing service from AWS that offers advanced text analysis and insights.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

If you don’t watch Big Brother , The Apprentice , Dancing with the Stars or X factor you probably dismiss these shows because they revolve around people you don’t know in an environment you find uninteresting and over-hyped. This is, of course, the same reason why many non-visitors don’t come to museums.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis. Finally, with extensive research and data analysis, plus some help from an SEO consultant, we were able to see how outmoded our assumptions about the way people search for volunteer opportunities had become. But visits continued to stagnate.

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