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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” 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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Four Resources Nonprofits Should Check Out

Care2

They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing. John has great tutorials that walk you through Facebook marketing and also offers great insight in his blog posts, such as Why Facebook Marketing Feels so Impossible. The format is straightforward and informative.

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Caravan Studios Showcases Diverse Apps for Social Good

Tech Soup

Focusing in on Local Issues. Tackling Global Issues. Martus provides an end-to-end encryption of data to ensure that this information is secured — from data collection to analysis. The website features a helpful app tutorial slideshow demonstrating how to install and use the app. Open Data San Francisco.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Educating To Mobilize the Masses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They use a model where they can change the zoning based on the issues they learned about. The answers after gave them more analysis. Game Simulation - Identified the skills (8 skills) and created a cast of characters - The game has a tutorial and exercise mode Very simple game. Complex problem dealing with state street.

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

I kept this in the back of my head while dealing with tech issues from day-to-day and resolving the problems as they occurred. I made a SWOT analysis between an in-house server solution and Google Apps. When the analysis was done, I created a proposal with my recommendations, which was approved by October 2009.