Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. Step 3: Map your stack This is the part where we get to the real nuts and bolts of how to get all the data you need working together for you when you need it and in the format you need it in.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

I have no problem against the latter as long as you are positively affecting the company’s bottom line and meeting your goals but I do have a few things to say to social media strategists who have been hired to do their job but end up spending more time just wrestling within their office corridors to go “social.”"

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Forum One

JUNE 2, 2022

Embark on a gap analysis to discover where you are today, where your plans are headed, and what changes you may need to make. Call logs, service requests by email, and FAQs you respond to over and over again are all clues to mapping and anticipating customer experience needs. . What common problems can you eliminate for users?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

An analysis team from European Commission's Joint Research Center analyzed the text messages gathered through Ushahidi together with data on damaged buildings collected by the World Bank and the UN from satellite images. We think that this is important and valuable.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

First, it’s important to note that this analysis is based on U.S. Compounding the problem, few funders—including in the United States—publish detailed data about their grantmaking. . For much of our analysis, however, we are trying to answer the most basic question: Who has given for what, for who, and for where? .

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Recommendations.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Many organizations’ risk management plans focus on the steps they’ll take to mitigate problems once they’ve occurred. While mapping out these types of plans is important, you should also focus on taking proactive steps to avoid putting your nonprofit in risky situations in the first place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone. Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2013

This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. Their mission is to provide better data and analysis to gauge the success and impact of a social effort and how to improve.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

The Problem. In sum, illegal dumping can be seen as a kind of metaphor for the lack of social responsibility that stands in the way of addressing a range of problems. Jozef’s analysis is that the application will be used in different ways by different people. Illegal dumping can be viewed in two ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. I discovered him through Kat Friedrich’s blog post ” How nonprofits can earn news coverage using data visualization.”

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Analytics: Learn more about your nonprofit’s operations with web analytics, data analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and reporting and visualizations. Developing a clear map for the future now can help you create tangible benchmarks to achieve long-term goals. Troubleshoot technical problems.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2015

Direct Relief — For using interactive mapping to fight Ebola. Direct Relief made the list for "mapping and data collection [that] allowed the group to track the spread of the disease and identify where help was needed." The Rockefeller Foundation — For making a science out of giving. The Howard G.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Do you need sentiment analysis? Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls “nodes&# is core of social network analysis. There are some free tools that can help you visualize your Twitter network or do quasi social network analysis on Twitter. One problem is that it doesn’t analyze your network in real time. Here’s a few that I’ve used.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

In fact, many of our placements are responsible for crafting the first cash flow analysis their boards have ever had). With their cash flow forecast, they had a road map and an early warning system that allows them to react and plan well in advance of running out of cash. Nonprofit Finance: Cash Flow is Do or Die.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Collecting stories from people who aren’t direct participants in your programming is a great way to understand the problems the broader community experiences, and the solutions they do (or don’t) appreciate. Batchgeo is a free mapping tool that helps you visualize the data that lives in your spreadsheets. Try the free version.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

Before Visual Intelligence , users might have had to wait for IT to segregate or pull data from a database, or write scripts or code, before the analysis can even start. The endless options and the stylish look might make you think these reports are difficult to achieve. The exact opposite is true. Images: SAP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2017

Different Ways Nonprofits Are Using Design Thinking to Solve Problems and Achieve Impact. That group used our gap analysis exercise to find an opportunity to give refugees on the move a chance to add value to local communities while maintaining the dignity of earning an income and doing the work they engaged in at home.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2018

There’s no doubt that we’ve created a problem in the social impact marketing space – lists. Traditionally, we’ve done data audits or analysis that are handed over to our staff. The analysis lays out giving potential that is dated from the moment it’s received.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! Quite the opposite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day. Here's one way you might celebrate.

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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. During the camps, groups and leaders quickly self-identified and immersed themselves in solving humanitarian relief problems like coordinating relief workers and negotiating language barriers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Not only do organizations need data collection systems, but also systems for observation, learning, reflection, and action or as the report describes “ systems that help us identify and solve problems proactively instead of always reacting.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Recognizing the problem is a critical first step. posted by Robert F. Ashcraft, Ph.D.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many in philanthropy now have titles or job descriptions that include creative words like knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis. Avoiding Excess Asking too many questions and collecting too much data without ever using it is a problem in grantmaking.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JULY 10, 2007

But somehow, (maybe it was the title) it left me with the feeling that when I got really good at this I'd be able to map out the path of a project in advance and steer it right in, exactly as imagined. The fact is there will almost certainly be change requests and problem reports during my training sessions.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this article, we’ll cover how to create a donor data migration strategy with deep dives into data mapping, data cleaning, and testing. Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. What is Data Mapping?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. I’ve also done this with groups of organizations who have collectively created their network maps on the wall. Peer Assists/Shares: A peer assist when you put people into small groups and participants help each other by problem solving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. Geoff Livingston mentions it here and points to examples and blog posts about the problem in the corporate PR sector. Kiva launches a new feature that maps the flow of loans from lenders to borrowers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

He acknowledges the problems with tagging, as we've heard elsewhere. In fact, by analyzing how various social groups use tags, we can do better at understanding how seemingly different worldviews map to one another. This is interesting to me because of the analysis of the NPTECH tag. robotics??? when we search for tagged items.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning often gets a bad rap, but time spent mapping out your organization’s future can save you from spinning your wheels, being busy but not effective. And it causes lots of problems later when the mission becomes difficult to explain because of all the various pieces that don’t always go together or make sense.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What's your strategy map? My problem now is that I don't do a lot of processing with a pen or marker/flip chart anymore -- but I was standing up there, so I jotted some notes down on my moleskin. I will do one thing, I'm working on a content analysis of the action steps and learnings and am going to devote blog posts to those topics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

Social enterprises are collecting more and more data: data about social problems; data about intervention outcomes; data for collective impact; data for learning; data for dashboards to better operate their enterprises; data for funders; and the list goes on. In fact, a secure mobile app for data collection is merely the beginning.

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