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Embrace the Data, Change the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement.

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SXSW 2013: Measurement and Making Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.” Well, the purpose of the video was to get teens to donate used sports equipment. ” She also advised us to use manual tracking for sentiment analysis because computers do not do nuance very well.

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Nonprofit Strategic Planning: Ultimate Guide + 7 Examples

Bloomerang

You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. Determine your key fundraising and marketing strategies You may consider doing a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis of your past fundraising to better understand what areas you’re already strong in and what could be improved.

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Virtual Platforms for Good: Empowering Individuals

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I was also surprised to read this post by the Web Metrics Guru, not the usual type of blog that covers the nonprofit world or philanthropy.

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Creating Jewish Connection with Harold Grinspoon Foundation + Salesforce

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Meanwhile, transitioning the HGF Service Desk team from spreadsheets and manual processes to a reliable central system allowed for the visualization of key metrics and analytics. You May Also Enjoy: Success Story: Empowering the Jewish Teen Movement with BBYO + Salesforce. We’re all looking at the same story now,” said Jordan.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. They interviewed them and found out that homeless teens want one thing – jeans. So they started a partnership with Arrow and campaign called “ Teens for Jeans.”. At DoSomething, they were getting text messages back from teens.

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An Amazing NpTech Social Media Link Buffet: Take Your Pick!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc. Registration here. What was most sexy?

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