Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? . I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Source: Monitor Institute.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This approach is a lesson I’ve inherited from my grandparents, who, when faced with problems, would mock the issues and find humor in them. In terms of business requirements and analysis, my engagement with numerous clients on a substantial scale has equipped me with insights into what is essential when interacting with stakeholders.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Reflect : Once a week, take some time to reflect on your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your system. Write up a SWOT analysis about a new product or service with a particular consideration Prompt: Perform a SWOT analysis for a new {product/service} considering {specific details/considerations}.

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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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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques. Imagine being able to ask your AI to review all your saved topics and suggest alternatives and improvements based on related assessments and grades.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis are just some of the terms showing up alongside the more familiar phrases of research and development and data analysis. We can learn through reflection and come to deeper understandings. Learning, we do naturally.

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

Let’s face it … there is a direct relationship between the number of fundraising software systems we are using and the data problems we are creating for ourselves. What’s the extent of the problem? There are search results, however, that help us define the problem. There’s a lot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Project Planning: Includes two methods, one for agile planning and the other for complex projects. Brainstorm: Methods for generating new ideas – recombining, adding, subtracting. Brainstorm: Methods for generating new ideas – recombining, adding, subtracting. Will Digital Post-It Notes Replace Paper?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

However, it is equally, if not more important to reflect on the things we’ve learned, and what we’re grateful for. They might need financial analysis so they can translate insights into the true cost of their programming into more specific asks. It is important to acknowledge that the last few years have been really difficult.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

According to the CDC, insufficient sleep is a public health problem. I also found walking was a great time to reflect on what the data means – a brief walk does wonders for improving your pattern analysis. Identify a goal, track your progress, and reflect on how to improve your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Nonprofits that can lead and develop programs based on an analysis of the problem or need, grounded in useful data that shows impact, and a commitment to getting better over time will move faster together towards solving today’s complex problems. You can download the full report here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo. In 2012, leaders at the Rockefeller Foundation posed that question to our team at Monitor Institute, kicking off a year and a half of research and analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 23, 2022

However, some refer to it perhaps more accurately, as the “Great Reflection.” For individuals, it meant reflecting on what really mattered, what was driving us, and what wasn’t serving us. The “ Great Resignation ” received a lot of attention in the last year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2009

There is more analysis and reaction to the Washington Post piece two days ago that trashed the Facebook Causes application and caused quite a lot of commentary and reactions from those of us work with nonprofits. Photo by Matt Callow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? It makes really easy to do a quick content analysis, figure out what content resonated, and build community. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. Who is regularly retweeting me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Research and policy analysis. Community organizing. Civic engagement. Leadership development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What worked? What didn't? Some excellent ideas here.

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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

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

With nonprofits, the Trough of Disillusionment comes when we start to understand the real challenges in implementing a new technology and stop looking at as a panacea that will solve all our problems. I like the way that Allison Fine reflected on this question last week. Or be bailout for our nonprofit. Trepidatious.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

So, expect to see regular reflections on good instructional design and delivery for any topic, but especially digital technology and social media related. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. Problem-solving and reflecting (Intellectual).

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Organizations can also introduce real life examples or real life scenarios for problem solving, encouraging employees’ to think and reflect their learning right away. Data Analytics. Analytics tools help an organization to know about their learners and how they are digesting the information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. It is the same title of Raine’s recent book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The term means learning culture.

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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). Revenues are reflected in the month the check is expected to be cashed. But everyone knows where things are and the conversations can get way out ahead of problems. Nonprofit Finance: Cash Flow is Do or Die.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

The five conversations provide a roadmap for managers to ensure they are having the right kinds of ongoing dialogue with each person they manage — reflective and future-oriented conversations such as role and relationship orientation and semi-annual reviews as well as in-the-moment quick-connects, check-ins, and developmental conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

This is using bogus social media metrics to translate into some value. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric. The story is shared via an intermediary – journalists, bloggers, or influencers: Metrics reflecting the sharing of the message with the target audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2005

It's something I've been working on for few months, trying to frame, about what this problem is and how we might solve it. Wee Hours ' analysis of gender differences between the visual stream out of flickr for Blogher versus Gnomedex. The first session. Charlene Li' s take on the why A-List matter. Jay Rosen' s notes.

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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. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Make Time for Reflection. Photo by Monster Today is Information Overload Awareness Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2015

These techniques are both high tech and low tech, as simple as using sticky notes. When doing the analysis, you want to look at diversity. Harold Jarche , a thought leader in networked leadership, suggests you also reflect on this question: Who are the people with you have most frequently communicated with in order to get your work done?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: Participatory Analysis with Data Placemats in Nonprofits. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. The workshops topics included.

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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. She recently took a deep dive into reflective practice and techniques. A few ideas: Assigned seating or “social engineering” Solo reflective activity related to the content. The study was of medical school lectures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. He goes on to critique problems with the quality of Feedburner's functionality.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 15, 2014

3) Focus on problems, challenges, or broad issues. Identify larger, big-picture issues that are reflected within routine reports. For example, you could take the standard strategic planning issues focusing on organizational strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT analysis).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

The five conversations provide a roadmap for managers to ensure they are having the right kinds of ongoing dialogue with each person they manage — reflective and future-oriented conversations such as role and relationship orientation and semi-annual reviews as well as in-the-moment quick-connects, check-ins, and developmental conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Understanding: Landscape and Opportunity Analysis. The next morning participants gathered to make individual and collective sense of the ideas that were shared by experts. To generate group or collective understanding, I facilitated a cluster or affinity analysis of the different themes. Concept 2: Mission: Possible. .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2015

If attitude reflects leadership , the constant optimism and critical thinking coming from these thought leadership blogs reflects the attitude of the nonprofit industry as a whole. Many nonprofits strive to tackle the social problems stemming from complex variables surrounding religion and politics. 10: Techsoup .

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