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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. At times those voices were passionately personal, at others they were mandates delivered through data. Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. About the TAG study. We reflected. We adapted.

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How Grantmakers Can Support Nonprofit Infrastructure Needs: A Conversation with Chantal Forster

sgEngage

In a recent webinar, Blackbaud’s VP of Global Social Responsibility Rachel Hutchisson talked with Chantal Forster, the executive director of the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), about how the role of technology in today’s charitable organizations no longer hides behind a door marked “IT.” Using Infrastructure to Drive Change.

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. Web Analytics, Statistics, and Social Networking Analysis The Net2ThinkTank: What is The Return On Investment Of The Social Web For Nonprofits? Tag your post with "net2thinktank." Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Provide the Nonprofit Voice to America's Broadband Plan

NTEN

Provide better data collection and analysis. Tags: broadband free press internet access NPTech NTEN sheldon mains universal access. With broadband now an essential service, the USF program should be transformed to subsidize broadband infrastructure and to bring broadband to unserved and underserved areas.

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Visitor Voices Book Club Part 4: Starting to Listen

Museum 2.0

s book club on Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions , a collection of essays edited by Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean. The best visitor voices projects don’t come out of marketing blitzes or grudging concessions to visitors. The lack of analysis across projects frustrated me throughout this book.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They also tag and analyze responses. A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. Do you need sentiment analysis? Do you need share of voice metrics requiring vast amounts of competitive data from across the web? Disaster work.

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Social Media’s Double-Edged Sword Can Cut Your Way Twice

Connection Cafe

After an initial round of unobtrusive analysis of what people are posting, we can elicit responses from people who are not yet participating in the conversation, especially people who are in our key target audiences. Finding and tagging the most proactive opposition voices to your issue will generate responses from others in the opposition.

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