Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It’s almost Spring and a thousand theories of change are blooming like the cherry trees in Washington, DC. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. The Outcome of Our Outcomes – guest post by Victoria Vrana.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 24, 2009

I joined the ExComm, which was the student programming committee, which worked with the actual Board of Directors to chart the course for the Y during the year. They had just take a group of students to Washington DC to meet Caltech alums working in science policy, but they want to go further.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2010

Keith Berner and the folks behind Crisis Commons have invited all you techies-for-good to an event in DC ( and elsewhere ) tomorrow. And if you like the nifty graphic in the post that Rebecca Leaman used, she also shares the tip about the free online tool to make flow charts and wire frames.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Bring them over to DC, and parade out these enormously wealthy, successful (by economic standards, at least) people, and have them explain to Congress how they make their money. At the Germana Gale Health Post, I saw charts of immunizations, malaria cases, and other health data plastered to walls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2013

But being a nonprofit data is not just about being an Excel ninja, it is also about visualizing data and being a chart master. When Ann told me she has lots of secrets and time saving tips for charts and offered to write this guest post, I was thrilled. Charts can be one of your strongest communication tools. Secret #10.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC second annual Social Summit and sharing some information on social media ROI and metrics. Compare anomalies, spikes in engagement and other data to the content and/or events that drive the result (see presentation for example charts).

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 17, 2016

My 18-year-old son is headed to college knowing that doing good can be a part of whatever path he charts. MCON is a conference for people trying to change the world for the better, and we’re proud to be joining DeRay Mckesson, Jean Case, and other movers and shakers in Washington DC next week. Today, we have options.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2010

I recently attended an inspiring, energetic event called UXCamp DC 2010 (#uxcampdc) with Jared Spool and a number of others who are completely passionate about the topic. Institute for Peace 's " Building for Peace ," where the designer has layed a yellow bar chart over the banner image instead of aligning it in the right column.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. You should spend as much time and energy making your data, charts, and tables findable as you do making your reports and other content.

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Care2

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Major fundraisers like GiveMN which raised over $30 million for Minnesota based nonprofits and DC’s upcoming Give to the Max Day take this approach. Gather any relevant statistics, charts, case-studies, and materials you need before you present your plans. Gimme gimme gimme doesn’t cut it. Their concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2016

When more and more people began mentioning Yemen online, their trending terms chart in Attentive.ly She has won awards including the a 2014 Stevie, Top 40 Women in DC Tech, the 2012 Campaigns & Elections Innovators Award, “Young Women of Achievement” in 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. Breaking up into small tables worked – I saw table after table of people leaning in, standing up, gathered around flip charts. In fact, just last month, I took it to India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. " Best Engaging Communities " a large collection of best-practices info and case studies about managing online communities found by Ian Wilker. Britt Bravo covers it here. Looking for a primer?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2008

t able to access the PowerPoint during the presentation and had to do the presentation old school style via flip charts. I was at a potluck the other day for a group of women in town (DC) who are consultants. For some reason we weren???t We were both frustrated because we liked the deck and wanted to share it.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Independent Sector / Washington, DC / $1,625. ARNOVA / Washington, DC / $380. Wellstone Action / Washington, DC / $140. DMA Nonprofit Federation / Washington, DC / $789. Marketing & Communications / #NAMPC / @americans4arts. Marketing & Communications. 11/11/2016. Independent Sector Conference 2016. Nov 16 - 18.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

And I had to tape flip chart paper over the windows so it would get dark enough to project the laptop to show the presentation. I told Marnie's story about the Northern CA Homeless Group story and someone pointed out that the homeless photo I used was from Washington, DC. This was circa 1997. I arrived two hours early.

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Care2

JULY 31, 2013

Over 350 sessions were submitted to the NTC14 conference to be held March 13th - March 15th in Washington, DC. Next, we’ll inspire you by sharing a plethora of awesome charts, dashboards, data placemats, charts, and more. Check out Frogloop''s top 10 picks. 50 Shades of Gray: Social Media Ethics.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2019

At the end of February, I attended the first of (what I hope will be) many Museums Advocacy Days (MAD) on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. I’m a visual person, so I am a big fan of charts, graphs, or infographics: anything that tells your story in a memorable way.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 7, 2010

The title “consultant&# can definitely have its negative connotations, especially in Washington, DC where everybody and their mama is a consultant. – "So in addition to the Air Force Blog Assessment we decided to create a comment escalation flow chart. And it’s not hard to see why. What to do?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Sam Adler-Bell and Michelle Miller, The Datafication of Employment: How Surveillance and Capitalism Are Shaping Workers’ Futures without Their Knowledge (New York and Washington, DC: The Century Foundation, December 19, 2018).

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