NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

During this time, I've help create community maps and strategic plans with my own team and with many other groups. More and more often, I get asked at conferences or on the blog for more information about how to create a community map or content plan. Community Map. Why : Why map your community? Content Map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Click to See Visualization.

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The MatrixFiles

MAY 23, 2024

Membership Churn, in particular, charts members lost over a specific time period, providing a crucial metric alongside membership retention. Charting Churn to measure membership turnover offers a high-impact way to see how well your retention efforts are working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Community Mapping. Community Mapping helps you identify not just the various segments of your audience, but also create a clear picture of which tools/platforms are associated with those groups and which messages are best to target where. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We've covered bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, and maps in Beyond the Pie Chart. We finish the series by explaining the only time a pie chart actually is the right choice. When to Use a Pie Chart. As we state in our white paper, Which Chart or Graph is Right for You? Overlay pies on maps.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web. Familiarity with python, R, and JavaScript libraries for charting, mapping, and vis is helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

I did a quick scan of data visualization resources to look for practical advice on the process of thinking visually and some technical information on what chart to select and data storytelling. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps. I like the chart advice: Avoid 3d-charts at all costs.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

First, overall: And when you click on “What does this chart mean?&# it actually tells you, with much richer context: I personally love data-map mashups and Qriously uses them brilliantly! And once all 100 responses were gathered, I took a look at all the data. The next question I asked was “which would you rather give?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam How do you transform it into charts, graphs, and maps that will help your audience understand the data and move them to take action?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. This post originally appeared on the NTEN blog – you can also read the full post and join the conversation on the NTEN.org website. —– I love data as much as the next person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2012

Map the data. I use survey monkey and grab the visual chart for each question and dumping each chart into its own Powerpoint slide. You have to slow down to create the charts and you really how to think about the “show step.” These are a great set of questions to ask as you look over your data.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2009

Diagramming tools are great if you want to create a flow chart or map of your computer network, projects that are too complicated for Microsoft Paint but too simple for Photoshop. A closely related subject is charts: pie charts, line charts, scatter plots, Venn diagrams, and the like. Tools Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

On a flip chart or whiteboard (or if you are working through this by yourself, just use a piece of paper or a spread sheet on your computer) draw 4 vertical lines, creating 5 columns. You may want to turn the flip chart sideways or use separate sheets for each column. #1: 1: Who are “They&#. 5: How it Happens. Stand back!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

I liked this map so much that I printed it out and keep at my desk. I schedule my writing time during peak concentration hours in the day. (I’ve charted those – so I know when they occur). What are your tips to help you focus in an age of distraction? Are there tips not on the mind map?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." TechSoup hosted the San Francisco Online Community Meetup which recently featured Marc A.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Interactive and dynamic charts will support a new visual vocabulary for your organization, allowing you to analyze data relationships around correlation, distribution, magnitude, rank, deviation, and change over time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Pacific time.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2012

We like to use a pie chart, as it provides a tidy circle for each channel that you can then combine into additional diagrams. Consider what types of content will work best for each channel, and how much of each type your organization is likely to need. It’s useful to diagram out the mix for each channel.

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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. Mine includes markers , sticky notes , index cards, and flip chart paper. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 5, 2012

The first webinar in this series, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , was held on March 29. Remember: your goals may be slightly different, but do not forget to have them clearly mapped out ahead of time. geospatial resources – a collection of visual maps illustrating U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. Whether it seems important in the moment or not, it’s really valuable to make a list or chart or picture, whatever you want, of all the information you have about your community. Which technologies support the work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2014

Not just infographics, but a snippet from an infographic or a chart or graph to illustrate a statistic. A great way of inviting your readers to dive into your post is to create a mind map. The e-book covers examples of micro-content on different social media platforms and channels, pretty much the usual suspects.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Think of it like mapping a route to take. Few would set off blindly and chart as they go, but we refer to the hard work done by others to map the world before us and then we create our strategies from that sound foundation.

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Candid

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The data visualization tool, which consists of a map, charts, and lists, documents foundation support across several key areas including: campaign and election processes governing institutions and processes information and media public engagement and voting . democracy-related issues from 2011 onward.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Data gives us context. How do I care for my data? That’s okay! Data Can Sustain and Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2011

As you map out your work plan for the year ahead, we recommend you also augment our list with a review of your organization’s 2012 work plans to identify key areas of focus. Download a copy and customize with calendar hooks, program dates, events and other important dates that your organization can leverage for successful communications.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It will help you envision the ease of an optimized structure for your chart of accounts and the business rules that will be most beneficial. This enables the vendor to account for everything and map your history to a new and optimized chart of accounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

Next, each person got to introduce themselves and their challenge, while the instructor, Pete Maher, expertly facilitated a network map on the wall. Being able to do concept mapping on the wall with sticky notes is a core technique in a number of the methods that we practiced throughout the two days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

If you are wondering about the chart, it came a cool free tool called “ Export.ly “ It will analyze your Twitter audience, Facebook page, and even your email box by grabbing the data and dumping it into a spreadsheet. My LinkedIn Network Map – a set on Flickr. How Networked Nonprofits Visualize Their Networks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Websites are loaded with eye candy these days — from slick user interfaces to interactive maps to cool photo slideshows — all achieved without Flash, just HTML, CSS and Javascript. Some focus their attention on traditional charting and graphing, but others delve into the world of geocharting, heatmaps, timelines, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. A theory of change lays out the results and preconditions on a visual map that lays out the pathway for social change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Poet will give readers with vision impairments access to fully described images which is especially important for textbooks that contain lots of charts, graphs, and maps. Sighted readers receive all the text and images in a printed book so the subject comes across completely.

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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. 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.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

create maps of communication streams. where are customers or users “in&# the organization chart (at the top?). have to trust someone with your content, contacts and stream in order to get the kind of data back that you want/need. how do you get everyone to open up? Activities. most social ads require explicit action.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Whether you own a pet-care business , bookstore, or flower shop, these five tips will help put your small business on the digital map. Remember to choose the communication channels your audience is already familiar with, and chart a customer journey that moves each prospect carefully down the sales funnel.

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