Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Yikes, the first ever tag spam I've seen in the NpTech Tag Stream! Then, I remembered the phrase flowed through the NPtech tag stream about six months as a reference to interface design.) Robin Good has a nice roundup of affordable Web Conferencing Tools and a useful comparison chart in a google spreadsheet. NpTech Talk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. lolnptech.org includes photos of people, who could be tagged as "nptech." Check out NTEN's upcoming Webinar.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. How : I find it best to create this chart in a spreadsheet - I've even created a template for you to reuse ! Here's an example : What next : You now have a chart that can be referred to daily, across the organization!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. Some interesting questions that popped up looking at this chart: Does this mean that in the beginning we get insight but not $, and in the end we get $$ but not insight?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Tags: ROI. View more presentations from kanter. Engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. The best practice with geo-social tools is to practice “checking-out&# and not “checking-in&# which means to tag yourself at a location as you are leaving, and not necessarily when you show up.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

I moderated a panel with the above title yesterday at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. Tags: Consulting NTEN. Jana Byington-Smith did a great job of capturing the discussion for the conference’s live blog. I’m reposting her summary below. The list of links she mentions is at [link].

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2010

Air Force, in part for differentiating between "Trolls" and "Ragers" in their flow chart on how to respond to blog posts.). Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. You don't need to be a Bonnie Tyler fan to appreciate the best flowchart of all time. Second place goes to the U.S. Proof that Roombas work.

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Forum One

JANUARY 27, 2009

This is a cross-post of an article written for the NTEN newsletter and blog. 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. Tags: Technology. Don't let your data fall victim!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Some organizations struggle with where social media should “live” within the staff organization chart. Tags: Leadership NPTech NTEN Social Media. Who should be in charge of implementing it? Who’s going to navigate the social media “ship” at your organization? This post was originally published at [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

It was great to do at a Spitfire session and discuss how social media integrates with the Smart Chart. The good folks at The Port Network had emailed me about an extra NTEN Membership and I raffled it off at the end of the session. Tags: social media. Pete Stauffer. The lucky winner was Surfrider Foundation. (In

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Organizational Chart ~ Look for Obstacles. The way in which mission focused technology comes to be is largely based on the organizational chart, that funny diagram made up of boxes and lines that either puts tech on the path to success or the highway to, well. and the mission. that can awaken and visualize the needs. Conclusion.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Do you think I can keep up with this NTEN webinar or that conference session on this topic?" Another part of the survey asked about specific social media tools/sites folks were using: Twitter seemed to top all charts, when it comes to most used, most time invested, and most questions regarding how to use it. (I

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Most phones have little screens (see chart below) and render graphics poorly. Tags: jed alpert Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN Web Sites Communications. Even smart phones vary significantly. (If If you have a Blackberry, try asking an iPhone user if your phone is "smart" and prepare to be teased.).

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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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NTEN

MAY 24, 2010

Lobbyists are charting their courses on the Hill, asking Congress to sign anti-net neutrality letters to send the to FCC. . Tags: free press Leadership net neutrality savetheinternet. Now the fun starts: the public debate. That means we can't let up. The Washington Post takes a different view altogether. .

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. In less than two years, a simple website created to track election violence in Nairobi is now being used to: monitor crime-related data in Atlanta, GA.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Organizations that innovate have that one person, be it CEO, middle manager or bottom of the org chart, who is willing to stand up, declare the need for change, and then "put on a show" about it until people fall in line to follow. Tags: beth kanter change change management Leadership roxy allen seth godin Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

It was almost five years ago to the day, that I did a webinar for NTEN on the topic and have been integrating social media into teaching and learning experiences ever since. Use A Wiki For Electronic Handouts, Electronic Flip Chart, and Leave Behind. Tags: training materials. Share Your PowerPoint Deck with SlideShare.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Formal authority is granted through position on an org chart, or through mandate (or sometimes fiat) from the senior management of an organization. Tags: Change Management Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Leadership and formal authority are not the same thing -- anyone who has experienced a bad boss can attest to that.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Honda: Online tools like DabbleDB or Google Spreadsheets also allow sharing data and even building simple charts or applications with them. Tags: Data Integration/APIs michaela hackner Newsletter NPTech NTEN sandy smith IT Staff. Fortunately, simply choosing Save As. Lexus: Creating an API (Application Programming Interface).

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

IT can have a tremendous impact on how we change the world, but the opportunities for innovation and impact decrease in direct relation to the number of layers on the org chart between you and senior leadership. . Tags: budget gartner itstaff NPTech NTEN. IT is not a cost center. It's a force multiplier, when done right. .

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data. Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN Program. In less than two years, a simple website created to track election violence in Nairobi is now being used to: monitor crime-related data in Atlanta, GA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon. Slide 11: This chart further explains digg's impact. This is a chart of how many digs I got when I started in November. Slide 3: That being said, our average member is a 65 year old woman.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

You can see the administration gets that -- from the jobs map and the chart of how money is being spent. Tags: NPTech APIs data NTEN transparency Obama social media recovery.gov. Data Visualization: The downside to all that data is that it can be very tough for people to make heads or tails of it.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Below is a chart of the campaign as of June 23, 2009. Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Results: From April 29 to June 23, 2009, CMMB secured 2,160 new e-mail addresses through the Packed with Love campaign—about a 7 percent addition to its existing database. Online Metrics as of June 23, 2009. Adrienne holds a B.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. Use the smart chart to get communications strategy in place first. Tags: wearemedia training materials technology training.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

Take a look at this chart from the report: The lower retention rate drags down the lifetime value of online-acquired donors, as per this chart: So, while we're busy chasing down those high-value online donors, they may be costing us more in the long-run. Tags: NPTech Fundraising blackbaud email.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

Lastpass categorizes and tags your passwords. Gliffy has smart-looking templates for flow charts, database diagrams, system, business processes, and so on. Storing passwords in one browser or computer disk seems restrictive and not entirely safe. Though not Visio, it covers the basics and covers them well.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Karl Hedstrom, NTEN. It works out well, then, that one of my tasks each week at NTEN is the maintenance of our Organizational Dashboard. NTEN's Dashboard is a snapshot of our many different program areas and associated goals. Since then, however, NTEN's Dashboard has seen many improvements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. Holly Ross , NTEN, also loves spreadsheets. “I What she likes best is that the tool can help them tag specific campaigns and do more fine-tuned analysis. Gunn says, “I’m mainly looking for activity around tags and who to thank for mentions.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The NTEN community: you folks rock. And now for a brief update from our obsession with charts: Possibly the most impressive chart ever. Tags: Things We Like. Wait, that's not right. It's an example of being playful in response to criticism. We should all be able to do that. November 19th is World Toilet Day. Pomplamoose.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2009

There's just one more week until the launch of Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission , a new book produced by NTEN and published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley. Here, Steve offers some great charts and models for IT alignment. Tags: Tech Planning Technology Assessment Training Running Your Organization Project Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ). All because it makes you happy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2006

And, perhaps many took her advice, opting for turkey versus tagging items with the NpTech Tag! The NonprofitTech Blog did manage to do a little apres turkey web surfing and found a disturbing example of a google bombing campaign as well as discovering that his blog has been tagged as porn !

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We lead off with Amy Sample Ward who is the executive director of NTEN , the big membership organization of nonprofit technology professionals. Beth Kanter won the NTEN Award in2007: Most Valuable Person in NpTech field. He got the NTEN Award IN 2011. Amy Sample Ward. She is one of our great online community organizers.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This chart is from Learning from a Natural Environment: Study a Corporate Work-Time Policy Initiative. Tags: Infrastructure Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. Problematic: Absenteeism, tardiness, "presenteeism" (when employees come to work even when they are sick). Problematic: Not meeting job deadlines, expectations.

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