Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2007

I'm still looking for the best places to find numbers on Social Networking sites (like number of users and growth -- I'd love a chart or graph of comparisons to MySpace, Facebook, and Linked In. I'd also like to see an age spread that is more recent than the Businessweek chart. I found this snippet this morning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

I've been translating different audience analysis frameworks to a nonprofit context. These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening. But questions disappear if they are not captured and paid attention to. So it’s naturally contagious.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

Below is a chart which shows percent of participants with one or more online gifts over the last 5 years. I know it’s tough to read the numbers and my chart is a little more dramatic than it should be because of double numbers in the vertical axis. In the meantime, I want you to think about my next question.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

Instead, I'd like to see us asking broader questions about process, like: How do different people arbitrate the value of a piece of art, a historical artifact, or a piece of scientific evidence? One prototype is based on the Billboard Top 10 charts for pop music. It's what keeps curators curators and the public public.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Research Questions. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). Overall site visits. What content on the website is most popular? Deliverables.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2013

Here’s the first question, because I perceive the situation to be one way is that the truth? We wanted to go right to participants, ask them questions and get their perspective on fundraising. One of my favorite questions we ask is “Why didn’t you fundraise?” Here’s what I’ve learned from this questions: .

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

I don’t know what the formal stat is on this, but I know that I’m much more likely to get a fast response if I text someone rather than call them or email them. It generates pie charts and bar graphs that provide managers with a statistical look at how teleworkers are spending their time. Mobile Addiction. The downside?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As a finance leader at your organization, you get to plug into all that goodness of the whole report—not just contribute to the previous year’s stats. Prepare for Questions Get ahead of your audience’s potential questions by adding clear context in the notes. Or do they want raw data for creating the pie chart themselves?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

Don’t forget to include your nonprofit’s general email, phone number, and physical address in case someone wants to reach out with a question. Lots of stats and facts. Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. Full contact info. Social media links. What should be left out.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

But most importantly, if you are listening live, please do chat in your questions and comments along the way. But first, I want to ask you this question. You saw the bar chart. So there’s a question I ask everybody, if you call me today, I’d ask you this, I’d say, “What do you need this year?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Consider asking questions like, “What would you want the world to know?” Inspiring photos and videos of your impactful work in action is crucial, but so are the stats. In fact, 33% of donors say clear visuals like charts and images would increase their likelihood to donate. or “what does our program mean to you?”

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

While we are capturing more stats and indicators than ever before, most of us are still a little befuddled as to what to do with all these numbers. For many of us, this scene is followed by the questions "Why?" The problem is, most of its storytelling power is usurped by the Excel charts that typically imprison it.

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NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

It’s the budget and stats geek in me, nothing I can do about it.). You’ll be amazed at the trends and takeaways that surface when you start playing with Pivot Tables and charts. If you want more, feel free to reach out, post comments/questions, @ me, DM me, etc. But please be careful when analyzing your reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

But the stats. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. I can't easily measure this metric unless I set up some sort of Ruby Goldberg contraption like cut and pasting a month's worth of posts and cut paste into word, count the number of posts, and then chart in excel. With all that aside, I'm pleased with these stats!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. With all that aside, I'm pleased with these stats! I just sampled one month. Audience Growth. Thank you readers!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It’s important that you begin paying attention to the stats. In this blog series by Nancy Schwartz - Connect First- Your Marketing Magic Bullet (Part One) and Content, THEN Channels, Follows Connections (Part Two) – she answers the question she hears most often: what is the marketing magic bullet? Infographics. Connections.

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