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No Sweat DIY Infographics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Top 10 Spreadsheet Secrets From A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The concept was genius — providing an app and free cell phone to the individuals in exchange for filling out the surveys. Completing the survey would get them more cell phone time. The concept included enlisting a telco partner who would provide the phones and data cards. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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4 Things We Learned About You and the Tech Training You Want

Tech Soup

Earlier this year, TechSoup conducted a survey to better understand how we can help you make the most of technology at your organization. More than 1,400 people responded to our survey. Short video tutorials. Thank you to everyone who responded to our survey. Go to online training survey. Your Top Tech Challenges.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. .” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The skills are out there. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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Reflections on Extension 2.0 Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. "You could get feedback on the questions you plan to ask on a survey or get feedback on some of the data that might make you think differently." Thank goddness Beth Raney has this tutorial.

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

According to the 2014 Content Marketing Report, 92% of the nonprofits surveyed are using content marketing. Wild Apricot’s Small Membership Insight Survey has some Good News About Millennials and Meetings. There’s been a lot of talk about the results of the 2013 Fundraising Effectiveness Project Survey.

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