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Why Data Informed VS Data Driven?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Flickr Photo by neoporcupine. One of the questions I was asked, ”Why Data Informed? Why Not Data-Driven?” ” Being data-informed is something very different from a data-driven culture. Being data-driven sounds great—in theory. Data-informed cultures are not slaves to their data.

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Data Measure Culture New York

Can Stories Be Data?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? The only valid data is quantitative data. Make data-driven decisions only, don’t trust your gut ever. Do numbers only matter?

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Story Data Analysis Measure

Curiosity-Driven, Not Data-Driven

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr Photo by epsos.de. I saw an interesting post from Eric Petersen called “ The Myth of Data-Driven Business &# by way of KD Paine’s blog. It caught my eye because we’ve working on a chapter about how nonprofits can make the shift to a “data-driven culture. &#.

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Data Chart Chapter Flickr

What Does the Data Say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

What Does the Data Say? What Does the Data Say? Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about SoSomeThing.Org as an example of a nonprofit with a “data-driven culture.&# What initially caught my eye was the above presentation from George Weiner. Here is a rough narrative to accompany my ‘What does the data say?’

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Data Measure Analytics NPO

Connecting the Dots of Nonprofit Engagement Data: A New Report Release

NTEN

JUNE 6, 2013

Flickr: waywuwei Earlier this year, we worked with Avectra to release The 2013 Nonprofit Engagement Data Study , which was based on a survey of nonprofit communications and fundraising professionals, as well as executive directors.

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Data Report Case Study API

Flickr Has Stats!!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I found out about Flickr's new stats package. In analyzing the data, it seems like if folks are looking for Laura Quinn of Idealware and google " Laura Quinn " my flickr photo comes up in the first few results. Via Jeremiah Owyang. It is only available to pro accounts and it is pretty basic.

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Stats Flickr Photo Google

A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Flickr Photo by Su Lin. Note from Beth: Here’s a guest post from my colleague Steve MacLaughlin that is a great example of “ data informed fundraising.” What does the data say? There are opinions and there is data. Smart Data Over Big Data. ” A Fundraising Cliff? Will it get better?

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Data Hurricane Fundraising Disaster

Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2012

Last week I participate on a panel on “ Data Visualization for Nonprofits: A Picture Is Better Than A 1,000 Words ” with Johanna Morariu from Innonet and Brian Kennedy of ChildrenNow. The day of the panel, I published a blog post that shared our slides, wiki, and resources. Click Thru to See Larger Image.

Reflection

Reflection Data Slides Exercise

Interesting sites I’m looking at (weekly)

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2011

Recipe for a Flash-Free Flickr Slideshow in Drupal | johanna bates. tags: drupal flickr slideshow webdevelopment toblog. tags: socialmedia export data toblog. tags: socialmedia export data toblog. tags: crowdfunding toblog. Social Media Monitoring and Analysis Made Easy | RowFeeder. Posted from Diigo.

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Drupal Site Flash Flickr

The Nonprofit Data Ecosystem: How Does Your Data Flow?

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo by Happysmurfday Over the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs. The nonprofit ecosystem is a way of thinking about how data is shared by and flows across the different departments and activities in your organization. Managing Clients/Program Data.

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Data NTEN Survey Evaluation

Taming the Data Monster

NTEN

JULY 16, 2010

Flickr: Craving Creativity We're entering uncharted territory as a species, particularly in the United States. But how can you collect the data you need to tell your organization's stories -- and then make them compelling enough to cut through the noise? Americans consume 3.6 zettabytes of information every day.

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Data United States Metrics NTEN

Everything You Need to Know About Data You Learned in Kindergarten

NTEN

MARCH 22, 2011

Flickr photo: Toban Black. Start with data. Data is one of the easiest things we can share. We already share this data regularly: we put it in documents for our funders and our annual reports, and if we're really bold, we put it up on our blog. She shared her data. How many clients do you serve?

Data

Data Classroom Hunger Learning

Your Data is Going to Break Up with You

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

flickr photo: Unlisted Sightings You know how a good relationship works, right? Now, I don't want to offend you, but I've seen how you treat your data. Your data deserves better. Let's figure out how to treat our data right, so we both get something out of the relationship. Step 3: Define Your Data Needs.

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Data San Francisco Problem Gift

Member Round Up: Brain science in fundraising, website tips, and Do Good Data 2013!

NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Flickr: chotda This week''s Member Round Up draws from all corners of the sector in both region and topic, from the energy in the streets of Brazil to Facebook contests and assistive technology used by the Bridge School--see what the nptech community''s been up to! Do Good Data 2013 is in Chicago, Illinois this August.

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Brain Brazil Websites Data

Data is People: Inspired by the 9/11 Memorial

NTEN

MAY 16, 2011

Flickr: qthomasbower You may have noticed the recent articles on our blog about data. But I want to offer something to this discussion to drive home the point about how your organization's data is important to your work: Your data is people. Your data is the past, present, and future of your work.

Data

Data People Museum Story

Visualizing Your Social Media Analytics Data Can Trigger Insights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2009

See Larger Version here from Labnol's Flickr Account Charting and graphing your data helps you see patterns and trends more easily and articulate them to decision-makers. Need to visualize a process, system, or concept that isn't based on data? A Field To Using Visual Tools by David Hyerle can help. It's nifty too.

Social Media

Social Media Data Chart Analytics

7 Virtual Volunteer Ideas

Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Here are some ideas to make the most of volunteers online: Data/Image Projects. Have your intern review the past year of posts and data from your major platforms. Data hygiene projects. Social media analytics report. For fun, have them also prepare a 30 minute presentation for the organization. Build a Photo Library.

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Volunteer Virtual Ideas Script

Tackling the BIG Move and How to Ensure You (and Your Data) Are Prepared

Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2014

Hi, resident data geek here! A couple of years ago I wrote a blog post about how converting your data is a lot like moving. Since publishing, I’ve received feedback that the post was helpful, and have been asked to dive into further detail on how best to prepare for this move (data conversion) to your new home (new database).

Data

Data Database Conversation Issue

[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Nature Conservancy

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Flickr: flickr.com/groups/thenatureconservancy. We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites. We use Flickr to collect all of the photos for our annual nature photo competition. Website: www.nature.org.

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Social Media Conservancy Interview Media

Five Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for January 2012 illuminating that Pinterest now drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn combined will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!).

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Practice Avatar Hints Tutorial

Markets for Good Post: Design A Better Dashboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers? Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics.

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Design Marketing Metrics Measure

Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 30, 2011

When joining, the presence of ad-recommending data was very clear. Check out the invite screen shot below: But for all the talk about “owning our data&# that Facebook has really been instrumental in igniting, Google’s response is “data liberation.&# Google+ and Facebook in Early Days.

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Google Profile Stream Classes

Growth of Creative Commons Photos on Flickr

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2007

so, while working on it I found the above data and just had to remix and blog it. I need to finish my Open Content/Creative Commons card game before I leave tommorrow. The chart was generated by a program called Swivel. What's cool is that you can remix the chart graphics (see below) and Swivel has CC licensing.

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Flickr Remix Photo Chart

New Research: 10 Case Studies on Nonprofit Transition to the Cloud

NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2012

There's a lot of buzz about the Cloud being the future of data storage and processing, and more and more Cloud-based options are available to users every day. Is nonprofit technology moving out of the data closet and into the Cloud? Flickr photo credit: Podrunzy. Let us know in the comments below!

Case Study

Case Study Studies Research Denver

Tools to Tell Your Digital Story Available Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro? Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Digital Story Adobe Tools

The social network commitment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. It’s great that I can follow all of the content (blogs, tweets, Flickr photos, etc.)

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Social Network Network Social Delicious

Nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!).

Practice

Practice Avatar Hints Nonprofit

Great reads from around the web on May 20th

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2009

" Flickr Photo Download: Twitter trending topics - Anatomy of a hashtag as trending topic from Meg Pickard on Flickr. There have been efforts across the field to gather data about the impact and outlook for nonprofits and funders alike. If you like charts for understanding trending and relationships, this is a great one!

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Web Oregon Portland Bookmarking

New Research: 4 Case Studies of Nonprofit Shared Back-Offices in the Cloud

NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2012

Regardless of mission, nonprofits often have basic technology needs that overlap, including office productivity software, email platforms, accounting and payroll, data backup, and donor or fundraising databases. Flickr photo: torkildr. Environment America.

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Case Study Research Studies Share

Zoetica Salon February Theme: Practical and Tactical Social Media for Nonprofits

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. I used it analyze the Facebook page.

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Social Media Practice Media Social

New recipes for capacity building for nonprofits and foundations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 18, 2012

Flickr photo by DoroQuez. how to use social media to support their brand); Shared data for planning and evaluation; Strategic and business planning around compelling vision with financial analysis for sustainability; Social entrepreneurship or entrepreneurial thinking; Build the network mindset (i.e.

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Foundation Build Seattle Conference

Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by AnEye4Pictures. “Stand up if you use all the data your foundation collects,” said Jarod Raynor of the TCC Group at a GEO2012 session on “Learning in Public.” All evaluation data was posted on a public wiki. – Guest post by Stefan Lanfer.

Reflection

Reflection Public Learning Build

DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). And get you thinking about where you may have more data points to add in. Presentation. Do-It-Yourself.

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Metrics Community Map Template

Use Your Donation on the Go with TechSoup Donor Partner Mobile Apps

Tech Soup

APRIL 24, 2012

Learn how you can communicate, collaborate, create content, and manage data on-the-go with our guide to TechSoup donor partner mobile apps. If you have a Flickr account, you can manage, organize, and share images using the free Flickr mobile apps for Android, iOS, and Windows phone. Have a different smartphone? Attend ReadyTalk.

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Mobile Adobe Sharepoint Donor

Call for Submissions: Contribute to the NTEN Blog, e-Newsletter, and Journal

NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2011

Flickr: LexnGer In case you hadn't noticed, NTEN is a community of nonprofit and technology professionals sharing information about using technology effectively for nonprofit work. Emphasize process and results: how did you plan the data migration to your new database? come from the experts and practicioners in our community.

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Journal Newsletter NTEN Guidelines

Five Ways Nonprofits Can Use Social Media to Build Their e-Newsletter List

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2011

There’s no data proving that this will build your e-newsletter list, but it can’t hurt. Flickr Sets can be customized using HTML to add “Subscribe!&# If your nonprofit is a member of YouTube’s Nonprofit Program , you can add Call-to-Action Overlays to your videos.

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Newsletter Social Media Build Media

33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. The app then allows you to share your photos on a photo-by-photo basis on Flickr, Facebook, and Twitter. Currently in beta, TwitSprout also allows you to easily convert your Twitter data into a PDF-format for easy sharing with others. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Fun Resource Audio Stats

No Engineer or Cartographer Required: Harnessing the Power of GIS Just Got Easier for Your Nonprofit

NTEN

APRIL 20, 2011

undefined: Flickr: Cambodia4kidsorg The term "geospacial information system" may cause many of us to zone out and assume "the following information will not be applicable to me because I'm not an engineer or cartographer or astronaut or whatever that term applies to." police districts, school districts, and watersheds.

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API United States Advocacy Map

Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Flickr Photo by Kevlar. Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success.

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Benchmark Social Media Global Project

NetSquared Local Events in the First Half of August

Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

Kevin Lo reports from San Francisco’s latest event, Open Source and Open Data in Action. Image: Parallel Session F , creative commons licensed on Flickr. Event social media open data NetSquared tsevent crowdfunding' What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? What is a social presentation ?

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Netsquared Local San Francisco Philadelphia

So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.) Get data and information about the blogosphere from Technorati. Photo credit: Flickr futureshape ). Here’s a how-to guide for Community Planning & Measurement. Just let me know!).

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Romania Create Organization Local

Linking Results To Key Performance Indicators Is Like Hooking Up A Big TV

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. Step 6: Select your data collection tool(s). Step 7: Analyze your data, turn it into action, measure again. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results.

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Results Metrics Measure Associations

Member Round Up: Inspiring events, new research, and contests!

NTEN

AUGUST 29, 2013

Flickr: ccbrand Even though summer''s in full swing and it''s so easy to spend those lovely afternoons just sipping lemonade, the nptech community is hard at work putting out new research, collecting data, and figuring out how to put technology to work to solve today''s most pressing issues. Anything we missed?

Research

Research Contest Phase India

Learning in Public Challenges and Actions

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Andy Beal. GEO’s 2012 National Conference shares a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and presents opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. While it all was synthesized, we did not use every piece of data collected.

Public

Public Action Challenge Learning

Why Data Informed VS Data Driven?

Can Stories Be Data?

Trending Sources

Curiosity-Driven, Not Data-Driven

What Does the Data Say?

Connecting the Dots of Nonprofit Engagement Data: A New Report Release

Flickr Has Stats!!

A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say?

Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization

Interesting sites I’m looking at (weekly)

The Nonprofit Data Ecosystem: How Does Your Data Flow?

Taming the Data Monster

Everything You Need to Know About Data You Learned in Kindergarten

Your Data is Going to Break Up with You

Member Round Up: Brain science in fundraising, website tips, and Do Good Data 2013!

Data is People: Inspired by the 9/11 Memorial

Visualizing Your Social Media Analytics Data Can Trigger Insights

7 Virtual Volunteer Ideas

Tackling the BIG Move and How to Ensure You (and Your Data) Are Prepared

[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: The Nature Conservancy

Five Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Markets for Good Post: Design A Better Dashboard

Security and Control: Early thoughts on Google+

Growth of Creative Commons Photos on Flickr

New Research: 10 Case Studies on Nonprofit Transition to the Cloud

Tools to Tell Your Digital Story Available Through TechSoup

The social network commitment

Nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Great reads from around the web on May 20th

New Research: 4 Case Studies of Nonprofit Shared Back-Offices in the Cloud

Zoetica Salon February Theme: Practical and Tactical Social Media for Nonprofits

New recipes for capacity building for nonprofits and foundations

Bridge Building or Trust Busting: A Warts-and-All Reflection on “Learning in Public”?

DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Use Your Donation on the Go with TechSoup Donor Partner Mobile Apps

Call for Submissions: Contribute to the NTEN Blog, e-Newsletter, and Journal

Five Ways Nonprofits Can Use Social Media to Build Their e-Newsletter List

33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

No Engineer or Cartographer Required: Harnessing the Power of GIS Just Got Easier for Your Nonprofit

Social Media Benchmarking: Gauging Success for Project and Organizations in Global Health and Development

NetSquared Local Events in the First Half of August

So, You’re Thinking About Blogging? How To: Create a Blog for your Organization

Linking Results To Key Performance Indicators Is Like Hooking Up A Big TV

Member Round Up: Inspiring events, new research, and contests!

Learning in Public Challenges and Actions

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