NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

I’m sure I’m not alone in my ability to spend hours upon hours sifting thru web analytical data and exploring all the amazing information amassed, working to decipher what it all means. Also, Google defaults to the most recent month’s worth of data. Use this comparison to survey peaks and valleys of traffic.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

The newest report, out today, focused on the use of social networking platforms by young people who are/aren’t also involved with charities. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) Female respondents reported a significantly higher usage across all the top 4 networking sites.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

If you participated in GivingTuesday last year, analyze the data you gathered to help you plan for this year. Type in non-sensitive information about your organization and ask ChatGPT to create a short email template to send to your donors. The more specific prompt you provide the AI, the better template it can give to you.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 1, 2009

The piece is reposted below: Have we replicated our offline social dynamics and barriers online? As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2007

What happens when fundraising meets social networking? Social Fundraising? Socially-Networked Fundraising? So, I slapped a piece of paper in the old IBM selectric and created a networking form. Asking questions about who people knew and for contact information. We Philanthropy? We Funding?

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NetWits

MAY 19, 2011

First and foremost, determine which existing audiences you wish to engage (board members, major donors, past event fundraisers or attendees, all donors, volunteers, etc) in your fundraising and how you will reach out to them (email, social networks, mail, phone, on-site events, etc). 2) Educate.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

My latest post for the Stanford Social Innovation Review is up and I hope you’ll dive into the conversation with me! A recent event has brought up some huge red flags for me around data, around communities, around social impact, inclusion and even more.

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Myspace Technology Causes Application 158

Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Surveys are also a useful tool for keeping up-to-date demographic information about location, professional field, and more. Data-driven direct marketing campaigns. Whether you are sending a mailing or running a call center, tracking all of the information in one place will allow more informed programs and easy calculation of ROI.

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Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

Surveys are also a useful tool for keeping up-to-date demographic information about location, professional field, and more. Data-driven direct marketing campaigns. Whether you are sending a mailing or running a call center, tracking all of the information in one place will allow more informed programs and easy calculation of ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

He then pulled the data into an open source network analysis software called Gephi which produced a network map that he reviewed to help guide engagement and source discovery. There are even simpler technology tools to use to map your professional network. These can be done offline and online. What surprises you?

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Your nonprofit’s constituent relationship management (CRM) software contains one of your organization’s greatest assets — your data. Investing in a new CRM is a costly decision, from the migration of all of your nonprofit’s data to the training needed to familiarize your team with the new solution. Donor management.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2010

Social media is a space where the individual reigns, relationships are required, and conversations are public. That’s not exactly the way business normally goes down offline. And it has real impact on the way organizations fundraise. So, how do you respond? If people are fundraising for you online, do you know about it?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Not all that long ago, intellectual capital —knowledge of processes and data, informational resources, etc.—was But now, in the apex of technology and automation, a lot of information and processes are controlled by robots, servers or other invisible hands. This article was originally published in Nonprofit Hub Magazine.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Wikipedia was a popular resource and established as a citizen-driven information source. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2012

Let me give you more information on the specs of these two items: Windows 8 Pro. These apps are full screen, easy to use and provide small and midsize businesses close contact with the information that’s most important to them. I will accept comments on this post until Dec. 31st and announce the winners in early January. Dell XPS 12.

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2011

The code consists of black modules arranged in a square pattern on a white background, and the encoded information can be text, URL or other data. This is another great way to capture your offline donors email addresses so you can foster relationships with them online too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Yesterday, I spent most of the day offline at the Wisdom 2.0 I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. ” The data covered the good, bad, and the ugly of our digital lifestyles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

Lucy talked about how technology is driving the shift to a social economy and picked out a few themes, pointing out it is not the technology itself but how we use it. She highlighted the impact of crowd funding platforms and the technology to collect, visualize, and share data.

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Everyaction

APRIL 23, 2018

The tip that we can tell you is that your CRM is the only tool you need to find this information for yourself. Leverage the power of social networks with peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns. Activate & organize supporters on and offline.

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CauseVox

JULY 14, 2022

Of course not all of this work happens offline: there are still some great ways to make use of your online platforms. Take a look at the donor data you have and see who gives consistently or who has increased their donations over time. These are people who care about your organization and who have the ability to make a major gift.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2015

This year I took off a full two weeks during the holiday, spending time with family on the Big Island on a coffee farm and mostly offline. I will also continue to work on network design projects, particularly those focused on developing “learning networks.” 2015 will be another year of learning for me.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

This brave new world of touchscreens, aggregated data, and pastel AJAX-based social networking sites, is partly. is becoming old faster; your familiarity of the popular social networking. of free information. what is marketing and what is actionable information, use all the free. Your new iPhone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Organizations use both hard data points and qualitative data to listen and learn. Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley. World Institute.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It’s there that we recognize, inform and direct. A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

but pack in a tremendous amount of information. Social Networks & Twitter from Natalie Foster: Two Principles: 1. Email still gets a good response - if it will best help you reach your desired output, don’t feel obligated to short change your capacity there to try to use social networking or something else.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

I just sat through an informal brownbag lunch discussion with the founder of the Genocide Intervention Network (GI-Net) , social entrepreneur Mark Hanis. Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. In this era of overwhelming inundation of data and messages, an organization’s relationships help it achieve results. It is also important to be mindful of how different generations use online social networking and the trends.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag. Data drives ACS' fundraising tactics and success. ACS collects data by tracking what is happening online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Who are these for?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Submitted by Ted Fickes Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! How do you balance online action with offline engagement? Who are these for?

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

This resulted in us creating a “sneaker-net” approach to providing basic asynchronous ICT services to rural villages: a complete offline Wikipedia that fit on a CD-ROM, and severely restricted bandwidth throttling to allow community radios to access the Internet (via prepaid RBGAN) for $2-3 a day. . Voice remains the killer app.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

Every quarter, our data analyst, Mathew Grimm, emails out a report of every list source and how they're performing. After some time on our list, Mathew pulls the information by source and aggregates what they gave, factoring in the cost of acquiring them. Everyone who comes into our file is sourced. (If

ROI 94

ROI Facebook Advocacy Social Media 94

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Most often nonprofits want to capture information from web users. That sort of information could be a newsletter sign up, a contact form that should be responded to, an online donation or an event registration. In addition, sometimes nonprofits want to expose data from the CRM to the CMS. The old fashioned form of integration.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

When disaster strikes, we want information as soon as possible and we want to help just as quickly. Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. How can we do that?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

This will be a conversation that explores the changing media landscape and how the web can rise to the challenge of supporting our communities and their information needs. Networking Good: How to Win Money and Mobilize People! How do you use the latest technologies to build active networks and roadmaps for action?

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