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Vote for these SXSW Nonprofit Panels

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” That panel marked the beginning of my friendship and collaboration with KD Paine which lead to our book, which is going to be entertaining and practical look at how to measure all things networked nonprofit. .” The description: Social Media Nonprofit Measurement: Beyond the BS. What’s Up Doc?

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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). See the Google Doc for links.).

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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr

3rd Sector Labs

The most popular is Facebook – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/. One important point that may be overlooked when looked at big data surveys is the purpose behind the online outreach that is being measured. Many people like using them. There are a number of options. GARY: Ditto.

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DIY Community Engagement Metrics

Amy Sample Ward

So often I find that we are too quick to say that because a website doesn’t have our domain, a tool is downloaded to our computer, or a platform doesn’t have our developers working on it that we can’t be responsible for measuring and analyzing the way we use it. It’s just not true!

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Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center

NTEN

The staff received training in the basics of using NYCEAC's social media channels, as well as Google alerts, social media measurement, and blogging within either the bi-weekly calls or in-person. Ongoing conversations in the Cloud The team accesses a shared Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) folder.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). Measuring and forecasting. This is an area of new or expanded emphasis for us. We cannot interface with other desired applications. Stewarding current donors. Identifying future donors.

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The Ideal Year-End Fundraising Campaign Timeline

CauseVox

Measurable: Ensure it’s trackable and measurable Attainable: The goal must be achieved through reasonable effort Relevant: The goal should match the needs of your cause Time-bound: Set a start and end date. Spreadsheets and shared files (such as on Google Docs or Dropbox) are phenomenal ways to keep everyone on the same page.