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Notes About Mobile, Digital Trends, and Social Media Leadership from Knight Digital Media Center Workshop

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Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits workshop. Digital Trends. He also talked about consumption trends and changes, particularly a rise of mobile traffic at bedtime when people check tomorrow’s news at night.

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New Resource for Nonprofits: The Data Playbook – Practices for Purpose-Driven Work

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Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it. The framework is called: “facts-stats-trends” : Facts : Counts, or sums, of numbers. Trends : Looking at data over time (e.g.,

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9 Nonprofit Leadership Skills Every Founder & Director Must Master

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Facilitator. Leaders who understand their numbers can keep their nonprofit financially healthy and easily explain their key stats to funders. The upside is that they know how everything in their organization works and can provide backup for most, if not all, staff positions. Managing time.

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Technology and the Shift to Donor-Centric Fundraising

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These high-level discussions focused on key thought leadership topics and trends shaping the industry. Technology facilitates smarter messaging, smarter asks, and more personalized experiences with our organization. At bbcon 2015, some of the top minds in the nonprofit industry came together to present Big Idea sessions.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

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I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics.

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Making the Most of Your Nonprofit’s Website: Understanding the Basics

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Facilitating online donations, sign-ups, pledges, and more. According to these stats from Double the Donation , online giving from individuals continues to make up a larger and larger portion of nonprofit revenue. This is a trend worth adopting! Sharing updates and information on your campaigns or projects.

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A Few Good Pinterest Tools, Tips, and Resources

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You might also want to spend some time doing a little research on site and browse some of the pinterest stat sites. And while there is some bogus stats that attempts to give you a dollar amount per pin, the site does generate some useful data for you. Repinly is a site that analyzes Pinterest users and content.

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