Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

A total of 757 Twitter users Tweeted using the hashtag #OceanLoveEarl – the network analysis map revealed that there were other “hubs” or “influencers” in addition my personal network including the beneficiary nonprofit, Surf Rider Foundation, and individual influencers in my network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . Otherwise, you waste a lot of time creating meaningless, but cool maps. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Forum One

JUNE 4, 2010

We also saw some very cool examples of how to use NodeXL to map and understand social networks. Tags: Influence Collaboration Government Internet Strategy. Here is a nice summary of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2009

Lina has a different take: I'm not sure if I would say content creators have "less" influence than sharers-- but impact and audience/participation are tied in this process and you need to make certain content is seen to build a community of participants. Tags: network effectiveness. It prompted a question, why?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Run the impact report to help you identify influencers. Klout lets you track the “influence&# of specific Twitter users, including the growth of their network, who they influence, and who they are influenced by. Mention Map helps you visualize who is interacting with you around which hashtags.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

" The site features interactive, color-coded health outcome maps for each state -- such as this Virginia map -- illustrating the relative health of all of the state's counties. Additionally, a user can view maps for individual counties, such as Fairfax County , Va., See Virginia's table.)

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Forum One

JUNE 4, 2010

We also saw some very cool examples of how to use NodeXL to map and understand social networks. Tags: Influence Collaboration Government Internet Strategy Social Media. Here is a nice summary of the event.

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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

Develop a focused pilot that maps projects and activities at a sub-national level, for one country, using open standards. Develop tools to bridge data collection and dissemination - how can we better connect SMS and other low bandwidth tools with mapping and visualization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The first step is mapping your network so you understand the connections – hubs and influencers. Colleague Miriam Brousseau tagged me and several other “close professional ties” asking us for resources on nonprofits and content strategy. It is about how you cultivate and develop your network.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2010

Mapping systems are helping pinpoint areas that are hardest hit and mobilize aid. Micro-volunteerism is allowing all of us to "tag" photos of people and help identify missing persons. Tags: Influence Collaboration Social Media. Organizations are using social media to raise more money faster than ever before.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Google Earth Outreach from Rebecca Moore: Google’s mapping tools may seem like an obscure tool to use in your work but these aren’t traditional maps: the new generation of mapping technology is fully interactive, enables storytelling, and more. (Did Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

This last week I was at NTC 09 in San Francisco leading a session on Mapping Metrics To Strategy. Twitalyzer calculates your influence based on your signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity and clout, and it also allows you to calculate a score for any other Twitter user you wish to track. Tags: metrics ROI twitter.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. Tags: Influence Tips & Trends Collaboration Internet Strategy Tips & Trends Tools & Software. Online discussions? Start with much more managable online interviews using CoverItLive. The list goes on.

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

Open source maps to help aid workers navigate damaged areas and coordinate their efforts. Photos tagged in Flickr with Crisis Camp. Tags: Influence Collaboration Data & Visualizations Internet Strategy Online Community Social Media. Some of the highlights include: An English/Creole translation iPhone app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. It looks like a mapping tool in the works that will let you visualize your Twitter network by retweets from Dan Zarrella. (hatip stacymonk ) He collected over 84,000 retweets.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Here’s 5 key steps to mapping your work towards metrics: Problem : Be as specific as possible, focus on the problems you will be addressing directly (not just changing the world). the community leaders or influencers have already emerged and can contribute to the crowdsourcing project’s success. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 19, 2009

Togetherness: The dream of the Web is a model maps our influence and values to appropriate collective action that has reached its tipping point. Tags: events 09ntc netsquared nten. Action: Giving people the right tools at the right time only matters if you ask them to do the right thing. The group is limited to 21 participants!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

It is a much a deeper engagement with the content and the influencers or those most passionate about the cause. The diagram below is Robin Good's Collaborative Map of Online Collaboration Tools. Tags: network effectiveness.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Want mapping? The My Maps feature in Google Maps can help create some nice prototype map tools. Tags: Influence Tips & Trends Collaboration Internet Strategy Tips & Trends Tools & Software. Online discussions? Start with much more managable online interviews using CoverItLive. The list goes on.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

In particular, he reflected on five strategic uses of the internet which, when combined intelligently, have influenced the actions of the entire US Congress. Tags: Human Rights Communication Collaboration. See the Darfur scores for example. Also use political fundraising reporting tools to learn who donated to particular politicians.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

From @winwinapps: The fact that social media is forming networks and connections allows local to have more global influence. But for now local is still something I use a map and a tank of gas to determine the limits of. The most engaged people will sometimes come up with the most amazing and creative ways to take action or influence.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. " Tags: Influence Collaboration Communication.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 3, 2015

” How is this influx of new people influencing Austin’s Arts & Cultural community? The team at Thinkery has done an excellent job in getting the word out in all the right publications (Austin’s Culture Map, Austin’s Social Planner, among others) since they launched this innovative idea in December 2013.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Based on the remarkable number of "aha"s and "let's talk about that after"s--during the introductions but especially the presentations--the group expressed an eagerness to meet again and seems to have an appetite to get down to the business of more formally mapping out the issues and challenges. Tags: Global Health. Seattle Children's.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We read articles mapping out the “perfect face” according to the Greek ratio of Phi but we never question why Greek history is the arbiter of truth in many cases when much of Greek philosophy was stolen from Egypt. Good often equals a high price tag. Who had the power to write these rules? What were structures in places at the time? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). Identifies influencers. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. The comments are a focus group with our influencers. Listen Learn Adapt: The Secret To Nonprofit Social Media Success View more presentations from kanter. Documentation creates internal value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

John Bell of the 360 Digital Influence Blog says " It's Time for Measurement of Social Media " which looks at the ROI and identifies some success metrics. You might find more if you monitor this tag: 2007cof or also look in the foundation's IT departments. Hat tip to Paul Hyland. Finding Inspiration in Their Work and Stories.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 17, 2010

Ola presents the giraffes in several ways--as individual images, statistically , on a map , even via a goofy game where you can view giraffes and guess the age of the people who made them. Tags: Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent. The constraints are clear and arbitrary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Along with Ed Walz, myself, and Liane, we spent a lot of time at the beginning mapping out program level outs and used a modified theory of change process. This prevents getting to tactical too quickly and places results in a larger context. It also connects the social media technical assistance to results.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 24, 2007

One fun example is overplot , a mashup that takes quotes overheard in New York City ( the data ) and places them on a Google map (the tool), so you can browse the quotations by address. Map-based mashups are popular because they provide a well-understood visual representation of data. Guy: You just bought chapstick yesterday.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

But what about equally important intangibles, such as increasing your organization's influence or shifting the public debate on your key issues? Let's use a case study of how organizations are influencing the health care debate. Mapping the Network. In the map, each blog is represented by a dot. So where do you start?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2007

Org charts, like maps, aren't given the attention they should be, especially in large institutions. I want great visualizations so I can see which committees influence which bills and which senators are big players across the board. Here's a snippet from a map of the affiliations of the JP Morgan board of directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. I will be looking at this from lens of mapping strategy to metrics for those just beginning their social media strategies and those who are more advanced. Tags: goals. SXSW Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With interactive maps, private meeting scheduling, and a personalized agenda, attendees have everything they need to get more from the event. Plus, tag expenses for fundraising, programming, and administration in order to make filing your Form 990 at tax time that much easier. Compliant reporting.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2009

Answers will differ depending on who's asking, but they are also influenced by the designed environment in which questions are asked. A colleague recently called me to discuss an idea for a low-tech recommendation engine in which visitors could mark places on paper museum maps that might be of interest to other visitors like them.

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