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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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2011

It's also interesting to note that, according to Wikipedia, Hawaii, New Mexico, California and Texas are already majority-minority states. Map your network. Once you know the business goals you are trying to achieve, map your network. After doing this research, you are likely to find connections you didn't know existed.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. Provide Context Users need a grounding point to understand your data.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data.

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Data New York City Storytelling New York 68

Forum One

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

And chances are your nonprofit, government agency, foundation, or research institution has gobs of it just sitting around. It's hidden away in project output reports and research excel files. It's locked in white papers, policy briefs, and fact sheets. Provide Context. Users need a grounding point to understand your data.

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Data Story New York City New York 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Researcher have found support for the 1:9:90 rule in many different contexts. Gaurav Mishra is the CEO of social media research & strategy company 20:20 WebTech ([link] and co-founder of election monitoring platform Vote Report India ([link]. Do share your thoughts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Recently, there's been some research of adoption of these tools in the corporate sector ( here and here ) And, if you're looking for a hands-on activity to introduce blogging to staff members, check this out. Steve Anderson continues his series on donation process maps. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome.

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Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 270

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. However if you, as a well-meaning representative of an organization, try to inject your side into the debate, your edits might be summarily deleted and you may be accused of violating Wikipedia rules in quite harsh terms.

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Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Developers of the ECHO project are exploring new ways to use web technology to bring native voices into museum exhibits and research. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ? Efforts like Freebase , which hopes to be the wikipedia for data, are giving communities the ability to collaboratively share data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Young Einstein. How long are they staying on your site?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Research to incorporate in instructional materials. tools can provide quick and dirty market research tools or the ability to do an environmental scans for strategic planning. Wikipedia , the online open-community encyclopedia, is the most well known. Chicago Crime Maps; Another googlemap mashup with crime statistics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. It is a must download!

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Web Tools Free Mobile 272

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. It is a must download!

Web 279

Web Tools Free Mobile 279

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome.

Fun 270

Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 270

Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Local Impact Map :: datamarket.azure.com/application. It is a must download!

Web 255

Web Tools Free Social Media 255

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. Additionally, the app serves as hub to all other Google Apps, such as Gmail, Calendar, Docs, Reader, Voice, Maps, etc. Global Tweets :: globaltweets.com. Google Chrome :: google.com/chrome.

Fun 100

Fun Resource Mobile Social Media 100

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

The NAS publishes one such report every business day, and apparently these reports are seen as a gold standard of objective, well-researched content on a range of industries and issues. From my perspective the line wasn’t between libraries and museums but public-facing and private/researcher-facing organizations.

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