Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

Managers can create reports using pre-built templates or customize their own to get detailed insight on their organization's data. CiviCRM even has some basic HR management tools to help nonprofits keep track of their volunteers, new jobs, and related documents. Human Resources Management (HRM).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

I first encountered Eric after I created a screencast for NTEN called “ Web Analytics Demystified for Nonprofits ” and ( wiki ). The information is also reported with a link to organizational results. The book is wonderful and before I share some of what I learned I have to tell you a story. He sent me an email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

They were able to share some insights about how they track the success of this effort. I used the wiki to take notes and add resources on the fly that come up during Q/A. The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector. I did the reports out for each scenario which worked really well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Usually I ask a question, and try to get people to answer in another place like a google document or wiki. Crowdsourcing Questions: I use this when I'm developing training materials, particularly for case studies or sometimes for demos of Twitter as a crowdsourcing tools. Bytes of Wisdom or humor : I share some geek humor now and then.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. Success means using metrics to learn how to improve practice effectively, both to identify obstacles and track progress. The action learning project will be designed to help grantees build a habit of measurement, reflection, and organizational learning.

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

A lurker will never post to your blog or add content to a wiki-site but she will digest your content and possibly pass it along so acknowledging reading and logging-in can make super-users out of an often unappreciated contingent of your member community. Tracking and rewarding completion activities.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The President-elect's transition web site itself is allowing people to participate, with the "Your Seat at the Table" feature with which people can track transition meetings with interest groups and leave comments for the transition team. That's pretty wide participation. UK Prime Minister's Office [link]. Red Cross [link]. and us too (!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

The social media lab for arts organizations is a combination of face-to-face workshops, phone calls, and online support via a wiki and Twitter over several months. These leaders are then given the meeting agenda (game instructions), keep the group on track, and volunteer to report out. Photo by James Leventhal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond. One of the ideas we want to start with is technology steward concept that Nancy White, John Smith, and Etienne Wenger have been shaping in their Technologies for Communities report. An ego feed lets you easily track who links to you so you can read the post and respond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I'm facilitating a couple of workshops as part of the Social Media track for annual conference for the Center for Nonprofit Excellence in Louisville, KY. I will have all the groups work on the same scenario so once the first group reports - the others can shorten their report outs. I set up a wiki.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. However, just because everyone can become a creator doesn’t mean that everyone does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

I have also fully integrated the use of a wiki as "electronic flip chart," and leave behind resource as well as use of networked learning (Skype and twitter open to shoot out questions to people I could get richer answers to). Then, I asked people to report out the burning questions and add them to the wiki page set up for this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2009

It is also a Twitter term that describes a keyword, prefixed by that symbol, that helps people track conversations on Twitter. According to the Twitter Fan Wiki , hashtags were popularized during the San Diego forest fires in 2007 when Nate Ritter used the hashtag "#sandiegofire" to identify his updates related to the disaster.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

NpTech Blogging, Tagging, and Wikis An excellent presentation on social media and nonprofits by Jocelyn Harmon and Qui Diaz is being discussed by Dave B. to track personal fundraising campaigns. Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! Nonprofit Tech Software + Mobile Phones = Citizen reporting? Mobile citizen reporting

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Here's a few sessions notes in the wiki: NpTech Tag , definition of Open API For-Profit/Nonprofit Software Collaborations and where are the biggest tool gaps ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. These were transcribed and added to the wiki — and now have participants working on incorporating Twitter into the mix. Learning and Results: Momsrising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. and more expensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Microblogging Reports Worth Your Attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2009

The big buzz at the conference was the release of " The NEW News: Journalism We Want and Need " which is a report on the state of local online news in Chicago commissioned by the The Chicago Community Trust. I taught two workshops ( notes are on the wiki.) The Nonprofit Communicator blog has a round up of local reaction.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Project teams shared their progress with each other through a wiki, volunteers were recruited through twitter and texts, and tools could be worked on by a project team in one place and then "handed off" virtually to teams in other regions. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Project teams shared their progress with each other through a wiki, volunteers were recruited through twitter and texts, and tools could be worked on by a project team in one place and then "handed off" virtually to teams in other regions. This doesn't just cut down on "form filling."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

We'll be republishing some of these articles on learning wikis, and everything here is released under a Creative Commons license, so we hope you'll take part in this ecosystem of sharing. A first-of-its-kind Twitter widget that tracks tweets about nonprofits or social causes in real time. You’ll find: A directory of Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. A 2008 update on these initial reports, User Survey Analysis: Secondary PC Market Offers Growing Opportunity , continues to support both the supply and demand growth projections. Nor are those rumors anything new.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

What's Up With Feedburner by Beth Kanter Google Analytics Primer sponsored by NTEN with screencast and wiki created by Beth Kanter Using Postrank To Evaluate the Top Content on my blog by Beth Kanter. While both are important to track and identify, your executive director is probably most interested in the tangible benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

In Michael Gilbert's Top Ten Reports of the Year (2006) list, there is a pointer to the Roadmap for Open ICT Ecosystems. If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. The report identifies six areas of emerging technology over the next one-to-five years, including virtual worlds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. The screencast will include a companion wiki with resources to aid further explanation.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 3, 2022

Reporting and analytics – Most platforms offer some reporting and analytics, but some are more comprehensive than others. However, to measure your success, you may need to keep track of certain actions such as the number of received donations, average amount of gifts, gift growth average, and more.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

The organization wants to capture the demographic details, as well as make sure that data is synchronized with the data they might already have on that web user, so they can track their constituents over time. Another purpose is for membership lists, or group lists, or perhaps live tracking of donations from a specific campaign.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

What's a wiki? Wikis are websites that are extremely easy for anyone (even you!) Its success can distort understanding of what makes a wiki work. After all, if Wikipedia could succeed as a collaborative documentation of well, everything, isn't your specific wiki bound to thrive as well? But wikis are a very specific tool.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 22, 2009

Preferably ideas that come with some sort of track record suggesting they might be good ideas rather than duds. One of the results is a report from the future CFM (on its ten-year anniversary!) This report is a jumping off point for an exploration of how we as a field will deal with these trends. Museums and Society 2019.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

I think that all organizations should track what people are saying about them, about the issues they are concerned with, about the communities they are concerned with and then they should comment on those when appropriate. It's not so much that I think they should have a blog as it is I think that they should practice blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

What do you track? Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. What domains of impact should be considered (e.g. impact of the crowd-produced product, impact on the crowd / community)?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 2, 2008

Do you need a way to report, document, and share day-to-day information on a project or within your department? Internal team blogs can ameliorate these gaps in interaction by providing a group-authored space where staff can share everything from daily log reports to research thoughts. I like Wik.is

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