NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about. True change.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 14, 2009

The power of social media and the authentic storytelling that takes place is in the opportunity for people to inspire other people to take action, which leads to lesson #2. Lesson #2: Action. Her question spurred some interesting comments that targeting the idea of taking action. Lesson #3: Local vs Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Quentin Young, Founder, and Margie Schap, Executive Director Health & Medicine Policy Research Group.    Her organization was formed 27 years ago by an activist group of clinicians, social scientists, health care executives and policy analysts to advocate for health equity and improved public health.  

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

The site will help public health professionals, community leaders, policy makers, and consumers discover how healthy their county is compared to other counties and to uncover strategies to reduce disparities and improve community health. Additionally, a user can view maps for individual counties, such as Fairfax County , Va.,

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Use email to reach out to your constituents to let them know what you’re up to or to ask them to take action. With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. The details of your emails are critical.

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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. One-Click Advocacy: What is the call to action online? and storify.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 22, 2009

The way I see it, there are many directions that technology is aiding social change work: enabling data sharing, exchange and mapping. As the numbers of users grow, so do your number of friends, and then in turn so does the frequnecy of news items, status updates, and general calls to action for your network. Good question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot.

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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. Transparent scorecard reporting: After aggregating a "grade" for each policy maker, publish it on the Internet, with all relevant substantiating information.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

We opened ourselves up, invited communities, and created an expectation that asking for help in these spaces will result in real-life action. Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

I think you create balance by focusing the competition on the stages of: Open door policy for contributing/submitting. 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). Public voting process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

And the goal of those relationships can be learning, collaboration, policy, service delivery, advocacy, mobilizing or action. I tend to map my "working the clouds" work in short, time boxed bursts. Tags: movement building netaction network effectiveness network weaving scholar social media.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

" Highlights include the Public Policy Action Institute, nGen workshops and networking for emerging leaders, and a CEO track. November 8-11 in San Diego, CA : T he TAG Annual conference will focus on Harnessing New Trends in Communications and Technology. Tags: Fall Conferences holly ross NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. Call 2 Action in booth 88. Democracy In Action in booth 11. in booth 38.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

Oh, and just in case you want to plan your prize route, here's a map. We're a GIS software development firm, and we'd love to share with you how you can use the power of geographic information systems -- beyond just displaying dots on a map. Call 2 Action in booth 88. Democracy In Action in booth 11. in booth 38.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Do you have a friending policy ? Tags: Information Coping Skills. Take my information overload quiz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. That is one reason why I always incorporate a reflection at the end that helps participates identify one small action step.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Putting a resolution into action with baby steps is the best way to succeed. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Do you have a friending policy ?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

For example, knowing that a certain message or call to action, or even type of service, worked for one organization in one community translated to other organizations as a packaged up and ready to repeat solution. We thought that there would need to be new tactics for making impact and new calls to action. Analog Strategies.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Your website must follow Google’s website policy. Strategically place calls to action. Calls to action (CTAs) tell users exactly how to support your cause after being inspired by content. You can use a Google Ads conversion tracking tag or import goals from Google Analytics. Set up valid conversion tracking.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Some goals can be pretty easily quantified -- such as dollars raised, actions taken, or members recruited. Mapping the Network. Once we identified these blogs, a map was created (diagram 1) using a “physics model” algorithm to visually cluster the blogs, represented by dots, into “proximity clusters” or network neighborhoods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities. Tags: twitter.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2017

Google Tag Manager helps you add little bits to sites; for example, you can track conversions from social media onto your site. And check out Google Data Studio while you're at it — there are tons of useful tools in there, as used by Action for Children. It's a must-have for all nonprofit websites.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

But remember don’t treat it as a one way communication tool to just blast out your latest press releases and action alerts. Build Your Community At the end of the day raising money, motivating people to take action and social networking is about building up your community – a base of friends.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Founded by Susan Crawford, who now advises President Obama on science, technology, and innovation policy, OneWebDay is a global event that is celebrated every September 22 since 2006. While they're having fun, they'll take some time to talk about Internet policy and highlight the work of local digital inclusion advocates.

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