Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

The product of this learning journey, Just In Time: Beyond-the-Hype Potential of E-Learning , has just been published. Based on a year of conversations with more than 100 leading thinkers, practitioners, and entrepreneurs, this report explores the state of e-learning and the potential it offers beyond the confines of formal education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing. The key question we asked is whether digital and social media are delivering on their promise and the hype.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Recent data shows that total commitments and donor retention are both down in 2020. Regardless of whether it’s new technology, a new staffing model, or even a small adjustment to a process, adoption and success can hinge on keeping a focus on the human element of the change. So how do we combat this?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Per NTEN, the Cloud Summit will: Teach you how to distinguish hype vs. reality. And take a look at the human side of the Cloud - staff training and technology adoption. " Technical Track sessions will include "Security in the Cloud" and "Migrating Your Data to the Cloud." The best part?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2009

Various media outlets such as the New York Times , Forbes , and Ars Technica are reporting that McKinsey; along with The Uptime Institute, a data center consulting group; released a report this week on the value (and hype) of cloud usage, cloud computing, and cloud services. Photo: Karen Ka Ying Wong , CC License. read more.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2019

Is the hype surrounding remote work warranted? You may consider adopting a policy prohibiting employees from using public WiFi on their work devices. Make sure to have solid security measures in place to protect your data. You’ll learn how your nonprofit can secure its important documentation. The short answer—yes.

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.orgSource

JULY 17, 2023

With data-driven insights, campaigns take flight, Association marketing soars to new heights. Should we believe the hype? AI models use algorithms to recognize patterns, learn from specific sets of data, and provide responses based on that education. They are built to identify patterns and connections within that data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

You can almost visualize swarms of companies jumping off into the abyss following competitors, self serving social media consultants and momentum created by mainstream media hype, each yelling “weeeee, social meeeeeedeeeeahhhh” and then realizing (maybe too late) with wide open eyes that they’re not prepared (no social media policy, no roadmap).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. That’s an incredibly high donor retention rate for a set of tools that are still in their early adoption phase. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. More from the Convio Summit this week. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

To monitor and reflect, you need collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Avoid data collection for the sake of data collection or you will pollute your reflection. " As a marketing person, I would be annoyed if every promotion was successful and extremely hyped but did not somehow lead to a sale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

Collaborative networks which were never possible due to geographic limitations are now sharing knowledge, collecting data and doing team work. They hype around "Web 2.0" Specific approaches adopting web based collaboration technologies. This issue. It is easy to focus on the technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2006

As always happens, these slow adopters will eventually be dragged kicking and screaming along when they find nobody occupying the space they stayed behind to protect. been through the cycle a few times, hype and burn. The subject must be modeled using complex data and formulae. I have a large collection of buttons that I???

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Judi Sohn

MAY 29, 2009

Early-adopter-types (you know who you are) will talk about it nonstop for a while, and then forget about it until it actually launches. Those “regular&# people will try it for 15 minutes, be confused and overwhelmed depending how much of the bling the early-adopter puts in (and maybe just a bit bored), and not return.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 8, 2006

Like data management and databases, that seems to be kind of killing everybody, that's sort of the heart of the challenge for a lot of people. What do you think that this means for the adoption of emerging technology by non-profits? Many capacity-builders, we all had similar instincts, right? Pretty frustrated.

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