Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Family members.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

In addition to helping make the study, you’ll receive an individualized analysis comparing the data you submitted for your organization to other organizations of your size and type. And we provide analysis that helps put all of that into context and guide decision-making. Your data security and anonymity are VERY IMPORTANT to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. 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. .

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AFP Blog

MARCH 20, 2012

But one other thing that becomes clear from the Pew report is just how big a role aggregators of all kinds — both human and machine-powered — are playing in news consumption.

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Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources. Augment your reporting with data analysis. When you can connect your work to a bigger story , it is easier to communicate impact, which will result in more success for your organization and your grantees.

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Candid

MAY 14, 2021

Based on aggregated data from seventy-four giving platforms and issue- and action-specific apps and tools, the report, Giving in Unprecedented Times: A Lookback at 2020 U.S. Total charitable giving increased 5.2 percent and 11 percent more, respectively, than they did in 2019.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

Check our blog – you will find that we periodically report on the aggregated polling results. In question 1, the response rate for people finding it easier to conduct fundraising campaigns was higher than our observed norm, 29% today vs. 21% all results aggregated. From this group of respondents, we learned a few things.

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Nucleus

AUGUST 17, 2021

Generally, the rule for online surveys is to use a quantitative tool that collects “hard” data for analysis. It tends to take about 20 minutes to answer a survey of this length. But, “less is more.” If you can create a shorter tool, do it. These types of questions tend to be ranking questions (e.g., or multiple choice questions (e.g.,

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Candid

JULY 27, 2022

Because of the challenges of aligning public promises with later grant dollars , Candid aggregates pledges and grants separately in our analyses. Analysis that relies on real-time data does not provide a final, definitive picture of funding. We recommend that others do the same. . foundation grantmaking.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 11, 2014

And sitting in the middle of the debate are data brokers – companies that specialize in the collection, mashing, analysis and sale of billions of pieces of data about millions of people. Data is aggregated, analyzed and put to all sorts of good uses. Nonprofits rely on data, data aggregation, data brokers every day.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. Data connectors can consolidate data from many different platforms, not just UA and GA4, significantly streamlining the data aggregation process and providing a more comprehensive view of your organization’s data.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In a recent analysis , we looked at the characteristics of the December cohort, which totaled $4.2 The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. billion to 384 nonprofits. Grant size distribution.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos? Additionally, they can experience improved care collaboration and enhance overall patient care.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Constituent relationship management systems (CRM) are a great way to automate data collection, aggregation, and build financial, business, and operational reports–all of which are going to help you the next time you meet with your board. Risk Analysis.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. In 2007, I realized that a much more effective way to aggregate interesting actions would be to subscribe to RSS feeds from trusted sources.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

An analysis team from European Commission's Joint Research Center analyzed the text messages gathered through Ushahidi together with data on damaged buildings collected by the World Bank and the UN from satellite images. However, we worry that crowdsourced data are not a good data source for doing statistics or finding patterns.

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Candid

MARCH 28, 2022

In aggregate, nonprofits rely more on earned income than donations. 2] Analysis of foundation funding is based on all grants awarded by U.S. 1] Additionally, many religious organizations are not required to register with the IRS, so there are likely far more religious organizations in the social sector at large. .

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Your aggregate-level data will still be saved, but event-level data, such as file downloads, will only be kept for 14 months. With the insights that you gain from data analysis, you can then iterate on your campaign strategy and improve it for the next month, quarter, or year. How far in various conversion funnels do users get?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

Online versions of assessments for participants that would can calculate individual scores and show aggregate results. I do have a file with the questions, so I can do an analysis of the questions and think about how to improve my materials. Flash polls. I tested a few different options and here’s what I learned so far.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

We are aggregating answers with each recurrence of the event. CRM Data Management data cleaning data management data mining donor database fundraising data analysis' We provide examples of how to achieve this alignment more effectively, as well as examples of common data problems that organizations encounter and need to overcome.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

When’s the last time you heard a board member say, “Members want…” followed by an aggregate of the last five conversations they’ve had. Dig Below the Surface to Find Gaps in Member Retention It’s likely that your organization measures retention rates, but are you looking at the surface or digging in below the aggregate level ?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

In the case of J-FLAG, Martus enables the organization to protect the identity of victims of abuse who come forward to tell their stories, to secure the information from their interviews, to report on the types of crimes documented, and to aggregate evidence for future court proceedings. and the European Union.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 6, 2010

Integrate with other APIs and/or advanced feeds: The ability to make direct calls to open APIs and/or advanced feeds (provided they are available) to expand the number of data-points included in the aggregation. Add a minimum of three (hopefully more!) new sources that are specifically focused on global development-related causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

You have to ask, how is polling the audience and seeing the aggregate results helping people learn? Here how collecting data and displaying aggregate might enhance learning: (Add in the comments if you think I missed anything). Participants took the assessment and we saw the aggregate results. In other words, to what end?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. Aggregate data is tricky here—we don’t have enough data points to pull out medians without exposing individual organizations.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

Based on our analysis, the answer is, it's (currently) impossible to know —but it’s important to get right. . Mastercard ) or issuing periodic press releases announcing aggregate funding to groups of nonprofits (e.g., the NBA Foundation ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

Collaboration: refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Collective Intelligence: refers to the idea that the social web enables us to not only aggregate individual actions, but also run sophisticated algorithms on them and extract meaning from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

o Google Analytics is free, as are many other basic analysis tools. For example, there is a simple way to use Flickr and a custom email address to aggregate photos from your constituents to then create a photo of the day similar to @CharityWater. o Just gather, analyze, and act based on key performance indicators. Siloed tech/data.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The community will help identify and point to the best how-to guides and useful resources that cover all aspects of creating, aggregating, and distributing social media. The resulting curriculum which will live on this wiki and will also cover important organizational adoption issues, strategy, ROI analysis, as well as the tools.

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Care2

JANUARY 30, 2012

The results below come from aggregate data from 14 organizations we work with – a big thanks to them for letting us include their data in this post. These aren’t necessarily the same organizations we included in our write-up last year; this analysis compares two years of data for these 14 groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But, if you want more suggestions, see 22 Must Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Nonprofits on Google + that Heather Mansfield aggregated. It offers a quasi social network analysis to see how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. Next, I put together a circle of nonprofit brands that I could observe and learn from.

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Classy

MAY 6, 2021

In addition, big platforms like Google and Facebook may also start to help with data analysis by aggregating their large data sets for organizations to see trends within their smaller data sets. The obstacle is the way.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

The top row shows how a web site can be used to aggregate information - which is a valuable service for users, and which requires the web site host to collect/screen information, a fairly "mechanical" work process. While aggregated information can help build trusted customers, it does not move the host organization to becoming influential.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis. Aside from membership, do you know the most valuable products your association offers? What is the trend in sales over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. The big deal is that all of this data is in one dashboard, so I can jump straight to analysis, making my weekly report a whole lot easier to produce.

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