Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 12, 2019

Though all nonprofits further a social cause that provides a public benefit, no two are ever exactly alike. You want to base your audience’s persona out of a serious analysis, to avoid missing out on critical aspects. ” You can even use comparisons to make things more emphatic. Get To Know Your Target Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Clearly articulated benefits statement that looks at tangible and intangible. Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. There are two types of benefits. Tangible Benefits.

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Candid

JULY 21, 2021

Our respective organizations join in collaboration each year with Ariadne—European Funders for Social Change and Human Rights, and Prospera—International Network of Women’s Funds, to conduct this research and provide the single most comprehensive analysis of where philanthropic money goes for human rights around the world. We documented $3.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2007

The nonprofit sector could benefit from these innovations that this openness has the potential inspiring. As Michael Hoffman describes the practical benefits: Imagine you run one program for your main donor database and another program for your email and online data. Judi Sohn has a comparison of the two approaches.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users. Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008).

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change. We are changing our analysis and shifting our practices to be fully accountable to racial justice movements. Looking across years and areas illuminates trends, uncovers gaps, and provides comparisons within the field.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2022

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2017 through FY2021. The data set included 20 million donors who gave 71 million gifts for a total of $2.9

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. The same people that want all your site stats made public probably want to know the salaries and benefit packages of the employees too, and they aren’t entitled to that either. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2020

Benchmarking d ata, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 16 million donors who gave 56 million gifts for a total of $2.3 The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2015 through FY2019. . This gives us a unique vantage point in FY 2019.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

These organizations, which together pay $670 billion in wages and benefits annually, create America’s education, culture, art, religion, science, and provide many of the social services upon which our communities depend. There are now many examples of public benefits that have come from “opening up” government data. When the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Data, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons, included 17.7 The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2014 through FY2018. million donors who gave 61.4 million gifts for a total of $2.41 billion in FY2018. (The

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2016 through FY2020. The data set included 16 million donors who gave 57 million gifts for a total of $2.4

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

There’s definitely room for an open source effort, but it needs to match the realities of the nonprofit world: most nonprofits don’t have the benefit of in-house techies, most don’t like their data out on the web, and most can’t afford thousands of dollars or hours. 2 David Zeidman 08.07.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

The key on Pathable is that we can ask them questions that they respond to with tags to describe themselves or interest: This creates some interesting effects- you can find other people with common interests based on tags, and Pathable does a tag comparison to suggest other people you may want to get to know during the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons. Act 3: The Benefits. The social aspect is a very important benefit. A few nonprofits are using socialbookmarking to track resources or follow particular topics for trend analysis for strategic planning.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data—the capture, analysis, and use—can be overwhelming. The analysis of our fundraising programs’ performance helped set the foundation for embracing big data and creating the cultural shift needed at Project HOPE. The analysis moved beyond short-term metrics such as annual net revenue and took a macro view of our program.

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