Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Charts: Compare funding for different activities and display it on a trends chart, bar chart or wind rose (circular bar chart). This like doing a landscape analysis with a simple click! On the grantmaker side, it allows you to do a systems analysis to see how your funding investment fits into the sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? . I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The workshop used design-thinking based on Luma methodology to help participants develop a communications strategy for measuring impact. The process took participants through an assessment of the problems facing them, collective brainstorming, and prototyping. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Loaded with analysis tools, it also contains a video feature that lets you see exactly what problems exist that are making your site sluggish and quick tips for correcting any issues. Once you’ve utilized one of these tools to test your site it’s time to explore options for increasing speed and performance. WebPagetest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

According to the CDC, insufficient sleep is a public health problem. And while the trackers can’t determine if you really are sleeping, it records the total time asleep, number of times restless or awake and total time restless based on your body movement. Start with getting enough sleep.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. The same is true for ongoing vs. first-time donors. How much food do you need to feed them, and within what time period? . Do this overall and also for first-time and ongoing donors. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. .

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2013

So it saves users time because they won't need IT to help with a database every time and won't spend hours fine-tuning a spreadsheet. Save Time Right from the Start. Eastern time. data visualization data SAP tssap data viz tsresearchanalytics business intelligence charts Visual Intelligence graphs'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Do you need an easy way to track tweets from an event in real time? It makes really easy to do a quick content analysis, figure out what content resonated, and build community. I couldn’t actually use it because I have too many followers and it took too long to synch, but they’re coming out a version to handle this problem.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. Use time-limited offers to create urgency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). In general, they tend to wait until the kinks in the platform are worked out and there is less risk involved investing staff time. Wait for maturation?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. Measuring Too Much. In some cases, tracking too many measures is as almost as bad as not tracking at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

Collecting stories from people who aren’t direct participants in your programming is a great way to understand the problems the broader community experiences, and the solutions they do (or don’t) appreciate. Collect stories from your local community (not just the people involved in your programs). Try the free version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2008

The visual shows the results of a pattern analysis of the 100 most popular Facebook applications (video of lecture here ). According to this analysis, Causes probably falls in the Adapted Patterns/Competition. In my levels of engagement chart, a simple action involves befriending (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  His engaging and funny presentation was called "Tough Times call for Tough Measures."      Chart of an emotional visit to Starbucks.      Problem with tools you keep doing one thing.  is there problem?   They visit one page and goes away.  

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Forum One was a sponsor, and several of my colleagues from our user experience and design team lead sessions on topics ranging from tips on quick and simple audience analysis to learning from design mistakes and making client engagement fun in a group setting. Flexibility: Will we be able to improve it over time?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. Board recruiting is hard,” said Tivoni Devor, author of “The face of nonprofit boards: a network problem,” published in Nonprofit Quarterly on March 4, 2015. “In These factors explain and perpetuate the problem of board diversity.”.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Key staff members enter, manage, and report on this data, but it can be difficult to pull together snapshots of progress quickly in order to make real-time course corrections. BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics. What is Business Intelligence?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Every time I present or facilitate a workshop, I review the web sites and social media ant trails (social media properties) of participants. . The wiki becomes an electronic flip chart and resource collector. I spent a lot of time last week tweaking the point system on the tool cards to guide better strategy decisions.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nonprofit strategic planning often gets a bad rap, but time spent mapping out your organization’s future can save you from spinning your wheels, being busy but not effective. And who has time to take all the theory and translate it into an action plan? And who has time to take all the theory and translate it into an action plan?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

And, while I practice before I present, many times - I have some parts that are new. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time. Didn't have enough time to focus on applying the tools. I also like to practice my storytelling skills.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I hope you can spend some time in the next few weeks to take a break and carry out some much-deserved self-care. Take time to appreciate your team members who contributed to your organization’s fundraising success. . You need a detailed analysis to make an actionable plan to improve your fundraising efforts. 10 Key Data Points.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Problem: AnnieCannons employs only three full-time staff members in their fight against human trafficking, which means it needs to be as efficient as possible in managing its contacts and business processes. Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The problem is that data everywhere! Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. Why is that so hard?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2015

The last few months have been a time of deep reading and thinking many reports, research, and books. One book that resonated not only with this work, but my previous work on networked nonprofits is nonprofit technology colleague Maddie Grant’s ” When Millennials Take Over ,” written with Jamie Notter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

The survey looked at nonprofit’s self-reported results, goals, time investment, and measurement approaches for Facebook, although I wonder if you can really answer the big picture question without looking at how nonprofits use Facebook in the context of an integrated strategy and good measurement practice benchmarking study.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

As you dive deep into the world of storytelling and connecting with donors, we also want you to have a great time and feel inspired when you leave. on the heels of an historic election, at a time of significant change in the sector and the country. Our goal is to create a space where you'll feel nurtured and cared for. 11/10/2016.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] Bit.ly: A URL shortener that tracks information such as number of clicks, traffic sources, and at what time the clicks occur. link] Twopular: Tracks the most popular trends on twitter including who is the top people tweeting specific trends (aka trendsetters) and a bar chart listing the hours a topic trended.

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