3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Certainly fundraising data management isn’t as interesting as writing good copy, telling stories about your nonprofit’s successes, or chasing new potential donors. Check your reply cards, online forms and every other tool that you use to intake donor data. Are you using program outcomes data to tell better stories?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals.

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Whole Whale

MAY 10, 2024

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). DREAM (formerly Harlem RBI) DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

You will also find a well-curated resource toolkit that includes articles, books, tools, and resources. Communication and storytelling skills: Someone who understands the many audiences of your organization, both internal and external, and who can help you craft the right messaging and stories with your data. How to collect data?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

However, throwing a million charts and graphs together or writing a 10,000-word essay on why your nonprofit is the best isn’t going to be so effective (or worth anyone’s time). DREAM’s annual report is doing everything right: beautiful images, student stories, and (of course) thanking their donors. offers a profound analysis of #MeToo.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year. The chart above shows that 2023 saw higher overall volumes throughout the day, with a small spike at 9:00 a.m.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Maps are a tool for visualizing data about place, much like charts are tools for visualizing numeric and financial data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals. Click to See Larger Version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2015

They have also provided resources for nonprofits to learn how to use tools to get feedback in t he Feedback Commons or the DIY Toolkit , and join GlobalGiving to earn points (which leads to more funding!) by using those tools to become more effective. (Or, Captricity is a tool that extracts data from forms and documents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Delight: Check out these charts and graphs! Elearning space defines it as: “Use of intelligent data, learner-produced data, and analysis models to discover information and social connections, and to predict and advise on learning.” Denial: You can’t measure social media! I tested each one. Please leave a comment.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

Just as your organization’s story — its mission, community, history, constituents, partners, everything that makes it unique — should guide your organization’s engagement strategies , your underlying tech foundations should be guided by a similar roadmap, as well. What’s the best way to get started? Develop an overarching technology strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? " It does take more time in the beginning if you're just acquiring the skill with a particular tool. Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools. For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. Download it here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. They found that simply by undertaking an audit and tidying up the organization's data, they were able to tell a compelling story to current and potential funders. The moral of the story? Poor Presentation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today, there are many tools to visualize and share data online. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. So how can your organization tap into these tools and trends?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Her selection criteria.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

However, access to the tools isn't enough. TechSoup will only be able to achieve our mission (which is to help you achieve your mission) when we're able to give you the tools, skills, and community to leverage technology effectively. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Monday, November 7, 2016.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Are you struggling to turn your data into meaningful insights that can improve your work or tell your organization's story? With the right knowledge and tools, we believe every nonprofit can better explore its data and spot trends, outliers, and even new opportunities. Use Line Charts and Area Charts to Track Trends over Time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits. They brought along their chimes which are a great tool for getting people's attention when they are working in pairs or small groups.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Social media tools give your stakeholders ways to interact with data like never before. . Obviously, you aren't overseeing a stimulus package -- but you can use the same set of tools and ideas to show your stakeholders exactly what you're up to. More and more of our data is in the cloud, or accessible via APIs. You can do it, too!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

And you probably struggle to turn that data into meaningful insights that can improve your work or tell your organization's story. That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart." Now think about making a chart comparing donation amounts for the past three years.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

It includes those who understand data well (researchers), and others who are likely less familiar with complex data analysis tools. Users can then choose to share the data or download the data to perform their own analysis. Use data to tell stories Very few users will download a dataset and manipulate the data to find answers.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

They’re able to tell a great story and they’re able to communicate a solution to an obvious need. And that starts kind of with a readiness assessment and a gap analysis. You know, that’s where you have those visual tools to put in front of a donor that they can go, “Ah, I see. That really is neat.”

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

“Photography is a powerful medium for telling stories—but not all stories are equally visible.”. A common need for these efforts is how to tell the story of the roles women around the world play today in decision-making, income earning, and accessing and using reproductive health care information and services. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. He told me there were presenter tools - so you could present your slides on the screen, see your notes, and see the whole slide deck. Observations. Some excellent ideas here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Finally, allocating time for a reflection about what worked, what didn’t based on an analysis of the data is critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. " And I'd add blogs, twitter, flickr, tagging, and all the other social media tools and strategies to the list too. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ). So, here's mine - sort of. " Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Humanize the Reporting: Don’t just report numbers, include the stories. Visual Humor: Don’t just use numbers, bar charts, and graphs. So, focusing on the reporting and outcomes versus the data and the data collection tools or process. Using personas or vignettes can make data come alive and make it more relevant.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

AnnieCannons gives human trafficking survivors the tools to support themselves and their family. Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth. This will enable authorities to target resources more efficiently and ensure that the helpline is a key tool in the U.K.’s

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

But the reality is that a single statistic, on its own, rarely tells the whole story. Both leadership and front-line staff need to invest in basic statistical analysis training so we can ask the right questions and seek the right kinds of data before launching into solution mode or resting on our laurels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. Our individual and collective capacity to hold multiple perspectives, even when we disagree, is a valuable movement-building tool. Affect Conf / Portland, OR / Less than $200.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools." I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Just don't have it be some organization online where you see graphics of bar charts and research reports, but not real human beings. They want to hear stories of people that look just like them. I did policy reports, and analysis and research. I think it's the one that organizations get most instinctively.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

Some organizations have been regularly curating visual content on Pinterest, for example, this board from Momsrising on Health Care Stories. We also did media outreach and placed a couple member stories, interviews and opeds by our ExecDir, and shared several pictures from UpWorthy. ” What’s the value?

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