Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. is the social media strategist for the National Wildlife Federation. Jordan Viator. writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Deborah Finn. is the woman behind the hilarious lolnptech spoof.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. The national spotlight on charitable giving and important causes. So, to be safe and consistently compare one year to the next, all of the year-over-year figures cited below are for November and December combined unless otherwise noted.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Aspen Institute led a collective effort that included Candid, the Urban Institute, the National Center for Charitable Statistics, and others, who together made a strong case to use technology to improve both transparency and efficiency. Compared to the clunky image files, this means it can be consumed much more efficiently at scale.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 24, 2024

And perhaps underscoring the divides in the nation, new data shows that when asked if they trust people in their communities to “do what is right,” just 36% had high trust in their neighbors, down 13 points from 2023. Just two of the 16 silos tested were in positive numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Ranger Rick Raccoon, the persona of the National Wildlife Federation and logical representative for the voice to inspire Americans to protect wildlife for our children's future has been silenced. Your childhood hero, Ranger Rick, has been banished from Facebook. social networking sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Twitter is sometimes used by small nations to increase their global visibility and tweet on a level playing field with other nations. One recent project is a real-time analysis and data visualization of the post2015 conversation on Twitter. The report shares several case studies and includes an addendum listing many projects.

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TechNode

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As a result, 20% of the vehicles produced in China are exported and it is the largest car export nation in the world. Figure 1 | Global Vehicle Production by Country Since 1950 Credit: OICA, Automobility analysis After World War II, Germany and Japan emerged as automobile production hubs, initially to serve their domestic markets.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. While blockchain and crypto arguably fall under the fintech category, I usually leave analysis of those segments to our crypto team, so I won’t go into a16z’s blockchain investments.

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

The seventh annual donorCentrics® Sustainer Summit brought together, via webinar, 31 of the nation’s largest national fundraising organizations to share results and discuss sustainer growth and retention strategies against the backdrop of the pandemic and other significant events that impacted donors and giving in 2020.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

Mark Zuckerberg appeared on national TV today to make a “special announcement.” The right metric for this market share analysis is unequivocally revenue — daily active users (DAU) x average revenue per user (ARPU). Facebook, by comparison, announced just weeks ago a paltry $1 billion program over a year and change.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2022

Promises include: Toolchest says it will make it possible for drug discovery companies to get analysis results up to 100 times faster. in statistics and has worked for places like Amazon and the National Institutes of Health. We’re here to build better core tooling for bioinformatics.”. Founders: Samson Koelle holds a Ph.D.

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The Verge

APRIL 8, 2022

Axie Infinity — whose creators refer to it as both a “nation” and “a bleeding-edge game that’s incorporating unfinished, risky, and highly experimental technology” — is sort of like hyper-financialized Pokémon. I don’t think we hide that fact,” Ryder says of the gambling comparison. “It

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TechCrunch

APRIL 2, 2023

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. Well, you can’t rely on any national institutions as your business partners. We also asked how she felt about the comparisons to Stripe…and her answer may surprise you.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

This is NOT a feature comparison but rather a market mapping to educate them on the players. Cohort analysis. Possibilities here include engagement stats, virality, spending more time or money with your business over time, putting more of their business on your platform, etc. A few testimonials alongside the data can also help.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

By way of comparison, the typical profitable firm in our sample had a net profit margin of 6.4%, so a 1 percentage point increase represents a 15% boost to profitability.”. First Round did not include their investment in Uber in their analysis we reference above on the grounds that it was an outlier.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. One national nonprofit I know had been working on putting together a measurement system for three years. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Underutilizing What You Have.

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The AI Alignment Forum

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But I think this comparison is misleading. I dont perform a complete cost-benefit analysis. This analysis gets complicated fast. Analogies to dictatorships suggest that autonomous control might be viable AI agents subject to autonomous control are like a nation that universally hates their dictator. Thats correct.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Trash is just one piece of that puzzle, and it’s currently in Live Nation ‘s spotlight as the events giant pumps $5 million into Turn Systems. Turn aims to help venues do away with single-use cups, and so far a series of trials show that the system is working, Live Nation claims. In the U.K.,

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

For example, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) undertook a six-year lobbying campaign in New York to pass better protections for domestic workers. In comparison, organizations in the District of Columbia and Wisconsin, which secured the second and third most funding, only received $75 million and $35 million respectively.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Coastal GasLink spent $50,000 on Facebook ads countering Wet’suwet’en protests between January and March of this year, according to a CBC News analysis. Those opposing the pipeline spent $3,000 in comparison, the analysis found. Greenpeace has continued to push the social media giant to disclose why the mistake was made. “We

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Google Research AI blog

APRIL 27, 2023

Large national efforts, such as the UK Biobank , have created large, public resources to better understand the links between environment, genetics, and disease. Much of the rich data from these spirograms is discarded in this analysis of lung function. The decrease of the curve indicates individuals in the cohort dying over time.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2017

The findings are based on analysis of online and offline giving data from sixteen large national nonprofits in the United States during 2016 and represents more than 6.5 By comparison, only 29% of online only donors were 65 or older while 58% of offline only donors are represented in these age brackets. million donors.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2022

This will include everything from funding rounds to trends to an analysis of a particular space to hot takes on a particular company or phenomenon. To be clear, if we reported on every rumor we heard here at TechCrunch, we’d turn into the “National Enquirer” of the startup world.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 20, 2025

Most supported maintaining export bans on advanced AI chips to adversarial nations like China. Anthropic urged the government to create mechanisms for assessing whether private-sector models could pose national security threats, and suggested opening dedicated communication channels between intelligence agencies and major AI labs.

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