Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Marketing automation tools integrate with CRM systems, ensuring that donor data is up to date and synchronized across platforms. Other types of engagement, (clicks, email opens, social follows) can be factored into the scoring system, even if the data comes from a third party source. Which email copy is best?

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Marketing Fundraising Test Nonprofit 203

Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The reality for many organizations, whether a smaller nonprofit, a large international advocacy organization or a government agency, is that their data lives in separate silos. Tools and channels that house data often do not make it easy to navigate. Not sure how to compare or connect data sources. Does this sound familiar?

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Data Analysis Map Question 71

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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Data Tools Management Effective 72

Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, keep an eye toward how your internal and external reports can blend data-driven stories of impact. Start with the goals you set yourself Before searching for data, start with your Key Performance Indicators (KPIs).

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2024

I have been brought to tears trying to figure out what was wrong with me and why I couldn’t “get it”—a software program, an app, a data platform—or couldn’t get it to do what I needed it to do. The list is long and includes roles like information technology, evaluation, grants analysis, learning and change, systems management, and more.

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Knowledge Product Technology Work 74

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Data Migration Plan: Strategies, Steps, and Best Practices GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - To make the adoption of new IT systems successful, data migration is a crucial step. It is not only about moving data from one system to another. It is about ensuring that the sanity of the data is intact in the process. Absolutely.

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Practice Data Strategy Phase 52

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Data Migration Plan: Strategies, Steps, and Best Practices GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - To make the adoption of new IT systems successful, data migration is a crucial step. It is not only about moving data from one system to another. It is about ensuring that the sanity of the data is intact in the process. Absolutely.

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Practice Data Strategy Phase 52

Gyrus

MARCH 17, 2024

Data Migration Plan: Strategies, Steps, and Best Practices Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems To make the adoption of new IT systems successful, data migration is a crucial step. It is not only about moving data from one system to another. What is Data Migration? Absolutely.

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Practice Data Strategy Phase 52

Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

When you migrate to Salesforce, you become deeply familiar with your organization’s data—the volume, the quality, and the insights it can provide. You carefully analyze and map your legacy data, populating your new system until it’s full of your organization’s history. The Role of a Data Warehouse.

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Roles Data Strategy Technology 112

NTEN

MAY 25, 2011

Data and storytelling are, to quote the great American sage, Forrest Gump, “like peas in a pod”. Data is vital for powerful analysis, but at the end of the day, we're swimming in it. For us to be moved by it, we need to have data turned into narrative sense. More specifically, what about mapped data?

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

Third Sector Labs recently presented a data migration webinar with host Bloomerang. The topic – “10 Decisions You Will Face with Any Donor Data Migration” – focused on preparing for your next CRM or data migration while addressing 10 tough decisions nonprofits encounter along the way. 1-2 = 61%.

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Data Donor Poll Aggregator 138

Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related. This week, the call for data measurement in the social sector heightens with the proposition of a Social Progress Index and ways that NGOs can use data maps to increase effectiveness. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified.

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Map Trend Data Open Source 57

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

However, we worry that crowdsourced data are not a good data source for doing statistics or finding patterns. 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.

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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. Store the data. Model the data. Analyze the data.

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Data Tools Management Effective 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for NGOS by Darren Barefoot. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil. At the end of the year, you’ll have twelve new data points about your audience.

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Analysis Audience Test China 107

sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Many in philanthropy now have titles or job descriptions that include creative words like knowledge insights, grants and learning, information systems, data discovery, or relational analysis. We are often also asked to organize concepts (and tons of data) and suggest clarity in what feels like chaos.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Charts and graphs are useful, but when you have any kind of location data — whether it's postal codes, state abbreviations, country names, or your own custom geocoding — you've got to see your data on a map. You wouldn't leave home to find a new restaurant without a map (or a GPS anyway), would you?

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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. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Social Network Analysis Social Media Network 105

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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Analysis Social Network Social Media Network 96

fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

Businesses deal with a lot of data, and analyzing it in its raw form is frequently difficult. Tableau is the most extensively used data visualization application. Tableau Dashboards combine images, visual objects, text, and other components to present a comprehensive view of your data. Supports numerous data sources.

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Chart Map Database Data 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

RT @ kanter what every #datanerd needs in their wardrobe – I Love Data T-shirt bit.ly/QlhMt4. The September, 2012 Issue of the NTEN Change Journal is pure crack for nonprofit #datanerds (folks who would definitely wear a t-shirt emblazoned with “I Love Data!” Mission Measurement (@MissionMeasure) September 5, 2012.

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Attention Data Fundraising Journal 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. Despite a few glitches, you use this tool to see if your audience is local or global. What did you discover by putting your Twitter followers on the map?

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Map Twitter Washington Chart 96

M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

This is from the perspective of a web developer, and this overview leans towards the implementation of GA and Google Tag Manager (GTM) and not on building reports within the GA4 interface once data is flowing. GA4 has been built to provide cross-platform data, so user activity can be tracked across web and app access. Event Types.

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Analytics Google Track Map 105

Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Furthermore, while NXT Insight Designer has matured, it will not be a full replacement for CT clients because it is limited to NXT data only. . The other solution Blackbaud is offering to its clients is to export all data (via nightly backups or Database View Export) and report on the raw data outside of the database.

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Blackbaud Report Chart Analytics 94

Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2012

The first of these free webinars, Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good , will be held on Thursday, March 29 at 11 a.m. At the Foundation Center, he builds mapping applications, data visualizations, semantic analysis scripts, and application programming interfaces (APIs). Pacific time.

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Map Philanthropy Data Script 50

sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Aggregating all of your data can help streamline your tasks and encourage analysis across multiple sources. Then map out your technology and data ecosystem so you know what you use and how it connects. Once you have that outlined, see where you can connect your systems through APIs to pull data in and across platforms.

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Effective Tips Grant API 72

sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Experiment with Journey Mapping A colorful visualization of the constituent experience, journey mapping is a model that helps you track how and when you engage with supporters and when and why they make the giving choices they do. They turned to donor journey mapping. And that means analyzing data.

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Donor Registration Map United Kingdom 77

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2013

This map is one of a series of 80 global maps describing the state of terrestrial, freshwater, and marine habitats. It is the result of a collaborative data and data visualization project undertaken by the Nature Conservancy scientists, working with governments, scientists and conservation organizations around the world.

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Forum One

JUNE 26, 2024

Mapping this research to huge data sets and creating validated algorithms makes it possible to “score” language in a consistent manner. Analysis with a psycholinguistic lens can reveal if those attributes are supported or undermined by the language used on the page. Why use psycholinguistics?

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Communication Effective Brain Language 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. 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.

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Social Network Analysis America Network 95

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

It might be even useful to locate a volunteer with a background in sales or data analysis and see if you can get them to come on board as the one person in your organization who can go through the feedback and present the results. Think of it like mapping a route to take. S elf-care prioritization. And good luck!

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Results Nonprofit PowerPoint Map 116

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

I'm not a criminologist, but being a curious data person, I wondered which bus stops historically recorded the most crimes. Here's what I found, and I'll show you the steps I took in Tableau Desktop , available at TechSoup, to make the following map. Gathering the Data.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Marc's talk was fantastically insightful and full of ways that community managers can use social network analysis to gain greater insights into and grow their communities. What is social network analysis?

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Map Network San Francisco Social 57

NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. There are many sites that allow you to upload data, as well as download other data, for free. The site hosts a wealth of data searchable by agency, category, topic, or geographically.

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Site Share Data Journal 76

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

While this list is great for starting the discussion, for a more detailed audit and analysis, enlist the support of Media Cause MarTech experts. This leaves the organization lacking a place that houses all of their data, acting as their “one source of truth” that they can plan from and use to check all other sources of information.

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Build Map Platform Integration 59

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Quantitative and qualitative data are often positioned as opposing or complementary means of documenting impact. Data reports and personal snapshots are often generated separately, then placed side-by-side with the hope that the juxtaposition of hard metrics with an emotional picture and blurb will resonate with a wide range of people.

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Case Study Story Data Studies 68

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Ari Sahagun , a consultant who works with social justice groups on network visualizations, called for a group to discuss Network Mapping and Visualization. We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. The notes are here.

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