Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

You can watch the video here as well as the human curated resources shared and a Copilot created summary transcript here. I have personally found this use case extremely helpful to have a one-click summary of really long threads transformed into actionable steps w/ links to source email.)

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Below is a sample Statement of Activities for a nonprofit organization using Blackbaud’s Financial Edge NXT software (FENXT) : How do SOAs Help Organizations? An SOA helps nonprofits analyze their financial health by showing how revenues are generated and how funds are allocated. Internal Revenue Code.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It helps if they’re easy to understand, shareable, and engaging across a broad audience. To save money, time, and effort while putting together your annual report, we’ve compiled nonprofit annual report examples to help give your organization inspiration and a comprehensive guide to get you started. The American Kidney Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. 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. Social network analysis gives you a 10,000 view of your ecosystem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Data Analysis. This conversation explored common pitfalls to analysis approaches and how to avoid them. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. User Research.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

While these changes may feel overwhelming, there are easy things you can do with your current staff and set of resources that will help position your association to thrive in 2024. You should be able to observe data points that help to fill in gaps such as years in the profession, years as a member, and member types.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

The Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) introduces guidelines on how nonprofits should handle grants and contracts, and these updates help nonprofits report their finances accurately and in a standard manner. Regular training for staff on the nuances of fund accounting can also help prevent misunderstandings and ensure compliance.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

More detailed change tracking can be supported via Change Data Capture, allowing you to construct a history of crucial data points for more longitudinal analysis. Donor Giving Summaries. Consider archiving gifts older than five years to your data warehouse and generating summaries of prior giving via the warehouse.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

While donors who cannot make large donations often have to limit or withdraw their support during these times, major donors can help fill these new gaps in nonprofit funding. This process will help rule out any individuals who either are not able to make a major donation to your nonprofit or would likely not be willing to.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Including a budget in your marketing plan should help answer this question. Reflecting on these nonprofit marketing pillars, your mission, and your goals for the campaign will help you craft a plan that is detailed, realistic, and, above all, relevant to your organization and its supporters. Conducting user research.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.

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M+R

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We’ll do our best to make this as clear as possible, but some technical background is going to be helpful here. GA4 also incorporates Artificial Intelligence into its data analysis, to enable an enhanced level of forecasting. A strong cup of coffee might not hurt either. Our notes even changed between drafts of this post.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

GTD is a powerful productivity system that can help you to get more done and reduce stress. Ideas and prompts for 2-minute tasks: Write a summary of my meeting with key takeaways and next steps Prompt: Based on this transcript write key takeaways and to do items for our team written in a format for Asana/monday.com.

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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Here’s a summary of some of the best answers we received: A Strong Staff Supports a Strong Mission We measure success through employee feedback and the experiences of those we support. Help other nonprofits grow by sharing your knowledge and insights with a chance to be featured in the next Ask the Blue Avocado Community results.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

AI interfaces can be tuned to help with specific tasks your stakeholders do ranging from writing draft letters to officials, to getting feedback on poetry, creating drafts of RFPs for work and the list goes on. #2 This can inform your nonprofit’s decision-making and help you optimize your programs and services. Descript Audio Murf.ai

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2009

Photo by Chris John Beckett Sean Stannard-Stockton wrote a reflection on my analysis of the list of “foundations that tweet”. Sean takes a point of view: I think that technology and social media in particular is best used when it helps us more fully express those things that make us uniquely human. on the Philanthropy411 blog.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

I refer to this report fairly often because the summary points are such good reminders to all of us in the nonprofit sector (I’m interpreting a bit to use nonprofit terminology): Focus on your best donors. Now donors know how many people were helped and how much money was raised. You’ll see the difference. Definitely.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

To help nonprofits understand the tools available to them and how they can be incorporated into their digital strategies , this guide will explore three uses of modern nonprofit technology. More recent advances in nonprofit technology can help nonprofits organize that data into a useful format and make sense of it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

It seems that a room helps with the noise levels because people have to consciously add info to a given room. Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room. More analysis from Steve MacLaughlin Eric Johnson shared Text to Save Lives. So it's more selective. room, etc).

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

It’s an easy trap to fall into, and I can’t help to think we share the blame. The benchmark trends are important because they help us ensure our approach is on the path toward success, but a more accurate measurement is the number of constituents engaged. There is always more than what meets the eye at first glance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

" Marnie Webb also points out another way that a folksonomy can help improve a taxonomy - with maintenance. "The tools aren't there yet but it's possible to imagine tagging systems as data sources that help to create indices, merging different phrases, etc." full report here ) An analysis on the blog is forthcoming.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2023

While donors who cannot make large donations often have to limit or withdraw their support during these times, major donors can help fill these new gaps in nonprofit funding. This process will help rule out any individuals who either are not able to make a major donation to your nonprofit or would likely not be willing to.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

To help you prepare, we will ensure you can answer the following: What are the different types of events you can host? Reports and data analysis tool. Send a thank you letter as well as a summary of the event’s impact. For help crafting a thank you letter, check out this resource of free donor thank you letter templates.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2024

Bloomerang’s New Reporting Capabilities Last month we launched several new reporting capabilities to help you better understand volunteer impact, support grant submissions, and inspire existing and potential volunteers. You now have 60 new reports to help you measure volunteer impact. an hour, a 6.2% increase from 2021 to 2022.

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Forum One

JANUARY 19, 2023

Whether the visitor is a known or unknown user, the experience is tailored to fit their profile dynamically through data analysis, behavior, user attributes, and characteristics to create a more meaningful experience. The purpose is not only to affect and control change but also to help staff and stakeholders adapt to these changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. Because the taking the assessment in full would require a lot more time than we had for the workshop, Jo prepared a high level summary. Opening Exercise. Full Group Discussion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Bill Gates gave a speech on " creative capitalism."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Whether the visitor is known or unknown, the experience is tailored to fit their profile dynamically through data analysis, behavior, user attributes, and characteristics to create a more meaningful experience. The purpose is not only to affect and control change but also to help staff and stakeholders adapt to these changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

And how might we help bring these two groups together to create healthier nonprofits, healthier networks, and ultimately, healthier communities? Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

I've been working in the analytics industry for more than two decades now, with a many different types of organizations, and I hope some of my insights can help you if you're interested in using more data, or using it in smarter, more efficient ways. Here are some quick tips for using Excel to improve your data analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 22, 2013

We received copies of his Luma’s book and cards, “Innovation for People,” which is a synthesis of landscape analysis of design-thinking and human centered design methods. He told a story that someone in one of his workshops to teach these methods asked him, “So what are the skills that we need to practice for 10,000 hours?

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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

There comes a moment in most nonprofits’ lives where they realize it might be helpful to partner with another nonprofit on anything from programming to sharing back-office expenses. Conduct a financial analysis of each nonprofit (and of your organization).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Examples of open government data reuse in US by private corporations and nonprofits is also highlighted and a webinar to help those that also want to use it is being hosted this month. Analysis: Potential, pitfalls of "big data" for humanitarians. Data Won the U.S. Now Can It Save the World? Data Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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