Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2009

See Larger Version here from Labnol's Flickr Account Charting and graphing your data helps you see patterns and trends more easily and articulate them to decision-makers. Digital Inspiration found this terrific visual field guide to selecting the right chart or graph or graph format.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

As Osborn wrote in his book, “Creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom while discouragement often nips it in the bud.” The simple rules of brainstorming are typically articulated at the beginning of a session as ground rules and include the following: NO criticism or debate. Quantity matters. see above).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

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. This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 14, 2023

Mayopoulos, the former CEO and executive at Fannie Mae, said that the future of the bank is still being charted out, but added that depositors’ actions will impact these decisions. This is not a risky thing we’re asking you to do,” Mayopoulos said during the call. A relationship between SVB in the U.S.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We work with submitters on their pitches to help them consolidate their thoughts, articulate their proposition, and have the courage to defend their idea in front of the entire company.” Use Data to Drive Decisions The fancy graphics and charts that technology makes available aren’t show ponies. Starbucks is not dictating my behavior.”

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Anyone with access to data sets can explore their data, looking at it this way and that, until they find the best articulation of their analysis. . Themes for Viz Games are typically around a particular topic, dataset, business problem, chart/dashboard type, or feature. Great data and resources.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Anyone with access to data sets can explore their data, looking at it this way and that, until they find the best articulation of their analysis. . Themes for Viz Games are typically around a particular topic, dataset, business problem, chart/dashboard type, or feature. Great data and resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2014

We introduced ourselves by drawing a picture on a sticky note and using the speech bubble sticky to articulate a challenge in our practice. This reminds me of a similar technique I’ve used in face-to-face workshops over the years where you set up small groups to work at a flip chart and brainstorm ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. It puts measurement in its proper place as a means to an end, albeit a very important one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

It was articulated as: “We don’t have the skills to analyze, slice and dice, and make sense of our data, so it is hard to do it well.” I hear this too often from nonprofits. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Donors don’t like duplication of services, and getting grants will be tough if you can’t articulate how your approach is unique. Management and Organizational Charts. Break up the sections for easy reading, and use graphs and charts where you can. Marketing Plan. What is your mechanism for follow-up? Use only text.

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Forum One

JUNE 15, 2022

You might think, if we are so frequently wrong about how risky things are and how confident we can be in our assessment, then why articulate risk at all? Here is a quick example of a few risks articulated using this framework, explained in greater detail below. Articulating impacts of delays when they are considered.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 16, 2021

” It took some years — four, exactly — and perhaps the rise of Facebook and its focus on the “social graph,” for them to land on how to articulate the problem. Are they able to be as intelligent as they can be?” They needed to “unlock relationship graph in CRM,” Glidden said.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Once you have those numbers, clearly articulate your goals and identify what you need to meet your goals. What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . The point is this: You are where you are; the goal is to improve. Above that average?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

You have to put a flag in the sand and articulate what your outcome will be, whether grand or modest. The line between where the data analysis stops and the real work begins gets blurry. Do we stop and ask if it is useful? It is also important to also learn from our successes in the event they happened by accident. .

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Here are five traps to avoid as you plan your inbound marketing campaign and chart your course to success. A positioning statement is a one or two sentence statement that articulates your organization’s value. And that’s good news, because 65% of millennials (ages 20-35) prefer to learn about your nonprofit online*.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. The qualitative comes in the forms of comments and can often the why the numbers are moving in a particular direction. Measurement should not, ideally, be driven by a tool.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2009

Here are some of the highlights: If you aren't articulating how IT relates to your mission, expect leadership to cut deep. You need to articulate how IT relates to mission, over and over again. This prompted @jasonricci (CIO at the Energy Foundation ) to reply: IT shouldn't have to "articulate" anything.

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Tableau

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Anyone with access to data sets can explore their data, looking at it this way and that, until they find the best articulation of their analysis. . Themes for Viz Games are typically around a particular topic, dataset, business problem, chart/dashboard type, or feature. Great data and resources.

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Game Storytelling Analysis Culture 52

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

You need to articulately describe the need you’re addressing in a way that moves listeners’ hearts. A consistent trait I see among those I consider wildly successful nonprofit leaders is their ability to share their vision with others, either one-on-one or in a group.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

This is a chart of Facebook’s monopoly — 91% of the personal social networking market. In social media’s treacherous waters, as the FTC has struggled to articulate, feature sets are routinely copied and cross-promoted. Image Credits : Snapchat. Unfortunately, this is only partially right.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 3, 2025

These strategic plans chart out campaign dates and strategies, donor-tracking and retention plans , special event details, and a targeted communication schedule. Being able to articulate your organizations guiding principles allows you to strategically set priorities rather than attempting to tackle everything all at once.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Defined Audience.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Fall In Love With Understanding Your Donors Problems It is from that point that you will be able to craft and articulate compelling narratives that convert. In fact, 33% of donors say clear visuals like charts and images would increase their likelihood to donate. Focus on who your donor is through segmentation, research and surveys.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2019

We didn’t articulate where our norms overlapped and where our goals connected. Being transparent about goals is the first step, but then if you want to get to the end together, you have to chart a shared path. We didn’t do our due diligence to understand the differences of norms. Partners need to plan together.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2017

You can see them in this chart. But the answers hewed to the priorities articulated through these two exercises. While trustees and staff had different top priorities, the cumulative priorities were clear. We were able to split the original ten priorities into five “must-haves” and five non-essential preferences.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

With more expectations for greater transparency, increased reporting requirements, and a whole host of new—or newly articulated—data fields that are going to be required, updating information for reporting purposes and calculating return on a cost-per-client basis can become daunting. Improve customer experience.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

Clearer messaging: Well-articulated goals and marketing plans are an important part of any fundraising strategy. Gift range chart: Especially important for large-scale campaigns like capital campaigns, gift range charts help your team visualize the number of donations you need and at what levels to reach your fundraising goal.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Rolling out a well-thought-out business plan is like charting a course through treacherous yet conquerable terrains. Your vision statement should articulate the desired future state or ultimate impact your non-profit aims to achieve.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

We discovered that if you are in the role of promoting collaboration among others, you need to articulate your definition of collaboration and what your expectations are for outcomes. We developed a one-page chart that can be filled out quickly, but it covers key components of deeper engagement: Who will be the lead from each organization?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And if you think about this pie chart, what I really want to call out is that bequests, which are about 9%, are gifts made by individuals. And then unpacking some case studies that can articulate some of these strategies in action. Compared to when fundraising expectations are not clearly articulated during board recruitment.

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The Next Web

MARCH 9, 2014

I isolated employees five levels removed from my tier of the organizational chart and listened to them talk about their work experience and how they believed they contributed to organizational objectives. Think about this for a minute: 43 percent of employees can’t articulate their company goals.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 11, 2025

They peaked at 20 on the alternative charts with Get Over It , just enough to get their second record greenlit, albeit without the full promotional investment of the label. And then they found the song in their catalog to best articulate it. (Konopka gestures his hands wildly over his head). This is a show!

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Tableau

MARCH 10, 2021

People can’t always easily see the “Why” of data, no matter how great a chart looks or how cool an interactive is, and people also process information in different ways -- especially when it’s as complex as most health policy info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2013

” Porter’s definition about networking is about charting your own course, following your passions, and making meaningful connections, which in turn increase your happiness and productivity. It’s so great to see all these kids focused on education and with well-articulated goals for where they want to be someday.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 2, 2023

Use a flip chart or sticky notes to gather everyone’s input. A vision statement articulates where you are headed, your future, the target in the distance that you are aiming for in everything that you do. Don’t just focus on what your organization currently does. Think beyond the boundaries that exist.

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