Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” Get Training : NTEN is offering regular webinars on the topic of how nonprofits can effectively use data. The skills are out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2012

Guillaume DeCugis, founder of Scoop.It , took issue with the chart because of using the words “theft.” To me this a good chart or reminder of being a good curator. The content curator’s code is a useful framework, but I wish it was as easy to use as a creative commons license.

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APRIL 12, 2011

Charity and Technology in the Online Universe This infographic from Mashable and Shane Snow puts social good into better context with donation numbers, growth charts, and some comparisons to its offline counterparts. Based on 2006 data, the chart features the 10 major sources of revenue for U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

" Download the 2009 Data Ecosystem Survey Report | NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network – NTEN just released a report on the data ecosystem in nonprofit organizations – it's free for members, but $50 for non-NTEN members. "The "You've got data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

The NTEN Book Club, organized by Lauren McKown and Kai Williams, hosted a video chat this week.This month they have been reading The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout and discussing it in the NTEN online community. Workplace Productivity and Well Being .

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APRIL 3, 2012

> Download the 2012 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report More than 3,500 nonprofit professionals filled out this year's survey, conducted by NTEN, Common Knowledge, and Blackbaud, providing another year of valuable benchmarks about nonprofits' use of -- and success with -- social networking platforms. It's free! >

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

Thanks to the eBenchmarks research series NTEN has partnered with M+R Strategic Services to create, you can now impress your boss and colleagues with your knowledge of not only how to calculate your organization's fan page churn but also what kinds of goals you might want to set for your Facebook strategy around this metric.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2010

" Often, she sees senior managers and people at the bottom of the org chart pushing for openness, meeting resistance at that middle manager level - the cream of the Oreo. I won't tell you what I scored NTEN at. Complete the NTEN openness audit. They get licked. Instead, I'll first as YOU to score us.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2014

As some of you may know, #Commbuild, NTEN''s weekly Twitter chat devoted to community builders, both online and offline is turning four this year. In the spirit of celebrating this milestone, weve decided to take a look back to our beginnings, chart how weve grown over the years, and talk about the future of #Commbuild.

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MARCH 20, 2009

Flickr: cwalker71 The 2009 Women Who Tech panels were announced this week, and we're glad to see so many NTEN members representing the women who nptech! Fellow Aussie NTEN member David Jacquier has already made the long trip to the US to attend the SxSW conference in Austin. That's a long flight, y'all!

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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. With both, the process begins with setting SMART objectives and Kami Huyse points out why this is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

That the nonprofit doesn’t just look at the pretty charts and graphics as if it they tea leaves, but brings multiple lens to understanding how to apply the data. I saw an interesting post from Eric Petersen called “ The Myth of Data-Driven Business &# by way of KD Paine’s blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

This finding is also different from another study that looked at how nonprofits were using data conducted by NTEN and Idealware, that found that while many nonprofits were collecting data, they were not using it for decision-making and improvement. The sample in the NTEN/Idealware study is larger and broader than the CEP study.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. Thanks again to Allyson Kapin and the Women Who Tech team, as well as all those at NTEN who made the webinars happen! To get started, first brainstorm and identify the various groups or segments of your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

” 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. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. How : I find it best to create this chart in a spreadsheet - I've even created a template for you to reuse ! Here's an example : What next : You now have a chart that can be referred to daily, across the organization!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Here at NTEN, we receive a lot of questions about the the different uses of technology for fundraising. For access to study statistics, charts, raw data, and the video report, check out the "2014 Fundraising Technology Trend Study" here. Which web communication channels are the most effective? Fundraising report Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

I moderated a panel with the above title yesterday at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. Tags: Consulting NTEN. Jana Byington-Smith did a great job of capturing the discussion for the conference’s live blog. I’m reposting her summary below. The list of links she mentions is at [link].

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JANUARY 8, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data. Read the complete issue on "Collaboration" when you subscribe to the journal for free!

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2011

This chart is only a sample, and is not complete.) Categorize that core Tech Now add one more column to your chart: commodity or value. Special thanks to Holly Ross at NTEN and John Merritt at the YMCA of San Diego County for adding their insight to this article. This should be a simple one page document.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

First, overall: And when you click on “What does this chart mean?&# So, although you may only have 100 people give you an answer, if your question said, for example, “Have you heard of NTEN?&# You’ll also notice that you can see the impressions, as well as the responses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." 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.

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MAY 1, 2013

nap and dusted the snow off, we want to share the huge outpouring of blog posts, videos, pictures, and other media from the NTEN community. 13NTC tweets during the conference: 3000 from 806 unique tweeters from over 128 locations (thanks, Chris Tuttle for these cool visual charts). NTEN, NTC, and Technology , Peter Campbell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. The presentations and recordings are available online for free and if you work for a nonprofit and want to learn more about social media, definitely worth reviewing.

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NTEN

MAY 11, 2011

In short, the charts that Google makes available are slick, especially in the way they animate data. In our case, Google's chart animation allowed us to clearly communicate the increase over time in autism diagnoses, as compared to other special education diagnoses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Wall Writing: This an exercise where participants will write specific responses on labeled charts on the wall at designated times. It can be an answer to a question, a question learners still have, a summary statement, an opinion about the content, facts they want to remember, or how they plan to use the content.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Thanks to everyone who joined this quarter''s NTEN Town Hall! I''m so excited to have these regular opportunities to report out from NTEN, share udpates about our work, and hear directly from all of you. NTEN Update NTEN staff met in Portland for our winter staff meetings earlier in January. We call it the "rain drops".)

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DECEMBER 18, 2014

When pie charts about pie detract from your story: how to hold content as the star and design as the back-up singer. Samihah Azim. Product Design Manager. Bluenose Analytics. I work to weave the story of customer success into the core of the product.

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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2015

Check out the latest articles, news, and events from NTEN Members! In partnership with Markets for Good, they''ve launched a new microsite: Results Data Initiatives: Charting the Known World that maps these new research initiatives. member news member roundup members nptech nten' Ready or not, the future of business is here.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

GANTT charts are great marketing tools -- senior executives never fail to be impressed by them -- but they don't tell the Facilities Coordinator in clear language that you need the facility booked by March 10th, or the designer that the web page has to be up by April 2nd.

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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. Holly Ross , NTEN, also loves spreadsheets. “I (One place to look). Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. And, the prices is right: free.”.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

Some organizations struggle with where social media should “live” within the staff organization chart. Tags: Leadership NPTech NTEN Social Media. Who should be in charge of implementing it? Who’s going to navigate the social media “ship” at your organization? This post was originally published at [link].

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NTEN

DECEMBER 17, 2014

We celebrate that a nonprofit campaign — the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the #5 most-searched phrase on the Google Trends Searches Top Chart — made the list. Finally, we here at NTEN HQ hope that 2014 brings you joy to its last second of existence and that your socks remain dry. Here’s a map of search data in list form.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2009

The NTEN community: you folks rock. And now for a brief update from our obsession with charts: Possibly the most impressive chart ever. Wait, that's not right. It's an example of being playful in response to criticism. We should all be able to do that. Just remember this basic tenet: never take on someone funnier than you.

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NTEN

JULY 26, 2012

Clear, intuitive navigation that is organized according to the brain of the people who come to your website and NOT your org chart. A 2-second statement that sums up who you are and what you do so that anyone glancing at the page gets it right away. A great email signup that entices people to provide you with their email address.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Some focus their attention on traditional charting and graphing, but others delve into the world of geocharting, heatmaps, timelines, and more. These tools are especially useful for nonprofits and financial organizations whose brands rely on sharing metrics to deliver impact and value.

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