Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07 What do those guidelines look like?

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Byte Technology

MARCH 18, 2015

While this may seem trivial, any non-profit sporting an FB presence should be closely monitoring the number of links from friends versus links from “Pages”—it’s more than likely that the ratio is ten-to-one or greater. Seek out Comments. What does this mean in practical terms? Simply put, Facebook puts friends “first” in a News Feed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. of a small, but very productive non profit, the ratios always look bad.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent. Who is using the platform? Is your community largely tech-savvy early adopters? So far, the demographics of Google+ skew toward American males working in technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement.

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Achieve

MAY 3, 2024

These can include surveys, one-on-one conversations, or anonymous comment cards. Positive-to-Negative Ratio There will always be some people that love and support your event and some people that don’t, but the ratio you see between praise and criticism can provide a key indicator of overall event satisfaction and effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments section? Conversation rate: This is the amount of commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard data points: You can get a list of the most commented on posts from PostRank. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Lately, the crap to good stuff ratio has been a little skewed toward crap when it comes to trackbacks and somewhat with comments. I've always placed a high value on trackbacks and comments and the ability to get into a conversation - I get the best information and links from them. How are you handling comments and trackbacks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

16:9 ratios require that the viewer tilts their phone and watches it in a non-vertical orientation. Both versions were identical except for one key difference—aspect ratio. One was in a 16:9 landscape ratio, and the other was in a 1:1 square ratio. Video is a medium uniquely suited to do just that.”. The reason?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

If you are using a forum, then measuring the number of replies to post (or, if your forum allows voting, then the positive feedback on posts) could be appropriate, as well as the ratio of people signed up vs posting vs replying, etc. It’s incredibly important for the success of your work to evaluate how things are going throughout.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. { at 5:18 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Schools have all these legal and political mandates to get this kind of network, and increase their computer:student ratio, and so on. Mitchell 04.08.07

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 10, 2022

Kodland says it has around 1,000 teachers on its platform (some are employed by it, some are gig workers, depending on the market); while the “typical” ratio is one teacher per 15 pupils. Gift Guide: 20+ STEM toy gift ideas for aspiring young builders. It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2010

This is only a problem if (1) community sponsors expect levels of active participation radically different from these ratios and (2) more passive forms of participation are disregarded or undervalued.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

Post your comments in the form of a question. Respond to comments. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Advice abounds about tricks and tips for engaging the social sphere.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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The Verge

APRIL 5, 2021

I’m duty-bound here to mention the original LG Prada, which had a capacitive touchscreen and was technically announced just before the iPhone, but its true legacy is mostly people pointing that out in online comments. LG’s early Android phones weren’t impressive. Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. The 2017 G6 got the G-series back on track.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

No Ryzen no buy,” reads the most-liked comment on a recent photo of the Intel-powered Lenovo Legion 5i. “If If it’s INTEL no point of purchasing it,” reads the second comment down. What did hinder it was the 16:9 aspect ratio, which just feels really cramped for multitasking — especially if you’ve used a 16:10 or 3:2 display before.

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DataRobot

JANUARY 17, 2023

Recently, a prospective customer asked me how I reconcile the fact that DataRobot has multiple very successful investment banks using DataRobot to enhance the P&L of their trading businesses with my comments that machine learning models aren’t always great at predicting financial asset prices. For price discovery (e.g.,

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly. test and teweak. pick the right metrics.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. that the signal-to-noise ratio is low. In most institutions, the suggestions on comment cards don't get to the people in power. In other words, comment cards aren't effectively organized for use. Enter the internet.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Customers can visually track the usage of assets like business glossaries, data dictionaries and Wiki articles through the Alation platform’s reporting feature, or they can use Alation’s collaboration tools to create lists, annotations, comments and polls to organize data across different software and systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

That's the term she gave JOTS in her response after reading my response to her answer to my initial question in the comments of this post. You described JOTS urls-to-tags ratio as impressive (2:1). Follow the links backward from the period in that last sentence.). other than a "pretty face. She ends invoking the PHP gods.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A commenter pointed out that there must be an error in the data, as it is highly unlikely that Turner produced more than 40,000 works in his lifetime. Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

Businesses usually match at a 1:1 ratio, but some match at a 2:1 or even 3:1 basis. They’ll be able to review the program’s guidelines, such as the minimum and maximum donation amounts, the match ratio, and employee eligibility rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I'm also having some problems with lumping all the engagement measures together, although it's good for a quick and dirty analysis. Is the number of comments the sole measure for success of a blog? Maybe I'm getting into the carpet fibers too much, but something like this: Comments for conversational. Outbound links for influence.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

By using a tool like Buzzsumo , you can identify who has shared, liked, commented, or linked back to a given topic. The best part about advertising on Facebook is that you’re rewarded you for having a high engagement to impression ratio. The higher this ratio is the lower cost per engagement your ad will be. Conclusion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. Leave a comment. How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Tell us what you think by leaving a comment below! Our new profiles emphasize answers to key questions about nonprofit programs and performance. Turning snapshots into stories .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Some basic KPIs that would be useful to most nonprofit websites: Visitor-to-donor conversion ratio Unique visitors per day/week/month Cost per visitor Bounce rate Abandonment rate Average time on site For a more complete listing of KPIs, broken down by type of website, check out this post by analytics guru Bryan Eisenberg.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2022

It’s part of following the 3-to-1 Ratio and it helps donors feel valued, not over asked. Show them that you’re hearing them by including their ideas and comments in your correspondence. Add a handwritten note to a than-you letter relating to their question or comment. There’s a big difference.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

That classic ratio suggests a pretty limited pool of candidates who could be recommended to/through Circular, unless conditions to access its recruitment network are rather less stringent. And on that front its website FAQ notes work undertaken by Circular “talent advocates” (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Provide quick human answers to your followers, ask questions, direct people to great resources (not your own 1:20 ratio - point to one of your resources for every twenty resources), stay in touch without being intrusive, no when to direct message, be funny, etc. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 23, 2020

People in my Zoom meetings commented on how dark and grainy I looked. The webcam, though, is bad — people in my Zoom meetings commented on how dark and grainy I looked. I could actually hear the bass in music (a rarity) and percussion was particularly strong. Overall, the battery life is the star of the show.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation habits in the comments in the blogs - it's what makes them a social media. Conversation Rate = Number of Visitor Comments / Number of Posts. I did not include spam comments or my own). Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 and simply want to improve the quality of the conversation taking place in the comments.

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