Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Candid

APRIL 27, 2021

The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive. Why use mind maps in your nonprofit practice? Mind maps can help you: Plan nonprofit projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2013

Enjoy this post from my of many favorite nonprofit data nerds … Top Ten Chart Secrets from A Nonprofit Data Nerd. Enjoy this post from my of many favorite nonprofit data nerds … Top Ten Chart Secrets from A Nonprofit Data Nerd. The data visualization field is expanding at an explosive pace! Secret #10.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Gartner identifies these qualities as key to delivering value: A customer journey mapping process that extends beyond acquisition and purchase through the life of the relationship. The ability to accurately develop personas and create their journey maps. The data results in business intelligence that better meets customer needs.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. The Social Media Strategy Map offers some overview questions, but in the workshop most of the second day will take a deep dive into these tactics and tools so that participants will have a detailed action plan for the specific strategy. What else might you add or change? Rinse, repeat.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

A technology assessment is a performance evaluation of your IT systems. The purpose of an IT assessment is to evaluate whether your systems’ functionality and efficiency are in alignment with organizational goals and strategy. Do you collect the data you need? Is the data in a format that is easy to use? Kevin is right.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

We can provide a map, the vehicle, and even the road snacks, but the community needs to be the driver. From listening, to creating to evaluating and then back to the listening again so that you can modify and then evaluate, and so on. What are they like: what are the demographics, the data, the stories?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. How do you share your data? Observe and sift through qualitative data like a primatologist or anthropologist.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

The increasing pressure on your nonprofit not just to do good work, but to prove your impact – coupled with the increasing use of databases and online services – has led to exponential growth in data within the nonprofit sector. I'd like to offer four areas we need to address to make the most of our data and increase our impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. Analog Strategies. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

Mapping data can help nonprofits monitor protests and election violence, decide where to buy repossessed homes to convert into affordable housing, determine how and where to deliver supplies and aid in disaster-stricken areas – and document zombie invasions. Do you use GIS systems in your work?

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 8, 2013

But I have to admit, I’m not a fan of the Foundation’s Batch Data Entry tool. It’s not just uploading Opportunity records via the Data Loader or DemandTools. And you have to know enough about your data to map the field name and values correctly. It’s all about manipulating data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many human services agencies struggle to share program outcomes with funders and use data to understand how their programs are performing. They share how they are scaling service delivery using data to gain a holistic view of their clients and programs. Breaking Down Data Silos & Using Automation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media, online campaigns, and community engagement can be tricky things to dive into and do well without measuring, monitoring and evaluating. How to evaluate? But what to measure? Related Links : Nonprofit Webinars website. Slides and notes.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." There are also indicator data including maternal health, infant mortality, malnutrition, poverty, and population.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping. View more presentations from womenwhotech. Google Analytics – [link].

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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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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As associations prepare for 2025, leveraging data effectively becomes increasingly crucial for success. There’s a consistent desire across the industry to tap more deeply into the data that’s been gathered in the myriad systems at hand, but it’s taking the leap that’s long been teh hardest part.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. The chat, moderated by Kami Huyse, and included RWJF staff Debra Joy Perez (@djoyperez), assistant vice president, Research and Evaluation, and Tina Kauh (@tinakauh), program officer, Research and Evaluation, covered some stimulating questions. Radio Bilingue.

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Candid

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Concerns about AI’s complexity and the technical skills needed to ensure data privacy, security, and fairness are valid and warrant consideration. One of the most promising applications is in humanitarian response, where rapid access to reliable data can mean the difference between life and death. Conversational analysis.

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NTEN

MARCH 1, 2011

By Steve Spiker, Director of Research & Technology, Urban Strategies Council As more and more people are bombarded with maps from every media source, many nonprofits find themselves asking “How can we use maps in our work?” – followed by, “Just how hard can it be for us to make maps for our work?”

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

In addition to going over the lessons learned from the previous year, take time to map out your entire budget workflow. Here’s a convenient checklist for evaluating and selecting the right budgeting solution for your organization. The post Evaluating and Streamlining Your Annual Budgeting Process first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Data Is the New Coin of the Realm — Learn How to Stretch Your Budget! How do you choose the right data plan among all the options out there? How Much Data Do You Need? These questions and guidelines can help you figure out how much data your nonprofit’s mobile devices need. Start with the numbers.

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 19, 2021

Regardless of the type of website you have, digital marketing is most successful when there is a large amount of data to use. Tags can be used for many purposes, including tracking forms submitted through your website, generating heat maps, conducting surveys, or monitoring how people get to your website. Data Layers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

It’s also having a clean, complete, and accurate data and the discipline to make sense of the data and use what you learn to improve results. Niki Kidd of Social Change, gives us a step-by-step methodology in this post, titled Using Data to Assess Your Peers. Make Sense of Your Data. A Measureable Road Map to Success.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Evaluate your initiatives regularly, set up feedback boxes on your website, and create regular nonprofit focus groups. To get ahead in a world where so much relies on digital data, digital components, digital management and digital organization, a cloud-based software like Bloomerang can keep your gears turning 24/7. And good luck!

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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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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Since then, Candid has been evaluating the way we identify this type of giving, both going forward and looking back over the last decade. We focused on two main goals in making this expanded data and information on Candid’s racial equity page freely available. Updating our definition of racial equity to a changing world .

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There are a number of trends worth exploring: Technology that fuels data-driven storytelling. To succeed, mission-driven organizations need to honestly evaluate their efforts. Our work with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) shows the power of harnessing data for impact storytelling.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

calendar, call, sms, facebook, twitter, address book = level of closeness of social data. treasure trove of data in your phone (emails, cal, etc.). have to trust someone with your content, contacts and stream in order to get the kind of data back that you want/need. create maps of communication streams. friend management.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 28, 2021

There are three components of adequate planning: having a plan, creating schemas, and mapping data. This means that your first step should be creating outlines of your goals and the data you have to best understand it. Inputting data into Salesforce takes time, but in the long run, it will be worth it! About the Author.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Getting all of your old donor data cleaned and ready so that you can move it into the new system? While migrating donor data is one of the most important steps in implementing a new CRM, it’s also the part that’s most time-consuming, mind-numbing, and prone to error. Signing up for a new donor management platform is exciting.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

The SOC 2 certification was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as a way of evaluating that a company follows the criteria for managing customer data based on principles of trust. . At Accelevents, we have always put data protection and controls as a top priority.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. I've always felt that maps are just plain cool. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices. how to organize and make accessible the huge quantity of data that already exists (and that will grow as sharing increases). Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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