Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Perceptions of spending levels – from donors, the board, or other stakeholders – can influence campaign and fundraising management. Nonprofit managers can show the board (and others) that the organization has maximized efficiencies by accurately measuring the amount (and types) of resources going to marketing and fundraising activities.

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The NonProfit Times

OCTOBER 28, 2024

There is an acrimonious presidential election in just a few days and the current political climate in the United States requires a measured approach to advocacy. That’s is one of the determinations in a new report from Independent Sector, The Pursuit of Influence: Interviews with Nonprofit Leaders About Advocacy.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

Leaders thrive when their roles are defined with precision and their scope of influence is clear. Research suggests that aligning business strategy with organizational culture can significantly impact performance. Research indicates that ambiguity in accountability is a leading cause of delays in organizational efficiency.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization. Everything You Need to Know about the Dublin Summit and the New Measurement Standards. SMMStandards Progress and Roadmap: Marklein and Paine Present the First Social Media Measurement Standards at the Dublin Summit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

And, as we learn more, we’re discovering that these applications are remarkable research assistants, too. Starting with a general research prompt, “Highlight the top four to five giving campaigns nonprofits have created in the past three to five years. Before the challenge, the ALS Association received $6 million yearly for research.

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The Verge

APRIL 13, 2021

The firing of top Google AI ethics researchers has created a significant backlash Google has worked for years to position itself as a responsible steward of AI. Its research lab hires respected academics, publishes groundbreaking papers, and steers the agenda at the field’s biggest conferences. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

I connected with Sean via Twitter when I was researching tools and techniques for listening and ROI. I've been thinking about how you measure what your organization does on Twitter. Given Sean's and Alistair's knowledge in this area, we engaged in a couple of really useful "micro" chats on Twitter about different measurement tools.

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Forum One

JULY 11, 2024

Core principles from these plays that resonate deeply with us at Forum One are: Understand what people need Start with user research to understand the needs, behaviors, and contexts of the people who will use the service. Continuously gather and analyze user feedback to refine and improve the product. The path forward The U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2013

As colleague Bob Filbin, DoSomething’s Data Scientist, pointed out in his presentation earlier this week , we can apply a/b testing to social media measurement. ” How much does a photo in an email influence click-thru and gift giving behavior?By

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 27, 2013

March is not only great for basketball, but is also good for nonprofit research studies about digital strategies and launches of new data tools. So if you like looking at and thinking about data and love to get your hands dirty with a data jujitsu, here’s a couple of goodies for you. RESEARCH STUDIES. … Read More

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2012

Welcome to Research Friday ! highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. It facilitates knowledge distribution because it deeply influences one’s willingness to share. Trust also influences the accuracy and level of information shared. posted by Sarah Gates , Grant & Contract Officer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 4, 2022

Choose people that have different understandings and relationships with your (new) organization and whose influence with their peer group is notable. Quantify their answers — along with qualitative interviews and industry research — to inform your messaging to the public. Are any of these measurable? If so, please explain how.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 4, 2013

This post is brought to you by Simply Measured. Research your solution, sector, industry and competition. Maybe you identified your target audience and conversation through Twitter research, but discover a handful of forums or blogs that attract essential influencers. Target influencers. Identify the audience.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you're achieving that key outcome for impact. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

In reflecting over the past three years, the definition of listening tools has broadened beyond “monitoring&# or “research&# to include several categories: social media engagement management, analytics, influencer identification, and social network analysis.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 17, 2025

One way to handle this is to create a clear distinction between whats outside of your control and what you can actually influence. Creating consistent daily habits is one of the most manageable ways to exercise your influence and build resilience against future-related anxiety. Say you want to switch careers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

The ROI for us is measured in lives saved more than just the money raised to do so. We are also investing in a complete overhaul of our 17,000 file website at BigCatRescue.org that has taken 9 months and thousands of dollars, but will result in integrating social aspects that should improve our reach and influence. Book Tour ? ?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. I’ve run three questions so far, and here’s some of the insights to the process: What influences your charitable giving? You don’t just have to do market research with Qriously.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Research the steps needed to create a direct mail fundraising program (e.g. Identify key influencers with audiences on social media, email, or via the news media and spend time cultivating the relationship with the goal of eventually seeking promotional support or a collaboration on a project. your neighbors. your family members.

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

In the United States, philanthropic collaboratives—entities that either pool or channel resources from multiple donors to nonprofits— collectively directed between $2 billion and $3 billion to a variety of grantees in 2021, and our research indicates that figure has grown since then.

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Forum One

APRIL 12, 2011

Success is best measured in terms of progress toward one’s objectives. Here are five compelling tools for measuring online performance. Organizations that invest substantially in digital communications have an obligation to track their success. And objectives should be more than just getting more pageviews and visits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I invited him to help with the research for the keynote. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them. I also mention other tools like Friend or Follow or NodeXL both of which make influencer analysis more efficient with the ability to export the data into an excel spreadsheet.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

These tools – all quick hits you can get started with easily – focus on everything from research and writing to benchmarking and analyzing. Research Tools. We’ll start at the beginning: researching topics, sites and ideas. This tools measures a ton of different readability scores, and does a good job of explaining each one.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

Internet Fame and the True Impact of Influence — SocialFish – "You may be aware that there is a big debate going on in the social media blogosphere about “influence&#. Maybe you’re starting to think that influence is not about how many followers someone has on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2011

I went straight to the strategy and measurement chapters. It also takes analyzing competitors and perhaps in the nonprofit sector, understanding the ecosystem or network of organizations working on similar issues. In short, listening is market research.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. New research points us to why : The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated digital transformation by, on average, six years. . How are you measuring if you’re meeting or exceeding them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

I thought the points about measurement were right on and applies to other types of nonprofits. But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. So, it was a natural place to turn to for data to use for this research. For our first project,?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

In this post, you’ll learn 8 research-backed ways that are proven to improve the reach and impact of your content. This is why persona research is so important. You’ll need to conduct keyword research. Understand How Search Engines View Content. Search engines are becoming more sophisticated by the day. Conclusion.

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DataRobot

MAY 6, 2021

According to McKinsey, “Research shows that 70 percent of complex, large-scale change programs don’t reach their stated goals. Research shows that customers prefer to deal with humans, especially in situations when they experience a problem and want help solving it. We are inherently social creatures. Algorithm Appreciation.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I eagerly read about a new social psychology research study in which whites, Asians, and Latinos engaged in a simple collaborative activity--making a music video together. So I called one of the researchers, Tiffany Brannon. You can measure the change in that comfort before and after the research activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel featured some previews from a recent research study “ How Strong Is Your Social Net? The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement.

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Candid

AUGUST 12, 2024

On average, the size of boards increases with organization size (as measured by annual expenses), while proportional representation of BIPOC individuals and women decreases. More than half (53%) of all nonprofit staff in the data set identify as BIPOC, yet only one-third of board members are BIPOC.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 26, 2021

A Tel Aviv, Israel-based startup called Cyabra has built a SaaS platform that measures authenticity and impact within the online conversation, detects false information and its authors, and further analyzes it to connect the dots. . It also zeroes in on the authors of influence perpetrating the most proliferation.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 19, 2017

In order to do this, however, you’ll need to play the influencer game—connecting with everyday influencers. The water’s fine and solid influencer engagement can be very rewarding. But who are these Instagram influencers? Check out this Adweek infographic on millennial women micro influencers.

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Google Research AI blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Posted by Parker Riley, Software Engineer, and Jan Botha, Research Scientist, Google Research Many languages spoken worldwide cover numerous regional varieties (sometimes called dialects), such as Brazilian and European Portuguese or Mainland and Taiwan Mandarin Chinese. intraclass correlation).

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