Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2011

Photo Tweeted by @starfocus during a network mapping session at NWF. Daniel facilitated a network mapping activity with NNF’s 10 education advocacy staff from regional offices and headquarters. Staff members were at the core of the map. They reorganized the map into clusters. Observations.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

.” That may seem counterintuitive in a business world obsessed with speed, but in a relentless pursuit of momentum, many leaders forget that speed without reflection leads to burnout, inefficiency, and poor decision-making. They emerge from reflection, setbacks, and unexpected insights. Science backs this up.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 12, 2024

As the year winds down, nows the time to reflect on the past year, thank supporters, and set the stage for a successful new year. Your eCard platform may allow you to customize the senders email address to reflect someone from your organization. For nonprofits, expressing gratitude isnt just a courtesy. Impactful visuals.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

To align your mission with your brand and reflect that symmetry through products and services, you need to bring membership and marketing to the Equator. The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Like a nested structure. Guarín-Zapata’s mental model is commonly known as directory structure, the hierarchical system of folders that modern computer operating systems use to arrange files. About halfway through a recent nine-month research project, he’d built up so many files that he gave up on keeping them all structured. “I

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Tableau

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In this blog post, I'll describe my analysis of Tableau's history to drive analytics innovation—in particular, I've identified six key innovation vectors through reflecting on the top innovations across Tableau releases. People instantly understand that a geographic field is encoded in a map view. Multiple tables.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The assessments reveal some undeniable benefits to these structures, including volunteers with profound pride in the historical contributions by these entities, remarkable dedication of council leaders, sincere interest in recruiting new volunteers, and a deep passion for the organization’s mission. Mapping the Change.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 1, 2023

We implement a Spark structured streaming stateful mapping function to handle temporal proximity correlations in cyber security logs Image by Robert Wilson from Pixabay This is the 4th article of our series. The keys in this map are the rule names and the values are maps of tag name to tag value (true/false).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Conduct regular planning sessions to map your nonprofit’s future with your board’s input. You can use assessment questionnaires to collect feedback as well as Bloomerang analytics to pinpoint areas for improvement, ensuring your board’s structure and processes remain aligned with your nonprofit’s evolving needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

I've been in Washington, DC for the Network Effectiveness and Social Media Strategy Map working session for Packard Foundation Grantees convened by Monitor Institute. This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

She explained that “learning or teaching the old” is about training, knowledge transfer, and structured, directed learning. Teaching the new is not structured because it is social learning. He asked to reflect on our network map. What does learning the new mean for organizations? He asked us to list them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

Several of the newest social platforms create “interest graphs” a map for navigating to subjects and people of interest. The Interest graph is a superset of the social graph, a people map. Create categories that reflect what users are looking for. But remember, as Nancy Schwartz points, Relevance Rules!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

The NTEN project WeAreMedia project is an excellent personal learning laboratory for reflection and insights about this topic. " Dave Cormier signed up to be a critical friend soon after the project launched and posted a reflection here. Not sure where to jump in because of the way information is structured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. Photo by Beth Kanter. Call this “social change 2.0”. How do these networks evolve over time?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We reflected. Corporate Delegation and Oversight, Organizational Structure (5 percent). consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database. Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021. We adapted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

This part of the measurement process is most the fun because it covers visualization, pattern recognition, and reflection. I wanted to take a deeper dive into resources out there that provide useful tips about how to do this step for folks who were not data scientists or data nerds. I like the chart advice: Avoid 3d-charts at all costs.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

"Adin Miller, a friend and all-around smart guy, wrote a blog post reflecting on James Surowiecki’s talk about the“ Wisdom of Crowds ” at the Communications Network and CommA Fall 2010 Conference. Please take a look, and share your own thoughts about crowdsourcing within the comments section below!

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Google Research AI blog

MARCH 27, 2023

They can help with everything from setting alarms to giving map directions and can even assist people with disabilities to more easily manage their homes. The dataset also includes surrounding structured context, such as users’ contacts and lists associated with each example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Some tip include mapping out a good process for work flow and using collaborative technology effectively. Amy Su Jen offers up a great framework for individuals. Planning is about using structure and rituals to keep organized. It is important for your team to have the right amount of structure in their workflow.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In this blog post, I'll describe my analysis of Tableau's history to drive analytics innovation—in particular, I've identified six key innovation vectors through reflecting on the top innovations across Tableau releases. People instantly understand that a geographic field is encoded in a map view. Multiple tables.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Header tags: Header tags contribute to both the logical structure of content, aiding search engines in understanding information hierarchy, and the readability of the page for users. Regularly update your content to reflect the latest industry trends and changes. Back up your content with credible sources, citations, and references.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Having a structured way to collect and analyze qualitative insights can not only help with designing a social media engagement policy, but also harvest insights. Using the hard data points and sifting through qualitative data, she drives reflective conversations with staff that reap substantial insights. This drove traffic.

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Google Research AI blog

MAY 12, 2023

Prior research has investigated several important technical building blocks to enable conversational interaction with mobile UIs, including summarizing a mobile screen for users to quickly understand its purpose, mapping language instructions to UI actions and modeling GUIs so that they are more amenable for language-based interaction.

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The AI Alignment Forum

MARCH 19, 2025

Key Links Forecasting ecosystem : Map of the Prediction Market & Forecasting Ecosystem Introduction to Prediction Markets : Prediction markets: can betting be good for the world? Why a hierarchical structure? The ones included reflect what I find meaningful and interesting. There are two major parts. New to Forecasting?

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Google Research AI blog

AUGUST 9, 2023

Posted by Sandeep Tata, Software Engineer, Google Research, Athena Team The last few years have seen rapid progress in systems that can automatically process complex business documents and turn them into structured objects. Diverse Templates: A benchmark should include different structural layouts or templates.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

In no time, you’ll have a website that reflects your cause, inspires engagement, and helps you reach your digital strategy goals. User persona and journey map development: For this step, we look at your organization’s different audience segments and identify their needs, challenges, and desired outcomes.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible. Create a fundraising plan to bring in the money you need, mapping out all your fundraising activities for the year. You also need to build a structure that will enable you to bring in the money you need to operate. How will you find participants? Sports equipment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

I did a scan of the several hundred organizations registered for the webinar, many from Jewish education organizations, looking at their social media engagement practices as well as a literature scan of alumni network engagement with social mediaHere’s some reflections: Alumni Networks: Benefits, Challenges, and Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

This is part of series of reflections on what I am learning about working wikily through the WeAreMedia wiki. In my last reflection, I talked about balancing participation on home base and outposts. I noticed that the simple structure I created was not the right container and reorganized it. Photo by one2c900d.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

After identifying the most consistent user journey, the team created sample wireframes to structure the future website and pages. Once the site map was agreed upon, Achieve developed mood boards to discuss the look and feel of the new website. Let’s have a conversation and see if we could be a fit for your next project.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Fintech reporter Ryan Lawler interviewed Lin, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi, Credit Karma’s chief people officer Colleen McCreary and other executives to learn about how they weathered COVID-19 and divestment while simultaneously crafting a new management structure. “We had a lot of decisions to make.”.

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DataRobot

JUNE 10, 2021

To understand how the images are being used, we can explore the explainability features for images of embeddings and activation maps. Upon further reflection of the embeddings, it’s possible to see clusters of particular molecules. From the activation maps, it’s clear that the models are looking across the entire molecular structure.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Map out your donation page’s structure. Approach your donation form’s design and structure strategically by incorporating these tips into your plan: Order information logically. Your donation page is a reflection of your nonprofit, so it should be both functional and beautiful! It’s a win-win for everyone involved!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

In addition, Sinatra mentions that figuring out their ‘no matter what’ messages was important to mapped out in advance. Here’s a round up of what they learned. (1) 1) Be Flexible and Keep It Simple. 2) Use Multiple Channels and Shape Content for each Channel. 5) Prepare and Rally Your Base.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As we embark on the fundraising journey in 2024, the significance of a well-structured nonprofit annual development plan cannot be overstated. As you delve into the spreadsheet, reflect on the effectiveness of your 2023 fundraising approaches, acknowledging any wins, losses, or areas for improvement. (If

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

You combine the two in order to map professional development needs to organizational goals and then customize learning activities based on learning style. Structured, but flexible schedule and plan. It also includes an individual professional development assessment. Trained mentors who can support on the job learning. Evaluation.

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