Josh Birkholz
Posting on analytics, technology, visualizations, fundraising, and other unrelated things I find interesting like Doctor Who, sci fi wierdness, crazy new ideas, and interesting people.
Author of Fundraising Analytics
Principal at Bentz Whaley Flessner
Founder of the analytics group donorcast
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HAS EVERYONE SEEN THIS
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WELL THEN WATCH IT
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This GameFly Commercial is too HILARIOUS!
A MUST WATCH!
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Game Of Thrones
i like games like this
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I hope to see all my West Coast Friends in a couple weeks. You know you want to enjoy some techie-fundraising goodness! All the cool people will be there. Justin. Katrina. Me. And, I look so good in the video image below…
We’ll be in Seattle on 5/23, San Francisco on 5/24, and Anaheim on 5/25 talking about social media that leads to real fundraising results and the latest in analytics for fundraising. Hope to see you there! (to sign up, click on the above link by city and date)
This was an impressive effort. Nice job FSU! And Nice job Justin Ware, social fundraiser extraordinaire!
Find out more about social media services at Bentz Whaley Flessner.
Come hear me speak in NYC, Boston, or DC next week with Justin Ware. (FREE)
Social Media and Fundraising Analytics workshops: Jan. 24-26 in NYC, Boston and DC
We’re hitting the road! Josh Birkholz, Principal at Bentz Whaley Flessner, and Justin Ware, Director of Social Media at BWF) will be in New York City on 1/24, Boston on 1/25 and Washington, DC on 1/26 for the “Navigating Modern Fundraising: Social Media and Fundraising Analytics” workshops. Learn about Bentz Whaley Flessner’s latest innovations in predictive analytics, data analysis, and social media at no cost during these free, half-day events. During the workshops, we’ll be giving tips and sharing techniques on how you can enhance your fundraising operations through technology. We’ll also share with you some new product offerings based on the latest thinking in philanthropy.
To register for the New York workshop, click here.
To register for the Boston workshop, click here.
To register for the Washington, DC workshop, click here.
Hilarious sketch exaggerating the startup lifestyle and personalities.
Its amazing how many people I’ve met feed these stereotypes. Loved the “No Brandcuffs” part.
Excellent post by Justin Ware of BWF Social.
A relatively new iPhone application is building a somewhat cultish following of amateur photographers. It’s called “Instagram” and the number of dedicated users who have downloaded the app are growing at a rapid pace – the one-year-old Instagram now has more than 12 million users worldwide.
Instagram is as simple as an application gets. To use it, you create a profile, choose pictures to upload, add a filter (filters allow the user to easily adjust color settings, make a picture look like it’s 30 years old and other cool stuff), post a short caption and then share it with all your followers. It might sound like Facebook minus everything else Facebook does, but the growth suggests Instagram is on to something. (I count myself as one of those who’s joined the cult)
So the next question is, how can nonprofits get involved? It’s new, so this does represent a rare opportunity to lead in an uncluttered space …for now. Of course, there are a few early adopters in the Philanthropy world who’ve already jumped on board. Posted here you see a few examples of nonprofit organizations and how they’re using Instagram. The Philippine Improvement Group is using the photo network as both an awareness raising and a fundraising tool, while the Salvation Army is recognizing volunteers.
The Thunderbird School of Global Management enjoyed a 400 percent increase in the number of donors – many of them alumni – to its annual end-of-fiscal-year campaign 2010. Everything they did that year was the same, with one exception – Thunderbird had a small team of social media managers creating and monitoring conversations with the school’s supporters for about a year leading up to the campaign.
Sensing NFL action using predictive analytics on Twitter Streams
By David Ruth
Cowboys, Eagles, Lions top NFL tweets midway through season
Midway through the NFL season, the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles and Detroit Lions have been tweeted most by football fans during game action.
Using millions of Twitter subscribers as living “sensors,” engineers from Rice University and Motorola Mobility announced in October that they found a way to monitor fans’ levels of excitement and to keep track of the action in NFL games via Twitter. SportSense is a computer program the engineers created to analyze NFL fan tweets in real time. The program can tell within seconds when touchdowns, interceptions and other big plays occur, and it can show how excited fans are about every game being played.
Good Post by kyleondata:
I have been talking a lot about conceptual concepts and here is another one for you. I am not going to go into how to actually create a OLAP cube today. The main reason is because I am still setting up all of my VMs to get a good demo going. So today let us talk about the theory in OLAP cubes.
Web 3.0 (from social to big data). Are you ready?
Using data to improve real life experiences. It’s all about Big Data. Watch this debate, a must!
If Web 2.0 was all about social, then Web 3.0 is all about “big data:” people and machines sharing an unprecedented amount of information. What does that mean for you as a recruiter, a professional, and an individual? In this session, Reid Hoffman, LinkedIn Co-Founder and Executive Chairman, will be joined by some special guests to discuss the next wave of the internet and how it will change things—again.
Justin Ware, my colleague with mad social and video skills will be speaking. I will be listening.
