Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. It is also important to think about what specific metrics are needed to measure along the way. How will you measure them along the way?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

56% want information about fundraising events and about activities for your professionals. Interested in activities with your organization that involve others: dinner with entertainment, private events, social parties with peers, sports and walk/runs. You can get the full report, review charts and data, and more at: [link].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The prompts were refined to hone the list more, and the query and response activity ultimately revealed the four power chords that lead to effective nonprofit appeals campaigns. The pie chart illustrates proportionately how each contributes to the campaigns’ success. Measure, measure, measure. Please cite sources.”

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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. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. Data fuels most activities in a nonprofit. How do I care for my data? That’s okay!

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Numeric, quantitative values that you can measure. Measures can be aggregated. You can fill out your information and, once you’re verified, you’ll get a product key to activate your Tableau software. When you download your Spotify data, the time measure they use is milliseconds, written as ms. Colored green.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Numeric, quantitative values that you can measure. Measures can be aggregated. You can fill out your information and, once you’re verified, you’ll get a product key to activate your Tableau software. When you download your Spotify data, the time measure they use is milliseconds, written as ms. Colored green.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

Next each of the panelists presented a research study based that combined large sample survey data on our issue area and appended actual social media activity usage. The overall hypothesis was: Does more social media activities equal more donations? Active social media users have been labeled by nonprofits as “Charity Slackvists.”

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The second quarter of 2021 was the biggest quarter for venture capital activity ever, measured by dollars invested. SoftBank’s second vision fund is active. and Silicon Valley tallies, Europe and Asia’s performances, and new data concerning venture capital activity in Africa. Buckle up. A monster quarter.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

You need to measure nonprofit impact, according to McKinsey and communicate value in a visually-appealing manner so that it draws readers in and keeps them engaged. That’s because people want to know what your nonprofit has achieved–which is reflected in the second statement, as opposed to the first which merely states an activity.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2023

The below chart is important to the startup audience because it speaks to why fundraising is extremely challenging right now and why valuations are coming down so dramatically. Venture capital activity has declined Deployment of VC capital continues to slow down. Opportunity cost is powerful indeed.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Earlier this summer I posted on top tips for measuring ROI and getting strategic with data , touching on the idea and importance of actionable data, or rather, data that helps draw meaningful conclusions and future actions to optimize programs. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2010

Yesterday in part one " Measuring the Impact of Your Social Media Program " of this blog series, I discussed the importance of audience reach, how people see your key messages, and how to measure social media reach. None of these measurements will be helpful unless your organization knows how to truly engage people on social networks.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 24, 2022

Make a pie chart of your funding sources. I like Excel for pie charts because it’s super easy to use. The 1-10-1000 Rule gives you a simple structure to guide your fundraising activities for the year and encourages you to focus on 3 streams of revenue: 1 signature event, 10 grant opportunities, and 1,000 individual donors.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

What’s so hard about measuring nonprofit impact? Can you really use the same criteria to measure the effectiveness of a rural food bank that works locally and an internationally renowned art museum located in a major metropolitan area? Which brings us back to my original question: How do you measure nonprofit effectiveness?

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

And yet a huge majority—93 percent—report that “the most important functionality lets staff track volunteer activities and the number of hours worked.” So the question is this: why aren’t more non-profits investing in specific software that gives the best and most accurate accounting of volunteer records?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

Their systems and processes help them pivot when an unexpected turn of events (a global pandemic or a tidal wave of social activism, for example) turns their operations upside-down. Greg Perlstein is a digital transformation lead for Salesforce.org, working with customers to chart their paths to greater social impact. About the Author.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

But without a clear idea of where you’re going, all that activity may not actually move you forward toward your goals. Contrary to popular belief, a strategic plan is not a one-time activity. Look, a goal is not a goal if you don’t have a way to measure it. They need food and your organization provides it. It’s a vision.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In this Luminary session, Blackbaud’s Heather LeVan leads a conversation with industry experts and customers about how to have an active and productive voice in change management, especially around the software your organization uses. Improving Business Process with Process Maps : Is it really an improvement if you can’t measure the impact?

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Activity in the global open finance market has been ironically buoyed by Visa’s failed takeover target of Plaid. However, not everyone measures growth this way. Plaid raises $425M Series D from Altimeter as it charts a post-Visa future. company if it decides to expand.

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Tableau

AUGUST 14, 2024

Chart showcasing a list of English speaking movies with an average IMDB rating higher than 8 in the Sci-Fi genre which is the population for this analysis. This is just a way of saying a measurement, property, or characteristic of something that can vary or change. Both categories, and measurements are variables shown in this example.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

How would you then prioritize resources so they are spent on activities that work to achieve that goal? Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Intangible Measurements : Identity how, and most importantly why , people behave the way they do when they engage with your brand.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Measurable: Quantifiable. Attainable: Achievable based on your past successes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

For those who can tap into its tool, Neatsy claims the tech measures the foot with an accuracy of 1-2 millimetres (it also flags that all scanning takes place on the user’s device itself to maintain privacy). For its B2B mode l, Neatsy is monetizing SDK usage based on the number of users — setting a price per Monthly Active User.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Peter described an interesting framework for thinking about this use of time: Activities that can be done while doing multiple tasks.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. Plan a timeline for internal activities.

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Towards Data Science

JUNE 6, 2023

Fitbit activity analysis with DuckDB Photo by Jake Hills on Unsplash Wearable fitness trackers have become an integral part of our lives, collecting and tracking data about our daily activities, sleep patterns, location, heart rate, and much more. What insights are buried within my archive of personal fitness activity data?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 22, 2010

Recipe for (Measuring) Success. You can also create a daily or weekly chart of participation and fundraising activity to watch your progress over time, or compare from year to year. Author: Noel Beebe. Event season is in full swing which means three things to me… reports, reports, reports.

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Engadget

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Best smart scales for 2025 What to look for in a smart scale Weight A scale that measures weight is probably the top requirement, right? Bear in mind, with all these measurements, the readings wont be as accurate as a calibrated clinical scale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

When you have four facilitators, you want to make sure that you choreograph each activity. This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. Defining Roles. I like to use a rock band metaphor. Scribe: The role of the scribe is to capture ideas and build group memory.

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

Think about the goal before the technology Every digital or communications activity your organization undertakes should be strategically aligned with the mission and goals of your organization and the wants and needs of your key audiences. You’re not alone. So where do you start?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. A few activists for privacy rights have had active conversations.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Dunham and Company released an Online Fundraising Scorecard that looked at 151 nonprofits online fundraising activities. One tactic that has been successful for the nonprofit CARE is to provide their donors with two simple pie charts that illustrate how funds raised are allocated below the credit card donation form.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. launch of a dual-purpose device, called kegg , that’s designed to measure hormonal changes in a woman’s cervical fluid to help her determine the chance of conception on a given day. It’s announcing a $1.5

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