Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure. How To Use Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Take for example their coverage on food that is devoured by a devoted flock of foodies.

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Measure Policy Social Media Green 98

CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT (Chat Generated Paragraph Techniques) is an advanced natural language processing tool to provide information and cobble content together based on prompts entered by a user. It’s the second chatbot to ever pass the Turing Test , the current standard for measuring sophisticated AI models. What is ChatGPT?

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Language Generation Nonprofit Social Media 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. Why get good at Excel? You’ll be a data nerd in no time! There are several steps in the process.

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Data Chart Tutorial Statistics 139

sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

They help your organization measure impact, follow regulations, and show donors you’re on top of the needs of your community. Scenario budgeting is a technique that allows you to create different versions of your budget based on different assumptions and contingencies. But how do you perfect your nonprofit financial management?

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Practice Management Fund Nonprofit 93

Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2013

In this article we are going to discuss a challenge that every researcher is confronted with when creating a survey : How to design the right question list for their questionnaire? As my fifth grade teacher used to say, “It is always hard to get the right answers when you are asking the wrong questions.”

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Sage Nonprofit Solutions I've been asked to present a session at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference on "Technical Management Techniques for Managers". These are all important questions, but they're not as immediately important as resolving the crisis quickly. Who is responsible?".

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Technique Management North America NTC 82

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It is tempting to think of this step as only doing a survey to answer the questions, “Did the workshop accomplish its objectives? Here are six tips that will help you deliver highly successful technology training workshops by using effective evaluation techniques. Can participants apply the skills?” Use Learning Theory.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. But ChatGPT’s deep learning techniques allow it to create optimized subject lines for any email. It can also provide high-quality analysis for a range of purposes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 124

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

To do this, they use a variety of techniques, including public relations management, content marketing and technical SEO. . Prospective donors are unlikely to trust a nonprofit organization with a questionable reputation. You should then take appropriate measures to remove those mentions and links. .

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Management Nonprofit Wikipedia Review 84

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

My friends responding with public questions about what else was needed or suggesting fundraising strategies. I also learned that one-on-one donor solicitation techniques can also work and some of the challenges of being able to track the velocity or flow of networked donations. What questions are you asking?

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Analysis Twitter Giving Ethiopia 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. There are several tactical techniques that consistently work on Facebook to inspire engagement.

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Practice Tips Social Meme 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 117

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Here we’ll summarize those questions and answers. Moving toward providing more do-it-yourself tools for reporting, “Explorations” in GA4 is a collection of advanced reporting techniques that help you uncover insights about your customers’ behavior. It’s important to both rethink what’s possible, and what you’re really measuring.

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FAQ Organization Analytics Google 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. Next, we did a role-play.

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Social Media Reflection Leadership Media 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). There are key questions to consider before investing in a social media monitoring solution.

Social Media 101

Social Media Channel Data Media 101

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning: The only valid data is quantitative data. Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. Only measure impact, not process. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data?

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. I have not done this yet.

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Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The practices for self-care that we describe in the book are based on insights that we gleaned from putting the techniques into practice over the past few years. While these subjective measures, I discovered that my magic number of sleep hours about 7 hours and 45 minutes. So, remember it is only a guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2015

To understand how well you’re serving your constituents and anticipate their future needs, there are three main types of insights that data science can provide to help your organization work even smarter: Descriptive insights help you measure your past and current activity. Descriptive Insights – measuring satisfaction.

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Data Impact Measure Analysis 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

Culture 50

Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

” I created a list of grantee’s Twitter Profiles and shared back the analysis of most tweeted words and hashtags. Also, because Danielle has been a great measurement maven, she discovered through analyzing her data that the optimum amount of posting is twice day. Most Frequently Tweeted Words. Peer Case Studies.

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Social Media Integration Media Social 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I incorporated examples from people in the room and then asked them talk about it. As the facilitator, you have design questions so they illicit stories. I appointed two Twitter advocates who live Tweeted the discussion and also verbalized questions and comments from Twitter, providing a link between online and offline.

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Knowledge Seattle Social Media Measure 98

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

As organizations look for more efficient ways to make, keep and grow relationships, bring in more money, measure outcomes and demonstrate impact, analytics become a key enabler. For brevity let’s decide that it is about technology, techniques and processes for understanding what’s in your data and driving your business practices.

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Analytics Data Analysis Culture 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. So writing a lesson plan and using it for reflection is an invaluable process for improving your instructional techniques. Talking and hearing (Auditory).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Techniques for More Engagement. Someone said to me during a workshop a few weeks back – it really sucks to log into Facebook and see a two-star post quality ranking. This prompted me to post a question on my wall: How many of you Facebook Page admins notice your post quality ranking every time you visit?

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Social Media Fun Experiment Media 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? You can do a whole network analysis which looks at organizations and people in specific geographic or social change area. What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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Professional Network Learning Lebanon 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Source: A New Model for Social Media (and Traditional) Measurement. The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Hopefully that explains the fundamentals of how the analysis works. since it won't have any engagement yet.

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Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

On Saturday, I had the honor of presenting at Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp and one of the burning questions was about efficiency. The big deal is that all of this data is in one dashboard, so I can jump straight to analysis, making my weekly report a whole lot easier to produce. Spredfast is one, but are there others?

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Social Media Tools Media Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value. Jeremiah Owyang has a good analysis of what features Google + needs to go mainstream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Use of metrics to measure your results. Return on Investment.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your organization already understands the importance of having updated and adaptive techniques for all its digital tools and marketing outlets. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. Step 7: Measure the success of your nonprofit digital strategy. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. Let’s begin with an overview of the first phase.

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