Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Photo by Dwinton.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

(KD Paine and I will be collaborating on a project in the coming months). The workshop shared a landscape analysis of what’s already out there from the various industries in order to build a clear understanding of what’s in place and what isn’t in terms of social media measurement valid metrics.

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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. Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

The Networked Nonprofit wasn’t only about making smart use of social media and metrics. They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo. How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook. By Noah Rimland Flower.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

The five conversations provide a roadmap for managers to ensure they are having the right kinds of ongoing dialogue with each person they manage — reflective and future-oriented conversations such as role and relationship orientation and semi-annual reviews as well as in-the-moment quick-connects, check-ins, and developmental conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What's the key metric? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. Do you need sentiment analysis? Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. The term means learning culture.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

The five conversations provide a roadmap for managers to ensure they are having the right kinds of ongoing dialogue with each person they manage — reflective and future-oriented conversations such as role and relationship orientation and semi-annual reviews as well as in-the-moment quick-connects, check-ins, and developmental conversations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

When talking and planning recruitment, it’s important to remind board members that the essential idea is to better reflect the community – not to continue to mirror traditional or current board membership. These factors explain and perpetuate the problem of board diversity.”. It’s personal and requires a fair amount of trust.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. It’s not possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

It is a misconception that for-profits exist to make money only. In the early days of a successful lean startup, they look like untentional nonprofit organizations because they are focusing on impact metrics: How effective are they serving their stakeholders or customers? Define the problem from your stakeholder’s point of view.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Conduct post-campaign analysis. Here are some questions your team can ask to help you reflect on last year’s results: What was our goal last year, and did we meet it? Get Qgiv’s Campaign Analysis Worksheet! Measurable: Choose metrics that will help you know whether you’ve met your goal or not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

As measurement guru KD Paine says, you need the right measurement tool for the job – identify SMART objectives , pick metrics , and then your tool. Creating is more appealing then analysis to most. Here’s where I think the AMEC Valid Metrics Grids will be very useful. Less is more. .

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

In terms of our key metrics, however, we saw little impact from Facebook Connect. Collect clear data on the impact of several distinct approaches to the problem you're trying to resolve. Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis. AddThis, Facebook Activity Widget, etc.) But visits continued to stagnate.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And there’s been also a lot of questions about that and applications about racial equity, and then the makeup of your staff and reflective of the people that you serve. And the SOAR analysis, I think, is a great brainstorming tool because this can really incorporate feedback from all different folks. I love this logic model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

I got a really nice surprise when Jordan from Pathable contacted me this week and asked if we’d be interested in them doing an analysis of the twitter activity like they had done previously for WordCamp. metric tons – the equivalent to the annual emission of 43 cars. It’s simple to do cause it is just a link to a web site.

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