Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For nonprofit professionals serving rural communities, building strong donor relationships starts with clear communication about local needs and measurable outcomes. Organizations that articulate these community-specific needs position supporters to make a targeted impact.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

This does not feel like a good strategy to me and I need to be able to articulate why. But then you’ll need to know how to measure and evaluate those results to determine their validity and statistical relevance. It seems to me the focus of this mailing needs to be on the call to action – which is to give.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

Articulate a Mission That Resonates Know Your Core Purpose Every strong brand starts with an unshakable sense of purpose. Measure Your Progress and Refine Track Key Brand Metrics Brand clarity is about more than warm, fuzzy feelingsit also impacts measurable results. Ready to turn Mission Impossible into Mission Unstoppable?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Going through this exercise not only helps identify issues, but when team members articulate their daily challenges, they will likely be more driven resolve them. Identify the key areas that require transformation and set measurable goals for each area.

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Blue Avocado

JULY 16, 2024

What should be measured? Of course, it is doubtful that the founder or ED has explicitly articulated this value — but it is there, nevertheless. Don’t get me wrong: Aspirational language is great for identifying what the value is , but it can be difficult to measure employees against this standard. How often should they be done?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

How Nonprofits Measure Success of Video. The big takeaway: Nonprofits overwhelmingly agree that video is crucial to their communications, but many feel they do not know how to use it effectively or measure its impact – yet. How are you measuring those results? Is your organization using video and getting results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

It’s all a work in progress, since measuring effectiveness is hard, but it’s really happening, and you want potential contributors to get accurate info regarding your efforts. It might not matter if you’re very effective at serving people, if you can’t articulate that clearly. They’ll judge you on that.).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can also be used to measure progress and keep the planning team focused. A project charter serves as a compass to keep the team firmly pointed at goals established at the beginning. It serves as the reference point to settle disputes, avoid “ scope creep ,” and judge the usefulness of ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

For nonprofits, those are not solely money or efficiency for everything that could be measured. By aligning social media to organizational objectives and using measurement, you can answer the question: of all the ways we could be investing our resources, is social media the best choice to see the social change results that we want to see?

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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 started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 15, 2014

All companies work towards measurable goals. Simon Sinek shows us how industry leaders distinguish themselves, not by what they produce but by articulating their “WHY”. David Hassell is the CEO of 15Five. This post originally appeared on the 15five blog. But goals are meaningless without knowing why you’re aiming for them.

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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. 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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The Verge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

While the company said it was rolling out increased safety measures, workers continued to get sick and executives became increasingly hostile to employee organizing efforts. Amazon fired Smalls and coordinated a campaign to label him as “not smart or articulate” in the press.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

When measuring your impact, you probably do so in relation to the specific needs of the community you serve, but you are also just one in a broader network of organizations working collectively to create a sustainable future for all. Each step you take to maximize your impact creates a ripple that carries through to create global change.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

While some of these options might be cheaper, make sure you’re articulating the long term benefits of the CRM to future projects, while other options will likely only serve as a quick fix. Soft benefits are one that less easily measured, and usually revolve around how a member, donor, or employee feels about their work. Don’t fret!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. How will they measure success? So, articulated success metrics for a networked strategy is also important. Do you have a measurement system to help you track impact along the way and improve what you’re doing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Networked Nonprofits have articulated SMART objectives and a target audience for their Facebook page. They also know how to make use of a customized landing tab – articulating value at a glance and a call to action that ladders up to the objective. Networked Nonprofits promote their Facebook presence through all channels.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Yet if yours is like many mission-driven organizations, you still measure digital performance using basic metrics (like page views and visitor counts) that fail to demonstrate real mission impact. That means creating a measurement plan that aligns digital KPIs with mission-related objectives. What is a Measurement Plan?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Once you have those numbers, clearly articulate your goals and identify what you need to meet your goals. But you’ve got to be patient, and you’ve got to have goals against which you can measure your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!”

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2017

Clearly articulating the objectives — the outcomes — you expect from your grantseeking efforts is a critical component of your overall fundraising plan. For now, here are some highlights from the Spring 2017 State of Grantseeking™ Report that may help you establish measurable objectives for your own grantseeking program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

We can help you move analytics to the top of the list by giving you tips to build a business case and how to articulate it to others. Describe what you plan to improve and outline how you plan to measure it. You probably have a long list of great things you want to accomplish this year…including making analytics a priority.

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Blue Avocado

DECEMBER 17, 2024

One of the most effective donor engagement strategies is to consider and articulate how supporting your mission benefits your financial supporters as well as your nonprofit ! A values-based performance appraisal system means you measure what you value ! Nonprofit leaders share the various ways that their organizations measure success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Our team articulately expressed direct, succinct truths that required no editing. We measure what we do, so that we know we’re getting stuff done. Conclusion I hope this update has given you some insight into the key parts of the Benetech culture and an understanding of how these values are articulated in everything we do.

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Tableau

JUNE 3, 2021

When executives and key leaders demonstrate data-driven behavior and articulate the impact of data within their teams, expectations about the role data can play throughout the organization are reset. Agree on metrics to measure progress. Outline how success will be measured and who is responsible for driving and meeting each benchmark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Return on Investment (ROI) was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable. What it also illustrates is that, originally, ROI was a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. There's an entire book devoted to the topic: Nonprofit ROI.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. The goals must be SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and measurable). This data is how we measure our impact.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Step #3) A – Articulate the goal(s) of a grant An A rticulate goal is the main aim that will result because of your program and will solve your problem statement. Step #4) N – Narrow your objectives Now that you have a goal articulated, you will need specific activities to ensure that the goal is achieved.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2007

Yours truly clearly ticked off our articulate and thought provoking keynote speaker, Carl Schramm, the head of the Kauffman Foundation. Of course, I'm thinking that just maybe this isn't a fair way to measure the social sector. Late breaking news from the Gathering. Carl's foundation is the foundation for entrepreneurship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact.

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TechCrunch

MAY 13, 2022

Ask yourself the following questions: Do your primary KPIs include ways to measure underwriting outcomes alongside traditional growth metrics? Can all your employees articulate how/why underwriting is a differentiator at your company? Do a majority of your employees work on underwriting directly or indirectly?

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