Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. Hopefully those days are coming soon as there’s a new movement to simplify and standardized social media measurements and better track what really matters. Well Katie calls that HITS = How Idiots Track Success.

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.orgSource

APRIL 10, 2023

It can fast track important projects. They should be visionaries who chart the direction, evaluate options, and are prepared to challenge ideas they feel are not in the association’s best interests. In fairness, some of the reluctance is probably due to entrenched processes for electing or appointing directors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

California Public Policy Director Judy Darnell offered a case study how she got started simply on Twitter. Learning and Metrics. Next up was Ashley Boyd from Momsrising who gave a fantastic presentation on what metrics Momsrising uses to track their progress – not only KPIs but some of the countring metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Is it worth it?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Keeps the Executive director up at night. The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment. The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment. An area of social media practice that needs improvement.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics. These metrics enable management to take a logical approach to decision-making and problem solving. BI tools make it possible to pull charts and graphs for presentations instantly.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

posted by Joseph Garcia Director of Communication, ASU Morrison Institute Director, ASU Morrison Institute Latino Public Policy Center. Unlike business, the bottom line of a nonprofit is not necessarily money; it’s all about outcomes, which often manifest themselves as intangible results not easily measured by metrics.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Is our board on track for the public phase? Board members should take on key campaign leadership roles in partnership with your advancement or development director. By now, you should have a defined gift range chart to demonstrate the impact of various giving levels. Did we set appropriate capital campaign goals with our board?

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sgEngage

APRIL 7, 2023

Digging through different folders and files for the names of decision-makers, impact areas, diversity and equity metrics , and previous reports for each grantee takes time. A grants management system makes it easy to keep track of where different grants are in the cycle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. I pull in metrics from all over the web to get instant snapshots and create graphs that show changes over time. One place to look).

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

Jessica Holliday, NTEN’s Operations Director, learned a lot at the Do Good Data Conference in Chicago last week and chose to share some highlights with us. We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

My executive director asks, maybe my board asks, you know, “Are we getting an ROI at budget time? Stops you in your tracks, all starts with data. . Here are the metrics. People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in. They all know they’re being tracked.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

The transparency of this information allows everyone in your organization to stay on the same page—management, development directors, program directors, the board, etc. Review Important Nonprofit Metrics. Once your books and chart of accounts are set up properly, you’re ready to analyze key metrics to help drive outcomes.

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