Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2014

Evaluate the Campaign Climate. Chart the Course. The six simple stages to successful campaign planning are: Define the Victory. Choose Your Influence Strategy. Message for Impact. Manage the Campaign. You can download the print guide or use it online (after registering at the site.)

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sgEngage

AUGUST 12, 2024

How to do it Create a separate account for each fund in your segmented chart of accounts and assign each transaction to the appropriate fund. You can also use reports to identify your strengths and weaknesses and evaluate your effectiveness. You can also avoid surprises and delays and resolve any issues or questions quickly.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As soon as people become interested in an issue, their creativity is instantly engaged. They didn’t shy away from challenges; they offered stakeholders meaningful ways to engage with the swiftly evolving issues of the day. Even using charts and graphs can help a lot. In life you’re either growing or dying. Well, almost.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. There is also the issue of social media measurement tools. Click to See Larger Version. I think the focus on analytics software distracts many people away from thinking about outcomes.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. Each person on your team needs an education plan that becomes part of their ongoing performance evaluation, including expectations of work changes and improvement after their training.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Or more importantly, discussing strategic issues that the Board NEEDS to be addressing? Questions about minor issues can be handled in those calls. But if it’s a bigger issue that needs the full Board’s attention, it’s saved for the meeting and that particular item is pulled out of the consent agenda and placed on the upcoming agenda.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Remember to choose the communication channels your audience is already familiar with, and chart a customer journey that moves each prospect carefully down the sales funnel. Clean” data is accurate, relevant, and free of issues like duplications, resulting in more effective lead generation and personalized outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The hot button issue was capacity, skills, and lack of resources. ” Or if you are a self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. Google offers the free MOOC called “ Google Analytics Academy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. Yet foundation staff charged with organizational learning responsibilities are still charting a new course in our field.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Organizations continually operate in “not enough” mode and are expected to try to make the best of their limited resources and create (and evaluate) the most impact possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Adding Conflict Resolution Points To Your Social Media Policy: This includes creating a flow chart for dealing with an online conflict situation. The points include: 1) notice the situation; 2) evaluate the situation; 3) Respond to the situation. Andrea’s book is filled with practical information on how deal with the situation.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Are these factors relevant to your funders and donors, and should your donor correspondence speak to these issues? It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

Evaluate where social makes sense. where are customers or users “in&# the organization chart (at the top?). Tags: open web sxsw platforms liveblogging issues events. . “fan&# doesn’t mean “endorsement’ “network neighbor&#. create maps of communication streams. personal cpm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or if you are good self-learner and just need to learn a few techniques for creating charts in excel, here’s some terrific video tutorials. .” I hear this too often from nonprofits. The skills are out there. We are not talking about a person with a Ph.D from MIT in rocket science.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. Evaluate external threats and opportunities. For example, economic downturns may mean that your major donors will not be able to give as much this year.

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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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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

A lot of the organizations we work with and others we see in the policy-issue, advocacy, "intellectual-commerce" realm, are interested in their work being more influential. These are drawn from some work we did in an evaluation ( see the report ) of the ReliefWeb web site of the UN's Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

A Communications Evaluation Guide by Asibey Consulting I've been exploring different ROI and communications evaluation approaches and how they might be adapted for social media strategies. To help, the Communications Network recently published a guide to help foundations and nonprofits develop plans to evaluate their communications.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

The evaluation and recognition of peer influence, something that is not only prevalent but inherent in social media, is something that help empower and sustain your communities AND increase your staff capacity. Giving permission to the community to have conversations without you requires trust. Now, what about peer influence?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

" That's why Charity Navigator has joined with GuideStar and the BBB Wise Giving Alliance to issue another open letter addressing this important topic. Charity Navigator's evolving ratings system are another attempt to help nonprofits address the "results" issue. It's got to be done."

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 18, 2023

Usually, if a nonprofit is struggling in any way, there’s a leadership issue at the top. Surprises are few and opportunities are easily evaluated and leveraged. It can attract a lot of support, with donors and volunteers lining up to help. The team spins their wheels and finds it difficult to make progress with anything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

We've spent the last 18 months focused on how social media can support communications and fundraising strategies and now it is time to turn attention to program delivery and other issues. What I found most thought provoking were the questions we should ask about technology in charting the future.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Another major challenge involves the graphic content in ebooks, such as pictures, charts, and diagrams, formulas and special symbols. At Benetech, we agree that braille is an essential literacy tool and that every child who needs it has the right to be taught braille. This is important here in the U.S.,

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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. And, of course, what metrics to use.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

" That's why Charity Navigator has joined with GuideStar and the BBB Wise Giving Alliance to issue another open letter addressing this important topic. Charity Navigator's evolving ratings system are another attempt to help nonprofits address the "results" issue. It's got to be done."

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Social Measure Charity Problem 55

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

A capital campaign or a major push to reach new donors are times when it’s definitely worth the effort to re-evaluate your tech stack and look for improvements that can support your goals. Rank these considerations by priority, starting with the tech gaps or issues that need immediate solutions. Determine key guidelines.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. The point was to create “SMARTer” objectives. The “E” stands for evaluator and the “R” stands for “Revaluate.” This helps to make connections.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

The lack of a proper keyboard for tablets is not longer an issue with Logitech and Zagg keyboard cases for iPads, Windows, and Android tablets in all sizes. MySammy software essentially evaluates how a person spends time on a computer and/or mobile device. There are also an array of Windows 8 tablets from many hardware makers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

For example, everyone who works on ocean issues was on the same team. Breaking up into small tables worked – I saw table after table of people leaning in, standing up, gathered around flip charts. But I’m most pleased that EDF staff are evaluating how blogging will help achieve their goals, not just blogging for the sake of it.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Rolling out a well-thought-out business plan is like charting a course through treacherous yet conquerable terrains. Engage with local organizations, community leaders, and residents to gain insights into the pressing issues and gaps in services. On the income side, identify and evaluate potential funding sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Unique Blog Readers.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 13, 2023

With the average fundraiser’s tenure being a short 18 months combined with an already over-extended team , this complex and prevalent staff retention issue impacts the ability of countless organizations to successfully fuel their mission. This is especially true in the case of nonprofit fundraisers. What is your CRM?

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Approach this with clear and tangible solutions to the issue at hand. You can show the urgency and need for solutions to the problem by providing tangible evidence of the issues occurring within your community. Planning your evaluation Decide which metrics you’ll use to measure the success of your project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. Some tables got very focused on some philosophical issues related to goals and stuck. I suspect the issue of social networking - just say no without feeling pushed. Privacy issues came up as especially related to young people's projects. What worked?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 12, 2010

Thursday, August 12, 2010 Go Old School.Use A Flip Chart For Gathering Ideas Heres a great idea from communications consultant, speaker and author David Grossman : And, yes its old school. Grossman recommends that when you have something you want to get your employees input on, post a question on a flip chart in your department or office.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

You know the challenges and realities of your issue space inside and out, and we recognize that those insights are invaluable in helping us do great creative work. (We define who is responsible for leading, executing, and providing feedback on each workstream (a well-executed RACI chart is great for this!).

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