Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. The Playbook gives you an examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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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

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis? Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio?

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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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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ateken Abla November 14, 2023 - 6:59pm Sue Kraemer Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau Charts are all around us. When viewing and creating charts, it’s vital that we gain the ability to critically explore and discern the integrity of the information and conclusions shown in charts. Don’t be SCAM’d!

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization. How do you measure that?

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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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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. Isn't best to focus on evaluating results?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As such, adoption can be used as a currency , measuring the worth of your programs, services and opportunities. From listening, to creating to evaluating and then back to the listening again so that you can modify and then evaluate, and so on. Communities use adoption as collective decision making and prioritization.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 4, 2021

That device still uses a subcutaneous filament on an arm patch to measure glucose levels. That study, though, evaluated people who regularly used finger-stick tests, rather than non-invasive continuous glucose monitors. . They tested the device’s glucose monitoring against glucose measures collected from venous blood draws.

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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 know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. 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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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

How will you measure success? Evaluation Plan. This can be a separate section, or evaluation methods can be added to various other sections. Evaluation is critical to determine your effectiveness as a nonprofit — and it’s particularly important for grants. Management and Organizational Charts.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

And which benchmarks can they use to evaluate their performance? Measuring up. If we had to only retain one chart from OpenView’s report, it would be the benchmarks table below, which features a few metrics and separates them based on the respondents’ annual recurring revenue (ARR): Image Credits: OpenView Partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events. Here’s another example of how Billboard is using nostalgia in its tweets: This Week In Billboard Chart History: TLC Takes ‘No Scrubs’ To No. Measure, Test, Refine.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

What’s so hard about measuring nonprofit impact? Can you really use the same criteria to measure the effectiveness of a rural food bank that works locally and an internationally renowned art museum located in a major metropolitan area? Which brings us back to my original question: How do you measure nonprofit effectiveness?

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

It also seeks to provide a common baseline of the diversity of the field, as well as ensure that demographic data is available to those who can make use of it to evaluate their programs and assess progress around equity. v In the chart, the category for “Gender” combines responses to two separate questions on the demographic survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Measuring outcomes for social media tools and strategy is as Avinash Kaushik notes in his recent post on the topic , "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. measuring your impact on the world!).

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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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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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DataRobot

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

We’ll focus on evaluating a model for biased behavior, which can occur during the training process or after it has been deployed in a production environment. . As with model accuracy, there are many metrics one can use to measure bias. There are many other evaluations that can be performed to further trust and transparency.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Intangible Measurements : Identity how, and most importantly why , people behave the way they do when they engage with your brand.

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DataRobot

JUNE 14, 2022

Using DataRobot’s AutoML platform , we’ve developed a number of models and are now ready to evaluate them for bias. Looking at the bar chart, we see that the classes are “male” and “female.” The chart tells us the ratio of women that receive the positive outcome— having an income over $50K—to that of men. Checking for Bias.

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DataRobot

MAY 26, 2022

Further, we will discuss how DataRobot is able to help streamline this process, by providing various diagnostic tools aimed at thoroughly evaluating a model’s performance prior to placing it into production. In the model-fitting procedure, the modeler is then able to measure the impact of each factor against the outcome.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. This helps to make connections. Learning and Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Plus, if an organization isn’t crystal clear about what it’s trying to achieve, how to measure success, and how to communicate its impact, it’s going to be a real challenge to keep the support coming in. Rolling out a well-thought-out business plan is like charting a course through treacherous yet conquerable terrains.

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DataRobot

JUNE 27, 2022

A prerequisite in measuring a deployed model’s evolving performance is to collect both its input data and business outcomes in a deployed setting. With this data in hand, we are able to measure both the data drift and model performance, both of which are essential metrics in measuring the health of the deployed model.

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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. 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. But how do you perfect your nonprofit financial management?

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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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Towards Data Science

MARCH 5, 2024

In such cases, you should carefully evaluate if the benefit of removing redundancy with nested repeated columns compensates the lack of optimizations via clustering. Do not persist calculated measures When you start using BigQuery for the first projects, you will most likely stick with the on-demand compute pricing model.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

To understand the changes required by a shift from a traditional to an open work model in full, we must consider not only the technologies an organization uses to communicate across distances, but also its systems for measuring results and accountability, its culture and values, and the way its employees carry out their roles and responsibilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The Glasspocket’s blog has a post from Claire Gibbons, a senior program officer in the Research & Evaluation Unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that illustrates or describes the change. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Smartwatches measure blood oxygen from the wrist, though, which may not be as accurate as the fingertip. Pulse oximeters use wavelengths of light to measure how much oxygen is in the blood — oxygenated and non-oxygenated blood absorb different wavelengths. They’re usually just measuring time at rest, though.

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DataRobot

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Evaluating bias is an important part of developing a model. After the models have been built, we can begin evaluating them using the Bias and Fairness insight. The feature “Gender” is selected, and we can see that the chart is displaying the computed Proportional Parity scores for men and women. Checking Models for Bias.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time.

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