Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2011

What if organizations focused these simple questions on their social media strategy using common sense measurement as my colleague Kami Huyse describes it in Geoff Livingston ’s, forthcoming book Welcome to the Fifth Estate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2012

KD Paine , my co-author of the Measuring the Networked Nonprofit (due out in later in 2012), pointed me to this gem of a measurement checklist in an infographic format. I like the positive frame they put on measurement malaise and the hat tip to Kobler-Ross. Denial: You can’t measure it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2019

In this post, you’ll learn from my mistakes and create better charts for your audience – to show fundraising results, organization’s impact or benchmarking. Have you seen a chart and asked yourself, “What is this? Are we guilty of creating such charts ourselves? Here’s a chart from my thesis I created about 15 years ago.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

As a Database Administrator, my world revolves around helping users make sense of the information they receive, from voice-of-the-customer anecdotes and impressions to polished Key Performance Indicator (KPI) graphs, charts, and dashboards. How often has your organization struggled with answering, “How are we doing?” That’s okay!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Last week I wrote about nonprofit “ measurement malaise &# that keeps some nonprofits putting a measurement strategy for their integrated communications campaigns into practice. In the comments, I asked how can we make measurement fun ? We measure EVERYTHING, all the time. Flickr Photo by Martin Deutsch.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Maybe the story lies in how we measure success, how we improve the health of our annual giving programs. The original spirit of that measure made sense: Our alumni support us! But having it as a ranking measurement pushed programs in the direction of gimmicks for participation points. And then there is capacity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

I learned about measurement from Katie Delahaye Paine, who is the leading expert in measuring communications strategies. I was honored enough to co-author a book with Katie, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” a book about measuring social media and networks. So, I know first-hand how incredibly brilliant she is!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization. Everything You Need to Know about the Dublin Summit and the New Measurement Standards. SMMStandards Progress and Roadmap: Marklein and Paine Present the First Social Media Measurement Standards at the Dublin Summit. But where to start?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The pie chart illustrates proportionately how each contributes to the campaigns’ success. Finally, and this is critical: Measure your results against expectations. Measure, measure, measure. They can create these assets and help refine your media buy and distribution. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

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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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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Hecht said innovative organizations start specifically with the business result or ideal mission impact and then chart their path to the outcome by working through the details: What is the experience my donor is having? What is the experience of my staff? The objective is the destination; the key results get you there.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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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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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A logic model helps to visualize those details and highlight the connection between a program's purpose and the programs results, and it helps you make sure you're measuring the right things so you can show success! Ananda Roberts Data Leadership logic models nptech nten Communications Program'

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Interactive and dynamic charts will support a new visual vocabulary for your organization, allowing you to analyze data relationships around correlation, distribution, magnitude, rank, deviation, and change over time. On-Demand Webinar: Measure Your Impact with Salesforce Tableau . You May Also Enjoy: Video: Tableau for Advancement

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blackbaud University’s Henry Wiencek and Chrissy Haskell will do a quick overview of the different chart types, including how you can use them, and they will even build a few from scratch. Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming.

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Nonprofits rely on raw data to learn about supporters, track the success of marketing and fundraising campaigns, and measure program progress. Using this data, your organization can determine which metrics are best for measuring your social impact and illustrating all of your work’s tangible achievements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

The chart below compares the proportion of nonprofits by subject area overall (in blue) with that of the subset of nonprofits sharing demographic data (in orange). In the chart below, we compared sharing rates by different staffing levels and demographic categories, including race/ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and disability status.

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fusionSpan

AUGUST 29, 2024

Strategy: Define Your “Why” Before you think about technology, you must understand your goals, the problems you’re trying to solve, and how you’ll measure success. How will we measure success? Finances: Charting the Course Let’s face it, adopting new technology isn’t cheap.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

From Chart Organizers to Dashboards, you’ll leave with practical ways you can automate and simplify your fund accounting. Improving Business Process with Process Maps : Is it really an improvement if you can’t measure the impact? They need information that helps them make data-driven decisions.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2024

However, the gender pay gap has been gradually declining since 2012 for all but the largest organizations (as measured by budget size). The chart below shows that median compensation for these executive positions has gradually increased between 2018 and 2022.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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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. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For example, when mapping out a timeline for a software implementation or chart of accounts restructuring, you will want to incorporate time for your team’s expected busy seasons when they will have other high priorities, such as preparing for an audit or year-end close.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Utilizing infographics, charts, and other visual tools can help break down your nonprofit’s achievements and impact into digestible bits. If you’re looking for more insights or assistance in elevating your nonprofit’s storytelling and impact measurement strategies, we’re here to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It includes a tool that helps measure your networking skills and also lots of methods to help you identify, expand, and use your network to improve your knowledge and work. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement. Impact and Excellence by Sheri Chaney Jones.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

You need to measure nonprofit impact, according to McKinsey and communicate value in a visually-appealing manner so that it draws readers in and keeps them engaged. Use charts to present statistics and financial figures. Make comparisons (use bar charts, pie charts, stacked bar charts). Source: Venngage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

Dashboards are a nonprofit’s best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization’s important measurement data at a glance. 4) Choose the Right Measure. Stare at your charts and graphs and numbers. Step C: Select the right chart. (5) 5) Choose the Right Display.

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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. What kind of Gift Chart represents your current distribution of donors, and how many donors do you need at each level to meet your goals? . You know what they say about measurement, right? Start with benchmark data.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

Artificial Intelligence There is a lot of buzz surrounding AI technologies and rightfully so, as the AI healthcare market is measured to be worth $38 billion by 2027. This electronic solution eliminates chart chasing, enabling providers to make more informed decisions at the point of care. With this in mind, let’s begin.

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