Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

A simple online survey. There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

Wingtra ’s drones are used to perform surveying missions by organizations around the world, including NASA and the Army Corps of Engineers. It makes mapping drones, develops software for fully autonomous flights and the WingtraPilot app, which collects and processes aerial survey data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

After helping my kids with math homework (they had to represent some data in a chart), I found this awesome, free chart maker at the National Center for Education Statistics. But the bonus was the tutorial to help you better understand and apply charts. That’s the most important thing to me, anyway.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. It is also important to think about what specific metrics are needed to measure along the way. How will you measure them along the way?

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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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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

APRIL 11, 2011

Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware. In February, Idealware distributed a survey (thorough an informal email outreach) to over 500 nonprofit professionals who were using Facebook at their organizations. Who’s seeing success with their Facebook page?

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

What we do: Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) develops database software, data collection strategies, and statistical techniques to measure human rights atrocities. Write and run statistical analysis in R, including survey estimation, geospatial analysis, and general linear model fitting.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

The survey was distributed online only. Track your open rates and conversions (do they open the email and then do they actually make a gift) – open rates are important to measure, not just conversions and gifts. You can get the full report, review charts and data, and more at: [link]. Get the full Millennial Donor Report.

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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. Survey members of your organization to ask about their data input, management, and output.

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Tableau

AUGUST 14, 2024

Chart showcasing a list of English speaking movies with an average IMDB rating higher than 8 in the Sci-Fi genre which is the population for this analysis. This is just a way of saying a measurement, property, or characteristic of something that can vary or change. Both categories, and measurements are variables shown in this example.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

Alexandra gave an overview of the methodology offered by her company, Vision Critical , and some insights they have learned from combining a survey data from large sample with appending actual social media usage. If they incorporate survey data it is often based on self-reported use of social media. That’s not what we found.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Preference and Opinion – this is something that you can survey or poll your donors on, and collecting this information via an online portal is a great idea. You will also want to decide in advance how you will measure the overall results of your efforts. You should also determine your high-level goals for email communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Using their own experience as a case study, they will show their process for collecting and managing the information, including how they created and distributed the survey through Blackbaud Grantmaking. Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Next, measuring the impact of your digital marketing can be broken down into two ways: Tangible Measurements : Are typically revenue focused where the desired outcome is to sell a service or receive donations while accounting for expenses.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

According to OpenView’s annual Financial & Operating Benchmarks report , only 13% of nearly 600 companies surveyed named “burning too much cash” as one of their top three concerns, compared to 30% last year. Measuring up. Just look at this chart:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years. Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field.

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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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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Council on Foundations ’ annual survey and report on staff salaries and benefits at U.S. Unlike sources such as the IRS form 990-PF , the survey goes beyond the top-paid employees by collecting salaries for any full-time staff, which match the descriptions in a predefined list of common 35 roles among grantmaking foundations.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Provide a recommendation in this quick survey and we’ll share the results with everybody. Mobile measurement partner (MMP). A mobile measurement partner is only necessary when running mobile app install campaigns and is being used as the tool to attribute paid acquisition efforts. Growth stack overview. Data warehouse.

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TechCrunch

JULY 9, 2021

The second quarter of 2021 was the biggest quarter for venture capital activity ever, measured by dollars invested. A FactSet chart indicates around $150 billion was raised in the second quarter, up a similar percentage from its year-ago result as what CB Insights counted. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

Thanks to you, we received a record 4,607 responses nationwide to our 2012 State of the Sector Survey, more than doubling responses from last year. The chart below highlights that upward trend. But this funding may have been a stopgap measure at best, and some of these programs have now run their course. And that you did.

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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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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

Establish metrics that measure reactions, engagements, and your own internal successes and challenges in executing the plan—remember that staffing, budget, and organizational change management are components of your plan as well. Growing your digital engagement capacity will likely require investments of budget or time over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

As far back as the 1880s, scientists have led “citizen science” projects in which amateurs are invited to participate in formal scientific research by volunteering to count birds, measure soil quality, or document non-native plant species. Here’s a chart that may help you figure out what type is best for your next project.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2011

According to a DonorTrends survey, 58% of donors say they research an organization online before they give a gift, though most of them don't give online. It also means that when you're measuring your website's impact on fundraising, your online donation statistics tell less than half of the story.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2021

It wasn’t one check by one billionaire, but instead a measured and consistent approach to try to reestablish Detroit as a city of innovation within the United States. The TechCrunch Survey of tech startup hubs in England and Wales. How Pilot charted a course of raising not too much money.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 14, 2018

You need a solid content strategy and it should include your objectives, your target audience, content types and topics, a publishing schedule and how you plan to promote your content and measure success. If you can measure engagement, you can work on improving it. Define your target audience. Use different types of content.

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