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How to Prepare Donor Data Reports for Your Board Members

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This will provide a frame of reference for this year’s performance in comparison to the previous year, allowing your board to pinpoint key areas they should focus on going forward. This will help you measure improvement year-over-year and hold your team accountable for meeting various goals. Predictive analytics.

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But I also got the opportunity to learn and hear Rob Reich, associate professor of political science, Stanford University, and faculty co-director, Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society (Stanford PACS) and Lucy Bernholz, visiting scholar, Stanford PACS present their research in a talk called “New Skills for the New Social Economy.”

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Steven Johnson Key Note at Serious Games Conference

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He starts with how Lost gave us a control study with a comparison - Gilligan's Island - to compare the complexity. He showed a slide that illustrates Lost's Mysteries (e.g. IQ have gone up, SATs going up, other reasons underestimating -Skills that games are teaching are ones that we don't have the tools to measure.

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Making Data Visualizations: A Survival Guide And Other Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Order bars by value to make comparison easier.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. Standardized metrics for measuring the ROI of social media strategies are a moving target. The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement. Owyang ).

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