Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

In the eLearning space, in particular, assessments are exceptionally important to pinpoint learners’ strengths and measure the overall effectiveness of the program. Favorably, we have a host of assessment techniques to evaluate the learner and the course instruction. Focus These evaluate learning processes.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Training ROI measures the financial return that your organization gains from investing in employee training. It’s a way to evaluate whether the training is cost-effective and beneficial in the long run. Leveraging technology ensures that you have a robust and reliable method for evaluating your training programs.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Training ROI measures the financial return that your organization gains from investing in employee training. It’s a way to evaluate whether the training is cost-effective and beneficial in the long run. Leveraging technology ensures that you have a robust and reliable method for evaluating your training programs.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Measurable – How much? Only add criteria which are clearly measurable, with the measurement determined in advance (e.g., “no

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

It can also be used to measure progress and keep the planning team focused. These are information collected directly from website users through on-page surveys, feedback widgets, and other techniques. Do they have budget or timeline questions that could help them better prepare a bid for you? Ask for advice on how to improve it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. I call these “housekeeping skills” because these techniques keep my data neat and tidy. These techniques will save blood, sweat, and tears down the road.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. My biggest question for these social psychologists is this: how do we apply their lessons to our work? You can measure the change in that comfort before and after the research activity. Direct questioning.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is the basis of trust and emotional connection people have with your organization—measured by the distance between what you say and what you do. Calderoni Question: What inspired you to write your book? Question: Why do we hear so much about company culture and so little about company character?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Supporters can get more information quickly by asking any questions they have about a message. You can encourage supporters to respond by sending requests for feedback, text surveys, or just letting them know that they can text back with any questions. Getting direct feedback allows your nonprofit to learn more about your donors.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It can also evaluate your campaigns and programs to find the most successful strategies for you to use to fundraise more efficiently. Chatbots can help you with your donor communications by providing more personalized and detailed responses to your supporters’ questions.

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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 spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I''ve heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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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. Scenario budgeting is a technique that allows you to create different versions of your budget based on different assumptions and contingencies. But how do you perfect your nonprofit financial management?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning. Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data?

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

But as any fundraiser worth their salt will tell you – planning is something you need to do, without question. It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting. Fundraising Goals.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

This post shares some of the most interesting questions I've heard throughout these experiences. Feel free to add your own questions and answers in the comments! BROAD QUESTIONS ABOUT AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION 1. Are there certain kinds of institutions that are more well-suited for participatory techniques than others?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." In mid-November, Idealware held one of its free webinars to address this question. Measuring impact is the last thing to tackle. Event registrations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics. Now we need to find out not only what works, but what works best over time.”. A few lessons for assessing civic tech from our work include: A Team Approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. The design is a description of how you will use the time slots – goals, content, instructional activities, materials, technology, documentation, and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. I always like to start with an icebreaker that allows participants to reflect and identify burning questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). There are key questions to consider before investing in a social media monitoring solution.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning: The only valid data is quantitative data. Only measure impact, not process. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Do only numbers matter? And so it goes …….

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

The organization integrates simple measurement techniques and learning as an organizational habit that helps improve practice and documents results from the beginning of every networked approach. Organizations in this category also need to focus on using more sophisticated measurement techniques , tools, and processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. I wondered whether the more general learnings about network effectiveness and evaluating networks would be considered confidential?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

You can expect to continue to see more blog posts from me on the topic of peer learning design and training techniques as I continue to do this work. To complement the Playbook, we organized a Peer Learning Exchange where participants could gather, share ideas and ask questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

1) The First Test: KISS: The first experiment should be simple from an idea, execution, and measurement and use A/B method. This is a technique for testing two or more versions. (2) For example, "My hypothesis is that our Facebook Fans are more likely to engage with us when we post links that have a question in the title.". (5)

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Measure all fundraising metrics. Use the data in your CRM to measure all metrics, including donation amounts, donation frequency, donor details, and more! . Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Online Fundraising Platforms: 12 Questions Before You Buy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The biggest challenge to becoming a content curator is getting past the feeling of “ content fried ” or so much good content and so little time to digest it. There are techniques that we can use to minimize feeling distracted and with some discipline make it of our work flow. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major donor prospecting is a research technique used by fundraisers to uncover donor data that will help determine giving capacity and willingness to donate. Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. Do they have questions?

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