Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

” How Human-Centered Design Methods Can Help You Design A Better Dashboard. Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

US charities of almost every size (although especially the 50% with budgets $50,000 or less) complain of tremendous resource scarcity as they try to help solve some of our world’s most pressing problems. So how can you build a system to measure outcome indicators and focus on your mission, if there is no funding to do so?

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

It’s an easy trap to fall into, and I can’t help to think we share the blame. The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. Used properly, you’ll know if your email metrics are at industry levels; used poorly, you’ll only scratch the surface of email performance.

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Including a budget in your marketing plan should help answer this question. Reflecting on these nonprofit marketing pillars, your mission, and your goals for the campaign will help you craft a plan that is detailed, realistic, and, above all, relevant to your organization and its supporters. Conducting user research.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

With more than ten years of experience under our collective belts, the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established, but nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns. You can divide the key metrics into offensive and defensive variables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. The data you gather should help you learn.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, software solutions can help reduce your staff’s stress and streamline their workload by automating processes and providing a centralized place for managing different campaigns and communications. Nonprofit software is software that helps you increase your organization’s efficiency and impact on your cause.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Once you have that part in place, it’s time to find fundraising tools that will help you meet those goals. Use a CRM to help w ith donor research . Where did you find them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips. This is a book giveaway that John Haydon did for my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

An organization’s budget, financial statements and summary reports to Boards of Directors should all do the following: Set expectations (budget and/or prior year experience, plus acceptable variations to. The key to effectively using a dashboard is isolating the essential metrics aligned with measures of expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Below is a summary of answers to some questions during the webinar and related resources on the Giving Day Playbook. How can we set an accurate, measurable goal for a Giving Day if it is our first one? If this is your first Giving Day, keep it simple and pick the right metric. (See ET Thursday Sept.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

the skills identified in this workshop or sessions at the upcoming NTC designed to look at change issues that technology surfaces from the viewpoint of executive directors or IT staff might help. Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. asks Rich Reeder. And if you???re

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impact measurement — the process of measuring and communicating your nonprofit’s impact — can effectively convey the value and outcomes of your work to your stakeholders, which in return funds more impact. Fundraisers can see aggregated program data defined by their metrics in real time. Watch the free webinar

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision. Armano describes this as digital anthropologists sifting through qualitative data and metrics to reap insights.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

Here’s the seminar’s summary: Budgets are the last phase of a longer strategic journey. Remember to align your metrics and drivers with your long-term strategic goals, rather than focusing narrowly on “cutting postage expense in Q1”, for example. If you missed it, be sure to take some time to watch the presentation!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. " Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Are Web statistics a matter of transparency. What do you think?

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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. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Defined Audience.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Nonprofit grant proposals can be a daunting task for fundraisers, but it’s a key way to help gain more sustainable funding for your organization. Include big accomplishments and details that will help persuade the reviewers of the success of your work. Executive summary: The summary is a snapshot of your proposal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Change the conversation from vanity metrics to validated learning. In these early stages, it is more important to honor learning. But there is something else to add as well. Identifying sources of discomfort will help. Networks and their relationships, however, embody interdependence.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

you can still use the summary below?to?inspire?meaningful and help for your?20 Fred shared key findings from CASE’s 2018 Voluntary Support of Education Survey and highlights from CASE’s “Alumni Engagement Metrics” whitepaper, an industry-wide framework to measure alumni engagement. were not able to attend,?you

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2024

Online fundraising sites are powerful tools to help you fundraise. With a dedicated fundraising website, you can enhance your campaign, providing a central hub to help you raise more money; it’s the rallying point for all of your planning and messaging. To create an impact metric, think about what the impact is per donation unit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. Blogging most definitely helps you and your career and your learning. But it may take away from what your boss wants you to be doing (especially if this has nothing to do with helping your career and your learning). t need to measure, it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Having a good editor is always a blessing because the back and forth and shaping process always help you think a bit more deeply about the topic. Jonathan shares a story about how he discovered a Facebook group for his organization started by someone outside the organization and how he helps and supports that person. Some takeaways.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2024

Bloomerang’s New Reporting Capabilities Last month we launched several new reporting capabilities to help you better understand volunteer impact, support grant submissions, and inspire existing and potential volunteers. You now have 60 new reports to help you measure volunteer impact. an hour, a 6.2% And there’s much more!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

Instead, you’re writing a two to three-sentence summary of that post focused specifically on the theme of your newsletter. Add visuals: An image or graphic next to the summary can make it more eye-catching and help it stand out in the newsletter. Track the Right Metrics With a CRM Your newsletter should be ever-evolving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. What do you think? And if you???re

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Online fundraising sites are powerful tools to help you fundraise. Fundraising websites are powerful tools to help you raise more money; it’s the rallying point for all of your planning and messaging. See how CauseVox makes it easy for you to create an online fundraising site that helps you raise more with less effort.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue.

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Cloud 4 Good

JUNE 7, 2022

Through this exploration, we determined that incorporating a data warehouse into a nonprofit’s overall technical landscape and data strategy could help support a lean, performant CRM to help propel staff forward without stashing legacy data in an inaccessible local archive. Higher Education Data Warehousing Use Cases.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go.

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Qgiv

MAY 16, 2022

These organizations are non-grantmaking entities, but their work involves helping nonprofits network with important grantmakers and getting them the information they need to successfully obtain grants. Describe how participating in your project will be beneficial for the grantmaker and how they’re the best fit to help you.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the top of the page will be a box with a summary of information. You’ll likely need the help of your web and IT team, as well). If you don’t have a Gmail or a Yahoo account, there are a number of free checkers online — but they can get pretty confusing, so I’d recommend instead you reach out to your CRM for help.

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