Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. This takes a bit more effort than putting together a slide deck. Design for Participants To Apply.

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Candid

JUNE 24, 2024

While this data is valuable, it represents a significant burden for nonprofits and, as a result, funders also want to make these processes as efficient as possible for all concerned. At the same time, many of these same funders seek best practices in how to glean meaningful insights from this data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

Although many organizations are reliant on government funding or contracts, payments are often received late and rarely do they cover the full cost of delivering the service: These figures are for our national results. But this funding may have been a stopgap measure at best, and some of these programs have now run their course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. What are the right tools to help measure success? Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. Measure program success, not just analytics. Simply Measured.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. The Results Problem. No one wants to admit that they struggle to track their results, for fear of criticism and decreased support from funders and donors.

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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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. Is it worth it?

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JANUARY 25, 2022

This year, implementing the new concurrent and holistic committee application process resulted in a more accessible and streamlined experience with more community members on NTEN committees than ever before. We reviewed the sliding scale for membership. 2022 focus. 2021 review highlights. 2022 focus.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. 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. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Slide Decks SlideShare is like YouTube for powerpoint presentations. It also offers groups where members can share slide decks. Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. The Results Problem. No one wants to admit that they struggle to track their results, for fear of criticism and decreased support from funders and donors.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

54% of the organizations experienced results at or above this growth rate. Check out the presentation slides … 2011 Online Giving Trends by Blackbaud – presented by Frank Barry. Your Turn … How does your nonprofit measure up? Are you seeing results that mirror what the research shows or something different?

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Classy

JUNE 23, 2021

Share these slides with your nonprofit board directly, and use our game plan in step three to bring thoughtful considerations to the table. . Fundraising Benchmark: ACH payments resulted in a 55% larger average recurring donation than a credit card payment. Step 2: Know Which Fundraising Benchmarks to Share With Your Nonprofit Board.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Included in this article you’ll find: The results of our flash polls we conducted on year-end fundraising. Is anyone being measured on their goals? Catch Rachel’s appeal checklist , Julie’s cheat sheet , and the “ End of Year Appeal Writing Made Easy” replay and slides. Let’s dive into the poll data. Want help that is 100% free?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This will help you measure improvement year-over-year and hold your team accountable for meeting various goals. It can be tempting to dedicate a couple of slides to discuss your wealth screening and other predictive modeling results. Predictive analytics.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . How to Measure Success. They also measure retention to see how many return each year and what factors could play into increases or decreases. . “ Set specific goals for your event that can easily be measured and attained within the scope of your event.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 2, 2010

You can view and download all the slides here. to find ways that professionals can develop responsive feedback loops where there's an actual demand driving the visitor participation--and a result that changes based on what they do. You can view and download the slides here. She keeps a failure portfolio.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

The Power of Platforms – "The results from a new study from Pew Internet and Life Project found that when citizens believe their governments are sharing more information, they are more likely to feel satisfied with civic life. “Is it even possible to measure online influence, divorced from offline influence?&#

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Bridge Conference Slides View more presentations from kanter. Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

It's where I grabbed the above slide show that offers a conceptual framework for strategy and metrics. Collaboration: refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. He lays out what to measure for each of these areas. Here's the slide.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Create goals that are specific and measurable to ensure that the stories you tell are purposeful (“specific” and “measurable” just so happen to be the first two letters in the S.M.A.R.T. From goal to result. These results can shape your communications strategy in amazing ways. Utilize a few slides to share a story.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you measure success? We''ve started using a very simple measure: the number of people who actually respond to the prompt. The measure of whether people respond to the prompt appropriately is really a measure of us, not them. It measures whether the design of the talkback is sufficiently clear and compelling.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Assign them key tasks and document results. View the session recording or download the slides to learn more. View the session recording or download the slides from this session to learn more. View the session recording or download the slides for this session to learn more. and identify their top three tasks on your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

A major aha moment for me was reading Wendy Harmon's excellent advice on how you reflect on your social media experiments and begin to measure the results. At some point, will do a mega synthesis from all workshops. Right now, I'm little fried. Thank you Wendy for your brilliant thinking on this. The workshops were only 2.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. Sense-making is an essential workplace skill along with several others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” And the sector is getting better at measuring social change and that there has been a lot of progress in the way the sector measures and reports on big social change outcomes.

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Bloomerang

MAY 21, 2021

We will send the recording and the slides to you later on today. And we’ll see if we can get your beautiful slides going there, all right. . And then there’s the results of the first one. . Steven: Okay, here come the results. . They will not be measurable. So I’m going to pipe down.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 27, 2021

Next slide, please.) So, I found tons of results on this. Next slide, please. So this next slide is touching on personal devices and resources. And Karen’s role is Director of Education and Outreach at Tech Impact. And you might recognize that word “Idealware.” But they’re not really from a nonprofit angle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. The result can boost their mood and reduce stress. This is a book giveaway that John Haydon did for my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Experiment, Measure, Learn, and Revise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success? It's a little bit intimidating to be in the presence of social media measurement gurus like KD Paine who session is earlier that day.   Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success.  tags: blogging nptech ).

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. In fact, a fundraising plan that’s 50% done and 100% implemented will ALWAYS produce better results than no plan.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2010

In the past few months, world-wide political and economic uncertainty has shaken global confidence, which in turn has resulted in continued market instability and volatility. Our field is not immune to such sweeping and increasingly prevalent cost reduction measures.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2012

As what I hope is the next best thing, I’m sharing the content from a few of my slides for today and a some notes on them. Create a comprehensive, integrated plan that includes all your channels, milestones and desired results. Social Media for Nonprofits Excerpt on Prezi.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording as well as the slides later on today. I’ll let you bring up your slides here are and you can talk to us all about finding those donors. I can use my unicorn slide today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

How will you measure success? View more presentations from Kyoo Slides. I’d be interested in a case study that looks at lessons learned and results. What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? Qwerty Monsters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated.

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