Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. Then, try to think in even broader terms. I wrote the chapter on ROI.

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APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Professor of Management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Return on Investment (ROI) was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable. What it also illustrates is that, originally, ROI was a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Isn't best to focus on evaluating results?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

It is therefore imperative for an organization’s survival that all costs be measured and considered in accepting grants or funding contracts. This action alone “…could be the best way to slow or even stop the cycle [of nonprofit starvation]” (Goggins-Gregory & Howard, 2009). Change the unrealistic expectations of contributors.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. 2 admin 04.03.09

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Many privacy experts argue that the recent decline in reported data breaches ( 498 in 2009 versus 657 in 2008 (PDF)) is not due to an improvement in data security practices, but rather that fewer organizations are publicly reporting such breaches. According to an October 2009 Gallup poll , 66% of all U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

I did a lot of planning, evaluation and training in the beginning – some on my own, some with Summit Collaborative. It will include visioning and planning, evaluation and training. it was what I enjoyed most, and it was what I thought I was best at. I’m creating a new practice, called MetaCentric Techology Advising.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2012

Models of Collaboration , by professor Mark Hager and Tyler Curry, identifies and describes types of nonprofit collaborations from an analysis of the 177 nominations submitted in 2009 for the prestigious Collaboration Prize. Examples of this include community organizers, teachers and training staff, program evaluators, and program managers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Good for you! Great work.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Unfortunately, these accents on counting activities and maintaining regulatory compliance left unanswered the basic question of effectiveness: Were the efforts of these charities bringing about any meaningful, sustainable, or measurable positive change to those they existed to serve? October 2009. [4] August 2010. [2] New York Post.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. Asking NTEN to show leadership by publishing web stats is to suggest that NTEN would think that publishing web stats is a useful measure of nonprofit accountability. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2009

These performances are then evaluated by judges and the audience. I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their social media measurement lessons learned. It is a competition at which poets read or recite original work under a five minute limit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts. I have no way to measure the guest blogging impact on other people's blogs accept by self-reporting.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean''s book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies? This question of evaluation is still very open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in. Donations will be a consequence of meaningful engagement, not a measurement of it. 2009 will most certainly be year of fundraising innovation and changes.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Current best practices will serve nonprofits just fine in 2009. They'll want to set the programmatic agenda, select the beneficiaries and target areas, communicate the organization's message, and, in real-time, evaluate feedback as it comes in. Donations will be a consequence of meaningful engagement, not a measurement of it.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

In 2008 and 2009, there were many conference sessions and and documents presenting participatory case studies, most notably Wendy Pollock and Kathy McLean's book Visitor Voices in Museum Exhibitions. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies? This question of evaluation is still very open.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. How will you measure success? We’ll then evaluate if it’s something we should include in a future release. (Your organization was one of the early adopters of mobile phone apps. When and why did you implement your first Seafood Watch App?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

In 2009, 350, working in tandem with communities around the world and partner organizations aligned on the shared goal of creating a global movement to solve the climate crisis, ignited the largest collective action that has ever been taken around the world with their 10/10/10 Day of Action. What do you measure every day, week, month, year?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2015

Some say it’s the wrong measure of a nonprofit organization’s success; others say it is the gold standard for measuring worthiness for support. There has been little consensus about the impact of focusing on overhead as a means of evaluating nonprofit organizations, either among nonprofit leadership or researchers. 2009, Fall).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives. The Pink Chaddi Campaign leveraged Collective Action.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

By the end of 2009, Charity Navigator is doing two extraordinary things. The other is that Ken joins with other watchdogs and philanthropic leaders in a call to move beyond financial ratios and search for new and better methods of measuring donation-worthiness. report on whether a nonprofit is doing a good job at what it does.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

From the stories I’ve heard this week, nonprofits of the size that I’m most familiar with (small to medium-sized) still don’t have in-house technology expertise to make evaluations about what directions to go in. The previous sentence is a clumsy attempt to use langage from both parties in the conversation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010 Discover Your Leader Grade If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The self-evaluation survey is free and its the first step in the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

12 hosted by Data Analysts for Social Good features Peter York, an evaluation expert. The Two Sides of the AI and Humanity Debate: I’ve been following Shel Israel for over ten years, since he interviewed for a chapter about nonprofits and Twitter in his 2009 book, Twitterville. Can Machine Learning Predict Social Impact?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. Funnel: Measure the whole funnel! Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. Retweet followers, answer questions, and comment back.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 23, 2012

8 Benchmarking, negotiation and evaluation are all critical to collaboration and dependent on reliable interchange. 2009): 326-345. ^ [13] Thomson, Ann Marie. Click here to read Laurie Mook's "Research Friday: How to Measure Your Organization's True Impact ". Trust also influences the accuracy and level of information shared.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Come measure success. Once upon a non-profit theory, measurement was weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious meetings with little to account for, While I nodded, nearly napping, an idea for a strategy came a tapping, What if measurement could include social interactions and what they stand for? Oh my god, take a look.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 13, 2011

The first step is to evaluate the projected long-term value (i.e. Nonprofits do not consider the complete picture when they make decisions on list selection solely by measuring initial response rate, cost per donor acquired and average gift. 24-month) of the newly acquired donors by list source.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. Rachel: I was working in management consulting during the ARRA funding of 2009. Full Transcript: Steven: All right, Rachel, I got 2:00 Eastern. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

Since September 2009, I have been responsible for maintaining WITNESS’ social media platforms (paid, full-time). Currently, WITNESS’ ROI tracking is measured by way of increase in awareness and donations. Who maintains your social media campaigns? Are they paid, full-time, part-time? Please summarize your ROI.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2010

A guest Beneblog by By Anita Gohdes, Megan Price, and Patrick Ball Several media organizations including Reuters , Foreign Policy and New Scientist covered the January 21 release of the 2009 Human Security Report (HSR) entitled, “The Shrinking Cost of War.” of the report should include an appropriate measure of uncertainty.

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