NTEN

JANUARY 30, 2013

In the annual letters from Bill and Melinda Gates which was released today, measurement takes center stage. But in the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. Instead, it brought in independent experts to understand why the measurements were so different.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. — Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference offered a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Rafael Lopez, Associate Director, The Annie E. Sacha Litman, Managing Director, Measuring Success.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 5, 2013

Blackbaud’s 2013 Peer to Peer Fundraising Benchmark report provides information that you can use to not only measure your success but to learn about trends and best practices in event fundraising. During the webinar will I will be presenting the key findings in the report and explore trends that will define the P2P industry this coming year.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Thanks to you, we received a record 4,607 responses nationwide to our 2012 State of the Sector Survey, more than doubling responses from last year. 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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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off on Tuesday and the event to attend is the Science Fair! In celebration of our 40th birthday on April 1, 2012, CDS Global is bringing the party to NTC 2012! Come measure the steps you take with a personal pedometer! CDS Global. Confluence. Data Systems International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. By: Rebecca Shore.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." I will define the terms below and discuss mixing and matching below." "The Identity Spectrum gives a understanding of the different kinds of identity that are possible in digital systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Funders are increasingly conditioning grants upon the delivery of specific measures. In December 2012 Charity Navigator released the concept note for CN 3.0 – their next version of Charity Navigator. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Nonprofits that scale up tend to employ this sort of “R & D” approach to concoct successful program recipes and establish success measures. They keep funders outside of the kitchen by pushing back with evidence of measurable achievement. These advances would be, as Martha Stewart would say in her own kitchen, “a good thing.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis? Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio? Are you required to measure?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

At the plenary panel discussion, a woman from the audience, an arts teacher, asked, plaintively, “Why do we have to justify the arts in school? How do you measure that? However, the studies in measuring intrinsic impact were intended for “internal assessment and critical reflection purposes” (Brown & Novak, 2013).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges. Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. For 2011, I’ve submitted a panel titled “ Making Social Media Measurement Sexy &# with a dream team of colleagues Danielle Brigida, Frank Barry, Wendy Harman, Jon Dunn, and David Neff.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2018

Discuss “mocktails” with your bartenders, and promote those drinks at the bar. Discuss “sober rides,” with cabs, shuttle buses, or driving services (Uber, Lyft), and cover the costs, so that guests do not have to worry about money to get home. Kylah earned her BA in Linguistics from the University of Maryland in 2012.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. For nearly 50 years, the Federal Poverty Limit (FPL) has been the standard measure used by governments and nonprofit organizations serving low income individuals and families to determine eligibility for anti-poverty programs. As part of a.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2018

Discuss “mocktails” with your bartenders, and promote those drinks at the bar. Discuss “sober rides,” with cabs, shuttle buses, or driving services (Uber, Lyft), and cover the costs, so that guests do not have to worry about money to get home. Kylah earned her BA in Linguistics from the University of Maryland in 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

This year, the rise of big data was the subject of discussions across many disciplines, including the nonprofit sector. The State of Learning Analytics in 2012: A Review and Future Challenges. It is particularly relevant to those who are using online learning environments. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Here are a few things are becoming more clear to me as I talk with my colleagues here at GEO: (1) We will always want to support the efforts of our grantees to build stronger boards, better fiscal discipline, more visionary leadership, systems that scale, and better ways to measure and demonstrate impact. None of that will go away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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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? Measure, Test, Refine.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. It’s very important to involve your IT staff in discussions about measurement and impact, even if you think they might not have anything to contribute. This is a regular series in the nonprofit leadership journal. Welcome back to “Confessions.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

If you wait until next fiscal year's budget—especially for organizations that budget the second half of the calendar year—you may be too late and be faced with drastic measures. To help facilitate this discussion, have your CFO run budgets from 2006-2012 and see how your revenue fluctuated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference will offer a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Sacha Litman, Managing Director, Measuring Success. Stay tuned for a blog post about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Some funders and donors started to ask how much of the sector’s perceived inability to achieve scale or impact is due to funders believing it is about them – their theory of change, their strategy, and their definition (and measurement) of outcomes? Doing More by Doing Less – guest post by David Greco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Unfortunately, research indicates that group brainstorming processes that involve simply eliciting and accepting the contributions of multiple participants, without examining these contributions critically, rarely outperform processes that incorporate a robust measure of respectful disagreement and debate.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Similarly, the results or value of efforts we make in our fundraising can accurately be measured in numbers. Refer to Analyze This: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Event Fundraising Analytics by Convio and Event 360 for an excellent discussion of these key peer-to-peer fundraising metrics and more. Too often we equate effort with value.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012. work must be spread among staff 2.)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

In a panel hosted by TechSoup, representatives from four arts organizations discussed how they are using social media in new and innovative ways to market the arts. Michael DeLong, senior manager of online community and social media at TechSoup and managing editor at Emerging Arts Professionals , moderated the discussion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

However, the biggest deterrents to creating a content marketing strategy that works is the time investment required to see measurable results. Google Adwords has been a driving force in this arena, by providing detailed reports to measure returns on investment. Collect email addresses via newsletter subscription or a content upgrade.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

However, the biggest deterrents to creating a content marketing strategy that works is the time investment required to see measurable results. Google Adwords has been a driving force in this arena, by providing detailed reports to measure returns on investment. Collect email addresses via newsletter subscription or a content upgrade.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The importance of thinking strategically is a point Beth Kanter , co-author of The Networked Nonprofit , hit on during a later presentation in which she encouraged all nonprofits to have tangible goals for what they want to accomplish with social media and measure results. Which tools are you using and why? Let us know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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