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SXSW 2013: Measurement and Making Sense of Your Data

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. Neff (@daveiam) March 11, 2013. Brian (@BrianRobick) March 11, 2013.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There’s also a Twitter chat on April 18th at 3 pm EST if you want to talk about social media measurement. I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media.

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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Telling the story in a new way: Should arts leaders use impact evaluation?

ASU Lodestar Center

Only within the last decade has research on the efficacy of evaluating the effects of art on audiences been realized (Brown & Novak, 2013). Using different terms to mean the same thing confuses the story. How do you measure that? Telling the wrong story. The knight on a white horse arrives.

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Help! My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd and How To Find Them!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014). 2013, March). Tyler Adams completed his Bachelor’s degree in Leisure, Youth and Human Services with an emphasis in Nonprofit Management at the University of Northern Iowa back in 2013.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

It’s in our org charts. Studies done by Dunham+Company in both 2013 and 2018 reveal that even many leading nonprofit organizations have struggled to implement common best practices. It is important to separate the difference between SMS text-to-give and mobile device giving. Can you read a chart? Mobile is the new normal.

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