Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

I also suggest that you pick up a copy of Kivi Leroux Miller’s “ Content Marketing for Nonprofits “ to also help you in your content strategy for next year. In order to help focus their online communications, I recommend every nonprofit have an editorial calendar. What is it? How do I use it?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured. Community engagement fosters the transformative relationships and increased ownership necessary to build sustainable communities of opportunity” (Bergstrom, 2013). Nonprofit organizations can measure community engagement in a number of ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2013

She is second year engineering student and by supporting her education she will have better economic opportunities. By purchasing a book , you will not only help your nonprofit improve its program impact, but you will changing the lives for young people in Cambodia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Holly published the 2013 version back in December, but you can never have too much of a good and incredibly useful resource!!! It’s Not Too Late To Set Your Communications Agenda with LightBox Collaborative’s 2013 Editorial Calendar – Guest Post by Holly Minch, Lightbox Collaborative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

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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Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

If you have not read Beth Kanter and KD Paine's awesome new book Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , then you must check out Care2's webinar on December 4th at 2PM ET led by Beth, Ashley Boyd of MomsRising, and Ryann Miller of Care2. The 7 steps of measurement. What you'll learn: How to lead with a networked mindset.

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TechImpact

JUNE 5, 2014

Here are 15 insights detailed in a report by Social Media Examiner that will help your nonprofit understand where it ranks among the majority of social media marketers. This has increased from 86% in 2013. 37% said they could accurately measure R.O.I. This has increased from 86% in 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

Unfortunately, as Beth has pointed out , Facebook doesn’t always make it easy to generate meaningful and measurable results that drive your mission or your bottom line. These apps help organizations take advantage of Facebook’s new functionality in order to generate more meaningful and measurable fan engagement.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2013

Next Thursday, we''re holding a webinar that will dive into the key findings from the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study – to indicate where your organization''s performance stacks up in relation to your peers, as well as what you can be doing better to speed your journey to online success. How Do You Measure Up?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

If you’re going to the BBCON 2013 Conference starting September 29 th , you should expect a great conference filled some of my favorite nonprofits and campaigners who will be sharing their insights in email marketing, storytelling via multiple channels, and social media wins and fails. Dr. Seuss Helps You Rock Digital Storytelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

To help prepare, Stephen Blyth pointed me to a video, The Beginner’s Guide to Visiting the Marae. Here’s my some of my itinerary while I’m in Australia and New Zealand: May 11, 2013: Full Day Workshop: The Networked NGO in New Zealand. May 13, 2013: Half-Day Workshop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

This is selective list of best practice and tips blog posts ordered in a way to help you master Instagram. 15 Tips for Nonprofits on Instagram (2013) by Giftworks. There are lots of photo editing apps that work with Instagram, management tools, and tools to measure Instagram. Free Report: Simply Measured.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

The world’s #1 CRM enables institutions to operate more flexibly, securely, and resiliently, helping them emerge on a stronger footing for the future. Our vision was enterprise scale personalization and automation, and that’s what Salesforce helped us achieve,” Thomas says. Morehouse Uses Tech to Transform Its Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

I was only there for 48 hours, but I did two workshops on two different topics ( nonprofit social media managers workshop and measurement ), a discussion on impact measurement in the Beacon Lounge , and lighting talk failure Good By Global (the Social Good Summit at SXSW).

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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. In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If a lot of sources about that topic exist, that doesn’t mean you don’t have new things to contribute, but it helps to know what’s out there. Most blogging platforms have tools and plugins to help optimize a blog post for SEO. Doing a little will help a lot. There is a lot to learn about SEO.

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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.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Are they just empty buzzwords, or actual tools that can help your nonprofit raise money online? In this case, the photo draws you in, and when you click through to the website , you can read full length stories and see great photos of children who have been helped by the organization. I firmly believe in the latter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m headed down to Austin, TX for SXSW where I will have the pleasure of facilitating a workshop on measuring social media with KD Paine with case studies by David Neff and Carie Lewis. I foresee that 2013 will be the year that this strategy really takes off. Flickr Photo by Toddy. I’m so glad you asked.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

It helps to start with a clear, shared definition of purpose and what it means to be a purpose-driven company. CVS realized that tobacco didn’t align with its purpose: “helping people on their path to better health.” CVS didn’t just remove tobacco from its stores; it launched several programs to help smokers quit.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 3, 2018

Many human service nonprofits measure themselves by the number of individuals served or programs administered. Shore, Hammond, Celep, 2013). Shore, Hammond, Celep, 2013). Hearing from those we seek to help: Nonprofit practices and perspectives in beneficiary feedback (Rep.). The Nonprofit Association of Oregon.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2013

npNEXT was another opportunity to show how innovation and experimentation can help find ways to meet and overcome these challenges. Demonstrating and Measuring Real Impact. On the plus side, nonprofits have a number of unique assets, not the least of which is their willingness to share and collaborate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

As many of you know, I’ve just finished writing a book with measurement guru, KD Paine, called “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” that teaches nonprofits how to embrace the data and use it to improve decisions and get better results as a networked nonprofit. It’s a must read for data nerds.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

Nonprofit organizations have a responsibility to embrace client perspectives, as serving clients often represents a primary purpose for many nonprofits (Twersky, Buchanan, & Threlfall, 2013). Implementing mechanisms to transfer power to clients provides the greatest opportunity to improve downward accountability (Benjamin, 2013).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

We need to do a better job of understanding social needs, both to improve our programs and measure their ultimate impact. I spend more and more of my time talking to leaders in the sector, helping advance the use of data for action and impact. Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Every dollar helps.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

As you refine your fundraising strategy and explore new ways of connecting with donors, check out Blackbaud ''s 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits to compare your organization to others and gather new ideas. who was recently named a "Top 100 Workplace 2013" by the Atlanta Journal Constitution. New to Salesforce?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

In this era of overwhelming inundation of data and messages, an organization’s relationships help it achieve results. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Register here. One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement.

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sgEngage

JUNE 12, 2023

Take advantage of searching wildcards that help expand the possible results in your search. What tools can be the most helpful to them? That aside, there could be queries built and not processed since 2013. Develop a habit to search It’s easy to get excited about a new prospect we have discovered or met in person.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Taking place on November 30th, 2021, #GivingTuesday helps the nonprofit sector to build a herd mentality in the same way that online retailers built up Cyber Monday and non-chain stores created Small Business Saturday. Giving transparency can help your story when getting ‘fence-sitters’ to convert. Make donations tangible.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Communities of Impact program, generously supported by Microsoft, combines NTEN’s strengths in community building and education delivery to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofit organizations while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Defining and measuring social impacts, determining whether the intervention is effective and why, and being able to prove efficacy with solid evidence are important prerequisites to a decision to scale (Harris, 2010; Riddell & Moore, 2015; Roob & Bradach, 2009; Stone Foundation, 2009). Codify, then adapt” (Paul, 2013).

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JUNE 8, 2022

In 2019, USDA conducted the third Farm to School Census to measure progress towards reaching their goals. The Urban Institute is a “nonprofit research organization that provides data and evidence to help advance upward mobility and equity.” Urban Institute Ed Data Portal. Distinction – Website for Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

Some key themes: the need to focus on measurement for impact. experiment with an idea (meme or concept) that helps best define “giving” in the voice of your constituency. Recently, GivingTuesday held an innovative “Learn Tank” where participants shared their best practices and learning agendas for GivingTuesday 2014.

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