Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

It includes a tool that helps measure your networking skills and also lots of methods to help you identify, expand, and use your network to improve your knowledge and work. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement. Impact and Excellence by Sheri Chaney Jones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

Since much of the work in which nonprofits engage results in subjective measures, NLP can be a method to encode the subjectivity qualitatively. Sentiment analysis. Sentiment analysis refers to the capability of AI to analyze and determine the emotion of written text or spoken word. A recent case study by Dataro.io

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Is the tone at the top in alignment with the stated priorities of the Council on Financial Assistance Reform (COFAR) and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) of targeting risk, improving oversight, standardizing business processes, and measuring performance? Check out this case study on grant management best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

As a trainer, I strongly believe that learning experiences need to weave content delivery with participant interaction. Also, it is far more effective to have peers share their own case studies and experiential learning with others. Peer Case Studies. Connecting Learners to the Content and Each Other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Connie Reece shared some insights in this interview and you find more links to case studies and post campaign reflections here. What is missing is some software or features that track the flow of your donations, almost like doing a social network analysis similar to Twitinfluence. The experiment was to test Twitter's speed.

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Analysis Twitter Giving Lesson 87

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Instead of manually consolidating data from across sources, you can instead have it all stored and standardized in one place to streamline analysis and interpretation. Effective impact measurement and reporting: Nonprofits rely on data warehouses to track and measure their impact over time.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Put a human face on the cause through case studies, testimonials, and videos. Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Yes, there are a couple case studies included in the report of organizations using mGive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I introduced several methods for using measurement for transformative results, including the Maturity of Practice Model (CWRF) and how to use it as an assessment tool, principles of being data-informed , and how to apply KD Paine’s 7 Simple Steps of Measurement. What are your measurable objectives?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Below is an example that is representative of many of the grants lists we receive from the IRS: A Case Study: Helping Your 990 Match Your Story. In 2010, the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) released a study defining the disparities facing communities of color in Portland. In 2017, Martha S. and Marion L.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. How will they measure success? What’s more important though, notes David, is the process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

.  In that post, he describes one technique - make yourself a public case study.    So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.  And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success?

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Conducting a marketing opportunity analysis. To confirm that your strategies are effective and align with your audience’s preferences, conduct tests with members of your target audience, measuring brand awareness and likelihood to support your cause. Identify potential ways to reach new supporters or grow your fundraising revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

1. Deep Analysis of Your Audience: I always (try) to do a thorough participant assessment before I teach any workshop or do a presentation. 2. Living Case Study Technique: Assessment also helps find examples from the participants themselves. I introduced some concepts about Social Media ROI and steps to making a case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Their inquiry adds great richness to the reports which includes an overview of the technology, case studies of how early adopters are using it, and synthesis of current research. The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I used a “living case study&# approach – doing an interview with them to share how they achieved their success. In this living case study, the staff person from the Seattle Symphony shared how they did conversion tracking. I asked her where they got the idea for doing a flash mob.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We also discussed that it would be useful to have a map or fuller array of case studies that illustrate how the data might be used for different interventions. A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. Do you need sentiment analysis?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

” Read her analysis. In the book I just finished with KD Paine, we talk about the importance and a method of measuring relationships. This public relations disaster also shines a light on the importance of measurement of relationships and the ability to respond in real time. Let me go a little meta here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I shared case studies and tips for nonprofits on measuring efficiency and effectiveness and looking at tangible/intangible benefits. Community Managers should measure increased speed from word of mouth or marketing awareness, the best way to measure this is time from awareness to close –or spread of WOM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Or rather, how do we measure the value and effectiveness of Twitter? What do we measure? Paul Young's analysis of what worked, what didn't in his fundraising campaign can give you some hints of what to measure. List of Nonprofit Twitter-ers : DigiActive Case Studies. What does it mean?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In fact, the promoters of program sustainability read like many best practices for operating a non-profit: diversified funding, program champions, evaluation and performance measurement, and collaborative partners. Sustainability of social programs: A comparative case study analysis. 1] Savaya, R.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  It included two excellent case studies and social media metrics- one on ASPCA and the other Georgia Tech. " She talked about the importance of measuring your social media efforts.   This was a great positive spin -- rather than measure to show me or prove the impact, it's measure so you can quantify it. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Beth Dunn’s presentation covers the basics, complete with case studies, and suggests Quick start and Advanced Quick Start tactics to launch your nonprofit into social media. Tips and Case Studies Who’s Doing What, Where, and How? ROI of Listening: America Red Cross Case Study (Beth Kanter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. ” He talked about how the private sector is using this sophisticated analysis in real-time, but his organization is using data to answer the question: How can we measure human well-being with this real-time data? Notes from Session.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Learn from nonprofits and other organizations that have shared their social media case studies.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

If you’ve set up any social media experiments of your own, either representing yourself or the organization, measure your work and the success to share back (how has using those tools increased volunteers, grown your email list, saved you time on promotion, etc.). For more: The Social Media Ready Nonprofit: Dealing with Resistance.

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Social Media Interaction Government Case Study 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

I put the call out for nonprofit blog posts on the topic of measuring your nonprofit’s marketing or communication strategies. The art part is how you articulate your organization’s measure of success and formulate strategies to realize that success. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

We look at the wrong measures or unrealistic outcomes. He started to collect "creation stories" to explain the difference between traditional approaches (you create a program, implement it, and collect data to measure its success) versus developmental evaluation (an evaluation that gathers information to help you improve the program.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. The nonprofit doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting.

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Washington Metrics Facebook Donor 85

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Measuring the efficacy of your eLearning programming. And, they can put reports in place that your team can use for analysis going forward to continue improving. Ask the consultant if they have any reviews, testimonials, or case studies that you can review to see their work in action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Measuring the Value of Your Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

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. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Great work.

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Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Care2

JULY 26, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Need some metrics guidelines?

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Care2

JULY 17, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Need some metrics guidelines?

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Learn more Improve data collection and demonstrate impact Unified case management and impact measurement Capture and manage your data in a single system so your team can spend less time on caseload monitoring a and more time improving programs and boosting outcomes. It’s made my staff’s job easier. It’s just a great program.”

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Need some metrics guidelines?

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ROI Social Network Social Media Advocacy 53