Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Data analysis is a process, not a one-time thing. Data nerds know how to clean and recode data, look for patterns, calculate key statistics, and then show off the most important information in graphs and charts. You can follow this syllabus to boost your skills at all stages of the data analysis process. Why get good at Excel?

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. RowFeeder fits the bill.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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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. Growing your community of supporters is the only measure that matters. Track donation source data to optimize outreach channels.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

While there are a variety of different gadgets that you can use to track your sleep, I use the Fitbit Charge 2. While these subjective measures, I discovered that my magic number of sleep hours about 7 hours and 45 minutes. I started with tracking my baseline activity level: about 2,000 steps a day.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. The California Health Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California. Areas served: Connecticut. Endowment For Health.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. The member directory helps you keep track of every board, committee, and staff member so that you can nurture relationships. Plus, their app makes it easy to track your funding, whether incoming or outgoing, from anywhere.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Their investments have helped to chart a new course for the NH children’s behavioral health system. The California Health Care Foundation is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of California. Areas served: Connecticut. Endowment For Health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As a practitioner, what interests me most using the data to gain insights about student interaction with material and courseware and tracking results of training. The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Plus, if an organization isn’t crystal clear about what it’s trying to achieve, how to measure success, and how to communicate its impact, it’s going to be a real challenge to keep the support coming in. Rolling out a well-thought-out business plan is like charting a course through treacherous yet conquerable terrains.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Some interesting questions that popped up looking at this chart: Does this mean that in the beginning we get insight but not $, and in the end we get $$ but not insight? You must be able to attain ROI.

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In Part 2 covered rating choice “Level 2” and included tips on what data to start tracking in your CRM system (or spreadsheets) to create a central repository of your activity with your major and planned gift prospect pool. I also provided instruction on setting up prospect review meetings to discuss status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Use of metrics to measure your results. Return on Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

I'm speaking at the eMetrics the premiere conference for Web measurement geeks.    His engaging and funny presentation was called "Tough Times call for Tough Measures.   His engaging and funny presentation was called "Tough Times call for Tough Measures."   

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn. Wait for maturation? What are the potential uses for nonprofits?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We all know we need a strategic plan, yet so many people don’t have one, probably because they’re afraid of this: Your Board and staff sequestered in a room, led by a consultant, doing exercises on flip charts with sticky notes and dots, exercises that never lead to a clear, finished product you can understand or use. Yuck, right?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

That's why we've partnered with TechSoup to offer basic data visualization tips in Beyond the Pie Chart. Part 1 covered some basic terminology and why you shouldn't use a pie chart. Use Line Charts and Area Charts to Track Trends over Time. First, let's look at the line chart below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Unlike business, the bottom line of a nonprofit is not necessarily money; it’s all about outcomes, which often manifest themselves as intangible results not easily measured by metrics. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. Perhaps surprisingly, those two words are not “race” and “ethnicity.”

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

Establish metrics that measure reactions, engagements, and your own internal successes and challenges in executing the plan—remember that staffing, budget, and organizational change management are components of your plan as well. Growing your digital engagement capacity will likely require investments of budget or time over time.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . Fifteen years ago, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm with the motto: “you can’t move it if you don’t measure it.” You need a detailed analysis to make an actionable plan to improve your fundraising efforts. Should we eliminate the golf outing?

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fusionSpan

JUNE 1, 2023

Salesforce List Views are an incredible asset to associations, but it’s important to emphasize that they cannot perform data analysis or generate summary reports. Reports Salesforce Reports offer more advanced functionality and analysis tools than list views.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? Understand What You Want to Track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Measuring outcomes for social media tools and strategy is as Avinash Kaushik notes in his recent post on the topic , "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. measuring your impact on the world!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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Reflection Measure Technorati ROI 50

Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

It also uses the NPSP as its CRM (constituent relationship management system) tracking interactions with donors, contractors, grantmakers, advisors, board members, volunteers, customers, and students. Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth. Destiny Rescue.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. 3: Have a measurement strategy on the front-end, not the back-end.

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Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. Fast track your path to impact and join a movement of others passionate about changing the world. General / #IMPCON16 / @SocialValueInt.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. Here are a few examples.

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