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Four Steps to Align Data with Your Mission and Goals

Association Analytics

SMART is an acronym people use to remember the five aspects of a well-articulated goal: SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. They are the secret sauce that help you understand likely outcomes before they happen and empower you to influence those outcomes in real time. Formulate SMART Goals.

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Evaluating Networks and their Effectiveness

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I entered the community as a foundation evaluator wanting to find the best strategies and tools for documenting and learning about networks but also for measuring those difficult-to-pin-down outcomes and impact. Evaluation can also help foundations get the feedback they need to modulate their role and influence.

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Finding the Best Consultant for Your Nonprofit: Taking a JEDI Approach

Bloomerang

Frankly, the search, evaluation, interview, and selection process can be very rigorous and time-consuming. Has the organization’s policies, practices, and overall culture been evaluated through the lens of a JEDI approach? . Have you evaluated your public-facing JEDI statements and practices? . Investigate the budget. .

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Top 5 Nonprofit Branding Mistakes

Media Cause

Knowing your audience is about learning their rational and emotional needs, behaviors, mindsets, motivations, barriers, and external influences, all from a sociological, psychological, and cultural perspective. Or more detrimental—not consistently being able to articulate what the bigger picture even is. .

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Social Media: Distributed Influence Quantifying the Impact of Social Media - A New White Paper from Edelman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media.

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How Can Nonprofits Switch to a Data-Driven Culture?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference? It comes down to organizational culture.

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Guest Post: Creativity – Why do some places have it and others don’t?

Museum 2.0

The leadership environment Leaders (whether on a team, in a department or institution-wide) have to be open to taking risks, trying new things, evaluating and learning from failures. If your leadership can’t see value in creativity then try and work within your own sphere of influence to show how creativity can be valuable.

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