Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. How will they measure success? After the presentation, we worked in small groups to review a couple of scenarios of nonprofit funding requests and whether or not a business plan should be requested and what to look for.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Membership drives present a ton of potential benefits for your organization—including some benefits that go beyond the more obvious financial ones. Goals help you measure your success, track your progress, and get clarity on what you hope to achieve. Membership Drive Benefits Why do a membership drive? We say—resoundingly—yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. Foundation Center President Bradford Smith started off with a very clear articulation about why transparency is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

I doubt that I am alone in having to go to meetings and conferences where I know most of the presentations in advance. Embracing measurement & uncertainty. Look, if you’re reading Beth’s Blog you probably already think measuring progress is a good thing. I told them the conference fit my 50% rule.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!”

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Qgiv

AUGUST 27, 2021

It’s important to think about things from the perspective of others, and if you were attending an event, you’d want to know that measures were put in place to keep everyone safe. It’s helpful to be present at the venue and to go through a visualization exercise with key staff or volunteers. Let’s pretend you’ve got your venue selected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

I have embraced this approach myself and I make it clear to my team that I would rather not get a pre-dawn email , but instead get a more fully articulated idea after they have had time to contemplate it and strategize on how to make it effective.”. Gabriela says that senior leaders at her nonprofit model self-care.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

The first step she took was to make a presentation to staff about what she had learned. The Ocean Conservancy picked very specific, narrow objectives for their experiments and specific metrics to measure them. Articulate learning questions on the front end, identify metrics/data to collect to answer questions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

The cornerstone of their presentation rested in the necessity for nonprofits to think strategically about communications plans, working with a definition of strategy by David La Piana: "Strategy is a coordinated set of actions designed to create and sustain a competitive advantage in achieving a nonprofit's mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. And before even getting to the meat of the metrics, conceptual models, and ideas, the introduction provides a powerful case for using social media that is well articulated: For the first time in history, technology has reached a point where everyone has a voice.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2012

We used Beck Tench's honeycomb format to present the six main goals for MAH community programs against which we'll assess new ideas (quickly--about the first ten minutes after introductions). At the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (MAH), we've started experimenting with a "community first" approach to program development.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 23, 2013

Nonprofit organizations invest hundreds of thousands of dollars in driving potential fundraising event participants to register online and use sophisticated tracking to measure which efforts produce the best results. Roadblock #3 – the “More is More” Mistake. Next Steps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

View more presentations from kanter. The hardest part of putting this presentation together was using the template because it reminds me why I think powerpoint is evil ! And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time.

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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. Your vision statement should articulate the desired future state or ultimate impact your non-profit aims to achieve.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

In fact, despite the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, Giving Tuesday reported that participants gave $2.47 Auctions are fun at any time of year, but Giving Tuesday presents extra opportunities for your nonprofit to host a successful auction. Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012.

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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. Blog Posts About Various Steps of the Measurement Process. Once you set measurable goals, you’ve got make sure they are realistic. Select Your Tools.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Now that you’ve identified what the project goals are, pick measurable outcomes to determine what metrics you’ll use to track those goals.

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Qgiv

JUNE 12, 2023

Nonprofit executives are charged with keeping a 30,000-foot view of the organization, and in that sense, they seem best-positioned to articulate what your organization is about. There is a school of thought that says Mission Statements are written in present tense, and Vision Statements are written in future tense. To develop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It was my most memorable virtual presentation as my avatar was June Jetson and I made a flying entrance into the auditorium to the tune of the Jetson’s theme song. Networked Nonprofits have articulated SMART objectives and a target audience for their Facebook page. Introduction.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The presentation, hosted by Blackbaud and building on CFM’s TrendsWatch 2019 , touched on ways that museum workers can design their own self-care practices, how museums can support selfcare, and how museums can reform their organizational practices in ways that reduce the need for self-care. Seema) I’m a big fan of articulating norms.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

By clearly articulating your membership tiers and benefits across multiple marketing channels, you can connect with potential new members who would be a good fit for your program. Cultivate impactful relationships to increase retention. Pricing Bloomerang Standard starts at just $125 per month. Pricing Pricing starts at $2,500 per year.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Articulate Your Brand Characteristics. This can help you to maintain a consistent brand identity, and consistency is one of the unconscious measures of trustworthiness. In addition to setting you apart from the rest, a unique brand identity allows you to get a loyal following, ensuring the longevity of your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Final Slides PoST View more presentations from Beth Kanter. You need metrics or measure against goals, but you also need harvest those insights. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. CONVERSION! .

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And it’s going to be a good presentation, so I’m glad you’re all joining us. I think we’re in double-digit presentations from you now, Claire, that’s pretty exciting. I think you want to be because, after this presentation, you’re going to want to follow Claire, if you aren’t already.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

Why do we count participants in an art activity for families at a community center but not members of the Rotary Club to whom I give a presentation about the museum? The Relationship Between Attendance and Impact How can we measure impact? For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Artist as Problem Solver vs. Artist as Problem Explorer Mark Allen (director of Machine Project) and I have talked about this issue several times, and Mark articulates it beautifully. You can tell they are wondering why you are here but they don’t necessarily want to articulate it, so you just get this weird vibe. I know I did.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

On April 8th, we’ll have an entire day of presentations by nonprofit industry leaders. Check out the speakers and the presentations below. On April 8th, online registrants will have access to six presentations in real-time, with the rest being posted online following the conference. and streamed online. Alyssa Conrardy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this presentation. So they went in, made their presentation. So nine, “How will you measure results?” Where I’ll say to somebody, “You know, you’ve been so articulate about why you care about the work, would you write a testimonial?”

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based). Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. Evaluate Remember the measurable goals you set in the beginning? This is a good place to start.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based). Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both their appeal language and on their CTA. Remember the measurable goals you set in the beginning? Be realistic and set an attainable dollar amount.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

npNEXT 2013 – Penelope Burk is the first in a series of recorded presentations from Blackbaud’s experimental event, npNext. In this presentation, Counter-Intuitive or New Path to Profit?: Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? Meetings about the future end up being about the present. It’s hard to serve the future when the present demands certain services and accountability.” How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries?

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