Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 6, 2017

What is your perspective on the problem you need to solve or the opportunity you need to capture? What evidence do you have of this problem or opportunity? How is this problem or opportunity connected to the company's purpose and mission? What customer or employee stories have you heard that articulate these perspectives?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

What is your perspective on the problem you need to solve or the opportunity you need to capture? What evidence do you have of this problem or opportunity? How is this problem or opportunity connected to the company's purpose and mission? What customer or employee stories have you heard that articulate these perspectives?

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But the problem with being all things to all people is that you will go from having a brand to being so bland that no one will notice you. Or more detrimental—not consistently being able to articulate what the bigger picture even is. . Saying you specialize in everything also says you specialize in nothing.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue. Before taking the steps to start a nonprofit, ask yourself these questions: What need or problem will the nonprofit address?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2011

Developing and maintaining such an infrastructure — the articulation of staff competencies aligned to organizational strategies; establishment of supervision processes to hire, manage, develop, and review employees; and the ongoing assessment of overall staff performance in relation to organizational outcomes — can be daunting. Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Jason Falls shares in a post about measuring engagement, " The problem with trying to determine ROI for social media is you are trying to put numeric quantities around human interactions and conversations, which are not quantifiable.". In other words, don't measure in inches when you millimeters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Dave Webb said "I have always had a problem forcing something that is organic by nature into a mechanical straightjacket. This voice, articulated through social media, can be extremely powerful and can force individuals, companies and communities to change the way they behave. There's a lot to digest here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Keeping in touch with your metrics, for both your website and emails, is essential to providing the content your visitors actually want -- not what you guess they want. We sent the first email, explaining the problem and our plan to fight it. Clearly articulate the issue -- and your plan to solve it. I know I would.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 13, 2012

Our team articulately expressed direct, succinct truths that required no editing. We’re not about completing a process, studying a problem, or conducting a pilot project as an end point. Because technology is our signature tool for creating impact, we can easily build in the metrics. They just worked!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

As measurement guru KD Paine says, you need the right measurement tool for the job – identify SMART objectives , pick metrics , and then your tool. You have to put a flag in the sand and articulate what your outcome will be, whether grand or modest. We all need to be curators of our analytics data. Less is more. .

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Fall In Love With Understanding Your Donors Problems It is from that point that you will be able to craft and articulate compelling narratives that convert. It visually helps the reader grasp the extent of the problem. Focus on who your donor is through segmentation, research and surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The problem is that data everywhere! Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. I pull in metrics from all over the web to get instant snapshots and create graphs that show changes over time. Why is that so hard? Social media measurement tools give you data. One place to look).

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

And so when we think of that step one, that goal setting, the goal setting is not the problem. Our goals are really easy to articulate.” But now, here’s the problem. But the problem was, he had never done that before. So when we always lean into the data and metrics and. We want to scale.”

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 19, 2022

Lastly, most are metrics-driven. So these are things that you guys can be thinking about in your own individual organizations, the metrics. I’m sure you’ve seen other trainings, webinars what, about gathering your metrics. So you should have started putting that in place. I shutter to think about that meeting.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both its appeal language and its CTA. While you want to include the program’s metrics and efficacy, you’ll also want the central piece to relate to a real story from your community. Why should people contribute toward your goal?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Inspiration: The African Wildlife Foundation does a great job of articulating urgency in both their appeal language and on their CTA. While you want to include the program’s metrics and efficacy, you’ll also want the central piece to relate to a real story from your community. Why – THE STORY.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2011

She helps us understand exactly what a filter bubble is – and why it is potentially a big problem for activists. Articulate learning questions on the front end, identify metrics/data to collect to answer questions. Design experiments so they are not a time suck.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

And Derrick said, “Millennials are working to fix the problems they see in society using non-traditional methods without waiting around for anyone else’s approval or participation. They will find another way to solve the problem that they care about. They’re very solution-oriented more than organization-oriented.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries? This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. The problem is that my current audience is vocal and my future audience is silent. The six topics are: How do you plan for the future?

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