Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

That’s is the practice of working out loud and it has many benefits from helping productivity to encouraging reflective practice. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I started the Webinar asking folks to type into the chat the first few words that popped into their heads when they heard the phrase "ROI." As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. Measurable: Quantifiable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it ) They are crowdsourcing questions for the conversation here. The study aimed to get the nonprofit perspective on these two important questions: How important do nonprofits believe performance assessment is to demonstrating impact?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

That’s why you have to develop a fundraising strategy for your nonprofit that consists of a variety of different approaches, reflects elements like campaign strategies and budget planning , and helps your organization meet its goals. Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

Start by asking questions. Fear vs Function: “AI Generative Tools Don’t Work” The quality of an AI response is now a bigger reflection of the author rather than the AI. The quality of AI response is starting to be a bigger reflection of the author rather than the AI. What does this tool do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Then comes the difficult part – identifying what “associated” metrics from social, email, and your web site that you need to collect. What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. I’ve even used the framework to measure trainings I have delivered!

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

This blog will be a great place to start, but if you find yourself praying no one asks you questions about the financials in your next board meeting, you may want to check out our Nonprofit Accounting Essentials course in partnership with The Charity CFO. . This one reflects a moment in time rather than a period of time. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The National Sleep Foundation, a champion of sleep science and sleep health for individuals, undertook a comprehensive research study to answer the question of sufficient sleep and provides evidence-based guidelines on how much sleep you really need at each age. Drum roll, please… Adults need between seven and nine hours of sleep per night.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

Follow along, email us your questions , and let us know what you’d like to hear about! In EveryAction, we’ve built Moves Management reports to reflect the way that Development teams actually think about their major donor pipeline. Now you can obviously take your numbers and create charts and graphs on your own.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report. Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Recently, a colleague asked me a wonderful question: How did you learn to become a good facilitator and trainer? I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Share in the comments.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Are you required to measure?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Her question stayed with me for a long time. For the past forty or so years, to ‘prove’ the value of the arts, arts leaders, funders and subsequently policy makers have focused on measuring the instrumental effects of art on society and the economy, neglecting the intrinsic value of art (McCarthy, Ondaatje, Zakaras, & Brooks, 2004).

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. But, here are a few comments: Kudos to you for setting clear goals and starting off with measurement from the beginning. Tim also wrote a reflection and it is enormously helpful. See her chart specifically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? How might you measure it? What worked?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Social Measure Charity Problem 55

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon Takeaway #3: Impact measurement must be baked into the culture of your foundation . Because the world of philanthropy is transforming; impact measurement is your organization’s ability to track, report, and – most importantly –. Measuring impact is equally important to both the grantor and the grantee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, we explored questions about how nonprofits go about planning their social media efforts and various resources are summarized here. Two had an organizational lens and the other was adapted from some more traditional communications planning questions. Step 5: Measure Success. I found 3 really good planning templates.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. For this, I'm drawing on the Smart Chart of Kristen Grim and from working with a cadre of smart nonprofit communications folks who have remixed the social media game.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Gift range chart. Measure all fundraising metrics. Use the data in your CRM to measure all metrics, including donation amounts, donation frequency, donor details, and more! Your website needs to reflect your nonprofit in an intuitive way, and it should be easily updated to support future campaigns and fundraising efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

I'm a huge fan of work and the way she thinks - especially after she road the Scare House ride on the Santa Cruz boardwalk with me and did a brilliant reflection on its design. Scientists design the test questions, steer the data collection, and analyze the results. This question is impossible to answer, and for good reason.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Madeleine shared a copy of the network health scorecard , a diagnostic tool that networks can use to reflect on how to improve.

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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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

This study raises basic questions about the ability of many boards to truly represent and respond to the diversity of the public they serve,” said the research author Francie Ostrower. When board recruitment comes up on the agendas of most boards, the discussion usually starts with the question, ‘Who do we know?’ percent of the U.S.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. While retention rates have been lower, there are opportunities and questions we still need to address. Get the report and read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

" I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). measuring your impact on the world!). He did and gave me permission to blog! Thanks for the transparency). around 80% of the hits are coming from search.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

This isn’t a trick question, but it is a tricky one. What’s so hard about measuring nonprofit impact? Can you really use the same criteria to measure the effectiveness of a rural food bank that works locally and an internationally renowned art museum located in a major metropolitan area? tax-exempt organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. Always be commenting.

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