Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently. From our previous conversations, we’ve realized that empathy is not just a warm and fuzzy “soft skill,” but an essential leadership skill to ensure that your nonprofit’s work survives and thrives in the future.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. Different countries face different challenges when it comes to social justice. Want to see what this looks like in action?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2013

Most nonprofits conduct some kind of program evaluation, whether it’s simply keeping track of how many people have been directly helped by an organization’s services or complex multi-year studies of a program’s effects on the larger community. So what did we find? Reporting and Visualizing.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The introduction of ChatGPT from Open AI makes for jittery breakroom conversation. Some of that adaptation will require higher educational attainment, or spending more time on activities that require social and emotional skills, creativity, high-level cognitive capabilities, and other skills relatively hard to automate.”

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

It doesn’t preclude the bad news and uncomfortable conversations that are an inevitable part of being a boss. Survey the office and evaluate the comfort quotient. Be inventive and try something different or appoint a social committee to give your team ownership of the process. Make random acts of kindness a habit.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

To grow your donor file, add three easy upgrades to your current acquisition plan and watch how kickstarting a better content, promotion, and conversion strategy can work wonders for your donor pipeline. On social media, one client promoted existing resources from their website and politely asked for an email address to access it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. A conversational case study is a write up our interviews identifying a few questions we still have. Does it work?

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

from our friend Maureen Wallbeoff Lisa pinged me the other day—she’s the development director for a social justice organization. Your evaluation criteria and selection timeline Your RFP also needs to cover the process you’ll use to review proposals and select a vendor.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

AUGUST 11, 2016

This kind of thinking has lead to a lot of conversations (and a lot of anxiety) in the nonprofit sector about performance measurement, outcomes management, evaluation, and impact assessment. I’d love to have some of this conversation focus on the information/communication technologies that nonprofit organizations are using.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. I have a guest post up on John Haydon’s blog !

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Qgiv

JULY 17, 2023

With that, here are three starting points for activating DEI in your organization: Provide the tools Normalize feedback Evaluate and Reevaluate 1. Provide the tools Offer folks training to increase their skills so they can hold conversations about DEI. Most people are yearning for and want to provide inclusion.

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Forum One

APRIL 1, 2021

Three things happen every spring: March Madness, spring cleaning, and social media plans need a refresh. This spring, we’ve been evaluating some of the new social platforms on the market to see if there is anything new that would help elevate nonprofit and/or public sector missions. A reprieve from video fatigue.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Some employees miss the social aspects of the workplace. We’ve tried to compensate for the lack of coffee machine/breakroom conversations in several ways. Intentional communicators bring a sense of responsibility and thoughtfulness to the conversation. We schedule daily conference calls around a number of activities.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Craft a conversion journey. When the entire donor journey is addressed in your plan, conversion rates for donor acquisition are much stronger. Evaluate your progress and course correct if some of your strategies aren’t resonating with your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? Learn more about the conversation here. to evaluation for program improvement (“What did we learn that can help us make the program better?”).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2018

Allison Fine and I have been actively researching and writing about AI for Social Good and Nonprofits with an eye towards our next book. We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. Social Change. AI Is Getting Better At Conversation. Here’s this month’s roundup.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

By examining specific performance indicators and essential data metrics, you can evaluate your marketing strategy and make adjustments to create a bigger impact. Since your QR codes should lead to key landing pages for your fundraising campaign, evaluate the following metrics: Total scans. Conversion rate.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I have said it many, many times and so have lots of others—you’re probably tired of hearing about how social media is supposed to be “a conversation.&# And that’s okay! Because it isn’t JUST a conversation! Are they online: in email, website, social media platforms (which ones?), Stand back!

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2024

Impact, is solvable, but we need to explore new approaches to partnering with technologists who are responsible for contributing to the development, application, and advancement of social sector technologies. In the social sector, our values and organizational cultures matter. What Is a System Migration?

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 3, 2024

The council also considered regulatory and policy concerns, such as the need to advance research that promotes social good weighed against data protection laws such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulations or California’s Consumer Privacy Act. What is the context in which the data is collected or used?

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

And individual participation is seldom evaluated in any meaningful way. That’s why there is no substitute for the impact of personal conversations. Feature new directors prominently throughout your social media platforms and send press releases to their local publications and news outlets. An organizational chart.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of advancing equity in philanthropic grantmaking and discuss actionable steps that donors, organizations, and social changemakers can take to make a meaningful impact. This means moving away from rigid funding structures and timelines toward more agile and responsive approaches.

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sgEngage

JULY 12, 2022

They will not shy away from difficult conversations and assess how they, as individuals, might need to change their own thinking. Blackbaud’s own corporate grantmaking, led by its Global Social Responsibility team, has evolved over the past few years to be more inclusive, spanning geographic regions as opposed to specific cities.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

This includes time spent scrolling through social media, checking emails, watching shows and movies on streaming services, and more. Conversion: The client returns to your site to complete their registration and receives an automated confirmation email from your organization. For example, let’s say you run a pet training business.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2022

They have historically been left out of the conversation, but want to give their time and resources to make the biggest social impact possible. Evaluate what the organization is currently doing to engage young people. Young people today are well-connected because of social media and technology. Recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

Note From Beth: Back in 2011, I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson and Jai Sen from Sen Associates where I learned about research study they were conducting about social media use in the arts. How Strong Is Your Social Net?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2010

Allison Fine and I have been working on an evaluation of the second America’s Giving Challenge. As part of the process, we are facilitating “Conversational Case Studies” that explore some of the themes that have surfaced from surveys. They also understand how to avoid donor fatigue, the potential downside to online contests.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

I recently had a conversation with a friend and colleague about what I perceive to be a revolution in progress. It is really inspiring to see philanthropic and nonprofit professional engaging in public conversations about these challenges, and even more inspiring to see them taking action to create positive changes.

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Philanthropy Open Participatory Evaluation 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The guide below covers the key steps to running a Facebook fundraising ad campaign from start to finish, including set-up, monitoring and evaluating success after completion. 1) Set up a conversion event and create a campaign. Select “Conversions” as your marketing objective, name the campaign, then continue on to plan your ad sets.

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Classy

MAY 24, 2021

Today’s nonprofit organizations will still require regular evaluation against data-driven insights to thrive into the future. . Mobile and social influence on donations and conversion. The State of Modern Philanthropy is back for 2021. Key Lessons From a Year Like No Other . Download Your Free Report.

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Philanthropy Report Fundraising Retention 102

Media Cause

APRIL 15, 2024

Ask Questions About the Tools You Already Use When Media Cause helps a nonprofit audit their MarTech tools, the first thing to do is ask questions that are designed to start a fuller conversation about the technology used to make the work more manageable. As your nonprofit team begins that conversation, be sure to write down the answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Keep A Running List of High Engagement Conversation Starters and Use Them Regularly.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 7, 2022

How often are they connecting in your online member community versus your association’s social media pages? Encourage open dialogue during association events and keep the conversation going in your organization’s virtual community. . Evaluate membership benefits.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Faced with existential crises thanks to the pandemic and the social upheaval of the past year, businesses of all stripes (nonprofits included) went into survival mode. We need a bit of time to take a step back, evaluate what worked and didn’t work, and realize we’re not in a “new normal” but an “interim normal.” AC = After COVID.

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

Google can choose a winner for you after enough data is gathered, but you can also run reports or look at Analytics data for each option to evaluate the success on your own. From there, you can evaluate opens, clicks and conversions to learn the answer to your question. Social Media Engagement. Social Media Engagement.

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Forum One

JANUARY 20, 2022

Over the past year, you and your team devoted time and resources to optimize your digital platforms, social media and email marketing to support your organization’s goals and overall mission. Conversion rate (e.g., Social Media metrics. Conversion rates (e.g., Performance breakdown by platform: website, social, email.

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Metrics Digital Strategy Rate 75

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed. Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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