Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Measurement Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

But, like anything else, to improve results, you need to measure it. My colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director. To answer the questions, they conducted a landscape analysis of existing research on the impacts of capacity building on organizational strength and social impact. Presentation slides.

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MARCH 6, 2023

ENA brings objectivity to the process by using the net promoter score as a tool to measure success. Adding to the impact, multiple disruptive social and cultural events have characterized the formative working years for younger generations. Groups discussed the same question simultaneously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. All in all lots of good measurement for nonprofit learning.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. This week, we're excited to have Dr. Laurie Mook join us to discuss social accounting. I love the idea of "collective impact."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

Last month, Zoetica launched “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Arts Nonprofit ,” a peer learning project to build capacity for arts organizations in using social media effectively with a one-day masterclass. Facebook Custom Landing Tabs + Measurement = Best Practice. Conversation about FB Custom Tabs. Principles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Introductions always run the risk of getting a little boring – if you just introduce the presenters, the agenda, and logistics. Peer Case Studies. Also, because Danielle has been a great measurement maven, she discovered through analyzing her data that the optimum amount of posting is twice day.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

As we discuss these methods, consider your current approach to recruitment marketing and which of these strategies would complement it well. Cost per acquisition, which is the cost of attaining each member via marketing materials The volume of social interactions, which is the total interactions you get on social media (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Before the pandemic, way back In November 2019, a group of academic meeting researchers from several universities, business leaders, and consultants met to review and analyze hundreds of research studies about what makes meetings effective. They published “ Ten Rules Simple Rules for Meaningful Meetings.”

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

As bad as these corrupt nonprofits are, they're not the biggest problem facing the social sector, according to Berger. 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. The Results Problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

Note from Beth: My long-time colleague, Teresa Crawford, Executive Director, Social Sector Accelerator, shares some thoughts about nonprofit capacity building programs based on extensive research. So, imagine how I must have felt two years ago when I became the Executive Director of the Social Sector Accelerator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The study aimed to get the nonprofit perspective on these two important questions: How important do nonprofits believe performance assessment is to demonstrating impact? This is similar to the finding in the NTEN/Idealware study that discovered the barriers that keep nonprofits from collecting and using data: expertise, time, and money.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 1, 2013

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. I discussed research that found a correlation between civic engagement and the unemployment rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. One of the themes I’m going to discuss is the Art and Science of Engagement. Register here.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

With this in mind, we’ll highlight four digital healthcare technology trends that your organization may benefit from tracking: Artificial Intelligence Cloud Integration Enhanced Data Privacy Security Personalized Healthcare Before discussing each trend in detail, it’s important to acknowledge the role of these technologies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Long Live Strategy.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Every social sector organization can and should be doing impact management ! Because traditionally, impact measurement has been performed by siloed teams, the burden on them to collect good evidence is huge. Moreover, this work has been underfunded and its analysis happens often away from C-suite or Board discussions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce. Corporate Social Integration – Looking Beyond the ‘Responsibility’ of a Business. Join this discussion with Lorenzo Olvera and Amy Rose (that’s me!) There is something for everyone!

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

Often, organizations set their giving levels by identifying what they already consider a major donor; setting specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-bound (SMART) goals for how they would like to grow their major donors; and setting parameters from there. Make the most of board members and their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. On Facebook, about 39.9%

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2018

In today’s day and age, it’s no longer a question of “Should we use social media?”, but rather “How can we use social media to achieve our mission?”. To make matters trickier, many nonprofits do not have a social media team, or even a social media person. Social Media Capital. To whom are you speaking? Plan Ahead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Join me at Markets for Good on December 6 at 1 pm EST for a FREE roundtable discussion about the new Data Playbook. . It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. The Playbook includes a few examples and methods for doing this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. 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? verena_fidelia) April 4, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

Online social networks and the Internet are a part of our everyday life, work, and even death – whether we embrace it or not, we need a good guide to navigating this world. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement. The Digital Mystique by Sarah Granger.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While these things remain interesting, they’ve yielded to fresh, pandemic-related concerns, and to the acceleration of priorities regarding social change and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Unsurprisingly, money issues rose to the top of the discussion almost every time. First up is finances. and 26% in Australia.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, I was asked to conduct a social media marketing workshop at Planet Philanthropy (an annual conference for fundraising professionals by. After what felt like hours of agonizing over potential topics, one of my coworkers suggested the idea to discuss common social media mistakes we see our clients making all the time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. One is about nonprofit performance assessment and written for an audience of nonprofits, especially those that manage social service programs. ” Here’s a quick review of both books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 2, 2014

The session was about why it is important to track outcomes, some examples, and discussion. Keynote : Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Be Networked, Use Measurement, and Learn from Your Data – I shared some high level ideas from my book and discussion about the three big themes. Organizational Amnesia.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Our democracy works best when everyone participates, and as nonprofits and social good organizations, it’s up to us to make sure our communities are engaged and voting. Why nonprofit and social good organizations? . Second, when possible, avoid discussing candidates or campaigns. We’re also effective.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

The annual SXSW Interactive Festival is a geek home coming for those who work on the web, social media, and gaming. Nonprofit Social Media Managers Enter The C-Suite: Peer To Peer. The c-suite has just approved your strategy to leverage networks and social media for your mission. Measuring Social Change & Media: Beyond BS.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Leaders discuss hunger reduction strategies at Together Against Hunger. But when it comes to taking risks about social issues, they become very risk-averse,” said Jerry Greenfield, Co-founder of Ben and Jerry’s. Ending hunger requires changing political, economic, and social power structures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

The workshop topics included trends in digital media consumption, social media, engagement on mobile devices and a variety of community foundation projects funded by the Knight Community Information Challenge. 3: Social Networking. 3: Social Networking. He said that photo sharing is really social grooming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

During the discussion, one of the partners asked about how they track whether engaging with their audience on Facebook or other social channel might lead to donations. The comments were discussing what people did when Reddit was done. One of the messages in the book is “Collect less data, think more about it.”

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OCTOBER 28, 2011

Idealware just released an updated " Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide ". It's chock-full of tool comparisons, strategies and case studies – and since it serves as the basis of our " Social Media Decision-Maker's Toolkit ", you know you'll be getting the latest information from this hands-on training. >

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