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My Notes from Next Generation Evaluation Meeting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? I followed the developmental evaluation thread most closely. Here are my notes.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Outlook) and video conferencing platforms, use a spreadsheet, create slides, and use tools that are specific to your organization, such as a timekeeping system or an expense reporting system. Budget time and money for professional development, including informal learning, and dips in productivity as people acquire new habits and skills.

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Public Media Development and Marketing Conference

Amy Sample Ward

But you still need a clear strategy, a sound plan of attack, and a method of evaluating your results. Related Links : Conference information. Description : Sure, social media is evolving at the speed of light and experimentation is important. Join Amy for her unique perspective on using social media for a higher social purpose.

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How to Define, Measure and Communicate Your Impact

NonProfit Hub

Collect information as you go to evaluate performance. Also, don’t forget to evaluate your performance through the occasional feedback survey. If you’re showing your potential donors a PowerPoint, for example, play a meaningful video on one slide and follow it up with statistics on the next. Once you have your “S.M.A.R.T”

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Important Questions for Your Post Virtual Event Survey

AccelEvents

Gathering this information is the only way to improve future offerings and to create a virtual event that people are clamoring to attend. For more information on how to use these responses to calculate your net promoter score, check out our post on the 9 Key Metrics for Tracking Event Success. This is your NPS question.

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Does Extreme Content Delivery = Learning?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When you want to acquire a new skill or apply some new knowledge, do you learn by passively sitting and listening to an expert lecture for 90 minutes without a break and 150 PPT slides? What do you actually retain? And, what do you actually apply? I’ve really taken to heart the movement principle.

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New on SSIR: Innovating at the Speed of Communities

Amy Sample Ward

I’m gathering my thoughts to start putting together my slides and presentation and wanted to stop for reflection and sharing. Libraries have access to information, engagement, and opportunity – it’s just a matter of setting sail. Libraries can and should be doing the same. Think big : Not just big, but bigger than you.

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