Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

the tools to help you do your job. How are you measuring your success? The good news is there is an invisible string connecting all the positive experiences above, so measuring your event’s success , reach , and therefore, growth can be a domino effect. an identified need in the community you serve. people who want to help.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

This is an important distinction for small arts and culture nonprofits like yours, and how you positively influence local communities since your outcomes may be more difficult to quantify when compared to causes like feeding the hungry. Use online fundraising tools. Your relationship with the board is critical. Monitor engagement.

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Arts Culture Fundraising Nonprofit 74

EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

The good news is that nonprofit organizations, advocacy organizations, businesses, individuals, and other changemakers can successfully advocate for a better future for LGBTQ+ people with support from the right strategies and tools. Fortunately, technology like digital advocacy tools make this easy to do for staff and supporters alike.

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Advocacy Generation Strategy Awareness 199

Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment. Identifying peak enrollment periods and understanding the external factors influencing them will allow you to optimize your offerings.

Analytics 169

Analytics Education Program Impact 169

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Measure Issue Impact Method 143

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I spent a year co-writing on a book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with measurement guru KD Paine because I felt strongly focusing on vanity metrics such as follower counts or Facebook likes was a waste of time. I didn’t get asked ”What are the best tools to measure followers on Twitter?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. They need intuitive tools that enable communication and that work right when they’re needed. Fundraising is more tech-powered than ever before.

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Org Raise Tools Help 84

The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this thought-provoking exploration, we delve into the complexities of privacy-compliant digital fundraising, unpacking the tools and tactics necessary to thrive without compromising the sacred trust of your donors. The compliance is not just a legal necessity but also a trust-building measure with their donors and supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

What is it and what it means to use it as a measurement for improving Facebook engagement on your Facebook Page? This post summarizes some of the key points and resources shared. Measuring Your Edgerank Score. AVES is the process of using bogus social media metrics to indicate value — metrics like influencer scores.

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Measure Facebook Screencast Metrics 100

sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

A connected throughline of our shared humanity With that in mind, as I reflect on the influences, changes, and overall trends we have seen in employee engagement, philanthropy, and CSR in 2023, and those that are to come in 2024, I cannot help but be struck by the notion that it is not about specific trends or actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I don’t bother with click rates or influence leader board scores.

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Twitter Tools Learning Measure 110

Forum One

APRIL 12, 2011

Success is best measured in terms of progress toward one’s objectives. Here are five compelling tools for measuring online performance. Organizations that invest substantially in digital communications have an obligation to track their success. And objectives should be more than just getting more pageviews and visits.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). How each traffic source is influencing sign ups for your peer-to-peer campaign. UTM s are an extremely effective way to both track fundraising campaigns and measure their success.

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Donor Track Facebook Campaign 272

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

Here’s a summary of tips, tools, examples, and resources for getting the most of our your nonprofit event with social media. (Here’s a curated link list used to create this post). ” Other amplifier tools include JustCoz and Gaggleamp. The first step is to get organized.

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Social Media Integration Tools Tips 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Note from Beth: “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” is getting a lot of good feedback as people read and apply the ideas in the book. In the book, we avoid talking about specific tools because they change so fast and new ones appear almost daily. And now, for those tips and tools: 1 – Get to Know Your Audience.

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Analytics Tools Social New York City 106

Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

Use a tool like Lighthouse to audit your site for color contrast, alt text on images, subtitles for videos, straightforward site navigation, and other accessibility elements. Though mega-influencers can be challenging to forge a relationship and partnership with, there are still ways you can get into influencer marketing: Start small.

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Organization Online Influence Metrics 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

Social Media Measurement Tips View more presentations from Beth Kanter. I took measurement and since David Neff wore an apron and talked about kitchen tools and recipes, I riffed on cooking measuring techniques. 3) Funnel: Measure the whole funnel! You can see the full slide deck here. I'm still laughing.

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Social Media Measure Jordan Tips 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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Hurricane Measure Social Media Pledge 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 23, 2017

Welcome to the world of social media influencers. A social media influencer is essentially someone with a large following on social media platforms who has the ability to influence their followers. With these, the influencer is able to post on social media and rely on their followers to take action. . So let’s recap.

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Social Media Influence Media Help 40

Care2

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Or are social media ranking tools an example of more kool-aid mix being added to the overflowing punch bowl? “Is it even possible to measure online influence, divorced from offline influence,&# asks Tom Webster over at BrandSavant [link]. Is your organization considered a content curator?

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Influence Impact Offline Advocacy 78

Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

This new book describes six easy steps to measure and improve the success of any project, program, initiative, or work that you do. Our goal is to help individuals and teams achieve and measure success and to shift the thinking about projects and work from merely completed activities to investments that deliver impact,” explain the authors.

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Work ROI Law Project 63

NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you're achieving that key outcome for impact. Read the complete article, "From Outcomes to Impact," by subscribing to the journal for free! ].

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Measure Issue Impact Method 81

Care2

FEBRUARY 9, 2011

You may be aware that there is a big debate going on in the social media blogosphere about "influence". We're all familiar with the mantra that we should be out there leveraging influencers in our communities in order to get the word out about our causes, brands or services. So what is influence, really? But hold on.

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Influence Internet Impact Hype 68

Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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Data Support Demographics Evaluation 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

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Measure Relationship Metrics ROI 67

Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

Ryan Jenkins and Steven Van Cohen Earlier this year, the authors shared these insights: Question: When did you decide to write your book and how did the pandemic influence your book? Remote workers use various tech tools to communicate with their colleagues all day, but they aren’t necessarily connecting.

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Team Authoring Statistics Life 73

Classy

JULY 5, 2021

Influencer. An influencer matching partner is an individual with a large social media following. Given their wide audience reach, influencers may be able to use crowdfunding to establish your matching fund. There’s no guarantee, however, that the influencer will be successful with their crowdfunding efforts.

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Donation Influence Local Nonprofit 108

Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Defining and measuring impact is a tough nut to crack. In our recent webinar, “Measuring Impact: A Recipe for Mission-driven Work” , we shared how we approach impact, challenges we are looking to overcome, and a framework for building an impact measurement foundation to help you overcome the challenge of defining impact.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

Increasingly, organizations of all sizes have access to digital tools that provide data, but data storytelling—making facts relatable and actionable—takes additional effort to transform data into tangible stories. The online platform provides metrics on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 750 cities across the U.S.

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Story Data Storytelling Lesson 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2007

Jerimiah Owyang points to a social media measurement tool called Blogscope. In the post, he includes a paragraph about why social media measurement is important (for businesses) Why is social media measurement important? ll start to need these tools to, track, and centralize one???s the scope is the whole web.

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Social Media Measure Content Tools 50

Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Why report love matters Choosing a donor database is a pivotal decision for nonprofit fundraisers, influenced mainly by reporting capabilities. Measure Impact: Link fundraising successes to specific projects or programs, showcasing the tangible outcomes made possible through donor support. Kacey Edmondson, Donor Dev.

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Achieve

MARCH 10, 2021

This research includes the behaviors of 150,000 millennials and reflects on how this group has influenced philanthropy, and most pertinently, what they expect of the organizations they give to. . When it comes to your donor’s information, taking stringent security measures is crucial. Fraud Protection Tools.

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NTEN

JUNE 17, 2011

People join an organization’s social community for a variety of reasons, including: Social Influence: A friend, co-worker or family member requested support. Organizations must implement tools to monitor and respond to questions and comments from the community both quickly and accurately.

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Influence Social Oracle Fundraising 67

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2022

This new book describes six easy steps to measure and improve the success of any project, program, initiative, or work that you do. Our goal is to help individuals and teams achieve and measure success and to shift the thinking about projects and work from merely completed activities to investments that deliver impact,” explain the authors.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S. Then check out Simply Measured.

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