Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Source: grist.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

A few years ago, Hunger Solutions New York (HSNY) targeted service providers as their primary audience. Speaking of metrics, how do you measure your nonprofit site’s performance? Have there been demographic, economic, or policy changes that affect your messages and offerings? Do your online efforts reflect those changes?

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Issue awareness is often a foundational step in advocacy work, and it’s important to make sure that your organization’s issue awareness work uses specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals to measure progress.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

This article is for the overworked techie in charge of all of the digital things who just panicked that it is 2020 and there are new privacy laws. There are two new major online privacy policy changes coming in 2020, the CCPA in California and SHIELD act in New York. How does the SHIELD Act apply to my organization?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

We found that what really matter divides into two broad areas: Numbers : Understanding how managerial decisions create value; how we measure value using financial analysis; and how we use the language of finance to communicate inside and outside the organization. Thank you to the book’s publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

Their work has been featured in The New York Times, NPR, CNN and AdWeek and Doug is a guest lecturer at Stanford University on the power of storytelling for nonprofit organizations. Video engagement on social media is the measurable action that viewers take after watching. He and his team work with nonprofits across the U.S.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In the language of Google Ads, donations are one of the most valuable conversions an organization can measure. A conversion is any measurable action that a visitor takes on your website. Keep in mind, however, that you should measure meaningful conversions. Common measurements include: Time spent on your site.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Based on data from Candid and eleven other sources, the eighth edition of the annual report, Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2021: Data to Drive Decisions (20 pages, PDF), found that giving by foundations and charities in support of disaster relief totaled $352 million, down from $468 million the previous year. November 10, 2021.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

I have spent nearly 15 years in the nonprofit sector in Arizona and New York, and the groups I worked with have only run surpluses five of those 15 years, with an average of 1-2 percent net margins. Damm has worked in the nonprofit sector for 15 years, with organizations in Arizona and New York.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 30, 2023

Measuring success : By using donor personas to segment their donor database and track their engagement and giving history, non-profit organizations can measure the success of their fundraising campaigns and make data-driven decisions. How are donor personas usually created?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 13, 2022

EDT, New York Times bestselling author, activist, philanthropist, and host of the We Can Do Hard Things podcast, offers her inimitable take on self-care as the pathway to organizational success. Measuring for success at each stage. 17, at 4 p.m. Nonprofit pros and analytics teams know that collecting data is the easy part.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? And since advocacy often involves coalitions, it can be difficult to measure who owns the success—or quite possibly the failure—of initiatives. New York City, New York, United States: Longman Books. [4] The answer is a resounding YES.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of doing a webinar on measurement and nonprofit for Kivi at the Nonprofit Marketing Guide. Measurement is a tool that data-informed cultures use to improve their programs; they observe the results of their programs, and then learn from those results to improve and refine their next programs.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Additionally, Candid publishes regular reports on relevant sector issues , such as the Advancing Human Rights report , Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report , and Philanthropy and Covid-19 report. For instance, if you live in New York City, several libraries offer free access to Candid’s tools.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The New York Public Library has 2.2 This series will highlight social media best practices to keep patrons and library staff engaged, develop measurable goals, and cultivate new readers and learners in your community. Nearly all brands have a social presence, and libraries are no different. Register for November 30.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

I will also be doing the lunch keynote about on measurement and learning. The conference theme is “ Innovating and Networking Our Way to a More Engaged Future “ I will be doing a session on Measuring the Networked Nonprofit and a master panel along with Dave Gray, Jane Hart, and Harold Jarche about social learning.

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CauseVox

APRIL 20, 2021

An article from the New York Times warns “Precautions remain especially important as new variants of the virus emerge. If social distancing measures aren’t followed, a stronger virus could rapidly infect and kill hundreds of thousands of people before they can be vaccinated.”. Whenever you can, choose an outdoor venue.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 14, 2021

This could be something as simple as a memo to the staff of the organization or as big as a strategic plan, such as a Balanced Scorecard, suggested in Strategic Performance Measurement and Management , or a theory of change approach, such as the one in The Center for Theory of Change.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . How to Measure Success. They also measure retention to see how many return each year and what factors could play into increases or decreases. . “ Set specific goals for your event that can easily be measured and attained within the scope of your event.

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2012

New York University. Patrick Yurgosky. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Public Administration. Business Intelligence tools, or "BI" tools, take the dashboard idea to the next level.

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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. The problem isn't even dwindling funding or the need to minimize spending on overhead. The Results Problem. They just can't prove that they are.

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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. Analytics tools like the ones described below are good for measuring actions and engagement. Then check out Simply Measured. Want to know what makes your online audience tick?

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

The New York-based Vilcek Foundation ’s mission is to elevate and communicate the importance of immigrants’ contributions to the arts and sciences in America by awarding annual Vilcek Prizes to support innovators in these areas. The Vilcek Foundation. Canopus – Website for Art. 2021 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Measure Your Traffic. But know there are other video hosts. Get Found on Technorati. Take your rank with a grain of salt. Don't forget to use some other ways to track conversations like co-comment and icerocket. Yep, google analytics is great. Tap the Blogs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Topic: Measuring the Effectiveness of Stories. New York City. #CommBuild. 10 am Pac ific Daylight Time / 5 : 00 pm Coordinated Universal Time. Topic: Building Community with Digital Storytelling. 11:00 am Pacific Standard Time / 6:00 pm Coordinated Universal Time. 3:00 pm East Daylight Time / 7:00 pm Coordinated Universal Time.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

Security is a very important factor here, and it will be a mix of existing security measurements (e.g. asking the user for permission, like Geolocation) or coming up with new alternatives to ensure this." Specification drafts and implementation prototypes will be available, and it will be submitted to W3C for standardization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Note from Beth : As I’m sprinting to towards the deadline of my next book on Measurement and Networked Nonprofits , co-authoring with the goddess of measurement, KD Paine , I’m grateful to have some terrific guest posts like this one from Simon Mainwaring. Which of these requirements do you find the most difficult?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 4, 2021

So, let's anticipate it and build in psychological safety measures to succeed together instead of avoiding the inevitable. As New York State raised cigarette taxes, the Mafia began smuggling in low taxed cigarettes from other states. It's the same with stress. “So,

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2017

Defining and measuring social impacts, determining whether the intervention is effective and why, and being able to prove efficacy with solid evidence are important prerequisites to a decision to scale (Harris, 2010; Riddell & Moore, 2015; Roob & Bradach, 2009; Stone Foundation, 2009). New York, NY: Crown Business.

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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. The problem isn't even dwindling funding or the need to minimize spending on overhead. The Results Problem. They just can't prove that they are.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

The New York-based foundation also awards annual Vilcek Prizes to support innovators in these areas. Forum One designed and developed the City Health Dashboard with NYU Langone Health’s Department of Population Health to share and compare data on 37 measures of public health across more than 500 U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

She is the second college student we are supporting through the Sharing Foundation’s program. (I’m donating the royalties from my new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , towards her education).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

Since much of the work in which nonprofits engage results in subjective measures, NLP can be a method to encode the subjectivity qualitatively. For example, a donor might be a female, age 36-40, residing in the state of New York. Donors may be part of many kinds of segments.

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3rd Sector Labs

MARCH 28, 2015

But in recent years, writes Mary Pilon in an eye-opening article in the New York Times, these events seem to have ‘hit the wall.’ Be sure to measure the results of your efforts. Obviously, the more supporters they gathered, the greater their donation results. Congratulations! You are assessing risk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Even better, we discovered that we can use this practice to both inform and measure campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Measure Networked Nonprofit. Once you have the discipline in place of setting up an editorial calendar, measuring it, and generating insights about what resonates with your audience, you might wonder – what’s next? Mary Wittenberg , New York Roadrunners. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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