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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Kicking off SOCAP16 at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Connection Cafe

Greetings from San Francisco! Among this year’s many themes, I want to highlight two: (1) Impact Investing and (2) Measurement & Evaluation. Currently, we are building a solution to enable people to use uniform measurement for social change. Hence the conference name: SOcial CAPital.

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement.