Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2011

GuideStar and Hope Consulting have released the results of new study, Money for Good II (MFGII). The findings suggest that if nonprofits are more transparent in sharing information about their results online that they could attract more donors. MFGII summary findings Nov 2011. View more presentations from GuideStar USA, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

I’m going to blogging more about how networked nonprofits use measurement and use data for making decisions about improving their practice and getting results. So, I’m really interested your answers to these questions: Does your organization benchmark its social media practices and results? What did you learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results. The idea is not only for participants to acquire the skills and knowledge to host a successful giving day, but for them share and transform practices together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

If you are designing and delivering training, how do you sign to get results? What was a recent training that you attended where you not only learned something, but shortly put it into practice? What inspired you about the way the training was designed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

Or to document results? How many nonprofits, in their quest to update their Facebook page or engage with stake holders on Twitter, are implementing tactics based on data and good measurement practice? It requires a culture or discipline of measurement, not just as a task after the campaign or program concludes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

Lately, I’ve been obsessed with methods for facilitating innovation for nonprofits. It isn’t a matter of facilitation techniques, but process design. The field of innovation practitioners, whether in corporate labs or working in social good sector, comes with lots of tool kits that offer different ways to help groups think of new (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I still think these are components are essential and should be applied to looking at the ROI (Results on Insight) for nonprofits and social media. Note that qualitative data is important - you need both to do an ROI analysis and to communicate the results. Numbers speak yes - but the qualitative data tells the story and gives context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? What else would you add to the list?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2009

Carie Lewis from the Humane Society of the United States has used this approach with impressive results over the last three years. You have to think of your "experiments" as one part learning, and the other part building up your online network of donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

However, the real outcomes or results are not yet clear. People responded, including a few I didn't ping! Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs. Folks are experimenting with them because they are fun! Maybe it will become clearer with more fundraising widgets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2009

Source: Marketing Charts. This chart and data comes from a study on how marketers are using social media by Michael Stelzner , sponsored by the upcoming Social Media Success Summit 2009. Where's the nonprofit version of this study?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

Does that mean slacktivism can lead to real-world results? One new feature. ". is meant to help you get the word out and spread meaningful pictures, videos, and articles." The funny thing is, Causes has also raised $10,000,000 in its first two years. That's a question you should ask Joe Green , co-Founder and President of Causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

If you type in the word "Beth," my blog comes up as the first organic search engine results (unpaid search results). Based on an analysis of 6 months of google analytics data).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2008

The final, official results have arrived for America's Giving Challenge and I'm happy say that we came in first place for global causes ! This was truly a group effort - no one person could have done this alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2008

It will be interesting to read the resulting paper and lessons learned from this experiment. I'm curious about how the final results may have differed or not from what a curator might have selected? You can click through and see how the 389 images were evaluated by 3,344 evaluators who submitted 410,089 evaluations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Step 3: Discuss the results. Review the the results. Give everyone a few minutes of quiet time to consider how they will vote first to avoid any bias or group think. Then ask everyone to cast their vote at the same time. Examine the outliers, both with the most or least number of votes. How do you bring this process online?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Is it increasing exposure or other result? Step 5: Measure Results. Now it is time to track your campaign goals against actual results. This post from Social Media Examiner offers five ways to track the results of your influencer campaign. It takes being intentional, patient, and thoughtful planning to get results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2017

Design thinking,” according to Fast Company , “describes a repeatable process employing unique and creative techniques which yield guaranteed results — usually results that exceed initial expectations. Extraordinary results that leapfrog the expected.”. 3 Design Thinking Facilitation Resources for Nonprofits and Philanthropy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

A big hat tip to Nedra Weinreich for a link to this study about nonprofit social media adoption: Nora Barnes and Eric Mattson at U Mass Dartmouth surveyed the 200 largest nonprofits and found that they are adopting social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2020

One question that came up was about how to avoid overworking as a result of the stress by the situation or if your manager expects that you will be in front of your screen at all hours because you don’t have anyplace to go. The interactive workshop focused on personal resilience tips based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit. (The

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Being a resilient organization is about your organization’s work culture – not just the results (which are, of course, are important), but the way the work gets done. . But a culture of resilience about the collective way that people in the organization work together and how the treat each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

Many times the reaction to focusing on organizational culture and wellbeing is considered “soft” or “nice” stuff that not lead to results or impact. There is now enough evidence from research that focusing on resilience in the workplace is an essential strategy for sustainable results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Certainly, nonprofit marketers could use it in the marketing channels and customer relationship blocks to set up a hypothesis and do experiments – and use what they learn to get better results. A/B testing is one technique and you don’t have to be a math genius to apply it. Here’s some best practices for sharing results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2018

Rather than start at the beginning, I’m starting at the end by sharing some tips for a formal reflection process that can lead to improving results of a project or event. How has it helped your organization get better results. A structured reflection process generates insights about what worked and what could be improved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

Their intention was to create a guide for nonprofit leaders who wanted to ensure that their organizations provided high quality, sustainable results for the people or causes they served. The result, Small, But Mighty: The PI for Small Nonprofits , is now available. This short document is a call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As a result, it frees up staff time to focus on higher value activities. This partnership leads to better results and maybe there might even be a possibility of new job titles in the nonprofit sector. Artificial Intelligence can help nonprofits do more with less staff time, including the tasks described below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Communicating Results. Facilitation skills: Someone who can work with others to define needs and questions, collect data, translate the results and then work with different individuals or teams to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2022

How to get the best out of both and, as a result, re-make work as something better than the always on, 24/7 grind it has become. The main point of this article is to get us out of the all-or-nothing trap of automation. It is not about bots or people, but bots and people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2021

Medical and health professionals also suggest that exercise snacking encourages regular movement throughout the day and that is less likely to result in sitting too much. A number of scientific studies have also found similar benefits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Photo by I Timmy. For the WeAreMedia tactical module on Listening we need a few nuggets, anecdotes, or stories in a few sentences about how your nonprofit has used a listening tool (technorati, google alerts, or RSS readers, or summize/tweetscan to listen). Your organization and social media goal/strategy? What happened?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2019

I’ve done this exercise hundreds of time and the results across nonprofits are similar. Next time a deadline or a bunch of deadlines are stressing you out, why tell yourself that asking for more time will not result in being negatively judged , your organization will benefit with a better executed task, and you will be less stressed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

As a result, the need to maximize fundraising is greater, too. The results they’ve achieved provide a glimpse into what’s possible. It is also using those tools to fundraise, with great results. The demands on nonprofits are perhaps greater today than ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

How do we measure and track engagement to results? The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation organized a convening six months, ” Advancing Social Media Measureme nt ” that went beyond an overview and participants dug deeply into methods for measuring result s from using social media for nonprofit and philanthropy.

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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. Flickr Photo by Kevlar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

By aligning social media to organizational objectives and using measurement, you can answer the question: of all the ways we could be investing our resources, is social media the best choice to see the social change results that we want to see? It defines all the results required to bring about a given long-term goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2013

Were there robust results ? For those that did not do well this year, McLaughlin encourages these nonprofits to learn from their results and improve their strategies over the next year. That’s another valuable aspect of GivingTuesdayis the sharing of best practices to get better results and continuous improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2017

Online versions of assessments for participants that would can calculate individual scores and show aggregate results. Meanwhile, in the admin panel, you activate your polls and share results. My instructional needs were simple: Question/Answer back channel where participants in the room or faraway could post questions. Flash polls.

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