NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

[Editor's note: The following is an excerpt of an article in the December 2011 issue of NTEN:Change. The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. After you have made your selection you can then identify what information is needed to show these indicators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Earlier this month, I had an opportunity to facilitate a full-day innovation lab for an amazing group of network thinkers using human design methods to inform the design of a leadership network. It has been exactly a year since I have committed to practicing the methods from Luma Institute as part of improving my facilitation practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

The process has opened – so you can browse and vote for the nonprofit panels you think are worthy of being on the program until September 2, 2011. Check out the information and application process here. There are over 3,000 panels available for voting and 149 in the nonprofit section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. What people in the room were most hungry for were tips and steps on listening and measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. I first came across Harold’s Seek Sense Share model back in 2011 and I actually made my New Year’s resolution for professional learning.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Starting over may not be an option, but in the absence of that, here are ten things event fundraisers and marketers should be considering to reinvent their plans for 2011: Become more data driven. Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy. Is it being used?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. If you wait until next fiscal year's budget—especially for organizations that budget the second half of the calendar year—you may be too late and be faced with drastic measures. This is a time to make informed and collaborative decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” That’s accomplished with organizational measurement discipline ! The culture chapter also talks about the importance of launching pilots and failing informatively (one of my favorite topics and looking forward to the plenary session I’ll be facilitating about this topic at NTEN’s NTC next week).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

To that end, we need to turn inaccessible images, such as equations in a digital math book, into machine-readable information. One of our goals is to lower the cost of making an image accessible by at least a factor of ten. However, I don’t want to understate the challenges we face. often leads the way towards that better tomorrow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. 70% said trust was in understanding financial information and how their donation would be used. 56% want information about fundraising events and about activities for your professionals. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Mobile strategy : From defining goals, to designing for mobile, to developing and executing campaigns, to measuring results, a growing number of digital strategy consultants can be your partner in effectively using the mobile channel. For example, Humane Society saw that number grow from 7 percent to 16 percent during 2011.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A third (33%) of nonprofit executives take over from someone who was fired or forced to resign, according to the 2011 Daring to Lead report, which surveyed 3000 nonprofit executive directors earlier this year. Because you can’t change performance without showing that you’re measuring it. Author: Jennifer Darrouzet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg , sprinting towards our deadline. When you have a co-author who is a measurement geek, you measure progress towards your deadline. Reach and Impact: Where to Aim and Where to Start.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

Over the last couple of years, as natural disasters continued to pick up in intensity and COVID – 19 brought rising income and healthcare inequalities to center stage, corporations have increasingly been pouring more focus into their own ESG measurements and practices in conjunction with their corporate social responsibility efforts. .

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I'm live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. 70% said trust was in understanding financial information and how their donation would be used. 56% want information about fundraising events and about activities for your professionals. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

As we head into the year’s big Giving Day season, we wanted to share four big things you need to do now to prepare a successful campaign: #1: Set explicit, measurable goals, so you know what success looks like. Giving Days aren’t just about dollars raised—though they certainly can bring in lots of cash for worthy causes.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. In summer 2011, we received funding from Microsoft to bring our groups together to answer at least one question: which nonprofits do our organizations serve separately, and collectively. By most measures, we did.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

With Salesforce record types, staff can store relevant information about each of these contacts while allowing them to change over time — all without losing data from the contact’s previous status. Salesforce Einstein and dashboards surface valuable member information in easy-to-view charts for steering growth.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? In an organization, when someone leaves, that knowledge is lost, but with a community it is shared so constantly and knowledge sharing is built into the way communities operate, that it is harder for information to disappear. Why Community?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Note from Beth: As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor of designing and facilitating a “networked capacity building project” for a cluster of grantees, state-based groups, to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. Recognizing an opportunity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs.

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