Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing.

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

By Jeff Stanger, Director, Center for Digital Information We are obsessed with data — big data, open data, linked data, personal data, government data, visualized data. It's important that we don't confuse "data" for "information." Data are only the raw material of information. So how do we get from data to information?

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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. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

One of my goals for 2011 is to better track the amount of time I spend on social media posting, planning, etc, and measuring that against actual engagement, as measured by: donations (via special source codes) and engagement (comments, reTweets, etc). What is on your To Do List for 2011? Please summarize your ROI.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

The frenzy of your year-end appeal has subsided and you're now busy tallying your results, comparing year-to-year performance, and plotting your next moves. You've been collecting this information already, but you may not have utilized it to create more personal connections with your donors. Use this information creatively.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With your help, we’ve amassed a wealth of current information on demand for services, trends in government support, board participation, and financial health. In 2011, 85% of respondents reported an increase in demand. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a. Like this article?

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NetWits

MARCH 8, 2012

Here’s a snapshot of some of the top giving days from 2011: Let’s take a closer look at the impact and strategies behind Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Fundraising Results: Close to 18,000 people participated in this online fundraising contest resulting in over $2 million dollars being given to 1,200 participating nonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation -- one of our amazing panelists for the upcoming presentation at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , "Let's Go Stalking! Your organization may already use a traditional CRM like Convio, Blackbaud, or Salesforce to track and maintain information about your members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Idealware created the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide to help organizations like yours determine what results and benefits you can reasonably expect from social media, and to guide you through the process of identifying the right channels for different goals. Measurable : You should be able to quantify goals with a numeric benchmark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I can’t help but wonder if their methods are similar to how VolunteerMatch measures its impact and results , although VolunteerMatch does not receive the same scale of foundation funding as nonprofits in this sample. The report ends with some reasons why there might be a disconnect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

I asked Best Friends Marketing Coordinator Claudia Perrone how they were measuring success. The ultimate KPI, of course, is dog adoptions. Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It’s there that we recognize, inform and direct. A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

In the NTEN community, the concept of "IT Staff" has been more fluid and inclusive, but we also know that many nonprofit professionals who have information technology responsibilities are either not given formal "information technology" titles, or don''t self-identify as "IT Staff" -- and often both cases are true for an individual.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

—– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. In the report, Geoff also shares these results: The training program achieved its overarching goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Last month, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where over 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. Good for you! Tell us about your success stories!

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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. Think in segments.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily. But searching still requires a lot of hard work by you, the user.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Organizational transparency, the disclosure of operational, financial, and decision-making information, remains a significant factor in the formation of the public’s trust in an organization’s mission and intent. Social audits are drivers of identification, which measure organization capacity, progress, and setbacks.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The power of social media really proved itself for us when the Gulf oil disaster first hit mainstream news, it was our web and social media presences that helped disseminate news and information to keep people up-to-date in real-time with our work on the ground. What is on your To Do List for 2011? Please summarize your ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? How will you measure success? What would be of most value to your existing audience – information, ability to transactions, and how? What questions do you have?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Quite simply, donor retention is a measure of how many donors continue to donate to your organization. The Fundraising Effectiveness Project provides a platform for these organizations to conduct research that helps nonprofits increase their fundraising results at a faster pace. . But what is donor retention? And why is it important?

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, June 3, 2011 Research Friday: Really, is the Nonprofit Sector Becoming More Commercialized? As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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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. As a result, many organizations cut back on services, made drastic budget cuts—including to employee benefit programs and staffing—to stay afloat, or outright closed. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Mobile is the Needle, Social is the Thread: How Information Today is Woven Into Our Lives. focusing on how information consumption patterns are changing in light of these two technological developments. . focusing on how information consumption patterns are changing in light of these two technological developments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 26, 2012

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. She gathered my information, gauged where I was in the process, and assisted me through the close of the issue. Dianna Schwartz is a 2011 graduate of the Public Allies program at the ASU Lodestar Center. As part of a. 2] Collins, Jim. HarperBusiness. Like this article?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 5, 2014

Data published last year in the Chronicle of Philanthropy shows this trend clearly: online donations to nonprofits increased 14% in 2012 relative to 2011, while overall donations increased by only 1.5% Too many nonprofits have complicated donation forms that ask for unnecessary information. The result? in the same period.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Democracy tool recently launched by Foundation Center, out of a total of 18,446 grants awarded since 2011 by more than 1,300 funders focused on the broad range of issues and efforts related to democracy, just 962 have been focused on technology. As a result, the dataset is only complete through 2012.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. As a result, email expectations have changed. Your constituents now expect to receive relevant and interesting information in every email. When looking at test results, make sure you achieved statistical significance.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Currently, nonprofit organizations are measuring effectiveness in a variety of ways including benchmarking, organizational effectiveness evaluations, key performance indicators, and outcome based evaluation. Meaningful tools to evaluate effectiveness are largely absent (Liket and Maas, 2015). Jossey-Bass. MacKenzie works for St.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 31, 2013

The term “usability testing” may sound complicated and esoteric but the purpose is to objectively measure if your website is useful and easy to use for your donors. Fix anything you found broken or use the results to get money for fixes! What to do with your results. What exactly is usability testing?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. “I This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Welcome to Research Friday !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

What were some of the results? Resident apps help us put the most up-to-date information in the hands of users, since our consumer seafood recommendations are updated twice a year. We launched a mobile site , in 2007 aimed at feature phones, and we’re developing an Android version of the app for release in 2011.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

The 2011 TMWL activity on Twitter was driven primarily by people very close to the campaign, whereas the first Tweetsgiving was driven by people Stacey didn't know yet or hadn't invested time cultivating relationships with. Information for bloggers. Information about the campaign and how to get involved. Infrastructure.

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