Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012. — Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. GEO’s 2012 National Conference will offer a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers.

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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. By: Rebecca Shore.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. Funders are increasingly conditioning grants upon the delivery of specific measures. What resulted was a sector-wide effort to switch the focus from financial metrics to outcome evaluation. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog.

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JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." I will define the terms below and discuss mixing and matching below." "The Identity Spectrum gives a understanding of the different kinds of identity that are possible in digital systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Measurement springs from many different motivations.

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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.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

At the plenary panel discussion, a woman from the audience, an arts teacher, asked, plaintively, “Why do we have to justify the arts in school? Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. How do you measure that? Art is also very subjective. So, what is the value of art?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. I have watched this community grow and change for 16 years. (My

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges. Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Doing More by Doing Less – guest post by David Greco.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Measure, Test, Refine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog. Learning in Public – Guest post by Victoria Dunning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

As a practitioner, what interests me most using the data to gain insights about student interaction with material and courseware and tracking results of training. This year, the rise of big data was the subject of discussions across many disciplines, including the nonprofit sector. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. If you’re not attending and curious what funders are learning, you’ll have an opportunity to read some of the ideas and questions being discussed right here on this blog.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

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. 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.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Similarly, the results or value of efforts we make in our fundraising can accurately be measured in numbers. In reality, the most valuable efforts are not always the hardest, but those with the greatest likelihood to achieve the desired result. Too often we equate effort with value. Doing things with progress.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The free and open source software, which is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP) , guides users through a series of step-by-step interview wizards, based on the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

However, the biggest deterrents to creating a content marketing strategy that works is the time investment required to see measurable results. This article explores 3 simple, inexpensive and highly effective ways to boost fundraising results on your website with minor design changes. 3 is our favorite.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

However, the biggest deterrents to creating a content marketing strategy that works is the time investment required to see measurable results. This article explores 3 simple, inexpensive and highly effective ways to boost fundraising results on your website with minor design changes. 3 is our favorite.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

The importance of thinking strategically is a point Beth Kanter , co-author of The Networked Nonprofit , hit on during a later presentation in which she encouraged all nonprofits to have tangible goals for what they want to accomplish with social media and measure results. Which tools are you using and why? Let us know in the comments.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2016

As I mentioned in my previous two blog posts about the GMN 2016 annual conference , we asked conference attendees to respond to the following question: Where are you on your journey to measuring outcomes and impact? We need more evaluation and measurement as this is vital to moving a cause forward and the only way to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

So we’ve compiled 10 of the most valuable philanthropic resources available to help get you to the best results—and not twiddle your thumbs while you try to figure it out! How they were changed by the 2012 election cycle. As with social impact, moving to a results-focused giving model doesn’t happen overnight.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

It has been described as the ladder of engagement, and has been used to famous effect by the Obama campaign in 2012. Consumption will be invisible if not tracked, so you’ll want to use your analytics software, such as Google Analytics, to measure the following: The amount of time spent on the site and the page. Social Engagement.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. So many people asked interesting and thoughtful questions during the webinar that we wanted to make sure everyone gets a chance to see them and participate in the discussion! Q: My sector isn’t in the study.

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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 SIBs rely on the role of external evaluators to provide summative evaluations to measure program success. Patsy Kraeger, Ph.D. Get another!

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

I think Adora Svitak, a 16 year-old education activist, whose 2012 Ted Talk, “ What Adults Can Learn from Kids , has almost 4 million views said it best when describing the impact that these “kids” will have and why we should pay attention to them: “New generations grow and develop and become better than the previous ones.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 20, 2015

In just about any place you look today for advice on fundraising, overhead is being discussed. Some say it’s the wrong measure of a nonprofit organization’s success; others say it is the gold standard for measuring worthiness for support. I recently undertook research into the subject of overhead for my doctoral project.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Giving Tuesday was created in 2012 at the 92nd Street Y’s Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact in New York City. Giving Tuesday has come a long way since its inception in 2012. For example, LinkedIn is a professional network where people generally discuss issues related to the workplace and share professional updates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2012

” Many nonprofits may set measurable goals then they ask an existential question: “How do we know that we’ve identified the right number?” One of those steps is “Establish Benchmarks.” The 2012 study is packed with the latest trends in online messaging, fundraising, advocacy, mobile communications, and social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The State of Nonprofit Data report was released this week (hat tip to Ted Fickes ). Idealware and NTEN prepared the report based on a survey in April 2012 with nearly 400 nonprofit organizations about how they manage and use data. The report found that nonprofits are either doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media. This innovative tool took home a gold Healthcare Ad Award this year! Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Department of Education program, assesses students around the country on educational outcomes and reports the results to a wide set of stakeholders, including policymakers, education officials, and the media. This innovative tool took home a gold Healthcare Ad Award this year! Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

[Editorial note: the following article first appeared in the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , a free quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders.] By most measures, we did. In our initial conversations, we each had plenty of questions about where, and with whom, the data and the results of our analysis would be shared.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Pallotta’s latest book, Charity Case: How the Nonprofit Community Can Stand Up For Itself and Really Change the World , was released in late 2012 to very positive reviews. But if a charity has a long-term goal that doesn’t show short-term results, then it’s scandalous. In 2009, the American Egg Board spent $15.8

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