Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

Once you’ve decided on how you’ll base your score, it’s time to put it into action. For larger associations, you may want to consider divvying up roles accordingly: Analytics – This person reports on any trends and delivers insights based on their review of the data. Keep things recent to get the most accurate data.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

Fast forward a full eight months – what actions have companies all actually taken? Well, some really nice person on the internet compiled the list of Fortune 100 Companies, the concrete actions they wanted to take, and what, if anything, has come from their pledges here. . At your organization, what actions have been taken?

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Whole Whale

APRIL 5, 2024

By identifying potential partners, ensuring compliance, and measuring impact, nonprofits can maximize the effectiveness of their digital advertising efforts. They can analyze the ad copy, visuals, calls-to-action, and other elements to identify best practices and adapt them to their own context.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment. Example: A professional association analyzed instructor performance and found that courses taught by a specific expert received consistently positive reviews and higher completion rates.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. Note: While you’re reviewing incoming revenue, if you don’t already, take a look at in-kind donations as well!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

According to the Harvard Business Review , increasing customer (or partner) retention rates by 5% can increase profits by 25-95%. Feedback & Action Loop: Deploy an annual corporate partner survey to understand their needs and requests from you, and what they find most valuable about partnering with your organization.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

It’s hard to ramp up the good work you do if you don’t know how to concretely define, measure and communicate your impact to supporters. Impact,” by definition, is the action of one object coming forcibly into contact with another. Measuring impact. Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound.).

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. Resources or capacity are still an issue - the big organizations do better with online actions. Only 43% of actions linked to background information. Report Highlights.

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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. Measuring Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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Hurricane Measure Social Media Pledge 97

VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

As we were reviewing the agenda for a scheduled coaching call last week, a client shared a recent event in which a volunteer spoke rudely and inappropriately to a client. The PIP documents the desired change and the mutual commitment to actions and supports (e.g., Describe the action or behavior needing improvement in clear detail.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The term “call to action” (CTA) is used multiple times in the list. A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Help edit or review grant proposals and grant reports. bulk mail permits, rules and regulations, mail houses).

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Ensuring compliance and accuracy in your financial reporting involves several key actions: Regularly review the latest guidelines and summaries provided by authoritative bodies on revenue recognition of grants and contracts. As the leader of a nonprofit, you must stay on top of updated standards or hire an accountant who does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

” David gave an overview about the difference between a nonprofit strategic plan and business plan: A strategic plan describes goals, strategy, and actions. Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. How will they measure success? What’s the truth at the end?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

If you’re like many of us working in nonprofit leadership today, you’re more than likely exhausted and running out of actionable ideas. It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time. This data is how we measure our impact.

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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. Take for example their coverage on food that is devoured by a devoted flock of foodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? Influence —> take action.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

Video engagement on social media is the measurable action that viewers take after watching. Science shows that certain emotions trigger our impulse to take action and share, while other emotions suppress it. Your emotions compel your body to take action. What Is Video Engagement and Why Is It Important?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. To get a better grasp on this, let’s look at the different types of analytics and what they measure. There are so many things you can measure in Google Analytics, but you’re not going to use all of this information.

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Analytics Digital Tools Measure 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

It is playbook details the practices for high performance including: testing ideas, measuring impact, funding experimentation, leading collaboratively, and sharing compelling stories. How do you measure that impact? How do you tell your story with data? How to create a culture of testing and get funding for experiments?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Defining and measuring impact is a tough nut to crack. In our recent webinar, “Measuring Impact: A Recipe for Mission-driven Work” , we shared how we approach impact, challenges we are looking to overcome, and a framework for building an impact measurement foundation to help you overcome the challenge of defining impact.

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Challenge Impact Measure Review 58

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

He describes social capital as “those features of social organization, such as trust, norms and networks that can improve the efficiency of society by facilitating coordinated actions.” Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured. Social Science Computer Review , 28(1), 135-150.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

So we want to make sure that we getting conversions from our content — which, depending on the content type, is a variety of next actions.” ” What are the metrics for measuring your content? Of course, it depends on your objectives and audience, but here is a framework to help you think about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2013

And, of course, don’t forget that you also need to measure your content strategy and “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” has lots of tips and resources that help you do that. Become Your Own Publishing Powerhouse with LightBox Collaborative’s 2014 Editorial Calendar guest post by Holly Minch.

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sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

But once the risk is identified, it can be measured and planned for. The annual financial audit is a great time to review your statements through a risk lens and search the corners of your financial statements for long-forgotten issues that could contaminate an entire balance sheet. Planning efforts are largely forward-looking.

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International Nonprofit Review Process 87

Candid

MAY 15, 2024

To make the process transparent and participatory, we also asked other values-aligned organizations for feedback on our initial framework before putting it into action. By collaborating on what we measure, we make sure that the information helps all stakeholders and tells the story of both expected and emergent impacts.

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Philanthropy Proposal Application Metrics 52

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Lesson #1: Design an action and invitation that’s doable and interesting – while focused on your goal. Using the URL shorteners and hashtags made sharing tweets, blog posts and calls to action easy to post and share, but it also meant that everything was easy to follow! Hi friends-. Lesson #5: Say thanks!

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EveryAction

MAY 15, 2017

The annual report details how and why nonprofit fundraising emails end up in spam folders, calculates the damage spam can do on giving days like #GivingTuesday and during end-of-year (EOY) fundraising, and offers actionable advice for improving your deliverability rates. Spam is still a massive problem for fundraisers. Don't miss out!

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Whether your nonprofit is working to improve volunteer management or the success of your community outreach programs, you’re likely considering the impact of your planned or existing actions. . Output metrics assess the intermediate results of an intervention, action, or project. Quality metrics assess how well you performed an action.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2021

What specific measurable achievements will our board use to assess the ED’s performance? How often will our board conduct performance reviews? Conduct Regular Performance Reviews of the Executive Director. If a primary and secondary point of contact is not clearly established, miscommunication is more likely to occur.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. This should generate enough data to give you a good sense of your cost per action and ROI. Finally, make sure the “Call to Action” field is set to “Donate Now.”

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Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2017

Translation: outcomes measurement. This is so much more than the UN pointing at a North Star – with the emphasis on outcomes tracking baked into the SDGs framework, we have the indicators to see if we’re on track to achieving social change with a ready-made formula to measure success. Do the SDGs Apply in the United States?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2023

Empower your grantees and reviewers so they know the process and expectations and do your best to meet those deadlines and communication expectations. Measure your outcomes and tell your story. From that perspective, you can stress streamlined workflows and process automation, because time is a cost to your return.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The Way Forward – Cybersecurity Best Practices Despite these threats, you can take actionable steps to enhance security for your nonprofit. Review Donation Platforms Only use reputable donation platforms known for their security measures. This will help you detect any suspicious behavior early and take corrective action.

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Giving Tips Data Platform 59

Bloomerang

MAY 26, 2023

We’ll discuss the potential risks associated with donation processing and provide proactive measures you can take to safeguard your nonprofit’s funds. Some payment processors take proactive measures to prevent fraudulent charges. Understanding Payment Processor Risks No one wants to think about the “What if”.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Reviewing Internal Processes for Equity The first place to start is internally with your organization’s operations. Review your applications through an equity lens after each grant cycle. Yes, training on empathy and recognizing bias is important, but it needs to go deeper. Look for ways to add specificity and remove complexity.

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