Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. A workforce more open to change, including technological.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

“The most successful companies are those that adopt an Experience Mindset that strengthens both employee experience (EX) and customer experience (CS) at the same time,” explains Tiffani Bova , author of the new book, The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth. A workforce more open to change, including technological.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

A few days ago, I moderated two panels at Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on arts and technology. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. The panel featured some previews from a recent research study “ How Strong Is Your Social Net?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success. Technology. Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance Metrics Analyses. Assessment and Adoption of Sales Methodologies. Sales Ops: Table of Contents.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your nonprofit marketing plan provides focus, structure, and measurable objectives to help you see what’s working and what needs to be changed. Creating marketing goals When creating your marketing goals, they should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Time-bound).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The results of two new research studies about nonprofits and adoption of social media were released this week. Measure social media with key metrics for visibility, engagement and advocacy . In both cases, the results show that social technologies are not delivering much in terms of fundraising or attracting volunteers.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

If efficiency, technology, and smarter fundraising have been on your nonprofit’s radar, you’ve almost certainly encountered artificial intelligence (AI). . Machine learning technology uses these patterns to train predictive algorithms that will measure specific propensities and make predictions.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

When configured correctly, Tableau dashboards can support your fundraising team members through greater self-service access to reports and data analysis, distributing the understanding of your key metrics across the organization far more efficiently. . On-Demand Webinar: Measure Your Impact with Salesforce Tableau .

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This week, as part of Member Appreciation Month, we're talking about technology that supports communications and information, so I thought I'd share some of the metrics we use to track our effectiveness that don't really warrant a complete blog post in-and-of themselves. We'd also love to hear about your favorite metrics.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Even aside from a global pandemic, an ever changing landscape of technology and politics have caused all of us to have to navigate change. Technological change – new software and systems. In this phase, you will review performance, metrics, and outcomes. Measure Your Progress. So, how can we strategically navigate change?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Enhancing Your Current Processes Even the most well-oiled finance teams can improve their processes with new technology and new partnerships. Improving Business Process with Process Maps : Is it really an improvement if you can’t measure the impact? Here are a few sessions that will inspire you to rethink your workflows.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Public ideas about health are changing rapidly as a result of technology, medical research, and preventive and wellness services. Purpose-Driven Companies use a Purpose Mindset to Advance Measurable Goals. Stand-out companies set measurable goals to put their business strategy and purpose statement into action.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2022

Host a pet adoption event. For example, you could leverage your partnership with a dog kennel to reach out to the customers in their boarding software to advertise a dog adoption event. Use technology to your advantage by sending automatic updates and reminders to participants, as well as promotions and discounts for future classes.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

User adoption is a tricky beast. Naturally, clients tend to focus on the technical aspects that surround adoption: picking a solution that meets the list of user needs they have identified. But what about the people/social factors that influence adoption? Even better. Please share your own in the comments section.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs. Who Uses CSR Software?

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Finding the right event planning software can be difficult; as an event planner, your virtual event platform should consolidate everything that you might need to plan and host a technologically supported physical event. . Clear Analytics for Tracking Audience Funnels, Lead Retrieval and Conversion, and ROI Measurement.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 12, 2021

Trends become trends for a reason, so if you haven’t already, you’ll want to adopt some of these strategies for your nonprofit’s fundraising efforts. Corporate social responsibility is a valuable area to explore in your spring fundraising measures. Providing insights into fundraising metrics and trends. Let’s get started!

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. How do we know this?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 14, 2017

My thought, after reading the article, was that nonprofit organizations are missing a key metric to accurately define what is and what is not an overhead cost. I challenge the industry to adopt a new metric. Why Return on Mission is a More Accurate Measurement. It’s not a good way to live or to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

This post is brief re-cap about what I learned about technology innovation investments to develop new social media platforms and apps for the Arab World. N2VLabs provides support for the best of the best Arabia geeks who have a promising technology idea or social platform. What Happens at n2vlabs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah Owyang , founder of Crowd Companies , describes it as drones, robots, chat bots, and AI. He should know, having tracked and observed the disruption caused by online technology over the past decade. And after that technology will be merged or implanted in humans. Think cyborgs. Please share in the comments.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Finding the right event planning software can be difficult; as an event planner, your virtual event platform should consolidate everything that you might need to plan and host a technologically supported physical event. . Clear Analytics for Tracking Audience Funnels, Lead Retrieval and Conversion, and ROI Measurement.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As the higher education technology landscape continues to evolve , institutions must adapt to keep pace with the increasingly sophisticated expectations of new and existing alumni communities. Here are a few of the best practices shared to support effective technology transformation: . Stewarding in the modern era .

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 3, 2016

He is the founder and CEO of Metric Insights. For businesses and nonprofits, big data is generally composed of measuring, monitoring and tracking performance. It’s no surprise nonprofits were not quick to adopt the technology. BI could be called on to produce thousands of performance indicators to measure these areas.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2016

These new UN Sustainable Development Goals are the de facto agenda for global philanthropy, and they have a new dimension: technology targets to enable implementation. That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. The Technology Dimension.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2014

50-75% adoption).”. To truly move to a level of having the mechanics of the program in place and beyond, you should be reporting on sophisticated information and statistics to provide readily-available metrics at these prospect review meetings, whether they be group meetings or one-on-one reviews between managers and gift officers.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Today, we’ll dive into “Level 4: Well-oiled machine: All systems in place with nearly 100% adoption.”. At the 4 th level of 100% adoption for your prospect management system, your organization is now able to provide a deep analysis with reportings based on a sound system and full buy-in from all staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

I’ve been thinking about these lists in terms of adopting social media tools and think that most of the lists are hitting on the same exact things. Technology. Identify what technologies are most appropriate. Identify what measures of success can be used. 5-Part Social Media Strategy Process. Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. 8: Launch small pilots and reiterates using the right metrics to understand what is and what isn’t working. I talk about spreadsheet aerobics and other measurement tips.

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BoardAssist

MAY 10, 2016

Adopt the ones that will enhance your work. Measuring the performance of their donor relations programming. Educating their leadership and board members in this important new metric. We can even use technology to develop custom individual stewardship plans for donors. Discard the rest. This trend is gathering strength.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

organizational change, and technology. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. link] [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. 2 admin 09.18.07

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2014

Those of us here at TechSoup work diligently, day in and day out, to provide the social sector with access to better technology, advice, and education. But since our mission is so focused on nonprofit capacity building, we don’t often get to hear about the actual work you’re doing with that technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Metrics At least the survey did not proclaim that lack of impressive dollar amounts raised as a failure of nonprofits using social networks. The survey asked which metrics respondents used in their definition of success for their “house social networks” (social networking community built on a nonprofit’s web site).

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