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. Among other changes, it requires encouraging employers to have more bike friendly policies.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Develop top-notch policies and procedures. Develop a set of best practice policies and procedures to meet the needs of even the most challenging funders—like federal agencies. Support these policies with management tools that help you stay on track with requirements and deadlines throughout the entire grant lifecycle.

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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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 9, 2023

Every year there was guaranteed to be a policy or procedural change that required change management , which led to the second lesson I learned: Figure out how to make the change last. Adopt a culture that values feedback. Adopt a culture that supports flexibility. Adopt a culture that values training. Inviting creativity.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Year-over-year strategic planning includes changes in operations, processes, initiatives, measurement of impact and outcomes, and the need to find new ways to connect with stakeholders. Define, measure, and evaluate your organization’s outcome strategies all in one place.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 4, 2021

If your organization relies on volunteers, even just a little, you need a volunteer handbook that spells out expectations, policies, and procedures. Volunteer policies and procedures: It is critical that you have policies and procedures in place that minimize potential problems that could arise.

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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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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Strengthen Your Organization’s Internal Controls Internal controls are policies and procedures that nonprofits put in place to help avoid risky situations. Adopting a conflict of interest policy. Then, you can start taking the appropriate steps to prevent those risks. Human resources professionals.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

It is an important factor to consider when looking at not only designing a RAG-based conversational AI, but also when designing organizational AI policy in general. They should function as intended, and there should be measures in place to prevent and mitigate harmful malfunctions or misuse.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There are two new major online privacy policy changes coming in 2020, the CCPA in California and SHIELD act in New York. These acts mimic the standard set by the European Union with GDPR and many of the policies will sound familiar. The New York Stop Hacks and Improve Electronic Security act and the California Consumer Privacy Act.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

The online platform provides metrics on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 750 cities across the U.S. The City Health Dashboard has adopted a layered approach to data storytelling. Understand your capacity. Design your data storytelling products. Tell your own stories.

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Forum One

APRIL 9, 2024

Nonprofit leaders know there are both challenges and opportunities that need careful consideration before adopting AI tools. Here is what we have learned so far about how to create an organizational AI use policy that helps you and your team get the most out of AI without putting the organization at risk.

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Bloomerang

JULY 21, 2021

Establish initial governing documents and policies. . You’ll need to create Bylaws and Conflict of Interest documents and policies because both are needed for your IRS application. . Develop outcomes-monitoring plans to measure performance. . Before you close your session, print your EIN.

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Byte Technology

MAY 4, 2016

Johnson signed into law the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), a sweeping measure that suddenly allowed all American citizens access to public records that where previously out of reach to anyone but government employees. It may seem hard to imagine but it’s been 50 years since President Lyndon B.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

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CauseVox

APRIL 20, 2021

If social distancing measures aren’t followed, a stronger virus could rapidly infect and kill hundreds of thousands of people before they can be vaccinated.”. If you have the option to use an outdoor venue, you’ll have more freedom with distancing measures. That means you shouldn’t be planning on in-person events just yet.

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TechImpact

JUNE 4, 2014

adopting this mindset, however, is often times more difficult than most imagine. Find out if all your volunteers are up to date on your nonprofit’s processes, language, best practices, and policies. Starting to think more like a marketing manager, instead of a volunteer manager , might be just what your nonprofit needs.

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narratives have the power to liberate or oppress because they have the potential to influence the beliefs and behaviors of individuals, which in turn can shape institutional policies and practices. Narratives about issues can have impacts and implications for policy. The Importance of Narratives.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. They’re exposed to TikTok often; they see how many commercial brands have adopted it in their marketing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

At minimum, this application lets people air their concerns to legislators and policy makers easily through Twitter and can amplify more traditional tactics such as email campaigns and signing online/offline petitions. In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

When we haven’t lived both lives, we can sometimes create and adopt narratives of how philanthropy and nonprofits work, and how the staff within them operate. When we work in separation and disconnection, empathy divides can become empathy canyons. These ridiculous expectations are lethal to vulnerability.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Check out just a few of the sessions our partners are delivering: Demystifying Impact Measurement and Management on Salesforce. Adopt Radical Empathy with Terri Givens. Lorenzo has over ten years of experience in public policy, government, talent pipeline development, diversity, and inclusion. There is something for everyone!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

I thought the points about measurement were right on and applies to other types of nonprofits. But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. Strategic Change – this involves changes to the policies and processes. Measure Your Progress.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

While CVS lost $2 billion in annual cigarette sales in the first year of its new policy, its pharmacy sales jumped. 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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NTEN

MARCH 12, 2013

What kind of risks would your organization be taking if you adopt that new social network into your communications? We're All in This Boat Together (Your Social Media Policy and Steam Power Have More in Common Than You Think) ," from Lisa Colton, See3 Communications. What is the risk of not adapting to a changing technology culture?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2015

That's where telework policies come in. That's why government, the private sector, and nonprofits have all been increasingly adopting telework. How to Manage Remote Workers: Measuring Results. Get Started with These Tips and Sample Telework Policies. Benefits of Telework.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

The discipline and constraint imposed by an office is useful up to a point, but as Jim's post on telework policy makes clear, we can replicate the positive elements of peer pressure and self-discipline in the context of teleworking. My second reaction was, telework makes even more sense for nonprofits than other organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

There were 2o people in the dining party, and AppleBee’s policy is to add the 18% tip automatically to any parties over 6. The bill was divided up and Alois Bell wrote on her receipt, “I give God 10% why do you get 18%?” Adopt a mobile mindset and do everything on your mobile phone for a week, no matter how painful it is.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

With campaigning tools readily available, and the economy of the web centered on content and adoption, if passionate individuals work together to create compelling content, achievable and measurable goals, and clear calls to action, they can make an impact – from fundraising to policy change – without an organization being involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

As Jeremiah Owyang noted in a post the other day, measurement of social media is key because when marketing dollars are stretched, marketers are under pressure to prove their programs. With social media being largely experimental, it is imperative to measure quickly and make real time course corrections and to figure out what is working.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. and storify.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

One was about Foundation use of social media and how the social media policy and guidelines might help the Trustees use of social media. (The board spans several generations and we had a range around the table of people new to social media and those who have been early adopters.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah points out, we are entering the next phase where robots, drones, bots, AI, and self-driving cars will have widespread adoption. A policy for how to respond to negative comments or social media workflow. And after that technology will be merged or implanted in humans. Please share in the comments.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

None of us like the fact that the percentage of income we spend on "overhead" is the primary measure of our effectiveness. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. Defining effectiveness and system for reporting that promotes adoption in the sector.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

If you’re making an addendum to safety policies, focus on realistic scenarios (ex: what to do if there are too many people in a room at once) rather than outlandish, but exciting, “what if?” Let’s add in the fact that she’s recently adopted a puppy and her WFH desk set-up is actually a couch… placed inconveniently in front of a TV.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2016

Beyond its scope for learning and knowledge sharing, this year was special in that it was set within the framework of the newly adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). I had the opportunity to participate on the panel, “Monitoring & Impact Measurement. Measuring and Reporting on Outcomes.

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