Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2018

When people ask me why they should listen to our new podcast, I share how much I’ve learned from hearing the stories from our inspiring guests — about creating positive change in my community, about how pro bono service can activate a purpose-driven career and how to make a measurable difference for society. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2009

This is one book that I'm definitely taking with me on the big move, but I'm also giving away a copy too. (I Anyway, this small book about Twitter is packed with simple, practical advice for getting you up to speed quickly. How are you measuring success? I got one free copy because my tweets are featured on pages 121 and 159).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The definition of Inbound Marketing is marketing focused on getting found by customers. You can read a more detailed definition here. I know from my 53rd Birthday Campaign that it is possible to using the Twitter API, to measure impressions. And of course, if you want to help out Room to Read, send this tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

In the comments on my post, &# Likes on Facebook Are Not A Victory: Results Are ,&# Carie Lewis shared her killer deck on PREZI offers some advice for engaging your network after they click the “like&# button. I asked her how do you measure relationships? Do you measure along the ladder of engagement?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

The last thing we do is measure our market share in the social media space. Now that it’s so popular, there’s definitely interest from the higher ups. What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? Yes, we definitely are. Anything else?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I definitely recommend them both! We should expand that view and definition of multi-channel to include offline action and mobile messaging/text. Q: Any advice you’d like to share with the other online community organizers? The other interviews include Sylwia Presley from Gobal Voices , and Claire Sale from NetSquared.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Check your country’s definition for charity status. Our best advice? Have at least one goal set up in Google Analytics so you can measure the impact of Google Ads traffic to your site. You must be a nonprofit and hold current valid charity status in your country. Not in the US? There are, however, some exceptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2008

Yesterday, I got an email from Anne Housego from Retina Australia give me an update and asked for some advice. There is definite and measurable progress being made. I'm hoping these flickr mavens will leave their best advice in the comments. What advice would you offer Retina Australia? Michaela Hackner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I join as many social media sites as I can and try to spend time learning each community so I can offer advice to others on how to engage with them. There are definitely tools that I spend less time with, but that’s because I may not have found our audiences very active on them or I may just be spending time on other sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I now spend more of my time evaluating communications and digital projects so, I read with interest Lean Analytics , the book in the Lean Start up series on measuring what matters. The principles were useful but I found it difficult to translate the case examples into concepts for the social sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Measure THIS! The tricky part is, of course, measuring it. Measure success through awareness, not dollars. You can get the word out, sure, but you can also: Get buy-in or advice on new projects. So how do I measure this? When working with these measurements, goal-setting becomes crucial. Build an identity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

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. All the while, you’ve got to measure, track and re-adjust. Anything else?

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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). Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Before even getting started, be clear on what you want to achieve, starting with specific goals and KPIs in mind will help you measure whether or not your campaign has been a success and will give you a benchmark for the next year. Most definitely. Here are 3 super quick tips just in time for the big day on November 29th: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 28, 2013

I queried nonprofit colleagues, asking for their best advice. You definitely want to be “Live Tweeting” during the event and encouraging participants to do the same. The first step is to get organized. Many nonprofits use EventBrite for this purpose. Here’s some tips and best practices for live tweeting.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

They say things like, “We will create X program, it will serve Y people, in Z months, and it will create these A, B, C forms of measurable impact,” but do they really know any of that? People could share what they had planned, what worked and what didn’t (and why), and what advice they would offer to others just starting on their journeys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

” The book offers up advice and techniques on how to make your online channels – email marketing, web site, and newer tools like mobile and social media work together in a sophisticated strategy or your organization to reach its advocacy, fundraising, or community building goals.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Follow these steps to outline your organization’s definition of major gifts: Assess your previous largest donations to determine your major gift threshold. Cultivate by definition means that you’re leading up to something—and that something is a solicitation. Use your CRM to develop a report template to measure your program’s impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Our session will share lots of great advice about what to do before , during , and after leading an effective technology training. Using the ADDIE for designing your workshop, you arrive at the “E” or evaluation. It defines the outcomes of training in four different areas that you can measure. Formative Evaluation.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information. Tweet chat participants were in near agreement in their definition of content curation: judicious selection of information to tell a story. For example, Summify measures sentiment and a user’s reading history to highlight content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

I was most interested in Part 2 (pages 17-21) because I think the advice is applicable to organizations beyond those managing head start programs. Here’s what I learned: Definition: A culture of continuous improvement. Staff are often overwhelmed by the thought of measurement and itfalls to the bottom of the to-do list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

For nonprofits looking to sharpen their communication strategies, CompassPoint's 24th Annual Nonprofit Day offered a wealth of advice. What the organization was measuring had nothing to do with what any external stakeholders — from foundations to donors — actually wanted to know about the organization's work.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

They seek advice from experts who tell them that they need to “engage” more, or have more “engaging” content, or build more “engagement” strategies. Since I said that these words have lost their meaning, let’s begin with some definitions. Merriam Webster gives us 19 definitions for the word “engage.”

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 18, 2015

How to Manage Remote Workers: Measuring Results. Some of the most concrete advice I found on practical management of teleworkers is Jacob Griscom's article How Telecommunications Is Changing Work for Nonprofits , in particular his section on systems for measuring results and accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2008

" The word "evangelist" with this definition in mind: an enthusiastic advocate. Though Moran says most companies can talk the talk, saying they are looking for engagement and word of mouth, they end up measuring in page views. What's your advice about what NO to do as a social media evangelist? Photo by Dubaddict.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

s not only helps you plan ahead, but gives you a baseline to measure success against throughout the year. Or worse…) “Well our [insert leader/board member(s)] like to see follower growth to measure success.” . Hint: A great time to do this is when you are creating your annual budget and marketing plan. What are your goals?

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Gamification is a real thing now, you can play games that teach you everything you need to know, effectively measure said games and embed them directly within your learning platform. Listen to the tips and strategies of your provided implementation expert, as there is a clear and definitive path of least resistance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Some definitions they used in the study: " House Social Network " refers to a socialnetworking community built on a nonprofit's own web site. " Commercial Social Network " An online community platform owned and operated by a corporation such as Facebook. Facebook), as well as their own hosted social networking communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

Since the term “Impact Leadership” was something that needed some definition, we decided to incorporate “lightening talks” and “facilitated listening.” Taking in New Ideas: Facilitated Listening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Streamline: The literal definition is to design in a form that offers the least resistance to fluid flow. I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. Someone emailed me to complain that I didn't link to a definition of Twitter.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission? Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based The other piece of advice is to keep YouTube videos reasonably short (under five minutes is ideal). There are lots of measurements, but theyre all relative.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

frogloop: what advice do you have for nonprofits using YouTube to effectively advance their mission? Ramya Raghavan: I would definitely encourage any 501c3 U.S.-based The other piece of advice is to keep YouTube videos reasonably short (under five minutes is ideal). There are lots of measurements, but theyre all relative.

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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. So what should we do next?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. Asking NTEN to show leadership by publishing web stats is to suggest that NTEN would think that publishing web stats is a useful measure of nonprofit accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

You need metrics or measure against goals, but you also need harvest those insights. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. Measure the Whole Funnel. Here's what I did measure: Seed. Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2013

(I’ll be talking about the latter as it relates to some of the ideas in my new book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine.). The article has examples, but the advice is this: Denise M. Legal Issues and Social Media. Take your legal counsel to lunch!

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