Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

It defines the outcomes of training in four different areas that you can measure. However, if you were doing a 6 month peer learning program, you would definitely want to look at the four levels of outcomes and measurement them. Learner Culmination and Celebration. to define the four levels of training evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebrate the Accomplishments of Individuals in Your Alumni Network. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook. Linking your questions to the school experience, celebrations, nostalgia, and professional conversations are all good ways to get engagement.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Share enthusiastic endorsements from recognizable opinion leaders, celebrities, or experts. Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Our increasing connectedness should be celebrated as an effective method of achieving change, not as the change itself. There is more analysis of the problems over simplification like this cogent analysis from Ethan Zuckerman. And so the debate on my Facebook wall continued with very thoughtful comments.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Unless you want an entire troop of gorillas fighting you every step of the way, thoroughly involve your team in every part of the process analysis and decision-making. Measure Results of Change (improvement = do more, decline = change approach). When improvement comes, celebrate it as a team. Return to Step 1 with a new Process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Or rather, how do we measure the value and effectiveness of Twitter? What do we measure? Paul Young's analysis of what worked, what didn't in his fundraising campaign can give you some hints of what to measure. So maybe the question should be, how many whales did you save with that Tweet ? What does it mean?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2022

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact and sustainability organizations and causes. This synchronizes data across your operation, automates process, improves analysis and reporting, and saves time and money.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One designed and developed the City Health Dashboard with NYU Langone Health’s Department of Population Health to share and compare data on 37 measures of public health across more than 500 U.S. The post Celebrating Mission-Driven Success in 2023! This innovative tool took home a gold Healthcare Ad Award this year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

It takes transparency and accountability to a new level where there’s no hiding the facts, and if framed and accepted well, will not be limited to evaluative determinations of success or failure, but will be celebrated for the learning and opportunity for course-correction that it provides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Google has been celebrating holidays by changing its logo to a holiday theme since 1999. And celebrating holidays (or planning for a holiday ) on Twitter is also becoming a tradition but these are community-driven efforts and some have been connected with raising money for good causes.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One designed and developed the City Health Dashboard with NYU Langone Health’s Department of Population Health to share and compare data on 37 measures of public health across more than 500 U.S. The post Celebrating Client Success in 2023! This innovative tool took home a gold Healthcare Ad Award this year!

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

National Volunteer Week has come and gone, but I ask you to join me every week in celebrating the amazing contributions of TechSoup's NetSquared community. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Chicago, Illinois: Getting Started Measuring Your Impact When There's No Way You'll Do an RCT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Here's one way you might celebrate. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. If you've set specific goals and metrics to measure those goals over time, if after 3-6 months you have no tangible or intangible results, don't be afraid to move on or change something. Take my information overload quiz.

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

If a donor is celebrating a milestone birthday, a month before their big day, send them an e-mail suggesting gifts to your organization in lieu of presents. And always make sure to celebrate them on the actual day as well! You may have an existing special occasion donation program, but you haven't figured out how to publicize it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

MomsRising planned a blog carnival and social media bonanza to mark the 6 month anniversary of health reform and to celebrate the new consumer protections rolling out. Posted 32 links to blog posts and articles raging from policy analysis to personal stories. MomsRising Health Reform Blog Carnival – September 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster. In particular, these are the not very interesting, subtle or telling measures used to make indexes like the Technorati Top 100 or the PubSub 100 or the Feedster 100. Interesting food for thought.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

In this article, I’ll define each of these measurements, review what impacts them, and share some easy math tips that are guaranteed to make you smarter than most of the people around you who might be sticking their noses into your email performance data. That’s right. Unsubscribe Rate: Don’t be afraid of this number.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

" Complaints and Celebrations: Holly Ross at NTEN described what she listens for when she puts her listening ears on for Twitter - this includes listening to people's complaints and celebrations. This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users. It's become all too spammy."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

In a week, I will celebrate my 52nd birthday. Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Why the number 52? Good for you! Great work. The tips below are for you. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Last week I wrote about nonprofit “ measurement malaise &# that keeps some nonprofits putting a measurement strategy for their integrated communications campaigns into practice. In the comments, I asked how can we make measurement fun ? We measure EVERYTHING, all the time. Celebrate Small Successes: L.P.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

I’ve also heard stories from smaller nonprofits where a donor has donated gift certificates for massages for staff, especially during stressful work times. This concept also included having a communications campaign which included a #selfcare hashtag that people used to celebrate selfcare. Gamify Self-Care.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

As with any initiative, goals and objectives should be clear, measurable, and aligned with the organization’s strategy and mission. If you have VIPs, speakers, media personalities, local celebrities (or even real ones), encourage them to mingle with the crowd. Clear Goals and Objectives. Get Rid of the Velvet Rope.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Identifying potential donors involves research and analysis that highlights individuals or entities that share the same values and interests as the organization. Recognition programs: Your donors support your mission, and you should celebrate that support!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Detailed analysis of the needs your mission seeks to help. Analysis of your environment. This SWOT analysis will help you identify the key challenges and opportunities facing your organization, and will serve as the foundation for your business plan. — Create a plan for evaluating the effectiveness of your programs and activities.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Have an internal point person executing the plan and creating a wrap up analysis with learnings for next year (this doesn’t have to be your classic fundraising person either). Pull in a celebrity appearance. Thanks to sites like Cameo.com, you can now find and pay for a celebrity to create a custom message for your campaign.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Holiday celebrations and time spent with family and friends help us reconnect to the things that matter most and prepare to start fresh for the new year ahead. Conduct post-campaign analysis. Get Qgiv’s Campaign Analysis Worksheet! The final months of the calendar year bring out the best in all of us. Check them often!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Moreover, your objectives can also guide you in the analysis of your campaign’s performance. It’s a good idea to be strategic, with the use of a content plan to schedule the content of your #GivingTuesday campaign in advance and what metrics you’ll be measuring to determine whether your campaign was successful. 3) Plan your content.

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Media Cause

MARCH 25, 2021

We monitor and measure, tinker and tweak, evaluate and judge, all while holding up our predefined and expected result as the fullest indication of whether or not we succeed. . We have, in very nonprofit-y terms, been taught to be mission-minded above all else. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2012

I found this wonderful infographic that takes you through the process of setting goals, making them measurable, picking your metrics, and making decisions based on your data. Facebook analytics programs like Insights , Edgerank Checker , and Simply Measured free reports give you tons of data points. I only look at these: Reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I was inspired by Connie Bensen , a community strategist, who shared a post celebrating the success of her blog over the past year. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). measuring your impact on the world!). Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

One charity:water stakeholder has singlehandely raised $50,000 to celebrate his 50th birthday. It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. There's also a paper that Steve co-authored about a methodology for social network analysis. Good Reads: Online.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

83% of Pinterest users would rather follow a brand than a celebrity. Measure and track results. In it, you’ll learn how to develop: An action plan based on a current situation analysis. Reporting and measurement plans. Perform competitive analysis and compare your efforts with what your competition is doing.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Hosted in Duluth, MN, this year's gathering is the perfect opportunity for professionals from every corner of Minnesota’s robust nonprofit sector to join together, celebrate the sector, learn from one another and prepare for another year. Join the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits for our 2016 Annual Conference. State/Local. 10/24/2016.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2019

As we start a new year, it’s a good time to pause and celebrate the great work that your foundation and your peers across the social sector accomplished last year. Read “Exploring Impact Measurement at Foundations.” Outcomes and Impact. Learn more about how your outcomes strategy stacks up to other foundations.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. Has the organization friended celebrities to drive more traffic to their own profile? But was there ever any gold?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. Has the organization friended celebrities to drive more traffic to their own profile? But was there ever any gold?

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