Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This section of the report covers new ways of thinking about organizational culture based in continuous improvement based on feedback. It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Cultural Indicators.

Culture 50

Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. As the volume of business information exploded, sales ops has evolved into a more powerful data analysis and reporting unit that can provide critical insight on the following areas: Sales Process Optimization. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt.

Synchronous 145

Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Leaders should also work to avoid SRT Leadership Traps – traps such as, getting in your own way, succumbing to paralysis by analysis, allowing your Board to be your customer and rushing the Reset. Linear models of growth neglect the realities of the changing world around us and lull us into a false sense of security.

Latvia 91

Latvia Companies North America San Francisco 91

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Delivering Benetech''s statement to the WIPO diplomatic conference That’s why I’ve been actively advocating for a global copyright exception modeled after the great exception in the United States that made Bookshare possible. We’ll embrace failure as part of the learning process and as a metric of a true "labs" atmosphere.

India 142

India Literacy Global Accessibility 142

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

The Networked Nonprofit wasn’t only about making smart use of social media and metrics. It talks about how to use today’s tools to build a collaborative culture and using them to find ways for individuals and organizations to team up in building new solutions. How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook. Guest Post'

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Arts Design Collaboration Analysis 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

One of the things that I love at the Packard Foundation is the learning culture. ” His model moved to real time planning, although there is some tension between having a strategy and strategic plan. ”But something was missing, strategic plans were not enough, especially with so many broken nonprofit models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Also, by hanging out a few extra minutes after you post to engage with your alumni network on Facebook sets up a culture of interaction. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. John Hadyon suggests not calling it posting, but planting seeds.

Practice 107

Practice Tips Social Meme 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

The principles cover strategy, learning, capacity, and organizational culture. I urge people to think of the chunks and then the tools. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter. I start with a crawl-walk-run-walk framework for staffing models for nonprofits.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Social San Jose 115

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Look first at your organizational metrics. Those metrics and accompanying goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaigns and even daily communications. I agree that every organization, city, region, and culture have differences that make us unique. And I’m glad we do.

Build 220

Build Community Technology Action 220

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Regardless of whether it’s new technology, a new staffing model, or even a small adjustment to a process, adoption and success can hinge on keeping a focus on the human element of the change. Conduct an impact analysis and use it! Understanding the landscape and the culture where the change is being made is key.

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Virtual Blackbaud Award Wisconsin 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

ROI 91

ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Fred Weiss shared an in-depth analysis on the latest trends facing higher education advancement , alumni engagement metrics, and CASE’s 2018 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) Survey. Key findings from CASE’s 2018 VSE Survey include: . Focusing on institutional culture as part of retention .

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Trend Learning Industry Education 23

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The morning had two segments, beginning with content and small group exercises on several themes from the Networked Nonprofit including culture change , transparency , and simplicity. Geoff Livingston did a great job at live blogging the first section in the morning. How did that relate to the learning objectives?

Reflection 103

Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

Metrics 56

Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

For our overall analysis, we included only one-time gifts — ongoing monthly revenue is not included in those numbers, and all gifts are in the months of November and December in order to include Giving Tuesday. The averages we report for each metric are medians — they represent the middle nonprofit out of all those that provided data.

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Fundraising Gift Digital Trend 107

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Is this an advantage or disadvantage when it comes to nonprofits applying the lean start up model to their social change work? It is common for entrepreneurs to dodge accountability because being driven by the metrics suggested by the funder can get in the way of success. The dollar accountability is put off until the future.

Conversation 104

Conversation Benefit Metrics Impact 104

Cloud 4 Good

MAY 23, 2022

HGF creates opportunities for Jewish people across 40 countries to celebrate their culture, traditions, and values through engaging and educational programs. Establishing a scalable data model to support rapid growth helped create a holistic understanding of HGF’s impact on communities.

Foundation 59

Foundation Jordan Create Phase 59

NTEN

MAY 4, 2011

Cognitive Bias: The Invisible Elephant in the Room There are big reasons why organizations struggle to avoid driving strategy with instinct, so to create a culture that encourages data-based decisions, leaders must first recognize the cognitive biases that influence decisions. Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis.

Data 63

Data Change Analysis Metrics 63

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

A Culture of Iteration. Nancy used the analogy of operating like car company that puts out different vehicle models and each year will have a different version with different features. The bottom line is member acquisition – so they know the one metric that matters. million messages lets them do predictive analysis.

Learning 50

Learning Teen El Paso Homeless 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data—the capture, analysis, and use—can be overwhelming. Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. I began to educate and report on a new series of metrics that added depth and reason behind our results. Should I be doing more?

Analytics 33

Analytics Data Analysis Metrics 33

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Also essential to the day were 12 coaches, whose areas of expertise ranged from digital media to business analysis, and three judges: James Rooney, Microsoft; Deena Pierott, iUrbanTeen; and Sonya Watson, Tides Foundation. Looking for a business process/model for moving tech to each department.

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Ideas North Carolina Map Children 94