Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

That includes web development, technical strategy, fundraising, and CRM and data management— each of which depends on a strong understanding of an organization’s audience to be successful. What is a market analysis for nonprofit organizations? What is a market analysis for nonprofit organizations? Let’s get started.

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Research Marketing Survey Nonprofit 52

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

What should you consider when evaluating eLearning consultants? If you’ve outgrown your current learning management system, a consultant can help you research solutions, evaluate them against your needs, and make a plan for implementing the new tech into your strategy. What does a learning consultant do? Organizational Readiness.

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eLearning Consultant Guide Associations 69

Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2015

“Big data” has been a “big topic” for quite some time now. What does big data mean? Let’s identify the type of data analytics we discussed & how they can help your organization: How to use your CRM data to analyze trends in gift history, affiliations, connections, etc.

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San Diego Data Benefit Analytics 20

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

The Vera Institute (2015) offers this definition of social impact bonds: “In a social impact bond, private investors fund an intervention through an intermediary organization—and the government repays the funder only if the program achieves certain goals, which are specified at the outset of the initiative and assessed by an independent evaluator.”.

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Program Management South Africa Evaluation 58

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 12, 2010

Let’s look at the way a gardener can tend to multiple flowerbeds in one big backyard and the way that translates to our work of building community across the web: Analysis and evaluation : the garden is visiting all of the flowerbeds or cultivated areas of the yard (and all the ground in between!)

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Funding projects instead of just a specific product ensures that organizations or teams can fail quickly and softly while working towards something better, can invest in research and evaluation, and engage the community not just market to them. Technology is a catalyst for data, analysis, scalability, effectiveness and efficiency.

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Support Adopt Fund Philanthropy 199

Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. Whatever tool you use should provide you with some metrics to evaluate your results each time you hit “send.”. Don’t spend time tracking a data point that isn’t informative. Here is a sample checklist: Set marketing goals, Thursday, May 19.

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

Care2

JULY 11, 2013

While I have close to two decades of experience in the nonprofit field and love to share my experiences and data, I’m lucky to be surrounded by such smart nptech folks who share their knowledge with me. They share best practices in online campaigning as well as concrete data and analysis from their A/B testing.

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Resource India Case Study Nonprofit 72

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Getting all of your old donor data cleaned and ready so that you can move it into the new system? While migrating donor data is one of the most important steps in implementing a new CRM, it’s also the part that’s most time-consuming, mind-numbing, and prone to error. Signing up for a new donor management platform is exciting.

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Data Donor Map Test 52

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Tags: presentation webtools analysis community mapping listening notes tools webinar women womenwhotech.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. Pick the right hard data points. Or it might compare the cost of one approach to another or the cost of not investing.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. How do you evaluate your programs and services? You can read her poem, Untitled, here.

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Build Community Technology Action 220

M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

This data includes a mix of organizations that work on topics ranging from international relief to health to environmental issues. 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.

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Fundraising Gift Digital Trend 108

Whole Whale

AUGUST 7, 2023

Blank slate generative AIs (chatbots that don’t have context on your organization/data) are like over-confident interns. Overall, this methodology structures regular critical analysis of output to curate higher quality through ongoing refinement. Evaluate if the style and tone fit the intended audience and goals.

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Guide Model Summary Structure 52

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

help to evaluate resumes of kids). Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. This can include a building, or access to experts or cool technology or data, or historical archives. Same for any grants, regrants, mini-grants, or loans you offer.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want. It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The important thing is to pick the right tool for the job — and that job is collecting data to measure progress towards a goal or objective. Social media measurement tools give you data. The problem is that data everywhere! Almost every click we take, it leaves a data trail of data that can be captured.

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Measure Social Media Tools Media 115

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. Analog Strategies. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology.

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Slides Nptech Digital Case Study 213

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

How can a non-profit today use mobile technology, social and web in a way that increases participation, ensures success and provides easier management campaign and their resulting data points. I will be facilitating a panel discussion with: Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Amy Gahran, CNN Journalist. The NTC Conference.

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San Francisco NTC Conference NPO 89

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

Whether you are new to grants, and re-evaluating how your organization seeks out grant funding, Rachel Werner will go through what you need to know to become more grant ready. And the SOAR analysis, I think, is a great brainstorming tool because this can really incorporate feedback from all different folks. Rachel: Mm-hmm.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Again, it’s about that audience, especially for new donor acquisition when you don’t have a lot of internal data points on those people, and how can you look at people as a group and try to determine how they’re going to respond. We understand you might not have all of these data points. That’s okay.

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Donor Disaster Gift Puerto Rico 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

Assessments and Review :: evaluating past performance to inform future mobilisation efforts. Data Analysis and Research :: building a culture of data-driven campaigning, designing tests with campaigns and offices, and setting up controlled experiments to optimize and improve performance. What do you think?

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Journal Change Learning Technology 101