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Year-End Reporting: Data-Driven Ways to Tell Your Story

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Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need. The goal with your analysis is to have actionable data. Often, this is a high-level report, focused on strategic, organization-wide metrics of success. This is where telling a story with your data is really valuable.

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Keep Calm and Write It Down: How Reflective Practice Leads To Better Results for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m facilitating a peer exchange for the Knight Foundation for a group of grantees that are hosting a Giving Days over the next year using its recently published Giving Day Playbook. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data.

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How Standardize Your Nonprofit’s Social Media Measurement: Use This Grid

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The workshop shared a landscape analysis of what’s already out there from the various industries in order to build a clear understanding of what’s in place and what isn’t in terms of social media measurement valid metrics. 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix. Click for Larger Image.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). Do you need sentiment analysis? Disaster work. In which formats?

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Linking Results To Key Performance Indicators Is Like Hooking Up A Big TV

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 5: Define your metrics. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

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Learn from direct response – Study annual appeals, door knocking, and other methods that inspire immediate action. 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. Apply those lessons.

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. Does not have a dashboard or simple collection method. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Often overwhelmed.

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