Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We started off with an affinity clustering of the strengths, challenges, and opportunities for improving their organization’s practice of measuring impact and communicating about it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. Here’s a look at HubSpot’s analysis, which I pulled together just before this post. Oxfam does a nice job with this on their Facebook page. We garner lower engagement toward the end of the week.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2012

"Data Scientist" is a newly defined job that requires being part data geek, analyst, communicator, visualizer, storyteller, and interpreter. The result is a shift from ad hoc data analysis and simple (though detailed) record-keeping to a systematic approach to improving their programs and campaigns by using data.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

The measure merges sentiments such as “I am very satisfied with my employer” and “I am willing to give extra effort to help this organization succeed,” among others. During the early phases of the pandemic, nonprofit leaders did an extraordinary job prioritizing employee safety, health and wellness,” Herman said.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 29, 2023

NIST did a pretty darn good job organizing the massively broad topic of cybersecurity. Peter Drucker famously said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” This often includes isolating the danger, managing communications, analysis, and finally mitigation activities. Cybersecurity professionals resoundingly agree.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

Because traditionally, impact measurement has been performed by siloed teams, the burden on them to collect good evidence is huge. Moreover, this work has been underfunded and its analysis happens often away from C-suite or Board discussions. Continuous Evidence Building: You should be Doing it Too!

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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.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

We had a wide ranging conversations about how to apply network mapping and visualization and debated about its use as a measurement technique vs strategy tool. You can do a whole network analysis. Using the analysis steps below, it can help you be more intentional with online networking, learning, and building thought leadership.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Taking proactive measures. 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. Moving quickly in response to disruptions. Reset : Resetting your strategy when the situation changes.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

It’s very hard to make people understand that managing social media is, very often, a full-time job. And the fourth task is measurement and analysis so you can constantly go back and see if the activities you’re focused on are helping move the needle toward your goals. To be effective, you have to do all four things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Note from Beth: “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” is getting a lot of good feedback as people read and apply the ideas in the book. We talk about finding the right tool for the data collection job and tools come in three different categories: analytics tools, content analysis, and surveys.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Recent TCC Group research, based on an analysis of reliable and valid organizational assessments for over 2000 nonprofit organizations nationwide, found that one of the best ways is by not meddling too much with nonprofits’ program design. They keep funders outside of the kitchen by pushing back with evidence of measurable achievement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Alternately, you may feel so good about it and say my job is done. 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. The four levels are: Reaction.

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Deborah Elizabeth Finn

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Here’s what I think we need: Allies from workforce development , job readiness , and college readiness programs. These are the folks who will raise awareness of the coming need for technology professionals who can provide data analysis and other data services to nonprofits, and guide them to the next rung of the career ladder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. But, here are a few comments: Kudos to you for setting clear goals and starting off with measurement from the beginning. Maybe another way to think about it is measurement as data collection, but focused data collection.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

We recently released the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Charity:water has done a very nice job ensuring their donation form is simple to complete. Your Turn … How does your nonprofit measure up? The basics are in place. View more presentations from frank barry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

” I created a list of grantee’s Twitter Profiles and shared back the analysis of most tweeted words and hashtags. Also, because Danielle has been a great measurement maven, she discovered through analyzing her data that the optimum amount of posting is twice day. Most Frequently Tweeted Words.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. So often I find that we are too quick to say that because a website doesn’t have our domain, a tool is downloaded to our computer, or a platform doesn’t have our developers working on it that we can’t be responsible for measuring and analyzing the way we use it.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

His work examines the challenges of performance measurement, accountability, and governance facing organizations with a social purpose . Author of Measuring Social Change: Performance and Accountability in a Complex World , which received The Alliance for Nonprofit Management’s Best Book Award for 2020. Job Opportunities Task Force.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Plus, if an organization isn’t crystal clear about what it’s trying to achieve, how to measure success, and how to communicate its impact, it’s going to be a real challenge to keep the support coming in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. From these questions, you need to pick the three most critical metrics to measure success goals.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. What are the major gift metrics that matter when measuring success? What are the major gift metrics that matter when measuring success?

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. How will you evaluate your results and measure impact? Select and set up software systems: Choose the right tools to help you get the job done right and as efficiently as possible.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

A mentor at my first fundraising job once told me that I was “too naïve to know what won’t work.” in nonprofit management and policy analysis from the School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. relationships and promote giving. Be innovative. It was empowering. She earned a B.A.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

She mentioned how useful Twitter is for connecting and following peers to get ideas to evolve pilots for social media initiatives. What is remarkable – as busy as they are getting the Symphony on the stage, this staff makes time for on the job informal learning through social media. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

" She talked about the importance of measuring your social media efforts.   This was a great positive spin -- rather than measure to show me or prove the impact, it's measure so you can quantify it.     The reason to measure is to determine whether to continue or not.  

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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. Joe has done a great job scraping all the links and adding to the group's home page. What does it mean?

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Gyrus

APRIL 5, 2018

An analysis through an in-depth survey accompanied by a few short one-on-one interviews with the projected user base and decision makers within the organization can aid tremendously. A trial will help you measure many factors like flexibility, customization, growth, and usability!

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

while providing them with the essentials they need,” said Andrea Scallon, Director of Measurement, Evaluation, and Learning, Miriam’s Kitchen. The manual process that we used to measure our program before investing in VolunteerHub was time-consuming and prone to error. of Orange County. “Our

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Content Audit & Gap Analysis: Before you dream up what new content you need , you should know what you already have. Now, your ready to do the Gap Analysis. That said, Content Strategy is often a full-time job and most people don’t have time to add its responsibilities on top of their existing workload.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Staff are often overwhelmed by the thought of measurement and itfalls to the bottom of the to-do list. weekly, biweekly,monthly, or quarterly) check-ins to evaluate what is working and what is not.The organization provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools. There are periodic (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

I shared case studies and tips for nonprofits on measuring efficiency and effectiveness and looking at tangible/intangible benefits. Community Managers should measure increased speed from word of mouth or marketing awareness, the best way to measure this is time from awareness to close –or spread of WOM. This matters most.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

3) Social Network Analysis of the #GPF13 tag during the discussion created by Marc Smith. ” He talked about how the private sector is using this sophisticated analysis in real-time, but his organization is using data to answer the question: How can we measure human well-being with this real-time data? Notes from Session.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

Participants find NetSquared valuable because it helps them make connections that help them do their job better, make better IT decisions, and increase their productivity. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Boston, Massachusetts: Measuring, Evaluating, and Improving Nonprofit Effectiveness.

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