Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

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. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement. What is funder’s role to support good measurement?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

Consider using surveys, direct interviews, or informal conversations to initiate this process. Develop longer versions for your website and annual reports, and shorter snippets for social media posts or marketing flyers. Initiate Contact for Feedback Proactively reach out to those who have interacted with your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Once we’ve hooked them, we engage with our community until they own the idea and run with it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

” Here’s some insights generated through the discussion about that: Allocate Staff Meeting Time: Teresa Crawford reported that her organization devotes some time at staff meetings each week to see what content is catching the most interest, what messages seem to have the greatest reach.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Useful analytics come from a comprehensive data set, typically from a donor management software, that can be manipulated into an intuitive report that anyone can digest. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage.

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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

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

Grantmakers need to recognize the importance of funding both the projects and the technology required to support, measure, and grow those projects. Software to help measure impact: In order to provide the reporting and trends data to stakeholders, today’s nonprofit needs more than just Excel to manage data and identify insights.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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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

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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 16, 2015

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace , which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 10, 2014

If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. The online survey tool uses a 45 question assessment to measure your leadership skills across 15 dimensions of leadership.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

Do a survey, do a poll, do a Facebook Live, call people on the phone, do a focus group. 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. Also you can ask your audience! If you’re on Twitter, same thing.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 15, 2014

For example, Epsilon, a consumer brand loyalty expert, published a short report on using data to build customer loyalty. I refer to this report fairly often because the summary points are such good reminders to all of us in the nonprofit sector (I’m interpreting a bit to use nonprofit terminology): Focus on your best donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 2, 2021

A recent survey of Arizona’s nonprofits conducted by the Alliance of Arizona Nonprofits found that, as a result of fundraising and program cancellations due to the pandemic, Arizona nonprofits have lost an estimated $53 million in revenue. Step 6: Prepare feasibility Financial Analysis. Step 3: Brainstorm and screen venture ideas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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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. Does data collection may occur from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 8, 2017

According to a study of 202 organizations in the Los Angeles and Phoenix areas, organizations that reported higher board effectiveness also reported higher perceived organizational success (Brown, 2005). Undertake SWOT Analysis and Strategic Planning Sessions. 2015 Survey on Board of Directors of Nonprofit Organizations (Rep.).

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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. Analytics tools like the ones described below are good for measuring actions and engagement. Then check out Simply Measured. Want to know what makes your online audience tick?

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

You might still see yourself as a local animal shelter, but if 80% of your programmatic impact reports focus on one cohort of service (in this case, dogs from Tijuana), some of your donors may not feel the same connection to your mission. If you don’t already have this information, consider conducting a donor survey.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 10, 2023

Use predictive analysis. There are a lot of valuable analytics you can measure using the information stored in your CRM—you just need to know what you’re looking for! Try out these strategies to manage data for your events: Measure the number of supporters who attended your previous event. Measure the smaller things.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Reporting: Generate custom reports and dashboards to gain insights into donor behavior, program performance, and operational efficiency. Salesforce has created a handy survey that organizations can use to gauge if they are prepared to invest in the CRM and undergo the implementation process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

For now, one thing is abundantly clear: Spend your time on a good strategy for an integrated campaigns with real and measurable results and have high quality content, engage your network, and cultivate of influencers and for now, don’t waste time on this meaningless metric. There’s a lot of confusion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

As reported by Knowlton (2016), “…only 7 percent of nonprofits report that foundations always cover the full cost of projects they fund.”. It is therefore imperative for an organization’s survival that all costs be measured and considered in accepting grants or funding contracts. Secure separate funding for overhead costs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Okay, now you’re probably getting stressed out thinking about today’s to do list, that report you have to write, and a day scheduled with back-to-back meetings – and probably think it takes days to create an infographic. And, there is no better way consolidate your insights by expressing them as DIY infographic.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 6, 2009

Benetech Analyzes Human Rights Data for the Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission A Guest Beneblog post by Kristen Cibelli Our team at the Benetech Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG) has recently concluded a three-year project with Liberian Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help clarify Liberia's violent history.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Preventative measures such as performance evaluations, self-regulation policies, effective donor communication approaches, ethical leadership, and social auditing serve as accountability enforcers in various capacities within an organization. Performance evaluations serve as vehicles to message organizational mission realization and impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University.

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NTEN

AUGUST 6, 2012

Flickr: JenWaller If you think it's too hot outside to be crunching numbers or analyzing information, pour yourself a fresh glass of lemonade because this week's Member Round Up revolves around data – from a free tool for visualizing data to a hot-off-the press report about the state of hiring in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

All of my work these days is focused on designing and delivering effective training for nonprofits -primarily on the topics of social media, strategy, networks, and measurement. ” ADDIE is an instructional design method that stands for Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation. This is evaluation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

Survey the situation. Promise that a root cause analysis will be delivered to all interested parties after crisis resolution. Compile a report detailing the crisis, resolution, root cause, and recommended preventive measures. Insist that the preventive measures be implemented. Assemble the team.

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