Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? The workshop was an all day workshop , with an opening presentation followed by small group exercise. What's the key metric? Tags as a metric. What worked?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

I will also have an opportunity to lead two social media strategy workshops which features the Social Media Game. My version of the game includes "life happens" cards where groups gain points if they solve certain problems like staff resistance or define metrics. My cards all have US data. What to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

Note from Beth: This resource has lots of useful framework and design tips for designing and implementing convenings which can also be applied to designing workshops, meetings, and other gatherings. The Networked Nonprofit wasn’t only about making smart use of social media and metrics. By Noah Rimland Flower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. At SXSW, I did a workshop with Carie Lewis and David Neff who assessed their organization’s measurement practices along the Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly continuum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.”

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

Conducting some total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis on projected new acquisitions. SCORE is a very useful resource for workshops and free mentoring. It’s as simple as 1, 2, 3… ” And I really like their free online workshop: “ Tech Made Simple: Creating a Technology Plan for Your Small Business.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2009

Last week, I had an opportunity to participate in a two-day workshop was designed for Packard Foundation grantees, from across the Foundation’s funding areas, who lead and manage networks or accomplish much of their work through networks. The workshop, facilitated by the Monitor Institute, was focused on Network Effectiveness.

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JULY 16, 2010

That's a question we'll help you answer at our upcoming workshop, " Taming the Data Monster " You can register for this online workshop right here. We'll talk through what metrics are possible to gather from commonly used types of software and discuss a framework to help you analyze what's likely to be useful to you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

This week I attended a session with David La Piana , author and long-time nonprofit consultant, hosted by the Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program. David gave a talk about his new book, The Nonprofit Business Plan , and mini-workshop about what makes a good business plan from a funder’s point of view.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter.

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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. You've done a terrific job in identifying benefits(outcomes) and some metrics - you might want to consider paring them down even further. You want to focus on the goals and outcomes (benefits) first - not the metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. I wrote the chapter on ROI.

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JUNE 10, 2022

She is regularly featured as a presenter at multiple chambers of commerce and local workshops and seminars on networking, event marketing, and sales training. Based on this philosophy, Cora makes it her business to open doors to a path of continual success for companies of all sizes. Types of Online Fundraising Events.

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APRIL 28, 2009

Today was the second session of my 2-part workshop for consultants and wanna-be consultants. Don’t be afraid to ask for what you’re worth, and decide by market analysis. Jana Byington-Smith blogged it again, and here’s what she recorded. Presenters: Robert L. John Kenyon, John Kenyon Technology Consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. The basics include: benefits, value, metrics, and financial calculations. Numbers need context - and that context - insight - can help with improvements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

Last night when I was madly screencasting after midnight for Cambodian Bloggers Workshop, " Five Steps To Khmer 2.0 ," Nancy White pinged me about remixing the social media game. I wanted to capture some of the discussion threads for a workshop I have in development for November. Job well done!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Someone said to me during a workshop a few weeks back – it really sucks to log into Facebook and see a two-star post quality ranking. This prompted me to post a question on my wall: How many of you Facebook Page admins notice your post quality ranking every time you visit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users. Last week when I was leading a workshop for arts organizations and artists on social media and demonstrating for those who had seen or heard about it before.

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JUNE 24, 2021

Interactive workshops. Brands and event marketers may think the audience is after one thing, but attendance metrics indicate they were after something else entirely. Interactive content available through virtual events include: . Live text and video chat. Virtual showroom or trade show floor. Q&A sessions. Fireside chats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

" What percentage of the market budget pie should be allocated to Social Media? " The inspiration for that post came from Colin Delaney of ePolitics and Laura Quinn from a workshop presented at Craigslist Foundation Nonprofit Bootcamp by (Resource list and Powerpoint here ). Now it is your turn.

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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.

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AUGUST 20, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. It is also important to think about what specific metrics are needed to measure along the way. Increase enrollment in classes and workshops by 50% by June 30, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Whenever I do workshops and talk about measurement, I immediately see most people’s eyes glaze over unless they are member of the Spreadsheet Appreciation Society. That phrase was used in this job description from Hubspot: At HubSpot, we dream in graphs and our native tongue is Spreadsheet Speak. We measure EVERYTHING, all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. And while surveys, focus groups and other services can give you an analysis of what your current audience is doing online, direct observation is works best. Measurement. How often will you track?

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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. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. Yesterday, I had the chance to run a workshop with the leadership institute graduates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

I’ve be facilitating a few introductory workshops and briefings about Pinterest for nonprofits with a goal of explaining it, what it does, benefits, and examples of how nonprofits and others are using it. I’ve been actively curating tools, research, and tips and have found some great ones that I’m sharing sharing below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

I recently heard this same idea from colleague Carie Lewis during our Measurement Workshop at SXSW. Bob emphasized that it is important to think through your naming scheme for the links to make analysis easier. ” from Bundlepost (a social media productivity tool ). What is a conversion?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

I got a really nice surprise when Jordan from Pathable contacted me this week and asked if we’d be interested in them doing an analysis of the twitter activity like they had done previously for WordCamp. metric tons – the equivalent to the annual emission of 43 cars. It’s simple to do cause it is just a link to a web site.

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