Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

If you’re wondering if social media can be an effective tool to recruit volunteers, the answer is yes. Showcase volunteer impact People will likely connect with stories that show how volunteers are making a difference. Let your volunteers share their stories. Here are some tips for creating engaging content.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

Data is part of the tracking and monitoring innate to grantmaking and can be part of intentional organizational learning processes. Datamaking can enhance capacity building efforts through group questioning and analysis. These visual analysis tools illuminate potential connections and spaces where relationships exist or are possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits should not start with the tools and data, but start to clearly define success and their audience. By doing so, they will understand the few data points and the tools needed to collect that data to figure out if they have been successful! Then check out Simply Measured.

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Analytics Tools Social New York City 106

Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Your CRM is a key tool for engagement and can drive your fundraising strategy, moves management, campaign analytics, and operational reporting. Data might be captured or stored in a data lake or cleaned via data quality tools, or structurally transformed before being pushed to a data warehouse. Host Locally or in the Cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How closely should they track those changes? How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? This framing captured the impact not only of the technology tools of their partners, required by certain funders, but also of the access to information for migrants, which would be measurable on an ongoing basis through surveys.

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Impact Management Organization Evaluation 120

Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2022

While it’s easier than ever to access data—every digital action, from website clicks to member signups produces a trackable trail—knowing how to use the data is a different story. Does the organization already track this data? Knowing what not to measure can be as important as measuring at all. What are the organization’s goals?

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

How to Avoid: To avoid this mistake, organizations must develop robust systems for tracking and reporting on restricted versus unrestricted funds. Skipping this analysis can lead to missed opportunities for adjustment and improvement, potentially causing long-term financial issues.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

In line with its focus on turning data into knowledge through powerful, insightful measurement and analysis of social media efforts, we wanted to share three simple tips and resources that nonprofits can put to work. And now for those tips and tools: 1 — Get to Know Your Audience. Then check out Simply Measured.

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Analytics Tools Social North America 58

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. Passionate explaining of impact?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. The Four Elements of a Nonprofit Self-Audit of Your Marketing Plan When you walk through your nonprofit self-audit, you have four major tasks: clarifying your marketing goals, taking stock of your organizational assets, reviewing your systems, and tracking your progress.

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Marketing Guide Metrics Nonprofit 69

Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The Brand Story. A brand story relays the history, character, motivations, and other defining qualities of your nonprofit, from conception until today. The key to producing an effective brand story video is treating it like a novel. An awareness video can be a powerful tool for nonprofits for many reasons. Impact Videos.

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Video Nonprofit Images Awareness 87

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

After completing the research phase, you’ll work with your partner agency to identify clear key audiences, define the campaign’s goals, and build frameworks for tracking its performance. Conducting a marketing opportunity analysis. Track trends. Identify and define specific parameters. Choose impactful visuals.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Many organizations had to start over and reconfigure their entire approach, as well as rely heavily on their websites as a primary communication tool. Marketing automation tools, such as Mailchimp, Salesforce/Pardot, and Marketo, can assist in personalizing the content in your emails by using automated sequences based on a contact’s actions.

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Impact Channel Audience Content 76

Candid

JULY 1, 2021

Based on our analysis, the answer is, it's (currently) impossible to know —but it’s important to get right. . In this blog, we identify three current challenges we’ve encountered in tracking corporate pledges and offer a call to action for future corporate giving. . 3] .

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. According to Double the Donation’s list of prospect research software , this process uses tools like your donor database to identify potential donors who have the financial ability and personal interest to support your nonprofit. .

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Marketing Social Media Nonprofit Integration 52

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

Your first step in a midyear fundraising evaluation is looking to see how much money you have raised year-to-date and whether or not you’re on track to hit your revenue goals for the year. Are you on track? If you’re on track or ahead, congratulations! Did you choose the right story? But do you really think about it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. Why was it a success?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

From Facebook to Netflix, companies are tracking and analyzing our searches, our purchases, and just about every other online activity that will give them more insight into who we are and what we want. The analysis made news globally and expanded an international conversation. Big Data is all the rage in Silicon Valley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2012

From critics saying it is killing photography to hype and hoopla from marketing pundits saying it is a must-have as part of your “visual marketing tool box.” Visual marketing is becoming an important part of the online marketer’s tool box – especially because images are global, easy to digest, and distributable.

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Marketing Hype Photography Measure 109

Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Google Analytics is a powerful tool. And with a $0 price tag, it’s a tool that your nonprofit can’t afford not to maximize. When it comes to tracking and analyzing data, a lot can be learned by looking at other industries. Enable Demographics and Interest Reporting, set goals and turn on Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking.

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Causes Data Profit Demographics 52

The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Compelling stories highlighting the campaign’s purpose can significantly motivate donations. Built-In Crowdfunding Tools Flipcause provides a wide array of built-in, user-friendly tools catered to help you manage your crowdfunding campaign.

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Game Fundraising Campaign Generation 59

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. In less than two years, a simple website created to track election violence in Nairobi is now being used to: monitor crime-related data in Atlanta, GA.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 73

The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Note: See all the Best Nonprofits To Work For stories in the 4/1 digital edition … [link] ** There are some surprises in the data from 2023 for this year’s The NonProfit Times ’ “Best Nonprofits To Work For.” We simplified things in the early days of the pandemic,” Herman said. “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization. These metrics are more qualitative in nature which makes them more difficult to define, capture, and track. Alliance building.

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Metrics Fund Build Social 114

Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With this object, institutions can now better track what achievements their populations are garnering, whether that be for diplomas, degrees, or certifications. This new feature will help better track the individual’s journey from prospect to student to alumni. The first of which is the new Academic Certification object.

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Education Student Application Retention 59

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Step 3: Identify the tools. Metrics Tracking. >>

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Helps us move away from tool driven decisions to results. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation. Know your keywords.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. In less than two years, a simple website created to track election violence in Nairobi is now being used to: monitor crime-related data in Atlanta, GA.

Tools 59

Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Make sure the CMS you choose lets you moderate comments, ban individuals from commenting, and fast-track certain commenters—staff, for example—by allowing them to publish without waiting for moderation. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections.

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Websites Social Facilitation RSS 104

Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Take a look and cast your vote so that we can share some pretty spectacular and helpful insight and stories with you next April! You’ll walk away from this session with a new perspective on conducting research and the right tools to ensure the inclusivity of your research practice moving forward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We also identify a monthly theme to discuss in more in depth. We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Data Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. I urge people to think of the chunks and then the tools. Connecting With New Colleagues. Theory and Practice.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Every additional measure you track uses up precious staff time for collection, aggregation, and analysis. In some cases, tracking too many measures is as almost as bad as not tracking at all. One client we served had a list of more than eight measures it was trying to track. The moral of the story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. Questions that encourage people to share wisdom about their social media strategy or tools: Anyone Using Flowtown to track social behavior of people on their email lists ?

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 99

CauseVox

APRIL 25, 2022

You’re finally done with your year-end giving analysis and follow up. Speaking of that, if you’re looking for a way to effectively track donor relationships, take a look at our digital fundraising CRM ). They share your campaign, tell their own stories, and sometimes even serve as personal fundraisers. Time to get started!

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