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Can You Measure Love?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Happy Generosity Day! The idea of moving Valentine’s Day away from dinner reservations and singles awareness towards a day of generous acts began in 2011 by Sasha Dichter , Scott Case, Ellen McGirt, and Network for Good’s Katya Andresen. That got me thinking about measurement and how you measure difficult stuff.

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What’s trending? Top subject searches in Candid nonprofit profiles 

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In February, bucking end-of-year trends, none of these human services sub-categories were searched more often than the arts and culture sub-categories listed above. For example, arts and culture groups saw month-over-month increases of 111% in January and 61% in February.

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Measuring Impact: The First Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” And that’s a difficult question to answer – whether it is your social or network strategy or a work of art. But it wasn’t until Active Voice brought on a full time evaluator that were we able to identify and actually measure the kind of shifts we think films can contribute to. Measurement'

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Benchmarking: Networked Nonprofits Measure Their Social Media Results In A Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Arts and Social Media. Benchmarking is the process of comparing your organization’s practices and results with a group of peer organizations. Benchmarking, whether an informal or extensive research study, can be an incredibly valuable exercise because the numerical analysis can help you craft realistic measurable objectives.

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Forum One Wins 12 Communicator Awards

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Organized by the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA) , this year’s 27th annual awards includes over 6,000 entries from companies and agencies of all sizes, making it one of the largest awards of its kind in the world. Excellence – Website for Environmental Awareness. Excellence – Website for Art.

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Crowdsourcing: Measuring the Impact of the Crowd in Funding and Doing

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The measures of impact for this project include diversity, deeper and more relevant reporting, and better connection with listeners. The measure of impact is to determine whether the comments and feedback strengthened or improved the final proposal. How do you measure the impact of the crowd here? 2) Crowd Creation.

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Forum One Wins 10 Vega Awards

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Forum One received 10 awards in eight categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of environmental awareness, cultural, art, health care services, associations, branded content, and website redesign. Canopus – Website for Environmental Awareness.

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