Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

They capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. Measuring the Networked Nonprofit Wins 2013 Terry McAdam Nonprofit Book Award. Rituals and routines have many benefits for your personal effectiveness. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Next week, I headed to Seattle for a couple of days of events around my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 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. When I design instruction, I want to make sure that learning activities use four different kinds of activities that help the brain learn rapidly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

Changing the color [link] can help bring attention where we want it. So in this case, I’m suggesting we pay attention to the advocates, who used to be followers, and some of whom will become donors. Our brains make better sense of the data when we replace the legend with direct line labels. Data Measurement'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Day 4: Action Learning Projects, Communicating After Workshop, and Managing Our Attention.

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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. When participants move, oxygen to the brain increases, thereby enhancing both learning and memory. Within the modules, I break it down in 15 minute blocks.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 6, 2020

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Last week was a busy week, after keynoting the Nonprofit Solutions Conference in Kansas City , I facilitated a one-day workshop for the Center for Nonprofits on developing and measuring a sustainable integrated social media strategy. Design for Participants To Apply. Presenting Integrated Social Media Strategy.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

And even though it may be more work in the short term, it will save you time in the long run by focusing your attention on the things that matter most. Your fundraising goals, or “micro-goals,” should be SMART goals – specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time bound. Fundraising Goals. And by what time frame?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 31, 2020

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 25, 2012

Ray Kurzweil calls that year “the singularity,” because, like the physics of singularity in a black hole, change will become so rapid that it can’t be meaningfully measured. The key is to get out of the narrow, merely verbal part of the brain and into the much bigger, broader, more sophisticated hardware that is the nonverbal brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2007

" It connected with some thinking about metrics for measuring blog success and some comments from Stephen Downes : Measuring "your blog's outcome" is ridiculous. It's like measuring 'friendship'. measuring 'reflective moments'. I'm sure Stephen would say you can't measure popularity either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

Also, freely encouraging people to play with a small objective on the table might help some learners pay attention and not check out. I got many new ideas for a workshop and peer learning program I’m designing on social media ROI and measurement. All in all, a great learning experience for me and it was fun!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 1, 2019

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. Buckingham/Goodall : First, it puts the brain into flight-or-fight mode, which actually impairs learning rather than impelling it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

This post is an inspirational message and reminder that stubborn visionary optimism drives accomplishments and that half measures and incremental steps just don’t seem to get us very far when it comes to education. Last year , I heard Jerry Michalski use the metaphor of the global brain in talk about the future.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

You need to be open to new ideas and willing to let go of what’s in your brain, so open mindedness is key. Josh: There are lots of ways to measure design success, but as a digital strategist, it’s easy for me to quantify success with analytics ( Google Analytics and Facebook Insights ). HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOUR DESIGN IS SUCCESSFUL?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

They organize supporters, raise attention to important social and political issues, seek donations, and organize supporters to walk, run, shout, protest, and vote, things that were once done mostly by nonprofit organizations. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector. They want to connect.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

If we want to get our story out there in a form that will get attention, videos are the ticket. "The emergence of big data to measure social impact. It is being developed at the University of Southern California to help victims of stroke and traumatic brain injury. This past year, U.S. Will it become available in 2016?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2010

It is important to vary your instructional delivery because the human brain -on average - can only concentrate for 12 minutes. Some may think that tweeting during a workshop may take away from learning or paying attention. I'm interested in learning how to do this better, take it deeper, and perhaps begin to measure it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

This simple word change has huge implications on gaining the attention and support of audiences. Our brains are built to follow stories , so highlighting individual stories is a powerful way to tap into emotions. Imagine if instead it read, “1 in 10 people lack access to clean drinking water”. However, this is not necessarily true.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

This one is wayyyy more important than it seems because your brain and body don’t function well if they aren’t rested. Staying hydrated helps combat fatigue, grumpiness, and sluggish brain syndrome. Using a reusable water bottle makes this easy to measure how much you’ve had! YOU decide what happens (or doesn’t happen) each day.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Organizations that invest in PCI-compliant online fundraising solutions can take proper cybersecurity measures to ensure that their online donation process is secure. When people read stories , chemicals like dopamine and oxytocin are released in their brains. You can track this by measuring the page’s conversion rate.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Our brains are wired for visual information; people process images 60,000 times faster than words. Also, our collective attention span is evolving. In order to maximize a short attention span, it makes sense to marry visual and written content. Measurable – How do you plan to track your progress and milestones?

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Organizations that invest in PCI-compliant online fundraising solutions can take proper cybersecurity measures to ensure that their online donation process is secure. There are plenty of digital marketing agencies that can help you get your Google Ad campaign up and running, such as Feathr or Getting Attention. Make secure donations.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. Metrics How will you measure the impact and effectiveness of your content?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

You need metrics or measure against goals, but you also need harvest those insights. Chocolate activates the pleasure center of the brain, at least according to some research. After a nervous giggle, I shared with them that donating and volunteering does the same thing as chocolate to your brain. Measure the Whole Funnel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

How long can you pay attention when working online before your mind wanders? According to the Statistic Brain site list of attention span stats , in 2000 we had a 12 second attention span compared with an 8 second attention in 2013. What’s making our human brains like those of gold fish?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Yes, definition of done is another way to say measurables. And if you ask somebody, “Well, what’s the measurable for that?” ” Maybe if they’re using measurables and KPIs, they’ll say it. Plus the definition of done is a specific type of measurable. . So once you have. .

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. ” Tech ROI means paying attention to the data that’s coming in and taking action based on the information that your technology is serving up to you. Start with five that you should be paying attention to regularly. What should people be looking at and measuring?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. Standardized metrics for measuring the ROI of social media strategies are a moving target. The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement. Here's a brain dump of some key points.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Measurable: Choose metrics that will help you know whether you’ve met your goal or not. We will target our major donors and monitor our CRM to measure donation sizes to stay on track.” Pay attention to what different segments of your audience need from you. Check them often!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And we have less donors than we’ve had before but the sizes of the gifts from those donors have been increasing, which is why giving overall has still not varied from about 2% of gross domestic product for as long as they’ve been measuring this since World War 2. And this is something that legacy giving can offer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Working online can contribute to the state of overwhelmed and distracted – so having attention skills is also a leadership competency. To put this context, a gold fish has an attention span of 9 seconds! Attention span is the amount of concentrated time on a task without becoming distracted. Take a guess.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

She is a co-founder of the award-winning SheSource.org , an online brain trust of women experts designed to close the gender gap among commentators in the news media. Now that we've made the argument that you should pay attention to women, how do you reach them? Again, it goes back to our brain science. How do you move them?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

” So we have in our brains, the amygdala, the fear center, where you have flight, fright, and freeze as the emotional reactions to things that’s scare you. So nine, “How will you measure results?” But if they feel like their peers are giving, it really helps tremendously. . Most people think of numbers.

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