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Finally, A Clear Shift in Attitudes About Measuring Social Media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I spent a year co-writing on a book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with measurement guru KD Paine because I felt strongly focusing on vanity metrics such as follower counts or Facebook likes was a waste of time. I didn’t get asked ”What are the best tools to measure followers on Twitter?

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Measuring Impact: The First Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. This is now the core work of Active Voice, designing outcome-oriented strategies and implementing story-fueled, measurable campaigns. Measurement'

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Consumer Attitudes Toward Mobile Giving

NTEN

By David Farnes, Executive Director, Mobile Giving Foundation Canada , and Vice President, Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Associatio n and Jim Manis, Chairman and CEO, Mobile Giving Foundation. This year, in unprecedented numbers, more charities and corporate foundations have operationalized text?to?give

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Social Media Measurement and Learning Analytics: How Do I Love Thee, Let Me Count the Ways

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Why nonprofits should deploy artificial intelligence to achieve fundraising success

ASU Lodestar Center

For example, Gretchen Buhlig, CEO of the ASU Foundation, made the following comment in a recent interview with me related to technology deployment at the foundation, “We have 1.2 Since much of the work in which nonprofits engage results in subjective measures, NLP can be a method to encode the subjectivity qualitatively.

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Narrative Change Strategy

Forum One

The Ford Foundation partners with organizations to help dismantle entrenched narratives that undermine equity, inclusion, and tolerance to elevate underrepresented stories and diverse voices to carry social justice forward. Putting narrative change into action for impact.

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Metrics for Building, Scaling, and Funding Social Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, how do you measure the results? “Amazing large numbers of members, staging marches, and winning campaigns – all these remain important measures of a successfully growing movement. Investing in movements or networks for social change is a strategy that some funders are using.

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