Big Data For Small Organizations
NTEN
OCTOBER 4, 2012
If you can use your data to better understand your audience and your activities, you can not only improve your outreach, but you can work more effectively towards achieving your mission.
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13 Virtual Fundraising Event Takeaways From 4 Marketing Professionals
Classy
JULY 14, 2021
As part of our debrief of the event, we wanted to share some insights from the Classy staff who organized it. Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . Looking ahead at future events, we will likely shorten the duration to ensure we’re not pulling our audience away from the important work they do for too long.
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A reflection from two talks
NCE Social Media
OCTOBER 31, 2013
The first group was a group of 32 professionals who work or volunteer for nonprofit organizations through the Foundation Center located at the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. How do you measure success using social media? How do you measure success using social media? It depends on your intended audience. It depends.
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Your End Of Year Fundraising Questions Answered
Bloomerang
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
We had close to 2,000 fundraising friends sign up, and we kicked things off by surveying the audience about their year-end fundraising goals (which we defined to include Giving Tuesday ). Audience questions from our fundraising friends who attended the webinar. Is anyone being measured on their goals? ” Great question!
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How to Source the Right Donation Match Partner for Your Nonprofit
Classy
JULY 5, 2021
In this post, we’ll walk you through the different types of donation match partners and how to leverage your existing relationships to find the right one for your organization. Given their wide audience reach, influencers may be able to use crowdfunding to establish your matching fund. How will we measure success?
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Ethical Storytelling for Nonprofits: A Detailed Guide
Neon CRM
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
It’s incredibly important for nonprofits to tell stories about their organization and the people they serve. However, it’s critical for that organizations don’t just tell stories effectively—they have to tell them ethically, too. Storytelling for nonprofits is an avenue to connect with donors and help them relate to your work.
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How Much Time Should Your Nonprofit Invest In Different Social Media Channels?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 13, 2014
Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. What are the right tools to help measure success? Or, if you’d like to watch the entire presentation or download the presentation slides. Measure program success, not just analytics. Simply Measured.
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How to Prepare Donor Data Reports for Your Board Members
Bloomerang
OCTOBER 1, 2021
At most organizations, board members play a direct role in fundraising —whether that’s sending donation appeals, participating in events, meeting face-to-face with major donors, or expressing gratitude after a donation is made. There’s a reason each of your board members is in a leadership position at your organization.
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Important Questions for Your Post Virtual Event Survey
AccelEvents
AUGUST 10, 2020
The post-event survey is one of the most effective tools available for measuring attendee experience and gaining valuable insights into your virtual event as a whole. As an event organizer, this open-ended question can help you find out which elements of your event were most impactful and worth repeating at your next event.
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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Defined Audience.
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50 Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 7, 2013
I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The camp was organized by Thai Fund Foundation in partnership with Opendream , , Thai Netizen Network , Frontier Foundation and Tactical Technology Collective. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.
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Top Fundraising Benchmarks to Share With Your Nonprofit Board [SLIDESHARE]
Classy
JUNE 23, 2021
Present clear areas of opportunity with data-driven recommendations that lead your organization down a proactive path to success. . Secure long-term financial stability : Ensure the organization is fiscally responsible with an appropriate budget . Activate event attendees to raise more and expand your audience.
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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base
Amy Sample Ward
SEPTEMBER 20, 2010
Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base.
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How Can Nonprofits Switch to a Data-Driven Culture?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 17, 2011
I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. What is needed for nonprofit organizations to make this shift? Dormant: At this stage, the organization does not know where to start.
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115 Keynote from My Charity Connects Conference at NetChange Week
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 8, 2010
My slides are above and my reflections are below. We also had wireless hand mics in the audience. This made it easy for me to get off the stage and wander into the audience to engage them in conversation. Using Twitter To Research The Audience Before, During, and After. Audience Feedback. Room Layout is Important.
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Before the Pixels: The Importance of Strategy in Web Design
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 7, 2012
Audience Analysis. Read Andrew's blog post , which explains more about the importance of analyzing your audience. There are a few steps to successful audience-centric design: Identify your audience: Understand all of the groups you serve and find out what makes them tick. You know your audience.
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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools
Bloomerang
DECEMBER 19, 2023
If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data. Accessibility: It may not be easy to share the sheet with others at your organization.
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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact
Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 13, 2021
And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording, as well as the slides, later on this afternoon. So I’m going to stop sharing so that you can bring up those beautiful slides we were just looking at. Marie: Wonderful.
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9 Ways Nonprofits Can Excel Using Social Media
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MAY 20, 2010
Not only does this help me frame and tailor the talk I give to the audience, but facilitates Twitter conversations before. I don’t like giving a keynote where I talk at the audience for 45 minutes. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room.
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Important Questions for Your Post Virtual Event Survey
AccelEvents
AUGUST 10, 2020
The post-event survey is one of the most effective tools available for measuring attendee experience and gaining valuable insights into your virtual event as a whole. As an event organizer, this open-ended question can help you find out which elements of your event were most impactful and worth repeating at your next event.
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09NTC: Let’s Connect in San Fran!
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 19, 2009
A chance for local organizers to come together, network, ask questions, etc. Takeaways: A chance to connect with other local organizers. More knowledge, confidence and excitement about organizing in your city. The Internet has a proven ability to shift the balance of power between individuals and organizations.
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Nonprofits Live Recap: Great Presentations
Tech Soup
SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
In our ongoing mission to provide technology information and resources to nonprofit organizations and libraries, TechSoup’s latest Nonprofits Live (NPLive) explored advice and resources for creating great presentations. Presenters who are interested in embedding a live Twitter stream into their slides can do so with SlideRocket.
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62 Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors of the Future?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 22, 2010
Who is the target audience? What is your message and what do you want the audience to do? How do your all your communication channels work together to inform, engage, and motivate? Is mobile the best way to reach your target audience? How will you measure success? View more presentations from Kyoo Slides.
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Bridge Conference: Social Media ROI: Mapping Metrics to Strategy
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 23, 2009
Bridge Conference Slides View more presentations from kanter. Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI.
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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 13, 2012
They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” And the sector is getting better at measuring social change and that there has been a lot of progress in the way the sector measures and reports on big social change outcomes.
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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 19, 2012
I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here. As I quizzed each fellow about their key metrics and how they measure, they gave solid answers about their conversion rates, registration rates, and more. And, the use of rapid prototyping was impressive.
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Marketing Automation: The Future of Fundraising for Your Nonprofit
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 25, 2024
While the big names like The Red Cross and Make a Wish have the headlines and the brand recognition, most nonprofits are bootstrapped organizations filled with passionate workers and volunteers doing what they can with limited resources. The CRM is the single source of truth for the organization, tracking all engagement for each donor.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 8, 2014
In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. That purpose, of course, is to build a life-long relationship with alumni of your nonprofit’s program or school so that they are a donor and champion for your organization. Experiment, Measure, Learn, and Revise.
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107 Your Burning Questions (& Our Answers) on Facebook Metrics and Strategy!
NTEN
JULY 5, 2012
Thank you again for being such a great audience. Combine all this knowledge with your free copy of the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook study , and you’ll be rocking your organization’s Facebook page in no time! Are the slides available? You can download a PDF of the slides and get the recording of the webinar right here.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 3, 2011
Organizational: This is when you are sharing information as an official spokesperson for your organization or your organizational persona. However, if you use your Facebook profile to connect with professional colleagues or want to promote your organization, you might consider this option.
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Women Who Tech Telesummit: Tools Galore Panel
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 14, 2009
I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore.
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Everyone's Smithsonian: Video, Slides, and an Open Strategic Planning Process
Museum 2.0
MAY 29, 2009
The slides are also available for download. In condensed text version, here are my three steps to being a great multi-platform organization: Listen to and understand what your visitors/users need. You have an audience need and an institutional value, and now you just need a verb that connects them. watch the video.
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Next Year's NTC in New Orleans is Here! I'm a session designer!
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 8, 2008
I've been blogging and tracking conversations about social media measurement and ROI over the last few months. Minus the audience ratings or competitive aspect) Maybe use the "Ask Later" 5-minute format, popularized by Ignite Seattle. (10 10 powerpoint slides (visuals only) with each slide on the screen for 30 seconds.
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50 The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 24, 2011
There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. I also encountered quite a few people asking very similar questions, or looking for the same resources.
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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 27, 2007
" I would appreciate any suggestions, improvements, pointers to other resources or if your organization has a story to tell about web analytics. Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. To show a practical example of how Google Analytics is used by a nonprofit organization. Possible Working Titles: 1.
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Crowdsourcing: Community vs Crowd
Amy Sample Ward
MARCH 14, 2010
Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change. The competition we conducted as part of this panel surfaced a collection of case studies of organizations using social media in their program delivery. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.
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207 Arts 2.0: Examples of Arts Organizations Social Media Strategies
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 23, 2008
The above slide show was created based on all the information I gathered from my network below. I'm prepping for a workshop on Social Media and wanted do a round up of recent compelling examples of arts organizations using social media strategies and tools. What Should Artists and Arts Organization???s | View | Upload your own.
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Organizational Social Relationship Models and Strategies
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 12, 2009
I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." How can we look at this from an networked organization perspective? This slide shows the different type of relationships and shift in thinking. Measuring the Return on Relationships.
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Social Media Makes a Splash at the Association of Fundraising Professionals Conference
Connection Cafe
APRIL 19, 2010
Mastering Social Media for Fundraising Success". (**full presentation slides can be found here ) My favorite quote from their presentation - "Gardens are lovely as long as you water them. Measuring success properly by answering the correct questions: - Which measurements mean success? What are the right moments to measure?
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NCVO Ask the Expert: They asked me!
Amy Sample Ward
DECEMBER 6, 2009
I’ll be posting my slides and speaking notes on Tuesday for my session on the topic of “the future of online revenue generation for charities.&# More to come on this question then! Key questions to ask include: who is your audience? For more: What Will Online Giving Look Like Next Year. 2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study.
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Reflections on the Meyer Memorial Trust Workshop
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 9, 2007
There's nothing like having an audience to see where you got inside your own head too much. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time.
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What’s Your Conversion Rate: Live from #BBCON
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 30, 2013
During BBCON, Rosita Bradham, a Principal Consultant from Blackbaud , and Jeffrey Lieb, Principal Consultant at Jeffrey Lieb Consulting, took on the issue of taking people who have interacted with your organization once and turning them into subscribers or members. This has to be something that the executive director and measuring.
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Building Community: Who / How / Why
Museum 2.0
APRIL 29, 2015
These are the slides and notes for the talk I gave at the American Alliance of Museums conference on Monday, April 27 about the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. WHO (slides 3-23) "Community” is not an abstraction. We’re making our focus on community more overt, tangible, and measurable. Let’s start with empowerment.
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What are your nonprofit's super power listening tips for using Twitter?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 8, 2009
Here's my shot at the answers: How is your organization currently using Twitter? What audience do you want to reach? How are you measuring success? As one person tweeting for an organization, it gets difficult to determine what the voice should be, and even more difficult when people reply to you.
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