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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Using a graphic design tool such as Canva or Venngage , converting powerful stats, quotes, and CTAs into graphics is a time-tested, proven method to grab the attention of your followers, thus increasing your engagement on Twitter (and all social media). Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m doing a session at the Nonprofit Technology Conference with Jana Byington-Smith and Rob Cottingham on methods for visualization and maintain focus, including mindmapping. As a trainer, I was most interested in Chapter 7 about equipping your organization to do multi-channel campaigns.

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What Best Practices Exist in the Nonprofit Sector to Improve Operational Effectiveness and Achieve Greater Impact?

ASU Lodestar Center

Currently, nonprofit organizations are measuring effectiveness in a variety of ways including benchmarking, organizational effectiveness evaluations, key performance indicators, and outcome based evaluation. Nonprofit organizations should identify evaluation methods to assess their programs and organization effectiveness on an ongoing basis.

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Taking Action: Fundraising Trends And Best Practices From Bloomerang’s ‘Fundraising Planning and Climate Report’

Bloomerang

Tailor your fundraising messages and methods to specific donor categories based on their preferences and behavior. See my book, Fundraising 401 , Chapter 10, “Finance & Fundraising Are Not in Opposition.”) Segment your donor base : Use the information from the report to segment your donor base effectively.

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How Does Your Nonprofit Use Data To Improve Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Does not have a dashboard or simple collection method. Does not know where to start. Often overwhelmed.

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Linking Results To Key Performance Indicators Is Like Hooking Up A Big TV

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Step 4: Define your benchmarks. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book. How do your efforts connect with those audiences to achieve the goal. Step 3: Define your investments. What is it really costing you to achieve this outcome? Who or what are you going to compare your results to? Step 5: Define your metrics.

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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

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Benchmark studies.

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