Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. In addition to tracking app deployments, Code for America has developed metrics that help them understand their impact on the governments they work with, the communities they engage, and the larger civic technology ecosystem.

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sgEngage

MAY 16, 2024

Applications, proposals, progress reports, impact metrics – the data collected throughout the grantmaking lifecycle is vast and ever-growing. This empowers them to shift from reactive decision-making to a proactive, data-driven approach, maximizing the impact of their resources and championing causes with demonstrably positive change.

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Candid

JANUARY 23, 2024

Any nonprofit can earn a Bronze, Silver, Gold, or Platinum Seal by demonstrating its commitment to transparency and sharing information about its mission, programs, financials, leadership, and/or goals and metrics. Not only does a Seal boost a nonprofit’s visibility; it also demonstrates its credibility. “It

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

Okay so not every piece of content marketing, blog post (cough) or video can be a Tarantino-esque passion-laden thrill ride. Here, “Unroll.Me” has a wonderful microlearning video that quickly demonstrates its ability to turn your headache of an inbox into one of those little zen garden sand rake things. Feels good, doesn't it?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. Today brings a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J.

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Candid

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Screencast: Record a demonstration of your social impact-focused product or service in action, using zooming and scaling to highlight specific capabilities. Collecting metrics to determine success: Most video platforms allow you to track and analyze audience behaviors, including views, watch time, and percent completion.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2022

You’ll see them go by different names, but for the sake of this blog I’m going to call them: Human opens — what “opens” were before this change rolled out. Tracking how many people wanted to know more (clicks) or were inspired to act (advocacy actions, survey submissions, or donations) have always been better metrics of success.

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sgEngage

APRIL 10, 2023

Donors who’ve contributed to your cause or interacted with your organization recently have demonstrated their connection to your nonprofit and are likely to give again. Demographic data, historical giving, and engagement metrics can help you decide how to segment your audience and construct your marketing strategy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 14, 2021

This blog post outlines three steps to reimagining fundraising experiences. Capturing key engagement and donation metrics will help you to understand whether your new direction is working or if you need to try something else. . If you design a campaign to engage donors, your target metrics should be engagement, not donations.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, organizations can demonstrate growth and impact to donors while strengthening their commitment to the mission. Donor management software consolidates these time-consuming processes to make it easier for organizations to utilize donor metrics. first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog. The post What Are Recurring Donations?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

As leaders, we have a responsibility to model this behavior, demonstrating an authentic interest in our people as humans. Incorporate Wellbeing Metrics into Your Performance Reviews The good news is some organizations are already taking it a step further. Empathy is contagious and influences and shapes a work culture of caring.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2022

Specifically, the book teaches how to demonstrate the value of your initiatives, using a simplified version of the ROI Methodology. This fall brought a new book and step-by-step guide for specialists, professionals, managers and independent contracts who want to achieve success in their work. Patricia Pulliam Phillips and Jack J.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

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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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Blog roll: A blog is a great opportunity for your business to share important updates about your offerings, highlight rewards and customer loyalty programs, spotlight events, share stories from customers, and more. Maintain a regular posting schedule, such as creating new blog content once a week or three times a month.

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EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

This guest post originally appeared on Idealist Careers blog. When I interviewed for a nonprofit position, I translated my experience working on an internal corporate newsletter into my love of blog writing. You need to be able to demonstrate whether the results of your work can be built upon and ROI grown accordingly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 13, 2016

The far left column should list the goals detailed in your strategic plan and then an additional 12 columns should be inserted and titled, one for each month, where the metrics associated with your action items should be entered on a monthly basis. Pick one day a month and enter your metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

And, as Tech Hermit blog notes, there was quite a discussion about this on Twitter. Allison suggests that we're looking at the wrong metric - we should be measuring success using awareness not dollars. So does the GummyPrint blog who shared this case study of their work on Facebook Causes. It doesn't work that way."

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 24, 2024

Simplified reporting: Most email automation tools include built-in reporting capabilities that allow you to easily generate reports on key metrics, such as email open rates, click-through rates, and overall campaign performance. To prove to them that they do, write fundraising emails that demonstrate each donor’s personal impact.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 15, 2022

Let me take a moment to be upfront: You should only keep reading if you really want to explore the question in the title of this blog. Often, as I hinted at the beginning of this blog, I’ve seen organizations trying to decipher how their supporters could contribute. Demonstrate public support AND the best argument.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Add metrics that demonstrate effectiveness, like individuals served, community members reached, animals adopted, etc. The post Get ready for GivingTuesday with a cohesive digital campaign appeared first on Candid Blog. Focus on programs that have the most impact for communities you serve and summarize this in a succinct way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2012

When Georgetown University’s Center for Social Impact Communication released a significant study earlier this year demonstrating that social sharing does impact charitable actions and giving, many online communicators issued a sigh of relief. Is WOM referral a right metric for small acts? And certainly we will.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Whether it’s a photo of your volunteers in action or pictures of the communities you serve, the photo you pick should demonstrate your organization’s impact to visitors to your LinkedIn page. On every post you create, you’ll be able to see engagement metrics, such as impressions, click-through rates, shares, reactions, and comments.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Official Google Blog: Explore museums and great works of art in the Google Art Project – Take yourself on an art tour using Google Maps! "One

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The workshop shared a landscape analysis of what’s already out there from the various industries in order to build a clear understanding of what’s in place and what isn’t in terms of social media measurement valid metrics. 2011 Putting Principles in Action: Valid Metrics Matrix. Click for Larger Image.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The study aimed to get the nonprofit perspective on these two important questions: How important do nonprofits believe performance assessment is to demonstrating impact? Only 32 percent of respondents to our survey say their funders have been helpful to their ability to assess their progress in achieving their goals.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy. Have you posted any recent blogs that people are interacting with? Can you use that feedback to improve your donors’ experience? Take a look at your social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

” I’ve been experimenting on how to do this with my peers so I can better understand how to design for this experience. One of the participants, Meg Biallas, does this through her blog – using it to synthesize and share lessons learned. Metrics should match the mission and goals. Do you want 2,000 signatures?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

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. Presents a report with quantitative analysis that demonstrates value. Does not know where to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

.” The sense-making part is so important! And, one of the questions that keeps coming up is “How do we get our board or senior staff off their addiction to the wrong metrics, like views?” ” You have to show the connection between the metric and what matters! Asks so what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Photo Source: Indianapolis Museum of Art Blog. But, for the most part, nonprofit dashboard reports, if they are measuring the right metrics, are useful tools. Perhaps create a special web site and discuss the results on Twitter or your blog ? I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Registrants: Classy aims to increase the total number of registrants for the Collaborative year over year, so Alexa’s team reviews this metric first. The Classy team focuses on engagement metrics during the virtual event to encourage continued participation and see how invested the virtual audience is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Virtual collaboration: ability to work productively, drive engagement, and demonstrate presence as a member of a virtual team. My result metric is the number of good ideas and saved time getting those ideas that I get for blog posts, curriculum development, and presentations. Here’s how I do it: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

She's also just started a blog called the " A Spot " with colleague Matthew DeGroot. Once they built up a set of resources and developed a common set of demands they would enlist the citizen journalism community to blog about the issue. Teresa Crawford is in Kiev doing a workshop on Web2.0 for NGOs there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Nonprofit executives (83%) understand that social media makes it easier for supporters to organize independently – underscoring how critical it is for nonprofits to demonstrate their value and relevance to advocates. Demonstrate their unique impact to underscore relevance to advocates. To be fair, that evidence is limited.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 5, 2022

Improvement in email metrics: by allowing your prospects to opt-in to the topics they’d like to hear about, it follows that your emails should receive higher engagement rates, such as open and click-through-rate. Blog: Taking Your Marketing Automation to New Heights: Marketing Cloud vs. HubSpot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Grit is a long-term metric, and though difficult to measure, it is a truer indicator than IQ or SAT scores and other static quantitative measures on the potential to achieve ultimate success. Do our grantee partners demonstrate dogged determination to get results? Synapses Ablaze at GEO 2012 – guest post by Victoria Dunning.

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