Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

As KD Paine and I wrote in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” measuring your social media channels, overall communications or marketing strategy is not a form of voodoo black magic; it is an art and a science. That’s what we’d like to discuss in this January’s blog carnival. Wondering what a blog carnival is?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

And what’s even better is we’ve compiled some best practices to help you learn how to make one! Have you posted any recent blogs that people are interacting with? A chievable: Notice how the example above was a reasonable, but still challenging, goal of increasing the donor base by 10%? Take a look at your social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). Let me give you an example. The folks at Reforge say ‘attribution is the practice of understanding how you assign credit to marketing initiatives’. Example: utm_source=facebook.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

To help your organization create a powerful nonprofit mission statement that follows best practices, we’re covering the following topics: What Is a Nonprofit Mission Statement? Here’s an example. This input can help you measure the success and impact of your programming more objectively. Take, for example, “we do.”

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Example: Using more advanced learning analytics, one association was able uncover that the courses they offered with industry certifications had significantly higher completion rates than those without. Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

This week the beginner track got underway where 20 arts organizations will design and implement action learning experiments in Facebook , Listening , or Twitter to improve their social media practice. Facebook Custom Landing Tabs + Measurement = Best Practice. Here’s a couple of examples. Why: Custom Landing Tabs.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role. What are these controllable factors, and how can you build stronger practices and habits to foster increased retention? Let’s get back to the basics with a refresh on fundamental employee retention best practices.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. If you want examples, ask for examples. Provide a description or best practices as a second part to the question, if needed. Use standard writing best practices, such as short sentences and active voice.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite this risk, there are some best practices that you can implement that allow you to fundraise online without the constant worry of a cyberattack. Common type of cyberattacks NIST guidelines for cybersecurity Nonprofit cybersecurity best practices What is cybersecurity for nonprofits? What is cybersecurity for nonprofits?

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

While many may be tempted to deny this occurrence, nonprofit leaders can use this as an opportunity to champion the charge against inequality and lead by example within their own organizations. Whether we like it or not, many traditional fundraising practices create an inner circle of supporters. Guide Your Staff. Lead From the Top.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 13, 2024

This blog provides an overview of how to establish your scoring model, establish a team of data champions, and adopt a regular reporting routine so that your association is set up for success. Before we get into scoring models and best practices, let’s take a look at the purpose of engagement scoring. Let’s get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. The Playbook gives you an examples.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

How are you measuring your success? The good news is there is an invisible string connecting all the positive experiences above, so measuring your event’s success , reach , and therefore, growth can be a domino effect. Follow these best practices used by development pros all over the world and your event will be geared for success. ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. How do you measure engagement? Engagement is the first step in building the relationship between your nonprofits’s supporters and the organization. That’s the secret!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable.

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Qgiv

JUNE 11, 2024

Principles of community-centric fundraising Benefits of community-centric fundraising How you can practice CCF What is community-centric fundraising? Are your practices aligned with the principles of CCF? Measure more than numbers Look beyond fundraising totals and financial contributions.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

To overcome these challenges, Candid, in coalition with a growing number of partners , set out to build a demographic data-led movement to meaningfully and measurably advance equity in the social sector. For example, Dawn shared how her organization offers nonprofits practical resources and tools to help to get started.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Nonprofit Examples and Getting Started or Rebooting A Strategic Approach. If you want to or reboot your nonprofits Instagram presence, spend some time looking at nonprofit examples to get inspired: Nonprofits That Get Instagram (2014) by Kerri Karvesti – an excellent Pinterest board of great examples.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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VQ Strategies

APRIL 26, 2024

While many organizations record volunteers’ contributed hours so they can translate them to a financial value based on this annual value, as I have shared in blogs , toolkits , and videos (and, frankly, at every other opportunity!), It reveals, for example, that we prize volunteer quantity. That we celebrate volunteer volume.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

As crowdfunding practices mature and become an valuable part of the nonprofit fundraising toolkit, there is a need to set standards and expectations. Five Best Practices in Nonprofit Crowdfunding by Robert Wu. Start with a measurable goal. For example, Earthrights International fights against corporate human rights abuse.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

The folks at the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) have written a terrific 3 part series discussing the same, which we share in this week’s blog post. Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part One: Top 3 Measures of Financial Health. Is the organization producing consistent surpluses ?

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Mastering Dashboards in Blackbaud Grantmaking: Insider Tips and Best Practices from the Experts Go beyond the typical Blackbaud University course and learn about two instructors’ favorite functionality in our grantmaking solution. The post bbcon 2023: The Must-Attend Grantmaking Sessions for Leaders first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Ask: What Area Practice Do We Want To Improve?

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Here we also share the key components of each phase and best practices for streamlining your efforts. Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ).

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Communication Campaign Channel Measure 98

EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

In this blog, we’ll explore a few key types of advocacy that help organizations drive positive change; tactics that unite and activate supporters; and technology to make this important work more effective and efficient. Later, that information can be used to target the most active and educated supporters and get them involved.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In part three of this series on how to become a great nonprofit storyteller, I talk about the practical skills you need to tell an effective story. For example, are there any details that you find are slowing down the pace ? Are there holes in the story where you need to find examples of how you’re carrying out your mission?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll unveil the art of transforming individual stories into a collective force that not only resonates with your audience but also propels your cause forward. In this section, we delve into strategies and best practices for encouraging your stakeholders to come forward with their stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Devon summarized the data in the above presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

KD Paine and I had the pleasure of interviewing the Arlene McCrehan social media team at Goodwill for our soon to be launched book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Goodwill uses measurement and learning in its evolution into a networked nonprofit. How will you measure it? ” # 150jobs – ow.ly/dm4V4.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

How Nonprofits Measure Success of Video. The report describes current nonprofit use, adoption challenges, and best practices. The report describes current nonprofit use, adoption challenges, and best practices. If, for example, your goal is email sign-ups, how do views translate into constituent engagement?However,

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. Examples of this kind of data would be your members’ cell phone numbers. Read more about preparing your association’s data for AI in this recent blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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