Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” The book offers some recipes for culture change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. What is funder’s role to support good measurement? That says volumes.

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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. Radio Bilingue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2018

In light of the recent high profile suicides by Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, Vu Le wrote an excellent piece on what nonprofits need to know about mental illness. After reading this book that examines the research on the negative health and productivity impacts on overworking, one can’t help to wonder why we are still doing it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Tara presented the ideas in her book, The Whuffie Factor and I got to share a few ideas about how to use Whuffie for good. Someone asked Tara a question about measuring Whuffie or influence. Her response: This is one of the biggest reasons I don’t like to measure Whuffie. The measure needs to be in the impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

For the last few years, there has been a good nonprofit presence and this year is no exception! I’m honored to be involved with the instructional design and delivery of two workshops specifically for nonprofits. Nonprofit Social Media Managers Enter The C-Suite: Peer To Peer. Sunday, March 10 3:30PM – 6:00PM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Book Reviews October 21, 2007 I read three books recently that I thought would be worth reviewing here. They fall into that category of “business&# books that I basically never read.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

He was a character invented not long ago to sell bookings on Hotels.com. Just about every nonprofit made major changes in 2020. Like a balloon that you inflate and let the air escape from, your nonprofit isn’t going to look the same after. What specific, measurable results will occur once that training is complete?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg. One of the chapters is about measuring transparency. How does your nonprofit define transparency? This was the second time in a week that I heard this idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 24, 2022

Today brings the new book, All Are Welcome: How to Build a Real Workplace Culture of Inclusion that Delivers Results , by Cynthia Owyoung. Measuring diversity is about representation. Measuring equity, inclusion, and belonging is about understanding employee sentiment and experiences,” explains Owyoung. Do I feel like I fit in?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Check out my pinterest board “ Nonprofit Infographics.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Rob Cottingham, Social Signal – Cartoon for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. It is not too early to start thinking about your nonprofit’s social media strategy for 2018, including how you want to capitalize on social media trends that will have maximum impact in 2018. Step 5: Measure Results.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

The Nonprofit Summer Reading List. Gail Perry’s insightful blog post and scorecard will give you a realistic measurement into the organization and productivity of your programs. 4 Signs You Are a Burned Out Nonprofit Fundraiser : Even if you have a vacation on the horizon, make sure you’re not burned out. Include a shareable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. If you are a social media strategist, it's a great book to share with your senior manager. I have a hypertext brain.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

Analytic Activism is a book about how advocacy organizations can make better decisions in the digital age. I wrote the book because it seemed like something was missing from the conversation about digital advocacy and activism. In this blog post, I want to discuss two big themes from chapter 1 of the book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2010

This year the Nonprofit Technology Conference turns 10! This year we have over 100 volunteers to install a wireless network or work with local nonprofits on strategy consults. It is going to be a busy couple of days, but wanted to share my schedule of where I'll be presenting and signing books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

Dashboards are a nonprofit’s best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization’s important measurement data at a glance. There is a chapter that offers a few principles of good dashboard design that are useful to set up your next dashboard. 4) Choose the Right Measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2012

We devoted a whole chapter to the topic in the Networked Nonprofit. In my next book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” my co-author KD Paine and I take a look at how you measure it. We devoted a whole chapter to the topic in the Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. I’ve even used the framework to measure trainings I have delivered!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2013

Kathy Reich, Director of Organizational Effectiveness Grantmaking at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, write up this summary of the session. I am looking forward to the next chapter of work which will continue to focus on networks, but how they can be used by nonprofit for learning that leads to greater impact. Stay tuned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

But, how do you measure the results? The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. That's just about when I discovered Avinash Kaushik's blog, Occam's Razor and his first book on Web analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

I made a mistake, I didn’t give my data the sniff test before sharing it. That’s some great advice from KD Paine for the last chapter of our forthcoming book , ”Measuring the Networked Nonprofit,” which is on data analysis and turning data in action. So, look at every chart, every graph, every number and ask does it (..)

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2012

Last year I made a personal reading list: 12 books in 12 months which felt incredibly reasonable since I love to read. It included books like The Life of Pi , The Deep End of the Ocean , Tuesdays with Morrie (all read, way to go me) and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (not read, in fact I forgot that one until just now).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels. Networked Nonprofit and Social Media Maturity of Practice. Register here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

This book is a gem. Each chapter starts with a personal story that illustrates a concept related to managing unproductive distractions. What’s refreshing and different about this book is that it isn’t about trying to get everything done efficiently. It is the 18 minutes in the title of his book.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2009

Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation for the Packard Foundation board of directors to provide a brief report on how I spent my time as Visiting Scholar and share some insights about social media and the nonprofit sector. We got a range of responses from nonprofits, foundations, and even some colleagues of board members.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 11, 2016

We are in the midst of summer in the Northern Hemisphere—the time of year when we try to relax, get away, and read a book or two. (I If you’re planning a getaway, or just looking for a good summer read, here are few books you should add to your reading list: . Nonprofit Fundraising 101 by Darian Rodriguez Heyman.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

The three powerhouses, Guidestar, Charity Navigator, and Better Business Bureau, that foundations, philanthropists, and donors use to seek out information and ratings about nonprofits released an open letter to the nonprofit and foundation world yesterday. How effective is that organization in creating real world social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

The November Nonprofit Blog Carnival is about the theme of how nonprofits can move from a scarcity mindset to an abundance mindset. In his book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People , Stephen Covey refers to the “scarcity mentality” as a zero-sum paradigm of life. Flickr Photo by TheeErin. It changes how we think.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This was the launch of a peer learning group called “ The Networked NGO ,” based on the ideas in my book, The Networked Nonprofit. The four-day intensive face-to-face training was for senior level staff and their social media staffers. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Peter Campbell’s How to Decide session: Nonprofits have limited resources, which usually means that we have to make tough choices about where to spend our time and money. From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report. sure also to include the overhead rate of staffing and running your nonprofit.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

Fortunately, the technology part wasn't one of them, but I can relate to the nonprofit leaders out there facing crucial decisions about technology everyday, and who have little idea how all this stuff works. . That's why we're so excited about our book, Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission: A Strategic Guide for Nonprofit Leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

I've been doing a lot of thinking about "ROI, Social Media, and Nonprofits" in preparation for a book chapter and several upcoming presentations, workshops, and webinars over the next couple of months. Yesterday I took a deep dive into David Armano's "Listen, Learn Adapt" and translated it for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 21, 2016

Kid-tested, nonprofit-approved. My new book, The Art of Relevance , is now available and ready to move from my computer to your hands. Here's more about the book and what you can expect. WHY I WROTE IT I've been simultaneously energized and mystified by how often the word "relevance" comes up in the nonprofit world.

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