Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

" Seeking Grant Money Today: Nonprofit New Year’s Resolutions That Will Make Your Nonprofit A Better One… - If you're looking for some prompts on evaluating strategies and practices, here are some great questions and ideas to consider. Tags: roundup bookmarks. If so, have you considered or chosen a Group or Page?

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Bookmarking Delicious Journal Social Media 100

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

Check out the evaluation report from Beth Kanter and Allison Fine. "The Tags: roundup bookmarks. This week they are rounding up and highlighting examples of social media use by WWF, The Humane Society, Livestrong and Oxfam America - plus, you can add your organization to the list! Put your audience in the driver's seat.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 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). And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs."

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 9, 2010

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). Don't know where to start your research or where to read evaluations of existing and past mobile data collection efforts? Who Tweets?

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Web Drupal Open Source Bookmarking 117

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2009

How have you made sure to evaluate where or what kinds of tools or platforms your community uses before you choose what to do with your social media strategy? Twtbase currently lists over 500 of them, and I have highlighted five of my favorites for nonprofit organizations and activists…" Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Web Bookmarking Delicious Government 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Take Breaks.

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Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively). Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy Media 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2006

Some of the questions they hope to learn in the evaluation are: Our main objective is to determine whether social bookmarking tools can be useful to our employees. Are people more likely to copy or view the most popular bookmarks (hence making them more popular)? are also interested in the social influences and evolution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us It can help you evaluate whether a tool is really valuable. Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient. Take Breaks.

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Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Aggregators can help, and so do social bookmarking sites, which show evaluated ranked webistes. Ethan Zuckermann How to filter the information or voices to a meaningful size to find all that that is important to me. emphasized in his presentation how important filters in this regard are.

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Reflection Bookmarking Aggregator Collaboration 56

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Facebook , Ning ) Social bookmarking (i.e. Pick 2-3 to track on a regular basis: Subscribers Page views Page visits Downloads Referrals/links Comments Bookmarks Actions taken Money raised Number of donors Campaigns created by supporters Content created by supporters Community growth and strength Individual relationship growth and strength 9.

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Social Media Project Question Ning 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network. As with number one and two above you get additional statistics from Add This which further helps you to evaluate the impact of your web site and how you can continue improving. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2007

At first, tagging (bookmarking) was used for individual use, and then it started being more social and more as a means to broadcast information. In evaluating the use of the nptech tag, it was discovered that a lot of people were using the tag, but not necessarily reading the tag. Therefore, the goal was to encourage people to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts. Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. and tweeted these myself as well as ask the author to retweet with the unique URL. (See

Reflection 76

Reflection Florida Social Media Metrics 76

See3

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Some of what they found was on the low end — such as 17% of people using shared bookmarks (sites such as Del.icio.us). Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! technologies to see about rates of adoption. But guess what the largest number of all was?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2005

That's a real oversight: such a statement really helps potential readers evaluate a site's usefulness to them. If you are involved in development at your org, its probably worth your while to bookmark this site and check it every now and then.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Good healthcare-related options might include first-aid kits, bookmarks including first-aid information, or a portable magnifying glasses (for older donors). . Here’s what these “value-added premiums” will do: . We developed the following chart to help our organization track and evaluate the donor kits’ impact on giving: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives.

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Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Yet another great example of using Web2.0 tools to capture and share knowledge from nonprofit gatherings.

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Nptech Tag South Dakota Second Life 50

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 11, 2006

Here are a few sites and resources I've found worth bookmarking in the last week or so: 1. I've set up an evaluation site for my office to play with; seems like all the tools you need for a tidy little intranet. And here is Near-Time , a wiki/blog/calendar tool that seems elegant and free of feature bloat. Try out a free beta account!

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See3

DECEMBER 12, 2007

link] 17 Dec 2007 social bookmarking With all the junk email we receive it seems to me that rss and social networking sites will become the primary way we communicate with each other. Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Read the rest of this great post here [.]

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Social Media Somalia Spam Myspace 40

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

If you are with a job training program, maybe you make a bookmark that is focused on job interview tips. These can be framed, or laminated, and turned into a bookmark, placemat, or shrunk to be coasters. help to evaluate resumes of kids). People love showing off that they are involved in important causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

"We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. Social bookmarking in plain English! There are many sparks for conversation about the points raised. The "Failure is an option" particularly caught my eye. Some very useful posts in there!

Nptech 50

Nptech Language Summary Advocacy 50

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 26, 2007

Similarly, when we receive gifts, we evaluate how well they fit into and enhance our lives. When we receive gifts, we evaluate them. This evaluative quality is missing from the way most of us approach and absorb new technology. And when we stop evaluating technology for its functionality, we stop thinking of it as a tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Update your bookmarks: [link]. Hot debates follows in another post on charity evaluation and metrics over at Tactical Philanthropy blog suggested that we forget on a metric to measure "Total Good Accomplished" and focus on real measures. This queen of typos enjoyed that post quite a bit! It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2005

Did reading this entry make me want to explore the entire blog to evaluate it further?Who I looking at it like my browser bookmark and I like to organize things into folders. Who is author? What is their expertise/background? What is the content of the blog? Do they micro specialize or cover several topics? Technorati Tag: nptech

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 16, 2010

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). It contributes to evaluation because it provides data on impact and outcomes that can be used to help assess the performance of the program as a whole."

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Web Haiti Bookmarking Participatory 132

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Hard data points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn’t make it efficient to grab data over time. Are there patterns?

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Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 13, 2012

I reduced the above 9-step, 14-page process for my volunteers down to just this single screen they need to fill out from a URL I had them bookmark. If yes, a second decision has to be evaluated: Does the secondary contact have the same last name as the primary contact? Enter Salesforce Visual Workflow. One screen.

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Contact Nonprofit Volunteer Script 232

Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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Conference Calendar DC Washington 111

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2014

Set up quizzes to help staff self-evaluate their skill set. My favorite tools are setting up the log in page as either a favorite/bookmark or even the home page. Different teams bring different perspectives, and evaluating your operations can be a key component in helping you find areas of time savings.

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Arts Culture Time Organization 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

which provides a browser bookmark tool that allows you to add geolocation machine tags to any of your flickr photos, which in turn will show up on this map : Upping the Tagging Ante to StoryMapping. The other thing we cut out was the old paper based session evaluations. Another related tool we found is lo.calize.us

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. And I see an anonymous question here about, “Can you speak to what evaluation methods are particularly effective regarding impact?” How will they to be evaluated and organized? Does that make sense?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

" traffic is an important metric to evaluate a blog. The tombstone generator can be found here (I have a huge collection of these tagged npflickr in my bookmarks. Are blog metrics all about traffic? After all, if no one is reading the blog, there isn't much point to writing it. " What about out-bound and in-bound links?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start.

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America Social Media Myspace Second Life 40