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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. We made people go up and down the stairs three times before settling in after lunch.

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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

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Return on Investment.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Even more importantly, the practice of connecting measurement and decision-making will help organizations improve practice and results, and document value.

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[VIDEO] How to Get a Return on Your Nonprofit Technology Investment

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Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. Here are the metrics. Do you have a laptop that will work for you to do heavy technology tasks? Be nice to your people. They’re learning something new. We got a lot of stuff up there that we got to make room for the new. And do you have the internet bandwidth?