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Nonprofit explainer videos: 4 tips to inspire supporters

Candid

For example when watching a video, audio and visual channels activate separate parts of the brain , and when these two elements combine, it helps supporters better understand and engage with your mission. . These short films, which take viewers on a journey into the specifics of your work in 90 seconds or less, have many benefits.

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The New War on Social Media Vanity Metrics

Care2

That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. The human brain is the best analytics tool. Track these conversations each week and put them in a spreadsheet; this will allow you to track your growth over time. Why is Social Media Data Important? Is it positive?

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

.orgSource

This metric is created by asking your constituents one simple question: “On a scale from 0 to 10, how likely are you to recommend this product/company to a friend or colleague?” If you track current events, Sharon advised, you are aware of the erosion of public confidence across a spectrum of institutions.

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

In this phase, you will plan, act, track, and adapt. In this phase, you will review performance, metrics, and outcomes. This will help to keep your team on track, and keep them from getting overwhelmed. Clarify what success looks like and try to apply a metric to it. Phase 2: Manage Change. Phase 3: Sustain Outcomes.

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Customer Story: The Duradash Activity Challenge Raises 6x More With CauseVox

CauseVox

The name comes from the “dura” matter in the brain, which is where spinal leaks happen. Our activity metric is set to “minutes” so that people can track/log the minutes they spend doing whatever activity, rather than tracking miles. and share via email and social media. Each year they hold an event called Duradash.

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10 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofit Social Media Managers

Nonprofit Tech for Good

One of the biggest downsides for me personally from being connected to the Social Web 50-70 hours a week is that my brain has a hard time reading for extended periods of time. So much of social media success is about how our brains process and prioritize messages and having a diverse thought process that sparks our imagination and creativity.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’ll embrace failure as part of the learning process and as a metric of a true "labs" atmosphere. We’re also pulling our Silicon Valley brain trust into these new Labs projects by creating a new kind of nonprofit advisory board, the Benetech Labs Partners. We already have many exciting ideas flow into the Labs.

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