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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. If your communities are not growing, then something is missing from your social media strategy (good content, right voice, e-newsletter, blogging, etc).

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Navigate Change Management: Set Your Nonprofit Up For Success

Bloomerang

In this phase, you will review performance, metrics, and outcomes. Validate their voice and do what you can to keep them focused on how this change will impact the organization. Clarify what success looks like and try to apply a metric to it. Use the metrics to encourage or course correct your team. Create A Timeline.

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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.

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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. Day 2: Integrated Social Media Strategy. Day 3: Practical and Tactical Social Media.

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Mind-Melding Online

Connection Cafe

Author: One of my favorite science/interests stories in the news recently was a report published in late July by Science Magazine about how researchers have found that the brain of speakers and listeners become synchronized as they talk. These metrics also allow you to measure change and progress over time. Really, I thought?

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Reflections from Stanford Nonprofit Management Institute: New Skills for a Complex World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In fact, Lucy has been terrific in finding new ways, like Branch , to use the social tools to facilitate a global brain around these ideas. The social business sector has shared metrics and understanding of being data-informed. That changes the conversation for nonprofits. Let’s start with a definition first.

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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. It almost always naturally leads to discussion about how to amplify each other’s voices using social media. We did this on Day 1.

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