Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

I happened to mention that I was seeing reports from nonprofit folks about the recent change in the Facebook Algorithm and Megan Keaney Anderson offered to write this guest post. How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. What has changed?

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Forum One

AUGUST 24, 2022

Changing the narrative is a significant piece in constructing and promoting narratives that challenge existing narratives and the stories to drive change for issue-based organizations, such as social justice organizations, like Color for Change, or non-profit organizations. Putting narrative change into action for impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2013

“You Know Your Film is Making a Difference When…” Guest Post by Ellen Schneider. I wanted to change the world with that film. But even though the critics liked it, and people saw it, I had no proof that anything changed. I still don’t know if it had any impact at all.”.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

People want to work for companies that are helping to change the world, consumers are making purchasing decisions based on how brands are solving social problems and addressing climate change and investors consider companies that are ESG laggards to be high-risk. Why ESG can be hard to measure, especially the S.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

SMART is an acronym people use to remember the five aspects of a well-articulated goal: SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. For example, knowing that you want to increase a specific type of membership can make all the difference in measurement, analysis, and strategy. Engage in Analysis.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Is your organization feeling the changes in our economy, society, and communities? Each of these industries needs to study an aspect of their output to see how it performs and decide if they need to change. If it does poorly, it can quickly pivot and put out something different to please their audience and boost their profits.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. Why Change Up Your Questions? Changing up your questions is not just about making cosmetic tweaks or updates. For some changes, you may need to communicate them to your community and explain the rationale behind them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 6, 2010

At a two-day event at the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation on changing an entire movement. Measuring outcomes is difficult, measuring activities is easy. The final half of the meeting was around organizing working groups to tackle different aspects of making this change throughout the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2012

. ”Don’t measure the world, if you don’t have the time and resources to do so.” ” It is a key theme in our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Measuring World Hunger Day – a guest post by Geoff Livingston. Twice as likely to take part in events like charity walk.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Last week, I had the immense pleasure of hosting a virtual discussion and Q&A with a group of nonprofit CEOs and CIOs to talk about how they’re navigating opportunity and building resilience in this changed world we all find ourselves in. Treat technology as a strategic pillar and driver of change in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Paired with your experience and judgment, your decisions can be data informed or data guided using less specific data measurements. It’s time to change that thought process! Data should be a continuous focus Cleaning up dirty data starts to feel overwhelming when it’s something you feel needs to be changed overnight.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. Back in 2007, I got a little obsessed with ladders of engagement – a way to describe the different stages that supports go through in deepening their involvement with your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2023

Accurately measuring the performance of marketing efforts is crucial for nonprofits to evaluate and optimise their strategies to make the most of precious resources. In a big change from Universal Analytics, GA4 reports on traffic and user acquisition. Google Analytics 4 (GA4) presents some exciting new opportunities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

As a nonprofit organization, securing funding is essential to fulfilling your mission and driving meaningful change in your community. However, managing grants efficiently and effectively can often be a daunting task, requiring meticulous attention to detail, rigorous compliance measures, and streamlined processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

When I heard about Guidestar’s plans to measure high performance at scale, I invited Jacob Harold, CEO and fellow ambassador to share a guest post about it on my blog. GuideStar Platinum: Measuring Nonprofit Performance at Scale by Jacob Harold. Social change is hard. And feedback requires measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Public knowledge, pressure (to change policy) and action increase in strategic areas. Our foundation is viewed a valuable information source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

Corporations in today’s world don’t just want to support your mission once, they want to create long-lasting and tangible change alongside you for years to come. The impact that partner (or any kind of donor) retention can have on a charitable organization should be no different.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

However, our recent Status of Fundraising research found an interesting link between income performance and innovating and trying new or different kinds of fundraising activity – it was one of the main drivers of income growth. If you are looking to launch a lean and agile innovation culture, you must change your mindset to overcome inertia.

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VisionLink

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

When it comes to password complexity, NIST has done some research revealing that forcing users to change passwords has negative and unintended consequences. So, the better approach is to use a phrase, or a few random words--and of course to never use the same password for different systems.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

A major motivator for generous giving to nonprofit organizations is contributing to a solution and changing something for the better. After all, there is nothing more disappointing than contributing hard-earned money to what looks like a good cause, and then having absolutely no idea whether it made any difference. 4) Give outcomes.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

As 2024 kicks off and the world of data and AI continues to rapidly evolve, associations need to adapt to meet the ever-changing needs of members and stakeholders. While these changes may feel overwhelming, there are easy things you can do with your current staff and set of resources that will help position your association to thrive in 2024.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

While there’s often increased attention on issues affecting the community during Pride month, meaningful and lasting change happens when advocacy happens year-round. Creating change is not a “one-size-fits-all” effort—there’s room for many voices.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. Did you mail out an appeal at a different time? Did you use a different subject line in an email appeal?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We all want to know whether our work makes a difference. Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned. Who decides what is measured? But is this the right question?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 3, 2021

The events of 2020 changed how we view and do a lot of things — including workplace giving. For CSR and HR professionals trying to navigate giving and volunteer activities within their companies, everything looks different today than it did before. Ultimately, we believe these six changes are here to stay. Continuous Campaigns.

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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. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. She also said that sorting and organizing your data in different ways can lead to seeing patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. Are we actually making a difference? What are the right tools to help measure success? Measure program success, not just analytics. Simply Measured. Analytics are just one indicator of success. Sprout Social.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission. Attracts new supporters and partners with information about how they can help change the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. How are Nonprofit’s Financial Goals Different? the use of?funds

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sgEngage

JANUARY 26, 2024

An intangible feeling of change that arises each time we enter a new year. For others , the feelings are a bit more fleeting, providing only temporary change before slipping away in the face of familiar patterns and habits. We have different feelings, perspectives, and approaches to our lives and our work. A new year, a new me.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2023

The responses did not involve salary, autonomy or time investment; but rather a universal theme of making a difference. People want their jobs to be opportunities to make a difference. Nonprofit professionals may find Godin’s latest book a manifesto for their life’s work because they are true “difference-makers.”

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. They are updated any time there is a change in regulations or policy. How does your solution measure impact?

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