Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Follow these steps to outline your organization’s definition of major gifts: Assess your previous largest donations to determine your major gift threshold. Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. But, here are a few comments: Kudos to you for setting clear goals and starting off with measurement from the beginning. Maybe another way to think about it is measurement as data collection, but focused data collection.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

But before we get too far into the report details, let’s start with a simple definition. The most often cited initiatives that nonprofit marketers say they’ll begin working on within 12 months are measuring content marketing ROI (39%) and developing a documented content marketing strategy (37%). What is Content Marketing?

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. They say things like, “We will create X program, it will serve Y people, in Z months, and it will create these A, B, C forms of measurable impact,” but do they really know any of that?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report. My own definition is to trade one set of dilemmas for a better set. Sometimes we definitively solve our fundraising dilemmas, but more commonly we trade them for better ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2015

These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. One of the skills we are addressing is self-management. If you saw the movie Inside Out, it is a wonderful illustration of the definition of self-management. Self-Management Skills.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

bbcon Takeaway #3: Impact measurement must be baked into the culture of your foundation . Because the world of philanthropy is transforming; impact measurement is your organization’s ability to track, report, and – most importantly –. Measuring impact is equally important to both the grantor and the grantee.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2007

Kami Huyse has a brief teaser from a presentation she did on Social Media measurement. By definition, objectives have to be measurable, "What would you like to see happen and by when as a results of engaging in social media?" I am unveiling this chart tomorrow for the first time, but you get a sneak peak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2009

This is one book that I'm definitely taking with me on the big move, but I'm also giving away a copy too. (I It's also filled with visuals which is really good for someone like me who is an off the charts visual learner. I'm keeping my copy, but I have one to give away on this blog. How are you measuring success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

The presentations and recordings are available online for free and if you work for a nonprofit and want to learn more about social media, definitely worth reviewing. Some interesting questions that popped up looking at this chart: Does this mean that in the beginning we get insight but not $, and in the end we get $$ but not insight?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

Since I no longer own a set of encyclopedias, I decided to check out Wikipedia’s definition for the Age of Enlightenment: it was a cultural movement of intellectuals in the 17th and 18th centuries. The first metric that we need to rethink is measuring success based on the percentage of participants we’re converting into fundraisers.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Or does it mean deep, programmatic cooperation that results in a measurable collective impact? We discovered that if you are in the role of promoting collaboration among others, you need to articulate your definition of collaboration and what your expectations are for outcomes. Does it mean two nonprofit leaders meet for coffee?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Use of metrics to measure your results. Return on Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

As far back as the 1880s, scientists have led “citizen science” projects in which amateurs are invited to participate in formal scientific research by volunteering to count birds, measure soil quality, or document non-native plant species. Here’s a chart that may help you figure out what type is best for your next project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2012

But I also love using those pens for visualization techniques and especially to sketch out charts and graphs. I did a deep dive on data visualization techniques while working on a chapter of my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , with co-author KD Paine. That’s when I heard about the book, “ I Love Charts.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

This can be done with a flip chart and markers or there might be one graphic facilitator dedicated to this task. Since the term “Impact Leadership” was something that needed some definition, we decided to incorporate “lightening talks” and “facilitated listening.”

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

How will you measure success? Management and Organizational Charts. Break up the sections for easy reading, and use graphs and charts where you can. Use color, graphs, and charts to draw the eye and keep the reader moving through the document. What are the exact goals you are trying to achieve? How much will it cost?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

If you try to use your regular email, you run the risk of being marked as spam, looking unprofessional, and not being able to measure open rates. Less is definitely more. Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. A system like Constant Contact complies with U.S. Good images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2013

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation this year, I’m facilitating a peer learning group based on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and the next session we are focusing on the sense-making step of measurement. The deck provides specific practical advice on charts, color, and maps.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And we can kind of enhance it with a number saying the definition of done is I’m 10 pounds lighter. . And I could have a definition of done for that as well. Yes, definition of done is another way to say measurables. And if you ask somebody, “Well, what’s the measurable for that?”

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. In the case of MySpace profiles, there is a very definite tipping point in terms of the amount of content that should be included in your profile.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. As you can see from the above chart, only 19% of profiles had donation widgets or links to their main donation page. In the case of MySpace profiles, there is a very definite tipping point in terms of the amount of content that should be included in your profile.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

However, it’s important to note that none of them are 100% at measuring results. link] Twopular: Tracks the most popular trends on twitter including who is the top people tweeting specific trends (aka trendsetters) and a bar chart listing the hours a topic trended. Its definitely worth mentioning in this post. Lets dig in.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Well, at least in my opinion, the definition of a library includes the community – those that come every day, those that come to events or use the services, and those that haven’t yet engaged. As such, adoption can be used as a currency , measuring the worth of your programs, services and opportunities. Why Community?

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

The trouble with social media thus far has been that it’s been difficult for practitioners to measure its efficacy. The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. You can see the metrics in action in the chart below. I will definitely share this with others! Here are a few examples.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So nine, “How will you measure results?” So if you have a pledge form, definitely keep that option on the form so you have a way to track that. Andy: And just so you’re tracking chat, Steven, so you know we had several dissertations on the definition of the word Hoosier. Most people think of numbers.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in. What should people be looking at and measuring? So definitely check those out. Start with five that you should be paying attention to regularly. Invest a little time or money, little time or money, in getting dashboards or some data visualization.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

For example, Lyft doesn’t report total individual fares to drivers at all, and only reports weekly aggregate fares for individual drivers, while a California study by Mission Local found that Uber reports fares to drivers that are measurably lower than the fares actually paid.

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