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RESULTS: An Acronym For Nonprofit Success

Bloomerang

Evaluate your initiatives regularly, set up feedback boxes on your website, and create regular nonprofit focus groups. Think of it like mapping a route to take. Perhaps using your commute to work, while getting ready for the day, or on that mid-morning coffee break. E valuate initiatives regularly.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

See larger image here: Map from: Waddell, Steve. A lot of the ideas resonate with using online social networks and social media effectively for nonprofits, especially in the larger frame of movement building. One of the tools for better understanding networks are visual diagnostics and mapping techniques.

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Women Who Tech: Tools and Apps to Energize your Base

Amy Sample Ward

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping. View more presentations from womenwhotech. Your goal: why do you engage with them.

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Messages, Stories, and Conversations: Creating a Strategy for your organization and your supporters

Amy Sample Ward

On a flip chart or whiteboard (or if you are working through this by yourself, just use a piece of paper or a spread sheet on your computer) draw 4 vertical lines, creating 5 columns. You may want to turn the flip chart sideways or use separate sheets for each column. #1: 1: Who are “They&#. Stand back! What do you think?

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The Outcome of Our Outcomes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Is the evaluation of your program something management needs to assess the performance of your organization as a whole? Are you required to measure? Who is your audience?

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Social Media: Ask What’s the Change, Not the Return!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. A theory of change lays out the results and preconditions on a visual map that lays out the pathway for social change.

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SXSW: Future of Social Networks

Amy Sample Ward

create maps of communication streams. Evaluate where social makes sense. Evaluate where social makes sense. where are customers or users “in&# the organization chart (at the top?). Activities. most social ads require explicit action. personal cpm. How to Prepare for “like air&# : 1. find your tust agents.