Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” I often hear nonprofits say, “We don’t have those skills within our organization so we don’t do measurement.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

I’m preparing for a webinar and with any training I begin the instructional design with surveying participants to understand their level, learning goals, and attitudes about the subject matter. Billboard’s audience, presumably, is passionate about songs and lyrics given it is the source for music charts, news, and events.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Intangible Measurements : Identity how, and most importantly why , people behave the way they do when they engage with your brand.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. If time is available, also do a plus/delta exercise with participants as a close out to the session. Measure, evaluate, reflect, and improve. Be a participant in other people’s training sessions.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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. Evaluate external threats and opportunities. Send a survey if you don’t hear back. Follow up on a different marketing channel, such as social media.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Post event surveys revealed the number one reason participants didn’t fundraise in 2012 was “No one asked me to”. This year, focus on a few measurable metrics like “percent of participants who fundraise”. Chart your progress over the event season; you may find you need to change tactics mid-season to achieve your goal.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Survey: The purpose of the survey is to get as much actionable information from the donor to target future solicitations better than the competition. Possible questions include the following (*also see the end of this article for a sample survey): a. There are two key measures of the success of the Donor Welcome Kit: .

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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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Start by remaining curious, sending surveys, chatting with current donors and those who have shown interest. Focus on who your donor is through segmentation, research and surveys. Measuring the Impact of Your Stories Measuring impact in nonprofit storytelling is a crucial step toward understanding the tangible outcomes of your efforts.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

And a lot of the research is market research, is, you know, evaluating our constituents and our stakeholders. Yes, definition of done is another way to say measurables. And if you ask somebody, “Well, what’s the measurable for that?” Plus the definition of done is a specific type of measurable. .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Steven: And I would call that evaluation, right, that’s us checking to see if we’re doing our work well, right. . So nine, “How will you measure results?” But what’s happening is if you’re not monitoring projects overseas, and that takes money, the money could go astray. So people get it. .

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Survey tools, another thing that I see folks paying for multiple systems. Like is there a video that I can watch so that I can evaluate whether I want to use it or not?” People love to see like the run charts or, you know, the circle getting filled in. What should people be looking at and measuring?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

People -- 80% of workers surveyed said teleworking improved their quality of life. Systems for Measuring Results and Accountability. This chart is from Learning from a Natural Environment: Study a Corporate Work-Time Policy Initiative. Profits -- $277 million in saved costs. The IT and Telecom Solution Mix.

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