Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

One of the newest resources, a free online guide called “ The Data Playbook ,” was recently published by the Schusterman Foundation and written by Rella Kaplowitz, Program Officer, Evaluation and Learning. The four key questions are: What data to collect? Meaning Making. Within the same group at different points in time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Being able to make decisions and evaluate are more appropriate for a learning experience delivered over time such as a semester long course or at least having some time and space in between sessions. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Reflective Practice. Writing people’s ideas on a flip chart or white board helps with the group memory and knowledge capture. The chart writer’s role is to captures the groups ideas. Whenever possible, the chart writer writes down the speaker’s exact words. Here’s just a few: Instructional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Fifteen of us met for 90 minutes to share, commiserate, trade ideas and think about our work at the intersection of evaluation, knowledge management and organizational learning. Yet foundation staff charged with organizational learning responsibilities are still charting a new course in our field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

I answered yes to all, but more importantly I think these two methods helped me the most: Carve out time for reflection after each training and do an after-action review with yourself. Evaluate your content, facilitation, and logistical skills against participant evaluations. Did you read books, take classes, or have a coach?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Here’s what my reflection: Technology Tools To Poll Participants. It does close-ended questions and displays a bar chart or can also create a word cloud. Help participants vote on concepts or reports as part of a report out to stimulate discussion or reflection (replaces sticky dot voting and visualize the vote technique).

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

Our community-driven focus also means we are changing the way NTEN staff evaluations are created. Interally, we have a new organizational chart (if you can call it that! that better reflects the multidirectional relationships across the organization, including both program and support relationships. We call it the "rain drops".)

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

Most really good proposals and reports often better reflect an organization’s capacity to hire a great grant writer or marketing expert than their ability to do great work. Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

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? Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you required to measure?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly. It’s important to determine the real amount of revenue needed. Your real revenue goal must include the enhancements or expansion you seek.

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2015

Fiscal year end is a time of reflection here at TechSoup. Well … reflection and crunching epic piles of data. We evaluated Kickstarter, Indiegogo, CauseVox , and more, so you can be one of the cool kids, too. We're reviewing what worked well this year and what we can improve for next year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

" So in the spirit of transparency, here's my personal experience with results reporting (note: this is entirely my own experience with measuring the results of my work, and is not reflective of TechSoup's impact and results measurements overall). About 42 percent believed evaluations accurately reflected their impact.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Gift range chart. Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . The potential donor turns into a donor after evaluating their options and donating to the organization. Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand. Budget for expenses. New, lapsed, or at-risk donors. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

When Maddie Grant at Social Fish invited me to do a FREE webinar over at the 365 Engage Community, I was thrilled to have an opportunity to reflect the practice of incorporating social media into instruction. Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Chart 1 below shows that the next generation of donors, Gen X and Boomers are truly multi-channel. As you can see in chart one, the channels for giving are broad for the next generations of donor (note that even Matures report giving through many channels, but at 77%, "check by mail" is dominate for Matures).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Madeleine shared a copy of the network health scorecard , a diagnostic tool that networks can use to reflect on how to improve.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 29, 2020

A capital campaign or a major push to reach new donors are times when it’s definitely worth the effort to re-evaluate your tech stack and look for improvements that can support your goals. For example, if you know you want to conduct more effective advocacy outreach in 2020, that should be reflected in your tech plan.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2010

One prototype is based on the Billboard Top 10 charts for pop music. Every week, Billboard publishes charts based on airplay, record sales, and now, digital downloads and streaming. For the interactive prototype, we're letting visitors construct their own "Top 10" and compare it to the Billboard charts. It depends who you ask.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

" So in the spirit of transparency, here's my personal experience with results reporting (note: this is entirely my own experience with measuring the results of my work, and is not reflective of TechSoup's impact and results measurements overall). Berger on the dismal state of nonprofit reporting in The Huffington Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. The point was to create “SMARTer” objectives. The “E” stands for evaluator and the “R” stands for “Revaluate.” and storify.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 15, 2010

They reflect the soul of the community and can be responsive to its unique interests and needs. Funders like the NSF have encouraged science centers in particular to share their techniques and evaluations, which is fabulous but also leads to rampant and sometimes unthinking imitation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Document on the fly.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Impact Convergence 2016 brings together leaders, practitioners, and professionals from around the globe who are interested in impact and evaluation. We candidly share frontline experiences, reflect deeply on our impact and find the network and meaning we need to do transformational work. Social Value International / Atlanta, GA / $225.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

GuideStar’s mantra for evaluating nonprofits has always been “You have to compare apples to apples.” The difficulty of evaluating nonprofit effectiveness is always in the back of my mind as I develop and edit content for GuideStar’s Web site. My colleagues and I would say that you can’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

" I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment. I can't easily measure this metric unless I set up some sort of Ruby Goldberg contraption like cut and pasting a month's worth of posts and cut paste into word, count the number of posts, and then chart in excel.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

So fundamentally, I think for major donor conversations what you want to be doing is asking questions, then you reflect back what they’ve said. So you’re reflecting back what they said, and then you essentially deflect it. . You reflect what they said, so you understand and people feel heard. So people get it. .

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 19, 2022

McKinsey recently published a report evaluating sentiments about the expected economic conditions. As you will see in the chart below, people’s outlook is very gloomy. The chart below shows how college enrollment tends to increase following recessions. And let’s not forget that the pandemic is still not over yet.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 11, 2008

As James comments in the attached podcast (scroll down), Shelley’s team did something that he thought was “too hard” to do in his work—tackle the effect of crowds on the subjective question of art evaluation. It would be more correct to compare it to data visualizations like tag clouds or spark charts.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

This growing trend, often described as telecommuting or e-commuting, reflects a fundamental change from the traditional concept of work (performed in an office, on a nine-to-five schedule) to a more adaptive, results-based one. This chart is from Learning from a Natural Environment: Study a Corporate Work-Time Policy Initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

The Glasspocket’s blog has a post from Claire Gibbons, a senior program officer in the Research & Evaluation Unit at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that illustrates or describes the change. (KD Paine and I devoted an entire chapter to this topic in our forthcoming book , Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.).

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