Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. Tags: sxsw. Please try to vote for as many nonprofit panels as possible. I'll do another Get Out The Nonprofit Vote at SXSW Post and include. I will also be tweeting this post.).

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Fine Blog – "The Case Foundation has just released an evaluation of their innovative “Make It Your Own&# program. Reflecting on “Make It Your Own&# « A.

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See3

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Our tag line at See3 is “Empowering Nonprofits by Powering Their Media&# Nonprofits have tag lines also. It’s good to have a tag line that’s hard to argue with. The Red Cross could have this tag line “One crisis after another&# (Of course they would be talking about their own leadership.)

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 18, 2010

If we are after impact, we have to reevaluate the way we approach evaluation! Look at this way: ROI asks how many Facebook fans you have; ROE asks how many people are “liking,&# commenting and sharing your Facebook content. Tags: community engagement mlkday roe roi. Then or now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

In reading through this amazing outpouring of posts, people have been very transparent if they are nominating their own project as well as their criteria and evaluation thought process. Holden not only shared his recommendations, but gave us a detailed description of his evaluation process. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. "I outlined the value of planning and evaluating your nonprofit marketing in a recent post, and clearly hit a nerve. I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re considering creating a TikTok account for your nonprofit, it’s important for you to evaluate if you’ll be able to reach your target audience on the platform. Engagement can be responding to comments on your posts, liking and sharing content posted by your partners, tagging your donors or volunteers in posts, and more!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 8, 2009

As Deborah explains, “We’ve put together a number of short segments in which TSNE’s mavens respond to frequently asked questions about topics such as finance, human resources, program evaluation, diversity, and fiscal sponsorship for nonprofits.&#. Tags: tsne video management vlog resources storytelling nonprofit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Just like evaluating a company that releases as specific application that you are interested in, understanding and evaluating the community around an open source project can be quite important. It’s definitely worth a read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. It will interesting to if there is reciprocity.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Leave a comment sharing your "Theory of Change". It refers to a fairly new way of evaluating the effectiveness of projects by drawing out the underlying assumptions about how they lead to social change. Be sure that you fill in your email address in the comments. Tags: contest. Katya's Non-Profit Marketing Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2010

This year, we are experimenting with incorporating social media techniques as part of the evaluation process for the second America’s Giving Challenge. So, go join the conversation in the comments over at the Case Foundation blog. Tags: america giving challenge.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

So, how do identify if you are succeeding or evaluate if you are improving? These 5 steps assume that your organization has already used a process to evaluate your audience and your goals and chosen tools and strategies that match the audience and organizational goals.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Marnie Webb introduced the nptech tag to help aggregate nonprofit technology content. Peter Campbell leveraged RSS to pull the tagged items into nptech. The tag points to individual resources, but is that knowledge? Deeper conversations about practice take place in blog comments, webinars, online chats and on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. What do you think? And if you???re

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

" in which we (the people) got the power to publish, share, comment, friend, follow, tag, and organize online. model this past summer with a project to craft recommendations that improve teacher evaluation systems nationwide. "Recommendations Tags: Collaboration. First came "Web 2.0"

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

You can read it and the comments on the blog here , it’s copied below. We can count our Twitter followers or how many people have commented on our blog post, or could have counted the number of supporters on Causes or voters on ideablob, but that doesn’t mean we connect with them. To some, these events were unimportant.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 9, 2010

The evaluation and recognition of peer influence, something that is not only prevalent but inherent in social media, is something that help empower and sustain your communities AND increase your staff capacity. Join the conversation on the SSIR blog or share your ideas in the comments below.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

When evaluating how much effort you can realistically put into social media, you may discover that you need to scale back on how many channels you utilize. Once you’ve taken stock of all of your organizations social channels, evaluating your messaging strategy is a great next step. Engaging with comments on your content. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

A Communications Evaluation Guide by Asibey Consulting I've been exploring different ROI and communications evaluation approaches and how they might be adapted for social media strategies. To help, the Communications Network recently published a guide to help foundations and nonprofits develop plans to evaluate their communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We came up with the term “Ambient” data to describe unstructured data out that is generated through social media channels – tweets, status updates, comments, etc. They also tag and analyze responses. We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

There is a comment in the post from Dan McQuillan who has been mulling over measurement of social media from the nonprofit perspective. I think one of the consultants at the CES session cracked it when she said that the lab coats of traditional expert evaluation were starting to give way to self-evaluation and user-led evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

It must have been striking to see us on the stage from the audience because some of the evaluation comments came back as "The short one." "The tall one." One pattern that was interesting is that negative comments referred to us in that way, while positive ones used our names. Tags: clbc09. My interview is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of hearing Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, speak at the Packard Foundation. He described the challenges of adapting evaluation methods to non-Western systems in developing countries because evaluation has traditionally been deeply rooted in the Western ways of thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

You had to leave a comment indicating your goals, audience, and how you'd measure success of your Ning Community on this post which also includes a round up of Ning resources. They cover a variety of topics, web technology, social media, training, evaluation, information design, management, and etc. Drop a note in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Crowdsourcing can be done at an organizational level, blended into the way nonprofits create , implement, and evaluate their programs. Please leave me a comment or if you're interested in contributing a post, please fill out this form. Tags: crowdsourcing. What are the best practices or techniques for crowdsourcing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. Are they tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

But, I'm purchasing a copy to giveaway to the reader from a nonprofit who leaves a comment about how they might best use this book. Don't forget to fill out the comment form completely, so I can track you down if you win.) . Tags: experimentation googleanalytics reflection sandbox socialmediametrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts. Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. Tags: guest blogging. See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). Have a post?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Technorati Tags: intellectualproperty , opensource { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. It makes me think a lot about how much we are governed by fear – even in the realm of things that seem only technological. Mitchell 06.03.07 2 Michelle Murrain 06.03.07

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. NWF - tag mentions in delicious with which programs or projects are mentioned, can share link to that tag on delicious with staff to see their section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. Kevin is adding the tag ???Harley Flickr Photo by Maurice.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Let us know in the comments. Register now! For further information visit: [link] Anything we missed? Data member news Member Round Up nptech'

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Idealware released a new report, Understanding Software for Program Evaluation , to help nonprofits with the sometimes overwhelming process of selecting the right tool for the job. Let us know in the comments. Register now! For further information visit: [link] Anything we missed? Data member news Member Round Up nptech'

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2011

If on Facebook, find their fan page and add them to your favorite pages, tag them in a status update, or post a message on their page from your fan page account. Negative comments can often be turned into positive experiences! It’s all about relationship building. Find her on Twitter @cariegrls.

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