Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

Take her ROI and Measurement list. I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. What I found most valuable was the tip about getting a baseline measurement before you begin.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. Your fundraising goals, or “micro-goals,” should be SMART goals – specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time bound. With this knowledge, you can begin creating a plan for the future.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. What are the major gift metrics that matter when measuring success? Are you ready to evaluate the success of your major gifts program?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Fundraising: Create and manage fundraising campaigns, process donations securely, and evaluate the success of these efforts. Design: Create a comprehensive battle plan for the migration, including how pre- and post-migration quality will be measured. Nonprofit CRM Consulting and Data Management Services.

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The closest thing I've seen is a little utility called Twitinfluence - it measures an individual users Twitter network based on the following: First and Second Order Networks. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. Does it exist? ahem, @pistachio ?) Social Capital. Centralization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Some of it happens through the natural human process of comparison. The more a person’s job includes the following elements, the harder it is to fairly evaluate (and reward) individual performance: 1. It’s hard enough to measure a whole organization’s progress towards its mission, let alone assign individual credit for that progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). It's like measuring 'friendship'.

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

In evaluating potential services, the biggest concern is whether staff will have reliable access to the organization’s data. Whether you’re interested in participant loyalty, fundraiser status, or team performance, this will give you a comparison for your program and help you make sure you aren’t missing a beat.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Want to learn more about the nonprofit email benchmarks that your organization should be using to measure success? However, this metric doesn’t truly measure social media engagement. It’s a very simple measure of engagement that’s often used in the for-profit sector. Download the full report today!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. And the mission of the organization matters too. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 22, 2019

And yet, according to that April 2019 HBR study, Educating the Next Generation of Leaders , “the most difficult skills to teach, measure, or even articulate are leading, communicating, relating, and energizing groups,” all of which require collaborative learning environments, individual coaching and personalized learning plans.

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Forj

AUGUST 30, 2017

This year, Greg Lasko, Manager of Planning and Evaluation at CHEST, and our Dr. Andy Hicken, will be presenting a poster describing how CHEST has developed a standardized scorecard evaluation for its physician education courses. Psychometric measures of evaluation reliability and pre-post comparison drawn from our reliability report.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

Data is collected for each nonprofit from all six measured criteria (i.e., For each of the six measured criteria, each organization is ranked in comparison to all other nonprofit organizations being evaluated. Craig implements strategy, measures impact, and develops teams.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? Evaluation In this stage, the potential donor begins to consider making a donation to your nonprofit. But you can use metrics and A/B testing to measure how your emails are performing. 7 min read Read Now 2. There’s no one right answer.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 5, 2014

How do you measure success? We''ve started using a very simple measure: the number of people who actually respond to the prompt. The measure of whether people respond to the prompt appropriately is really a measure of us, not them. It measures whether the design of the talkback is sufficiently clear and compelling.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

KPIs give your organization a way to measure the success of campaign-specific goals and your nonprofit’s long term goals. Conversely, if the technology your nonprofit uses is actually making things harder for your team, it may be time to evaluate a new solution. Many nonprofits start out by tracking donors in an Excel spreadsheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. Owyang ).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 16, 2013

But if you try to make meaning out of attendance comparisons across institutions, you start juggling apples and oranges. The Relationship Between Attendance and Impact How can we measure impact? For some institutions, like the MCA Denver, attendance is seen as a very poor measure of impact. That''s a huge question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The percentages show the volume of tweets that were generated in that country about the highlighted topic, in comparison to tweets about all the other topics.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We all use data and analytics in some measure every day to guide our strategic planning and tactical decision making. The reality is that I collaborate with strong partners on data and the associated analytics then spend the time needed to understand and evaluate our fundraising programs at Project HOPE. Lifetime value measurements.

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Forum One

MARCH 24, 2009

An evaluation structure for major categories of special education that includes some general criteria that could apply to any child in the system (this would become part of the Individualized Education Plan (IEP) process, a cornerstone of IDEA). Equal access to all data, at any time, by parents and administrators.

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