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How ACLU NJ Defines Social Media Success: The First Important Measurement Step

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Zoetica Salon Summary: A Few Good Social Media Measurement Insights

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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How to find donors online – 22 ideas that work

Whole Whale

Be careful with these types of contests as the motivation behind joining the email list may not be as aligned with the organization, and can lead to lower donation conversions as well as higher unsubscribes. In-kind: Google Ad Grant. Here are some awesome campaign ideas for the Google Grant. Forward to a friend.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Spend two hours googling “creative fundraising ideas” to get inspired. Sort through online organizational data (Google analytics, email open rates) to see if there are insights, trends, and patterns that could be used to improve operations. Help the organization apply for, qualify for, and manage its Google for Nonprofits.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Big Cat Rescue

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The ROI for us is measured in lives saved more than just the money raised to do so. million dollar budget, around $16,000 has been generated via YouTube’s Google Checkout and other donations via PayPal. She also helps cultivate community on a number of our social sites including ours at ChatBigCats.com.

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What We Talk About When Talk About Open Data

Tech Soup

More and more organizations are embracing the idea that collecting and measuring data and acting on what they learn from it can improve their work and better their services. You can see some of the apps generated by the contest at civicapps.org.). But surprisingly few nonprofits are talking about open data.

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