Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

As soon as people become interested in an issue, their creativity is instantly engaged. We’ll finish with 10 minutes to evaluate the brainstorming session, get clarity on points of agreement and disagreement, and discuss next steps. People think, and dream, visually—not with words. We’ll have 20 minutes for idea generation.

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Bloomerang

JULY 28, 2021

This will help you discern what you really need in a consultant, how you will evaluate their suitability up front, and how you will hold them and yourself accountable throughout the project. Now you need to figure out what kind of person (or people) will help you meet those goals. Evaluation matrix . Interview questions.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

The more people you get to opt in, the more supporters you can cultivate relationships with over text. Finally, like any other fundraising strategy, you should track success metrics for your text messages and use them to evaluate your texts’ effectiveness. Keep an eye on your metrics.

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Practice Puerto Rico Fundraising Metrics 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us? Do you want people to click? To share on Twitter?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

What if we could have a conversation about fundraising strategy with David Ogilvy, founder of Ogilvy a leading marketing/PR firm and deemed the ‘Father of Advertising’? Helping real people should be the star. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot?

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Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

We listened to the "rising voices of the people we serve" as a foundation staffer framed it recently. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Self-examination was the zeitgeist of philanthropy in 2021.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

So consider this just the first of many posts related to issues of cultural inclusion, evaluation, and impact. I have seen a lot of inclusion practices and policies in museums and cultural institutions, but I haven''t seen many evaluations of their success. While it is not easy to ask directly "what do you think about XX people?"

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Most donors only make major gifts to a nonprofit after multiple interactions with that organization—very few people will make a $5,000 gift right away! After all, this is a group of people who already support your work. You’re looking for people who want to give substantial donations and have the finances to support that desire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible. Engage: This is the process of having a conversation around the insights that are being shared. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Jarche describes some techniques on how to do the most important, but sometimes difficult step of sense-making. Jarche mentions some techniques from three different curators on how to add value. Practice and experiment: Read the article and try the technique and describe how it worked or didn’t for you.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Track and incentivize successful conversations. Non-pledge close: For those calls that don’t end in success, it’s important to help close the conversation gracefully to maintain the relationship with the donor. At this time on a Sunday, most donors will be finished with their weekend errands and are likely available for a conversation.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2014

In addition, the nonprofit evaluation services GuideStar , Charity Navigator , and BBB Wise Giving Alliance have teamed up on something called the "Overhead Myth letter." Count people who received your services, including visiting your website and opening your emails. Survey people about how they liked what you're doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

The morning used the World Cafe technique. The world cafe technique is where participants learn through conversation in small groups. It is an effective technique to use to help participants process what they’ve learned and to harvest insights. Photo by SMEXbeirut. Fluency in social media skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Last week at the Packard Foundation, I participated in a conversation with Peter Laugharn, the Executive Director of Firelight Foundation about participatory learning agendas. Only measure impact, not process.

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Story Data Analysis Measure 121

Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Conversion Rates. But perhaps more than anything else, sales operations brings a system to selling.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

One thing that stood out in our conversations is that the civic tech field is ready for a deeper dive on outcomes. A big topic of discussion as the field is maturing is how to track on-the-ground outcomes for people and communities, in addition to counting clicks, views, downloads and tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

The people with skills are out there. Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. In fact, some participants in the group mentioned using MBA students from local universities to assist with data collection.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 107

Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Museum Question Participatory Evaluation 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The convening used participatory methods to identify topics for small group conversations related to the theme and was expertly facilitated by Allen Gunn from Aspiration. ( I wrote a reflection last week about the facilitation techniques here ). How many people will be monitoring and managing your accounts? Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

It is really hard to maintain a balance of interaction and content delivery when you have 90 minutes and four people with subject-matter expertise. 6 Tips for Evaluating Your Training Session. As one of my great teachers said, ”You are not good at what you do unless you are always learning and reflecting on your practice.”

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Training Train Reflection Resource 100

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. (I When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Make data-driven decisions only, don't trust your gut ever.

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Story Data Analysis Structure 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I was thrilled to work with the Brainerd Foundation staff to help design and facilitate a design lab using techniques based on Luma Institute methods earlier this month. The process for the one and half day lab used techniques that fall into these categories: Looking and Observing: Unpacking the Context for 21 st Century Advocacy.

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Design Strategy Facilitation Advocacy 50

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

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. People who leave the site (bounce rate). Research Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Or maybe you have a board member who works in the business world and is or has connections to people who work in finance, market research, or analytics. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

Granted, I live in an increasingly narrow world of people who are exploring these topics and want me to work with them, but I still learn a lot from the questions and struggles I hear from colleagues and people who comment on the blog. Why should institutions engage with people in this way? The Museum 2.0 The Museum 2.0

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Question Participatory Museum Evaluation 49

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

What groups of people tend to be your most invested donors? Then, evaluate what donor acquisition and engagement strategies worked and what didn’t. . Your nonprofit’s fundraising team should be consistently using your data to improve your techniques! Share stories and testimonials from the people you help! Phone calls.

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Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Regularly collects data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

Note From Beth: A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to participate in a meeting with other capacity builders who work with networks. I wrote a quick reflection on some of the techniques used to facilitate the meeting. How do we evaluate collective impact/ networks? What to do when a network is in trouble? How do networks learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

People and organizations are now making and sharing media and content all over the social web. What does that mean for nonprofits and the people who work for them? Susan Kistler has an example with evaluation resources. Susan Kistler has curated this list on Evaluation. Why is Content Curation Valuable?

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Content Skills Feeds Tutorial 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

Introduction to six different social media tools and techniques for a planning, delivering, and evaluating a training session. I also try to scaffold Webinars - and give more overviews and point people to the presentation for links, resources, and more self-directed learning. . How to think like a social instructional designer.

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Social Media Share Media Instruction 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

The focus was on learning about "Network Effectiveness" and the specific topics included strategies for network impact, approaches to evaluating networks and tools for accelerating and assessing network impact. A peer learning environment requires creating a safe space for conversation. It isn't black and white.

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Network Impact Louisville Social 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

Allison Fine and I have been noodling with an evaluation model that looks social media from an organizational perspective - from social networks to social capital (relationships) to action in the real world. Now I'm wondering where the techniques of engagement need to be incorporated. It eventually shifts to two-way conversation.

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Model Relationship Strategy Social 74

NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Though each tool is a little different, they all create opportunities for your organization to start conversations and to show the personal side of, and the personalities behind, your work. Let’s say your organization has a fundraising event coming up, and you’re planning your social media campaign to help convince people to come.

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Social Media Measure Media Social 88

NTEN

JANUARY 12, 2011

From there, you can start to understand where to begin conversations. Start planting the seed now for including someone in those conversations who can bring a strategic technology perspective, whether it's you or one of your colleagues. Many non-tech people (i.e., For example, Simone works for an evaluation organization.

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Tech NTC Listserv NTEN 86

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 2, 2013

But several experiences and smart people have changed my perspective on this, and that's what this post is about. The people who produce the programming or who have the relationships produce the messaging, so the conversations are authentic and personal. meeting people in arts marketing who changed my perspective.

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Job Marketing Difference Museum 51

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Retain as many people as you can. Number of emails / social media posts per fundraiser, email / social media conversion rate. Next year, re-evaluate which metrics to work on; pick a new set of metrics to focus on … without letting go of the successful techniques you used to improve your fundraising performance this year.

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Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. how do you evaluate the health significance of "one glass of rice wine per day" in China vs. Japan?). OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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