Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Foundation Review (Vol 5:3) Makes the case that most foundation strategies are unfolding in complex and dynamic environments, and foundations need a more committed approach to learning and strategic adaptation. I got to facilitate a deep dive with a dozen folks and here are the takeaways from the discussion.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Evaluate your progress and course correct if some of your strategies aren’t resonating with your audience. Keywords facilitate the connection between your website and a prospective donor. Audit your content to evaluate how well your website meets user search intent.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

Reporting ⁠— Look for software that provides detailed insights into matching gift progress, trends, and other relevant metrics. Robust reporting facilitates informed decision-making and aids in demonstrating the impact of your efforts to stakeholders. Carefully evaluate these elements in your matching gift software buying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating peer exchange groups on measuring the networked nonprofit with 60 grantees. In addition to weekly check-ins, the dashboard includes key performance metrics related to goals as well as more detailed metrics.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Each role has specific responsibilities, and training helps set a foundation for each worker’s confidence. Unclear expectations, performance metrics, and goals. Tech stack. Roadblocks.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Creating the perfect fundraising strategy takes a lot of time and effort, so your best bet to grow and raise more each year is to first lay out a solid fundraising foundation. Measure all fundraising metrics. Use the data in your CRM to measure all metrics, including donation amounts, donation frequency, donor details, and more! .

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And with a goal as ambitious and nebulous as elevating community well-being, how do we evaluate success? In 2019, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation released their County Health Rankings Report. While Inspira was developing its community health strategy, the Inspira Foundation was sharing this new direction with potential partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Over the summer, Holly Minch , who is an expert at helping nonprofits and philanthropies unlock the potential of strategic communications for social change, suggested that I facilitate a workshop on social media strategy with a group of nonprofit and philanthropy communications folks. . This causes a lot of anxiety.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices. What are the technical tools (databases, applications, platforms) that would help facilitate the work. Who was there: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress. Use of counting metrics. The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2012

As of this writing, there are 13 responses (ok, two are from me) from people who work (in some cases lead) the Morino Institute, Random Hacks of Kindness, TechSoup Romania, CROS, Meedan, the Gates Foundation, Beth Kanter, Campus Party USA, Vulcan Labs, and Fundacja TechSoup/Warsaw Social Hackathon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. Lagging indicators -.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

My role was to facilitate and model new practices and present on a couple of new approaches, such as content curation. We established a hashtag for the event #fflsmart and modeled how you can capture a complete archive with rowfeeder and since content curation was on the agenda, I modeled using storify to capture a curated record of the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. MacArthur Foundation. National Science Foundation. We need metrics!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. Stated another way, organize and simplify. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

As Visiting Scholar in Nonprofits and Social Media at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am coaching grantee organizations and leading workshops and peer trainings on how to become a Networked Nonprofit. This experiment focused on using metrics to evaluate how engaging content was and recruitment tactics.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

In this resource, we’ll guide you through how to holistically evaluate ROI, including direct and indirect costs and savings, how long it will take to get a return, and tying it all back to the goals of your team to make a powerful case for change. Now you’re ready to start evaluating your options for providers. Increase in new donors.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Instead, establishing a foundation of performance metrics and prioritizing strategy development can allow fundraisers to be more effective and spend more time on the things they do best. Why Fundraiser Productivity Is So Important Fundraisers often bear the responsibility of facilitating growth for the entire nonprofit.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

This framework is used by Google’s human evaluators to assess the quality of web pages and provide feedback on the search algorithm. Ensure optimized site performance and structure Ensuring the technical soundness of your website is a foundational aspect of effective SEO.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

She’s also certified by the Institute of Cultural Affairs, in the USA, for facilitation. Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. We need to know what metrics we need to be tracking. Sample metrics. Hopefully, that helps a little bit.

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