Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Measurement is the major theme as the sector grows up. However, there was also a plea not to make evaluation painful, collecting huges amount of data and not using it to improve a program. Never underestimate something that is fun and has short feed back loops. The context is that many projects don't offer this.

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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. I'd love to see more detail, like an overview the strategies or how they measure success. What do you think?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

She couldn’t stand the focus on metrics as the reference point against which her work was evaluated. Numbers and measurements have their place, but there is an administrative function to them. We feed people, because no one should be hungry.” “We And donors join you in this belief, because it makes them feel good to do so. “We

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

We see those feel-good stories about amazing fundraisers on our feeds: “Viral Irish GoFundMe Raises Millions for the Navajo Nation In Act of Generosity That Bridges Historical Debt of Gratitude ”. Charity Navigator is the world’s largest independent charity evaluator and rater. We’ve all been there. Charity Ratings.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

When it comes to innovation in civil society, there is nothing that can match the speed and ingenuity of communities that come together to make a change, develop a tool, or feed a need. As such, adoption can be used as a currency , measuring the worth of your programs, services and opportunities. I want to start, first, with a story….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, visited the Packard Foundation yesterday. I participated in a lively exploratory conversation about "How do you evaluate network effectiveness?" evaluation field, how it has changed and get a deeper understanding of developmental evaluation. But first, some context. .

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With the clock ticking, we’ve evaluated the impact of the biggest changes we can make for the planet. We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact. by Zoe Allen. Conserve your water.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

hours each day in their social media account 54% of global website views are from a mobile device, like a smartphone or tablet 54.8% Monitor the ad performance to gain benchmarks against which to measure future performance. This is a good benchmark against which to measure the performance of your donation page.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With the clock ticking, we’ve evaluated the impact of the biggest changes we can make for the planet. We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. How To Save The Planet: 10 Changes With The Biggest Impact. by Zoe Allen. Conserve your water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" " traffic is an important metric to evaluate a blog. I'm remembering something that I heard Robert Scobel say at last year's Global s Summit in London.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

For me, what was most exciting was the group discussion about after reporting on the experiment about to how to design and measure the next experiment with a promoted post. Use promoted posts to accelerate the engagement of good quality content that you know from previous measurement insights performs well. Do a content audit.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The other thing that I think is happening globally is that there’s greater economic inequality. Steven: And I would call that evaluation, right, that’s us checking to see if we’re doing our work well, right. . So nine, “How will you measure results?” So people get it. . Harvey: Probably. .

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