Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Once you come up with a plan, and you test it, you then evaluate it and rethink it, and then iterate on the plan, test it, and come back around to evaluating it. Anytime in there you can make changes in direction or function and it’s okay, because you will get to plan, try and evaluate as you go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Learning goes from a lower level of entry to higher order thinking skills as follows: remembering, understanding, applying, analyzing, evaluating, and creating. But we’re also using social technologies which made think of the various “Ladders of Engagement&# that communications strategist use to shape a campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Funding projects instead of just a specific product ensures that organizations or teams can fail quickly and softly while working towards something better, can invest in research and evaluation, and engage the community not just market to them. Image credit: Flickr opensourceway. Recognize the role of technology across all our work.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Flickr photo by leighblackall By the end of 2011, NTEN will have produced over 100 educational webinars and 3 in-person local events, with many more in 2012. This position will be critical to adding a higher level of quality and evaluation to NTEN’s various educational offerings. The NTC is just 146 days away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Zen. The foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness program evaluation was conducted very publicly, using social media, focus groups, a wiki – lots of mechanisms for getting stakeholders to help interpret the data and give input on the program. Teri Behrens, formerly the director of evaluation at the W.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

Flickr Photo by Minarae. As someone who works with nonprofits to build capacity in technology, one always hopes for transformational versus transactional results. Paul’s post unpacks some of the findings from the evaluation, but also raises some important questions about doing transformational capacity building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr Photo by Caramel - Creatives Common Licensed. When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning from Karcsig. Your numerical data can tell stories , but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? Do numbers only matter? I like to use a combined method.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Some questions I don't know the answers to: What are the best examples of nonprofits using social media to crowdsource advice, program evaluation, ideas, or other uses? Guest Post: Interview with Georgina Goodlander: Fill the Gap Flickr Campaign by Debra Askanase, publisher of Community Organizer 2.0 Absolutely brilliant!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. ” Paul Connolly is Chief Client Services Officer at TCC Group , a 34 year-old consulting firm that provides strategy, evaluation, and capacity building services to funders and nonprofits. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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NetWits

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

This tool will crawl and evaluate your website for a lot of the key elements you should be monitoring. If you’re using Facebook pull in your Blog, Twitter, YouTube and Flickr accounts so that you page fans can see where else you participate. Next, use HubSpot’s website grader. Think about incentives.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers. Or does it?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

Flickr Photo by Happysmurfday Over the past couple of years, we've released reports on Donor Management Software , Content Management Systems , and CRMs. Our hope is that this will be a help to you, as well, giving you a place to start to evaluate the systems your organization uses and how they connect. To do that, we need your help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

I was particularly interested in examples using blogs, Twitter, Flickr, Youtube, and Facebook. The Museum solicited photographs from artists via an open call on their website, Facebook group, Flickr groups, and outreach to Brooklyn-based arts organizations. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. In this post, I???m

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. He ended up making and sharing a map of one of his favorite routes in a matter of minutes. Thanks Kent!)

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio. As a sector, we're woefully behind when it comes to evaluation skills.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

Flickr Photo: tylerdurden1 Ask any nonprofit to describe how they feel about their overhead percentage, and you're most likely to be met with groans, sighs and rolls of eyes. By now, we all agree it's silly to evaluate an entire organization based on one ratio. As a sector, we're woefully behind when it comes to evaluation skills.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

MySammy software essentially evaluates how a person spends time on a computer and/or mobile device. Image Credits: Image one: Working from the beach courtesy of Citrixonline via Flickr Creative Commons. Image two: Polar vortex courtesy of Elvir via Flickr Creative Commons. TechSoup: Telework Policies.

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2009

Flickr: Endlessstudio You and your cause have been using video to capture and share stories about the work you do and the change you're making, right? The entries will be evaluated by a panel of judges and may be recognized at the festival which is scheduled to take place on July 31 in Austin, Texas. Check out Lights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2009

Photo in Flickr. They cover a variety of topics, web technology, social media, training, evaluation, information design, management, and etc. with close to 3,200 members, which is turning it into the main community destination for Spanish-speaking diabetics). Drop a note in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo by Justin Benttinen. It takes transparency and accountability to a new level where there’s no hiding the facts, and if framed and accepted well, will not be limited to evaluative determinations of success or failure, but will be celebrated for the learning and opportunity for course-correction that it provides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

Flickr Photo. But as Charlene Li and Josh Bernhoff point out in their new book it is important to think behind the new tool - and to ask the larger question - how do you evaluate new technologies as they enter the landscape? That's this Peter Campbell. He probably wasn't - but hard to get that when you're telegraphing ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

How do you evaluate your programs and services? Photo credit: Flickr leehaywood. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? What do you point to when funders, donors, board members and the community ask if you are making a difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Flickr Photo by Maurice. In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. It uses Flickr to host all of its photos. ???It???s

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

Flickr: Jeff_Werner Over in the Nonprofit Webmasters affinity group , Melissa Barry from the Parkinson's Disease Foundation started a great conversation. Once you've got that figured out, evaluate how your audience is likely to receive that information. Luckily, the group was quick to respond with resources, reviews, and examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by TheeErin. But it might also be about long-term evaluations. Is that a Zen graffiti artist? Did he run out of paint before spraying the letter “e&# ? Who knows, but if nonprofits embrace abundance, wouldn’t it give them more time to breathe?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 27, 2009

We periodically review each channel to evaluate if efforts are tying to our corporate goals, and to analyze costs / benefits. Receive low effort / watching: LinkedIn, Facebook, Scribd, Flickr, YouTube, Paid channels. Newsletters (two). Twitter (six accounts). Electronic press releases. LinkedIn page. Facebook page. Slideshare.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. ARC - social media team evaluate/watch everything and then send summary and highlights to team. .&#. Visualizing: number of months along the bottom, insight, return and dollars up the left. Listening: hearing what people are talking about your issue or sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2011

Click Through to Flickr for Attributions. For program strategy, the organization uses techniques like crowdsourcing to get feedback on program design – whether it is help design a pilot, feedback on an evaluation, or rethinking of a program.

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NTEN

MARCH 9, 2009

Flickr Photo by Nate Murray Holly and I have an ongoing competition over who can get their inbox down to zero. Evaluating your Email Marketing Efforts for Success (4/2/2009). Do you have an impossible goal in your work flow? The inbox dominates our work culture -- and that of many of our constuients, too. 3/12/2009).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Source: Flickr. I do experiments like this, but I don't necessarily put them in a structure that allows for easy evaluation. In my workshop, I cover Web2.0 adoption strategies and often use this slide and talk abut low-risk experimentation. But, what the heck does that mean? Claim your Blog??? in Technorati. What happened?

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. Learn how to evaluate ROI and communicate it to nonprofit boards, funders, and non-technical nonprofit leadership staff. We like numbers, and they like numbers, but not all numbers are the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2006

At Blogher, I met JD Lasica and in a jet-lagged state couldn't remember his name as I loaded his photo into my flickr account. However, I can only get as far as the free evaluation copy of captivate or camtasia allows. During the edublogging session, he mentioned the new Learning Center at OurMedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

Photo from Politalk_Tim Flickr Stream via the Voter s project Cross-posted at Netsquared Election Day, Organizing, Campaigns, Nonprofits and Web 2.0 executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Flickr Photo by Su Lin. These trends are based on Target Analytics’ evaluation of transactions from 77 organizations, including over 37 million donors and more than 77 million gifts totaling over $2.4 ” A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say? A Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin. billion in revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Flickr Photo: Illustration of Participant's Learning Questions Earlier this month, we piloted the first two-day workshop on social media strategy and tools for NTEN 's WeAreMedia project. evaluate the results of your social media experiment and use the information to improve your next social media strategy experiment.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

In the past year, I''ve seen the conversation shift to talking about impact and sustainability of these projects--how we evaluate audience participation and how we can shift from experimental pilots to more day-to-day implementation. How do you evaluate participatory engagement strategies? The animal keepers run their blog.

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NTEN

JUNE 2, 2009

Flickr Photo: thelearnr Over the weekend, I encountered a new phenomenon: AdWords squatting. Evaluating. guy trying to develop a business around finding obscure, but potentially. lucrative search terms, building up a quality AdWords presence for them, then, presumably, selling the rights. the Google Grants team. > > Learn.

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