Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. I created Excel for Evaluation , a series of more than 25 video tutorials with real examples from nonprofits, to share my favorite techniques with nonprofit leaders like you. Why get good at Excel?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Like any other marketing tool or social media platform, TikTok’s value is in its storytelling ability. If you’re considering creating a TikTok account for your nonprofit, it’s important for you to evaluate if you’ll be able to reach your target audience on the platform. Determining if TikTok is a tool you should use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Developmental Evaluation: Applying Complexity Concepts to Enhance Innovation and Use by Michael Quinn Patton. Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation. I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? Personal stories, donor benefits, time sensitivity?

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

By tapping into the power of storytelling, you can connect with your audience emotionally, thereby motivating action and support. We’ll provide five tips on how you can utilize storytelling to level up your nonprofit’s marketing materials and make a lasting impression. Let’s jump in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In 2018, the foundation partnered with Allegiance Group + Pursuant to evaluate how it communicated its unique value. Use storytelling to bring the UVP to life. Interview someone who has received your services about the difference a donor made in their lives — a donor , not your nonprofit. Remember to keep the focus on people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

executive summary here ) ContinuousProgress: Better Advocacy Through Evaluation is an online guide to more effective foreign policy advocacy and evaluation. blog shares an interview with entitled " Camera Rwanda: Storytelling using Flickr." It includes case studies, tools, and how-tos. Steve Bridger from NFP 2.0

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Interview people who are your influencers and champions, and find out why. Also, here's Heather's blog series on The Power of Written Storytelling , which points out many of the ways these kinds of stories are so unforgettable. It will keep them reading, and that's what you want! Offer a Call to Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2006

To celebrate this accomplishment, I interviewed her! These programs involved cultural, educational and training efforts that used interactive theater and storytelling. I interviewed ten online educators in five countries about how they planned and organized collaborative learning activities. Evaluate it!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 18, 2023

Research how social media and effective storytelling is used the world over to create engagement and drive donations. . Create a plan for evaluating the effectiveness of your programs and activities. Using methods such as surveys, interviews, and focus groups to gather feedback from participants and stakeholders. . Get social.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Take the time to assess your operations and evaluate any gaps that volunteer work could fill. Newspapers, magazines, and blogs focus on storytelling. Volunteer recruitment won’t do your nonprofit any good if you don’t have a clear plan for what those volunteers will be doing for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. I also like to practice my storytelling skills. What worked? What didn't? Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Digital Storytelling, Media, and Communications. Hot debates follows in another post on charity evaluation and metrics over at Tactical Philanthropy blog suggested that we forget on a metric to measure "Total Good Accomplished" and focus on real measures. Andy Carvin: Participate in Stopy Cyerbullying Day.

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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. What do you think? The NOSI Choosing and Using Free and Open Source primer is on the ICT Hub Knowledgebase!

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M+R

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Never Go Out of Style With Key Audiences Within the music industry, there are some tried-and-true tactics for announcing and promoting a new album that usually includes social media announcements and posts, single releases, and media interviews.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2022

A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. One of the first major to-dos the staff tackled after I took the helm at SVAS was evaluating corporate documents and marketing literature. Is the tone of their writing profes­sional and friendly?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

Tools fall into one of three categories – content analysis, surveys, or analytics. Marlene Oliveira, Copywriter and Communications Consultant, shares an interview with Jason Shim, “ Google Analytics Basics for Nonprofits: Interview with Jason Shim.” Make Sense of Your Data. What’s the Point?

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Museum 2.0

JULY 3, 2007

This post is a summary of the essay; on Thursday, an interview with Elaine expanding on some of these concepts.) Elaine suggests that we celebrate the distinctions and evaluate museums based on the limitations of their type. Some people think of museums as camp providers, others as exhibit displayers, others as storytellers.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 11, 2019

There are two elements of the research: tracking and interviewing. The same staff member then interviews the visitor three weeks later. Managers have to leave their desks, and track and interview ordinary people they never would meet in their daily work or at the meetings they normally spend time on.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Emotions have always had an appropriate place in storytelling for fundraising, we give because we are empathetic beings. Evaluate and Iterate: Run your pilot for a few months. You could also survey or interview some of the people that interacted with your bot and get their feedback. You read more about designing a pilot here ).

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Even though the definition below is focused on product marketing, we fundraisers know how effective storytelling is with donors in our communications. Lean into your storytelling skills to explain the need that the donor’s gift will fill, and then ask for a specific dollar amount. Also of note: Google’s “ABCD Framework.”

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

We know that storytelling is powerful. But storytelling is fundamental, we’re hardwired for stories. Steven: And I would call that evaluation, right, that’s us checking to see if we’re doing our work well, right. . But really, there’s a big overlap between these organizations. So people get it. .

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

He set up an infrastructure for people to evaluate submissions by giving it a yes, no, or maybe, with comments. Tags: storytelling design Unusual Projects and Influences usercontent. How did you read them and cull down the list in the time you had? I haven’t received my copy yet, but it looks great online.

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