ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

To harness the full potential of performance measurement, funders and nonprofits must join together to co-create mutually beneficial methods and metrics. According to the Center for Evaluation Innovation’s “Lab for Learning” initiative , “make thinking visible” to cultivate a learning culture. Tell the story of learning.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We learned a lot at the recent BoardAssist Nonprofit Board Summit on how to be an outstanding board member. Sometimes an existential challenge can lead to a great opportunity to re-evaluate how best to deliver services. Do they reflect the organization’s truest priorities? Some key take-aways: Be a Cheerleader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. Are they tips?

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

Whether it’s information taken from your online donation forms or metrics on past campaigns, your fundraising data can clue you into which supporters are likely to give and do wonders for your donor communication strategy. Let’s learn more! to learn more about the donor. How can you leverage donor data to increase fundraising?

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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. Therefore, the learning goals be more aligned with the base of Bloom's Taxonomy - more about exposure, understanding, and knowledge.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

Not only do you need to look inward at your own operations, but you also need to make sure your funding reflects those same goals. Learn more about reporting options with your GMS by downloading our whitepaper, 3 Ways Dashboards Help Grantmakers Make Sense of Their Data. But for grantmaking organizations, the DEI effort is two-fold.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

This peer learning exchange is designed to help state-based groups to be more effective in engaging their networks toward covering uninsured children. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate participant’s progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2009

The process is: Listen, Learn, Adapt. He is describing what an organization with a " learning organization " culture does and applying it to social media. Nonprofits need to learn the insights and also understand the value of the investment. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). measuring 'reflective moments'.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 8, 2023

The most important step to complete before getting started is to evaluate your organization’s needs. Because these apps work as an extension of your Salesforce features, your reports will reflect that information and provide a positive experience for registrants. Understand your event’s needs. Keep event flexibility in mind.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

For example, you might learn about an animal shelter’s need for cat food and collect donations from employees over a set period of time. Survey your staff to learn which nonprofits they’d like to support and what workplace giving programs would make it easiest for them to contribute. Learn about the best workplace giving software!

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

It also seeks to provide a common baseline of the diversity of the field, as well as ensure that demographic data is available to those who can make use of it to evaluate their programs and assess progress around equity. “Gender” combines two survey questions and reflects organizations that have answered either question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I used PostRank to evaluate the engagement of posts. Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada. Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Learn how your organization can take full advantage of social media in this guide! Key metrics to measure on social media Like with any campaign, it’s important to decide on how you’re going to measure the success of your social media strategy. Learn how you can engage your community on social media with this guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. If you’re doing social media and you’re trying to be perfect, get over it – you won’t learn how to improve what you’re doing. Schoemaker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. I've learned a lot about metrics from Avinash. The learning that results is what brings your more success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. It outlines the practices and skills needed to create a learning culture. Here’s what I learned: Definition: A culture of continuous improvement. The term means learning culture. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Make Time for Reflection. Take Breaks.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

If they are frustrated by the survey, it will reflect poorly on their perception of your event. The net promoter score (NPS) is one of the key metrics in determining the value of your content to the attendees. This is an important question as it will help you evaluate your marketing efforts. Ask NPS questions early.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Learn about how to run an effective and sustainable campaign by reading from the top or jumping to the sections that most interest you: . Having access to donor data is important for learning donor habits and increasing donor retention. Measure all fundraising metrics. Develop a Strategy. Understand the Giver’s Journey.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Read ahead to learn how you can improve the whole process or use these links to jump to the section that most interests you. Once you’ve mastered this part of the process, you can expand your search outwards and evaluate donors who tend to support specific programs. major gifts. Why Implement It? Why Implement It?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. Can’t wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? What's the key metric? What worked?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start. What do you hope to learn? The Outcome of Our Outcomes – guest post by Victoria Vrana.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

When my sister first started working with a nonprofit museum, she had a lot to learn about the fundraising process for the organization. Ready to dive in to learn more about donor management software? Similar to the engagement meter, a generosity score also provides an at-a-glance view of an important supporter metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

NTEN is also doing this flash poll to learn how nonprofits make sense of their own data. It is a look at measurement and learning practices when social media is in the mix. Does not have a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. A streamlined and well designed dashboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. Make Time for Reflection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. A= Action M0= Monitor RE= Reflection on results - rinse and repeat. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

If they are frustrated by the survey, it will reflect poorly on their perception of your event. The net promoter score (NPS) is one of the key metrics in determining the value of your content to the attendees. This is an important question as it will help you evaluate your marketing efforts. Ask NPS questions early.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Knowing your audience is about learning their rational and emotional needs, behaviors, mindsets, motivations, barriers, and external influences, all from a sociological, psychological, and cultural perspective. At Media Cause, we do this by making our company values part of how we evaluate and review employees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We have designed and been delivering “ Friending the Finish Line ” with the goals of having organizations create an integrated social media strategy into their overall communications plan and as a way to accelerate the progress of their children’s health care advocacy work and create a peer networked learning community.

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Gyrus

JUNE 14, 2016

Not all Learning Management Systems are created equally. One of the smarter features of an intuitive LMS is being able to fully manage all aspects of the learnings; this includes considerations for conflict management and making sure administrators are not double or triple booking training resources within their organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Provides training and professional development for staff to learn how to use measurement tools.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

We view the new year as a period of both reflection and preparation for what’s to come. It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. These strategies should also have specific metrics and/or KPIs associated with them to measure their success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. That’s where learning and transformation begins!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

However, most nonprofit CRMs share a few standard features to help nonprofits evaluate and act on donor data. Be sure you can customize the views on this dashboard so that you can keep track of the metrics most important to your organization. Reach out to Blackbaud to learn more about pricing for these different solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Patricia Patrizi, Elizabeth Heidi Thompson, Julia Coffman, and Tanya Beer, “ Eyes Wide Open: Learning as Strategy Under Conditions of Complexity and Uncertainty.” The professional tools for monitoring and analyzing social media data can be expensive and pose a steep learning curve. Crisis communication strategy. Disaster work.

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