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Guest Post by Gale Berkowitz: Evaluation for Learning

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Note from Beth: This post, Evaluation for Learning , was originally published as a guest post on the Good blog as a response to “ How Might We Celebrate Learning through Evaluation? I tweeted the link to the original and one colleague, Michelle Murrain, wrote a reflection called " Evaluation and Being A Learning Organization.".

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The New ROI -- Listen, Learn, Adapt: Return on Insights from David Armano

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Photo by Jeff Pulver David Armano has an article on BusinessWeek called " The New Focus Group: The Collective " where he urges companies using social media to make the last word in ROI insight, not investment. Are you evaluating current processes and updating them as needed? The process is: Listen, Learn, Adapt.

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Social Media and Nonprofits: The Line Between NGTD and ROI

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What's the roi? " Davenport's book was published almost two years ago and is reflection on blogging circa 2004-2005. " Productivity would be defined in the context of some sort of evaluation of the benefits of the technology - perhaps using a logic model. What is the ROI of the Social Web for Nonprofits?

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. Communicating the results.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Make Time for Reflection.

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The Talent Development Pipeline: Putting People First in Social Change Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition to a plan and freezing other non-priority project work, reflection is a critical aspect so staff can make adjustments and also share their experience with others in the organization. Evaluation. The book also includes a method for calculating the ROI of investing talent development in your nonprofit.

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

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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.