NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. Before you make the full investment, test the initiative out on a smaller scale. Collect data to test the accuracy of your projected benefits and costs. Were the projected costs accurate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

You wrote your essay, studied your spelling words, took tests (without looking at anyone else’s answers!). NTEN facilitated a wiki to create workshop curriculum for social media and nonprofits with more than 200 nonprofit technology practitioners as part of the WeAreMedia project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

John Kenyon and I wrote guest posts on the NTEN blog that will give you a flavor of what the session is about. From Analysis to Evaluation: Tools, Tips, and Techniques from Trainers. by Jane Bozarth, Editor. This like having a playbook from the best of the best instructional designers and trainers. by Jane Bozarth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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." Test and tweak. Here's a conversion test: Does an acceptable, standard metric exist for the measure? But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. Harvest insights.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

The best thing we can do is develop a process that allows us to experiment, to try different responses, evaluate those responses, and respond in real time as the expectations of your community change. If we don't know something is going to work, how do we quickly and cheaply test our assumptions? The answer is: there is no answer.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

When the issue of interest moves from measurement for accountability/compliance to #evaluation for learning – from Karcsig. Another way is to let qualitative data inform a hypothesis that you go on to test with numerical data. It's fitness for purpose and don't forget a lot of quantitative data is rubbish – from Dunc-Rintoul.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

With more than ten years of experience under our collective belts, the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established, but nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns. Tags: email jeff patrick measurement Newsletter NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Recently, I had a conversation with Annaliese of NTEN , and a couple of Community TechKnowledge (CTK) staff members. Can we use free and inexpensive social media tools to create and test a beta version of our podcast? What is our intended outcome, and how will we evaluate whether we have achieved success?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. A question was asked recently on the NTEN Consultants affinity group.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2007

Michelle Murrain has set up a new NTEN Affinity Group called Open Content Business Models. But, so far, a successful business model has not be tested or evaluated. The description: There has been a lot of discussion in the nonprofit technology community about open content.

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NTEN

JUNE 21, 2011

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. I think that we have a lot to learn about where gamifying is most helpful, but we are so far from the saturation point that we should push ahead with full speed so we can evaluate what works and what doesn't and make adjustments.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

In cities across America, Canada, Europe, the UK and South America, local networks of techies, marketers, project managers, storytellers, and others got together, identified problems and projects, shared those ideas across the network with other camps, assigned teams, built prototypes, shared and tested and launched several applications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

NTEN reports in Nonprofit Social Network Survey Report , "Staffing and budgets for nonprofit social network projects -- on commercial social networks -- are real but small, with four-fifths of nonprofit survey respondents committing at least one-quarter of a full-time staff person to these efforts. " Is it a good use of funds?

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

Many programs, when evaluated, have been shown to be ineffective or have negative outcomes. There are some key elements to look for when your organization is ready to evaluate a performance management data system. Will you track results of adult literacy tests or teens transitioned into work programs?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Need to change the way you engage donors or implement A/B testing? Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Just do it.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 2, 2015

Discovering if Like Equals Love: Understanding and Testing Online Engagement. Reporting & Evaluation: Why is it important to increasing online engagement? Nonprofit News #15NTC #nptech nonprofit tech Nonprofit Technology Network NTEN Online Fundraising Online marketing' This session will get you started.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Need to change the way you engage donors or implement A/B testing? Sure you might have to pick among four different project management tools, but you can evaluate them all in an afternoon without having to get on the phone with a salesperson. Tags: Infrastructure Leadership Newsletter NPTech NTEN. Just do it.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. The AIDS.gov website is a gateway to all Federal domestic HIV testing, prevention, treatment, and research information. Tags: email Newsletter NPTech NTEN online communications websites. Are you credible?

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

In market segmentation, you evaluate your overall donor and constituent base and separate them into smaller groups based on similar characteristics. As you implement simple segmentation strategies, don't be afraid to test different messaging within the same group of people to see what gets the strongest response.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I'm working on another screencast (sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce ) about the SalesForce/Google Ad Words Integration. You need to take a reiterative approach - look at the results and evaluate and improve. Remember, if you're just starting out, don't go too hogwild - start with a few options, evaluate, and tweak. Be strategic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

"We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange. I so need a better system. Social Web.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Effective Knowledge Transfer and Exchange for Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework, from Imagine Canada (formerly the Canadian Centre for Philanthropy), provides a framework to help nonprofits plan, conduct, and evaluate their efforts at knowledge transfer and exchange. Evaluation. logs and evaluation forms â?? Have Fun â?¢

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Luckily, we, like all successful groups in the field, excelled at anecdotal evaluation. In the 180 clinics spanning two districts where the system has been tested, we’ve been getting roughly a 90% reporting rate. Tags: Data Mobile Newsletter NPTech NTEN IT Staff. The good news is that the math is finally starting to add up. .

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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. 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. test and teweak.

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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. The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

So, I designed and have been testing a training program that embraces thoughtful do-it-yourself social media experiments and a peer learning process for sharing the learning. This experiment focused on using metrics to evaluate how engaging content was and recruitment tactics.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2021

Lack of a structured process for quality assurance (QA) testing and remediation. Here are ten tips on preparation, evaluating proposals , and red flags to watch out for in working with digital vendors: Seek productive conversations as a starting point. QA testing finds and resolves bugs and ensures the product works as promised.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. Brand it and test it. Figure out what actually happens after you send out an email, and evaluate your approach based on that. The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld. Andrew Nachison, founder and CEO, We Media. Or, find a new tool.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

I have evaluated a number of options, and every one of them comes up short in one way or another. In my tests it was buggy (some parts of it just didn’t work), and the interface was still a bit crude. And, boy did I just fail the Richard Stallman test!) We offer special NTEN rates for any memebers out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2018

Humanitarian organizations are actively researching and testing how the use of messaging and bots can help refugees or those directly impacted by a natural disaster, according a recent report by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies. Evaluate and Iterate: Run your pilot for a few months.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2013

We''ve heard from NTEN members about Google Glass - some have even tried it out. There are always times when you want to evaluate or test something but just aren''t sure how to set up the experiment. nptech nten Things We Like' It is a great example of using maps for storytelling. It''s a real thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. Holly Ross , NTEN, also loves spreadsheets. “I She advices subjecting your data to the so what test. That usually isn’t case.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We monitor sites in real time, evaluate what's necessary to respond to, develop responses with PR, deliver responses the same way generated, monitor following conversation and alert Communications in daily meetings. Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important. Have a response process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Source: Dollar Bin, Flickr In February, I'll be co-teaching the " WeAreMedia Live " intensive two-day workshop in San Francisco from NTEN. Special thanks to Qui Diaz and Danielle Brigidia for giving this a real world test from the vantage point of a social media strategist in a nonprofit organization. Identify Objectives.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 7, 2007

Although the Journal was prepared in partnership with NTEN, I take full and personal responsibility for the decision to use a closed license. Katrin Verclas (the Executive Director of NTEN, for those who don’t know) was eager to know if there was any way to make it open and pushed hard for it.

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