Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 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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sgEngage

JULY 24, 2023

Re-evaluate your messaging. Use video storytelling! Are your admissions practices inadvertently excluding talented individuals by focusing too much on test scores, essays, or other elements that tend to favor a small subset of prospective students? Adapt your marketing. Does it convey a unique advantage to potential applicants?

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Evaluate peer organizations to identify your peers’ strengths and weaknesses, compare them to yours, and find opportunities to differentiate your organization. Consider incorporating these strategies into your preliminary concepts for the campaign: Leverage storytelling. Peer organizations. Finalize the concept design.

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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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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Storytelling Isn't Enough – You Have to Tell Good Stories. The most surprising thing Steve Daigneault shared was M+R Strategic Service's tests on the effectiveness of storytelling. Sue Citro shared tips from her experience evaluating and updating the Nature Conservancy's fundraising and outreach program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Deep-dives into Google Analytics reports with specific examples for evaluating your digital marketing performance. An experiment is the DS106 (an online course on Digital Storytelling) that is a “ headless course ,’ or one without a teacher, although the curriculum/syllabus was created by an instructor.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Whether you’re striving to make a difference in your community, protect the environment, or provide a lifeline to those in need, your storytelling ability can mean the difference between a thriving and well-funded program and one that falls flat. The Power of Storytelling in Fundraising Humans are meaning-making creatures.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

We’ll go over how to evaluate your organization’s own strengths and weaknesses when it comes to employee engagement strategies later on. Impact storytelling. However, as we’ll explore later, there are plenty of ways to engage remote employees as well. Tech stack. Why is employee engagement important?

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

When evaluating how much effort you can realistically put into social media, you may discover that you need to scale back on how many channels you utilize. they do an amazing job of visual storytelling), @rainforestalliance. , @habitatforhumanity. , @aspca. , Test-and-learn. billion monthly active users. *. charitywater.

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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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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 29, 2018

As our speakers in the session focused on “data-driven storytelling” highlighted, analytic reports don’t replace meetings, but they can certainly help them. Foster a data culture, and a testing culture . A tool that can help you evaluate the effectiveness of your program, it forces you to identify your desired outcomes.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 28, 2020

We’re all starting to see the gaps and fragility in institutions and systems we may foolishly have believed were rock-strong, or at least unlikely to be tested so vigorously. Are you just setting these aside with the idea of returning to them all later, when funding is available, or is a larger re-evaluation merited? Let’s do it.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 24, 2011

But as it happened, I got the first episode completely ready (to completely test out the concept and the voicemail system) and then launched it. Lesson: when your project, like GISKIN, really depends on the end experience, there’s no better way to evaluate it than to produce a bit of it and experience it complete and in situ.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. Try testing page titles & meta descriptions to optimize your clicks and increase search rankings. Creating a digital plan does that by aligning strategies to support your marketing goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Gaming is testing ideas, proposing solutions, and moving through the system. A way to keep alive the ancient tales of India and storytelling in India. Important to test. Prototyping, evaluation, and learning lab - partnering with the games 4 change. That's where dancing takes place. Gaming is a literacy of transgression.

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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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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

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

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. Brand it and test it. Figure out what actually happens after you send out an email, and evaluate your approach based on that. Offer a Call to Action.

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M+R

OCTOBER 26, 2022

1 So we turned to YouTube to unlock rich, new storytelling formats and connect with donors in ways that would complement our Search campaigns. As we tested these new campaign strategies, it became imperative to understand the impact of our investments. An example of IRC ads on a variety of digital channels and surfaces.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? Because you’ll have permitting fees, you may have, you know, some design fees, you may have to do some testing with surveys or geotechnical studies. But I think fundraising and capital campaigns are all about storytelling. What is the need in the community now?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

Know Your Audience Storytelling for Impact Leverage Social Media Harnessing the Power of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Optimizing Your Website and Donation Forms Participate in GivingTuesday Don’t Leave Out Your Board! Storytelling for Impact When you are planning a campaign, you’re doing more than just writing out a series of appeals.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As I’m sure many of you already know, much of this work, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, relies on a strategy continues to come back around to the planning elements and through to evaluation, over and over. Who’s the community?

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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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Achieve

JULY 23, 2017

Evaluate the performance and conversions of your website, social channels, email marketing and more, then use the analysis when determining the direction of your year-end campaign and campaign goals. Strong campaigns utilize needs-based storytelling, which starts with the beneficiaries your organization serves.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

Storytelling tip I attended a terrific session at the Bridge Conference around creating more authentic content with citizen storytellers. To do anything right, you need the resources to set up the activities, time for testing, a plan, and people to manage it. Include visuals like slides or a short video to play during the event.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2013

It is a great example of using maps for storytelling. There are always times when you want to evaluate or test something but just aren''t sure how to set up the experiment. There''s an infographic for that. It''s true, we said a buzz word already. To lighten the mood, maybe you''d like to enter the Internet Cat Video Festival ?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Here are some storytelling tips: Tap into people’s love of narrative. If you don’t test it well in advance of your campaign, you could face big problems on the day of your campaign launch, costing you donations. Here are some questions your team can ask to evaluate your campaign’s success: Did we meet our goal?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important. It tends to be ideal when catering to the emotional side of issues and is well-utilized for user generated content.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

we do tests where we send dozens of donations to nonprofits to see how we’re treated as donors. . We know that storytelling is powerful. But storytelling is fundamental, we’re hardwired for stories. And where they test, you know, 3 options or 20 options. But essentially. So people get it. . Great book by.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. A/B Testing: The digital age has given us the ability to test and refine in real-time. Use this advantage to A/B test versions of your direct mailers. Evaluate Remember the measurable goals you set in the beginning? Do include visuals and a video. This feels amazing.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Ask the candidate/vendor to evaluate areas of improvement on your site. Seeing as humans have the attention span less than that of a goldfish , you may need the extra time to focus on storytelling. If you can’t predict behavior then you must test and study it to base informed decisions on the direction of your content.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When evaluating your nonprofit website’s effectiveness , an important question to ask yourself is whether all possible users can access the content on your site. You can find a variety of tools online to help you check contrast ratios and test whether your website provides a positive user experience for colour blind audiences.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. For best results, we recommend A/B testing your mailers to determine which type of messaging is the most effective. When it’s all over, evaluate your fundraising success. Do include visuals and a video. How – the call-to-action. social media posts. This feels amazing. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Tis a test and nothing more!'. With the wildlife we're compiling, We could keep the scientists smiling, And lose the grave and stern decorum that was our storytelling before, 'Though tweets are short and fitted,' I said, we'll increase the total submitted. Evaluated them against our expected consequences. CONCLUSION.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2014

I’ve been following it for a while now and it is very inspiring on many different levels. The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.”

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EveryAction

MARCH 7, 2016

Lately, we've been obsessed with storytelling. For nonprofits, great storytelling, especially in the digital space, is changing donor behavior in all of the best ways (think: more action, deeper connection, and higher donation rates.). Ask yourself: What measurable outcomes would make this storytelling initiative successful?

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