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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

Have you ever sat through a board retreat and spent more time watching the clock, daydreaming, and checking texts than listening to the facilitator? Did your last facilitator stand behind a lectern and drone on like a record playing in slow motion? Facilitate and engage with confidence. Were they unengaging? Credibility.

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How To Make Sense of Your Social Media Metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” And I love facilitating, designing, and delivering workshops on this topic! See above).

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Markets for Good Post: Design A Better Dashboard

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This post was also appeared on the MarketsforGood site as part of my regular column, “Between the Dashboard and the Chair.” Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. Next staff identified key impact metrics by creating a paper prototype of the dashboard on the wall, with sticky notes.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering an Analytical Approach to Strategy and Planning

Bloomerang

Mastering personalized, customer-centered philanthropy facilitation, especially mid-level and major donors, to increase donor lifetime value. How many people attempted to make a donation on your website but left the site before they completed their transaction? You can find a bunch of fundraising metrics to track here.

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5 Tips to Optimize Your Healthcare Organization Website

sgEngage

The user journey encompasses every step visitors take when they interact with your healthcare website, from when they first arrive on the site to when they click away. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Then, group individuals based on shared characteristics.

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7 Common Nonprofit Marketing Hurdles That You Can Avoid

DipJar

Neglecting site design. Then, assess relevant metrics to see which types of content receive the most engagement. Some common metrics to track are website page views, email click-through rates, and social media engagement. . Neglecting site design. But are you paying attention to your site’s design ? .