Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

Of course, that included getting new ideas for software for social good! Idea One: Tackle Indoor Pollution First, I sat down with the controversial Bjorn Lomberg , also known as the “ Skeptical Environmentalist.” Worth some thought: I’ll stick that idea into the Benetech Labs hopper ! Andrew challenged me on that idea.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Here are some ideas to start your thinking about how to create a warm list of email leads that can lead to donors. These should sell someone the idea of registering for your email list based on the content they have just read, and now value, on the page, enticing potential donors for more. 22 Online Donor Acquisition Tactics.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 6, 2010

Measuring outcomes is difficult, measuring activities is easy. But, if we only measure activities, we could find ourselves being "successful" while the species we're trying to protect goes extinct or the biome we're trying to protect loses viability and diversity. Tags: CMP SPM Miradi Moore results based management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

And, the process of observing even 10 other similar organizations social media practices can give you lots of good ideas if you approach with discipline. I’m going to blogging more about how networked nonprofits use measurement and use data for making decisions about improving their practice and getting results.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In this guide, we’ll cover the following essentials: Employee Engagement FAQs Employee Engagement Dos and Don’ts Employee Engagement Program Ideas Employee Engagement Plan Template Let’s explore why employee engagement is so critical and how you can promote it on an everyday basis. We’ll go over some ideas later! Talent attraction.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 27, 2023

Answer Questions This is a question-first platform that rewards the best responses with a top position on the thread and on Google Search results. Budget your time wisely, and set a goal for the time period and results expected as your team tests this platform out. This will help accrue clout to the main organization account.

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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. Have they been able to put the ideas into practice?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2020

Performance measurement (PM) informs strategic decisions. To truly move the needle towards ameliorating social challenges throughout the world, we must revisit the efficacy of what has been measured and how. Use performance measurements sensitive enough to detect gradual changes so that small scale initiatives can be informative.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 22, 2013

Why Circumvention for the Purposes of Access is Crucial A Bookshare Briefing Paper Prepared for the Diplomatic Conference for Visually Impaired Persons The distributors of digital content often use technological protection measures (TPMs) to discourage the making of unauthorized copies.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2024

Impact,” “results,” and “outcomes” all refer to evidence that your program is effective and will be used interchangeably here.) How are you measuring progress? You can learn the basics of creating logic models for your programs in Candid’s Introduction to Measuring Your Impact course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

This will give you a good idea of what works and what doesn’t. As a result, you’ll need to get comfortable with using hashtags to promote your content. It can often help to do some research, to find which hashtags will deliver the best results. 7) Measure your social media engagement. Source: Dreamgrow. on LinkedIn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

As KD Paine and I wrote in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” measuring your social media channels, overall communications or marketing strategy is not a form of voodoo black magic; it is an art and a science. So, what does it take to do the art and science of measuring your marketing or communication strategies well?

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2022

However, with a unique idea and thoughtful strategy, you can make your animal fundraising a roaring success. In this guide, we’ll dive into a list of the best animal-centric in-person and virtual fundraising ideas for increasing revenue for your animal-focused nonprofit: Partner with a local pet store. More on this idea below!).

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Explore this definitive guide to learn more about Giving Tuesday, get great campaign ideas, and soak up some best practices. Giving Tuesday FAQs 15+ Surefire Giving Tuesday Campaign Ideas to Set You Up for Success Giving Tuesday Campaign Best Practices. See how Qgiv can help you bring your Giving Tuesday campaign ideas to life!

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Either way, it’s time to brush up on your peer-to-peer fundraising chops and check out some online fundraising ideas that you can use to attract donors to your nonprofit. Here’s a quick look at 3 of our top online fundraising ideas: 1. of all online donations , so it’s one of the best online fundraising ideas out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2024

Retaining top performers is likely a measure of your effectiveness and success in your role. Source new internally- or externally-facing ideas for improvements. Show employees that you value their input and ideas. When you receive feedback and ideas from employees, think about them and consider the right course of action.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

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.orgSource

OCTOBER 17, 2023

leadership soapbox here to say that a digital culture uses objective data to measure and evaluate all of its activities. You’ll want to enlist directors with influence to champion the idea. The idea is not to find fault but to discover opportunities for learning how to work together more effectively.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 31, 2020

Creating measurable goals with actionable items is vital to a fundraising strategy, and just as important is checking in to see how you’re doing. Let’s check out what to consider when measuring your results. As BoardSource points out, even measuring your ROI is more than just money in vs. money out.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

This begs the question: What should community college completion look like, and what measures of attainment equate to success in this higher education sector? They complete (or don’t) a new student orientation full of abstract ideas and inspiration and enroll full-time or part-time, online or in person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. But that data doesn’t tell anything about how we can improve and get better results.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

But for innovation to thrive, you must embrace a culture where the entire nonprofit is committed to enhancing processes or strategies by transforming ideas into actionable improvements. Collaboration: Working collaboratively is the only way to combine ideas and perspectives. You can do so with open and transparent communication.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

We’re trying to understand what continues work and what doesn’t and evolve practice. You need to be nimble and not blindly follow a template because it worked in the past. Measurement and learning are now more important than ever for success. And, that is how they measure success. This advice still holds true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ? What are your KPIs?

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

AI tools are already being used by many organizations to brainstorm ideas, find efficiencies, and explore new ways of working. Ask an AI tool to help make your writing more succinct or engaging and see what the results are. (It It will rarely be 100% on the mark, but can spark new ideas.) Copyediting. Template creation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

By improving the visibility of your posts you are able to involve more people and thus, you’ll also have more creative ideas. It’s an easy way to set measurable goals and to align your objectives with your daily posting. 2) Get inspired by new ideas. 10) Measure success. 10 Steps to Create a Content Calendar.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

On September 6 in San Francisco, over 200 attendees at NTEN’s Leading Change Summit (14LCS) convened for its finale event: the Idea Accelerator. In order to ensure the work and concepts that emerged throughout the workshops had a launch pad, we created the Idea Accelerator as the final day’s focus, pushing those ideas into possibilities.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

Higher Donation Amounts Moreover, data-driven donation requests have been shown to result in higher donation amounts. It enhances fundraising and drives results. ChatGPT can help nonprofits brainstorm ideas for challenges and campaigns. These tasks include donor segmentation, campaign optimization, and impact measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2012

This week, KD Paine and I, did a whirlwind tour of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” book talks in San Francisco and Silicon Valley. Many thanks to our generous hosts including the Foundation Center/SF, Zero Divide, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, TechSoup Global, and Stanford University. … Read More

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