Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2014

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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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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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

As you define your goal(s), also think about how to measure it. Here are a few examples: Increase awareness and expand your audience: success is measured by an increase in followers, but you could also track things like shares, reposts, and retweets. Set a time period for the test. In a year, what will success look like?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 27, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Boost Your Nonprofit’s Impact: 10 Power-Packed Summer Fundraising Ideas for 2023 As the mercury rises, so should your nonprofit’s impact! Keep in mind the costs of renting projection equipment, acquiring necessary permits, and ensuring safety measures are in place. Happy fundraising!

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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. It will rarely be 100% on the mark, but can spark new ideas.) Drafting and testing. Writing multiple drafts for A/B testing on social media. Template creation. Optimizing reach.

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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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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For instance, your marketing team may use AI to come up with new, creative ideas for blog content, but they should still be in charge of writing it themselves. Impact measurement: Have open discussions about the effectiveness of AI and decide how you will monitor its success. Define what exactly AI will and will not be used for.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. But you’ve got to be patient, and you’ve got to have goals against which you can measure your results. You know what they say about measurement, right? That which gets measured gets done!

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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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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Artificial intelligence (AI) can help busy fundraisers reduce time spent on administrative tasks, brainstorm new fundraising ideas, help with appeal writing, and more! This automated security measure has resulted in a 97% drop in card testing on Qgiv forms.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2022

If you’re like many of us working in nonprofit leadership today, you’re more than likely exhausted and running out of actionable ideas. So where are all the good ideas? It must be articulate enough to measure progress against, inspiring enough to move people to action, and still broad enough to withstand the test of time.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 4, 2022

Before the pandemic, there were many challenges with setting up real-life experiences to test your hypotheses. Those ideas probably would have been shot down in the past. But don’t forget there could be value in creating goodwill and thought leadership with free services that you can’t always measure.

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CauseVox

JUNE 3, 2024

You should try to continually measure and evaluate your donation pages to see what is and isn’t working for you. This will help you make decisions about any changes you would like to implement and to measure whether these changes are effective. You can run your donation page through Google Search Console to test it!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

As the grand finale to NTEN’s first-ever Leading Change Summit , a number of intrepid 14LCS attendees pitched and developed 24 awe-inspiring projects during the Idea Accelerator. Today, we want to introduce you to "Nonprofit InfoSec" an idea pitched by Spencer Bolles. 14lcs Community idea accelerator Leadership'

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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. Measuring Work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

This allows you to successfully test and evaluate your personalization strategies and tactics. This stage of personalization doesn’t require automation, and you can test and gauge impact by simply monitoring opens and click-through rates. Test different messages and calls-to-action (CTAs). How will you measure success?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Thorough understanding leads to big ideas. For nonprofits, this means rigorously testing different emotional appeals, stories, and calls-to-action and then reusing what proves most effective. There are tons of ideas that you can shop on Meta (Facebook) Ads Library. Results, not applause, are the real test.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

All of which combine to make impact difficult to measure and explain. Isn’t it more of a success if potential solutions can be tested and co-created with stakeholders to deliver the greatest benefit? Redefine Success by Solution Testing. Here is our idea for how to address the key challenge.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

Your team tests the new solution with new data points to see how it responds and the accuracy of its outputs. You’ll further test and refine the tool over time the more you use it to support your fundraising. You add the data to a machine-learning solution, which uses the information to learn about your donor base.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2018

One of my favorite activities is to do a networking walk on The Dish trail, a five mile somewhat challenging hike adjacent to the Stanford University campus, a location where Silicon Valley start up entrepreneurs have famously walked and made deals or come up with great ideas. How do you measure that impact?

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M+R

OCTOBER 22, 2021

How will I be able to measure conversion rates and assess the strength of my program? Inspirations, intentions, and ideas from our Roundtable on Ethical Creative. If you’ve been asking yourself… How the heck am I going to find my supporters online now? …this is the conversation for you.

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Perhaps it was a multiple-choice final exam or an essay-style test printed in double-spaced Times New Roman. An eLearning assessment is a tool used to assess your members’ understanding of a topic and document that information in a measurable way. This tests knowledge acquisition.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 7, 2021

The idea was to save data more centrally to ensure we could report quickly when needed, especially around safeguarding people. ”. She recently gained qualifications at the UN Sustainable Development Academy to measure Cirrico’s progress on the United Nations SDG’s which they are aligned with, to also measure clients progress.

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Forum One

JUNE 10, 2021

In the next step, we’ll consider how you can test possible improvements to your site for mobile donors. Step 4: Form and test hypotheses for segment personalization. Before making any changes, however, it’s good practice to form and test hypotheses to ensure the changes you make will get the results you want.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Test your current site: Use online or onsite usability testing to learn what information your users look for on your website and how easy it is for them to find it. Testing Your Visual Story. Share your ideas, tips, recommended reading, questions or feedback here. Assign them key tasks and document results.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 12, 2020

But now, with safety measures relaxing slightly, shifting to a hybrid event style will give you the best of both worlds. When hosting a hybrid event, you should at least have some idea what your attendees would hope to gain from the event and you should be prepared to host both the physical and online sessions yourself.

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Consider the following security measures to ensure you invest in secure software: PCI certification: If your CRM offers a payment processor, check to see if it’s PCI-certified. Breach protocol: No one wants to consider the worst-case scenario, but burying your head in the sand isn’t a good idea. But what does secure software look like?

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

A few key things to keep in mind: AI measures probabilistic outcomes in response to a question to determine what data it should show. Maybe it’s because we’re starting to struggle with the AI Mirror Test or we’re getting close to a successful completion of the Turing Test. ChatGPT is a probabilistic model.

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M+R

JULY 6, 2023

We know from our media advocacy campaigns that Twitter offered a public gathering place for journalists, thought leaders, and influencers to exchange ideas and comment on the news cycle. Take it for a test drive. It offers a solution for campaigns and orgs looking to post links and focus on rapid response and breaking news.

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Forum One

MARCH 9, 2023

And if you have questions or ideas about getting started or expanding AI and ML in your practices, reach out! Alexis: The state of Hawaii mapped its infrastructure, with overlays of potential climate impacts and considerations of vulnerable populations, allowing them to run scenarios and test hypotheses for different preparedness measures.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2022

How are we going to measure success? I want to share a few key lessons from our conversation, and ideas I’ll be taking forward into digital strategy planning myself, and of course, you can listen back to our conversation anytime, to hear from these leaders yourself. Be agile, measure, and prove value.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 28, 2021

To show you how you can make acquisition goal setting a breeze, I’ll focus on three things: timing, defining, and measuring. . For one organization, a desired outcome might be to test a new creative package against their control package to see which one converts the most donors. Measuring: Figure out what you need to measure.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? She encourages us, as sector professionals, to rethink our outdated problem-solving habits and stop making assumptions without acknowledgment and testing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

This year, we’ve further refined this handy tool, and tested it with a number of our clients. For example, our colleagues at VolunteerMatch used the tool as an inspiration to create their 2012 volunteer engagement calendar. So now the 2013 version has twice the hooks to inspire nonprofit communications.

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NetWits

JUNE 19, 2012

A 2011 Gleanster survey found the most important value drivers for top corporate email programs were: Testing and measuring everything. They test offers, messaging and more. Apply what’s working in the corporate world to your email programs, including: Testing variables like subject lines and calls to action , for starters.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Here’s a “you test” you can use from Bloomerang that also incorporates the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level reading test. This is why there are all sorts of readability tips you want to keep in mind, beginning with the Flesch-Kincaid Grade level test. Take a good hard look at your letter. how you would talk). how you would talk).

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