Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Someone asked Tara a question about measuring Whuffie or influence. The measure needs to be in the impact. If we concentrate on our influence, we forget the end goal. All too many times, people stop at the influence part: how popular is that person? A lot of followers doesn't equal influence. What you think?

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Next, you’ll want to focus on the metrics side of your formula, ensuring your values are measurable. Finally, you’ll need a minimum of five metric groups to create a member engagement formula. . What metrics will help your association move forward? . Where is there overlap? . Group similar activities.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Expands visibility and credibility in the community by showing your impact. Investing in marketing helps you build a foundation for growth, community engagement, and impactful change. Nonprofit marketing is deeply intertwined with social impact rather than focusing on financial gain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. The Network Impact team spent 18 months consulting with civic tech thought leaders and offering technical assistance to Knight Foundation grantees focused on assessing the impact of their technologies.

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

In this blog post, we’ll explore the significance of advancing equity in philanthropic grantmaking and discuss actionable steps that donors, organizations, and social changemakers can take to make a meaningful impact.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. You need concrete social media data to determine your impact through social media. Is it positive? Is it hostile?

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Analytics are typically more concerned with why your business has performed this way, what will happen in the future, and what actions you can take to influence the results. Here are some high impact and easy ways to put your data analytics to work. See if seasonality impacts engagement with a certain product.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Why report love matters Choosing a donor database is a pivotal decision for nonprofit fundraisers, influenced mainly by reporting capabilities. Optimize campaigns: Identify what works and what doesn’t so you can fine tune your efforts for maximum impact. Students impacted: 59,434 students have benefited from the foundation’s programs.

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Network for Good

MAY 21, 2021

According to surveys by Fidelity Charitable, Give.org, and the Johnson Center: 65% of donors would be more influenced to give if they had greater insight into the impact of their giving. And if there’s one thing that donors feel strongly about, it’s transparency. 64% of donors rated trusting a charity before they give as essential.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Plus, inviting thought leaders, influencers , and other guest speakers that your audience cares about helps secure your place as a trustworthy nonprofit. By keeping your goals in mind and ensuring that your content is useful for your listeners, you can create a real impact with your podcast.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 3, 2021

The social good community continues to respond to the hardships and impacts of the pandemic and social justice issues. This was the only group that had an increase for all metrics from the 2019 report. How did the challenges of 2020 impact volunteerism and employee giving? Highlights from the 2021 Industry Review.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 25, 2019

By Brent Merritt , a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. The 2019 M+R Benchmarks Report observed that for certain nonprofit sectors the impact has been “dramatic,” and for health nonprofits, in particular, it appeared “nothing short of transformative.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The impact on the data side of the ecosystem is that massive amounts of data is being generated and much of what goes for measurement in “social media tools” is profoundly sub optimal (I’m being polite). We have IT-minded people engaging in massive data puking (one report with 30 metrics anyone?)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 8, 2021

How are the answers to these questions impacting your fundraising? However, take time to identify well-known key stakeholders and brand advocates who have an influence in your community, like your CEO, local celebrities, and those impacted by your mission. Where are they in their lifecycle? Share their why.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

“Our goal is to help individuals and teams achieve and measure success and to shift the thinking about projects and work from merely completed activities to investments that deliver impact,” explain the authors.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

To strengthen wellbeing in the workplace the book provides leaders various solutions, including a new metric to track suffering, struggling, and thriving — Gallup Net Thriving. The quality of an employee’s work experience has three times the impact on their overall wellbeing as the number of hours they work ,” report the authors.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, carefully consider how you are packaging your data in the most impactful way. Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need. appeared first on Forum One | Turn Ideas Into Impact.

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Forum One

AUGUST 16, 2023

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, keep an eye toward how your internal and external reports can blend data-driven stories of impact. Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

As a result, organizations can demonstrate growth and impact to donors while strengthening their commitment to the mission. Recurring donors lend credibility to the organization and help influence prospective donors’ decision to donate for the first time and even become recurring donors themselves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

I just discovered that one of my blog colleagues in Australia, Seb Chan, is writing about a topic of mutual interest - social media metrics (my blog ramblings here and my wiki/presentations here ). I am also prepping a panel on the topic for NTC (more about that later) Seb Chan is focusing specifically on blog metrics for museums.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Empathy is contagious and influences and shapes a work culture of caring. Incorporate Wellbeing Metrics into Your Performance Reviews The good news is some organizations are already taking it a step further. Joan Garry and I had the joy of collaborating on this article together based on a conversation we had recently.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

The online platform provides metrics on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 750 cities across the U.S. The City Health Dashboard provides a case study in data storytelling that is unique to their platform but provides universal lessons for any organization looking to use data to reach audiences or influence action.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2022

“Our goal is to help individuals and teams achieve and measure success and to shift the thinking about projects and work from merely completed activities to investments that deliver impact,” explain the authors.

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Network for Good

MAY 21, 2021

According to surveys by Fidelity Charitable, Give.org, and the Johnson Center: 65% of donors would be more influenced to give if they had greater insight into the impact of their giving. And if there’s one thing that donors feel strongly about, it’s transparency. 64% of donors rated trusting a charity before they give as essential.

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Charity Aggregator Rate Survey 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

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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Connection Cafe

MAY 5, 2015

As a fundraiser, you are well aware of your internal program’s performance metrics. Tax policy, and its impact on charitable deductions. Interest rates, and their impact on saving vs. spending. Unemployment rates, and their impact on donor numbers. Population growth, and its impact on the pool of potential donors.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

While annual giving allows donors to contribute to something important to them in the present, planned gifts in the form of cash, property, or assets like stocks and bonds can influence an organization for years or decades to come. Communicate to donors how adding a bequest to their will can lead to a life-altering legacy for the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I spent a year co-writing on a book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with measurement guru KD Paine because I felt strongly focusing on vanity metrics such as follower counts or Facebook likes was a waste of time. I detected a clear shift in attitudes in the audience at the conference based on the audience questions.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

While this type of feedback is always worth exploring, it’s especially important to ground your nonprofit’s rebranding decisions in audience research to ensure any changes you make to your current brand will produce the impacts you desire.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

They’re flexible enough to pursue multiple paths to impact, which is critical given how quickly the world changes today. While some nonprofits are highly evolved in this category, many organizations are struggling with the first step of identifying which metrics to collect. Where are you on the spectrum? About the Author.

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EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

Understanding impact in the corporate world means having a great deal of “market awareness” and seeing how the moves you’re making are “moving the needle” and influencing your bottom line. Measuring impact has more to do with building awareness in issue areas and the larger public conversation. Have the right attitude.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Implement procedures to asess metrics. These generations, especially Gen Z, center their identities with the impact they are making on the world and are advocates for the causes they support. Reiterate their impact, celebrate their success, and say thank you every step of the way.” Be intimate with your data.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

When creating your social media strategy, research what tools can help you expand on your goals to make the maximum impact you can. Use this platform to post impactful images or videos of the work your organization does to emotionally appeal to potential supporters. Why should nonprofits use social media?

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

A national panel of judges was engaged in reviewing all entries based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design, and overall impact. We are honored to receive recognition in the 40th Healthcare Ad Awards and proud of the impactful work done by our teams and client partners.

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Forum One

JUNE 22, 2021

As you created your content strategy —defining the purpose of each page, bringing together your audience needs and organization’s goals—you outlined the metrics you need to track and analyze to determine whether or not your content marketing efforts are yielding consistent results. This is where a measurement plan is useful.

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Care2

OCTOBER 19, 2010

Aside from fundraising, a good social media program for advocacy (or rather “social advocacy&# program) should focus on measuring influence. Influence comprises several metrics, which can mostly be summarized within these categories: Reach. Engagement. Driving web traffic home.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

To better analyze your campaigns, you’ll need to understand a few fundamental metrics, including ROI, cost per dollar raised (CPDR), and cost per acquisition (CPA). Metrics like these measure your digital marketing campaigns in different ways, but they all seek to answer the same question: “Are your campaigns raising or losing money?”

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