Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. Tracking for Impact and Learning. Metrics for Movements.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

This can have a huge impact on your outreach and engagement efforts. You’ll want to track your performance to ensure you’re complying with your grants’ requirements, but you may also want to track other metrics, too. The metrics you choose to track will be related to your goals. What Can I Get Through Google Ad Grants?

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. Used properly, you’ll know if your email metrics are at industry levels; used poorly, you’ll only scratch the surface of email performance. To say this is a highly anticipated, monumental report would be an understatement.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Think carefully about the cost of your fundraising activities and the long-term impact your nonprofit potentially has on your community. Creating a sustainable, scalable fundraising campaign that will help you grow your future impact is just as important as reaching your fundraising goal. Measure all fundraising metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

We make tweetable summaries for wonky reports. We measure the impact of our campaigns by counting social mentions. Note from Beth: A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed two books about measurement from two different fields – start ups and nonprofit performance assessment. We write the great tweet to go with that video.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Reporting and analytics functionality includes tracking key metrics and creating custom reports with advanced data visualization capabilities. In Summary: Raiser’s Edge NXT is best suited for mid-sized to large nonprofits that are seeking robust fundraising and donor management features out-of-the-box.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Chat-first offers instant information on a given topic based on a summary of the top 3-5 links. Track upstream search-side metrics. Analyze metrics like number of turns, queries per session and bounce rate within chat interfaces to better understand how people are engaging with your content so you can optimize accordingly.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

Chat-first offers instant information on a given topic based on a summary of the top 3-5 links. Track upstream search-side metrics. Analyze metrics like number of turns, queries per session and bounce rate within chat interfaces to better understand how people are engaging with your content so you can optimize accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

I’m really curious about how networked nonprofits can use measurement and make decisions using data to get more impact from networked approaches. How many take the time on the front-end to set up a simple system to collect the essential metrics to figure out what is working or what isn’t? Or to document results?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Trends Reports First, let’s look at reports that focus on large scale trends impacting the entire sector. Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics. But with great power comes great responsibility!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Demonstrating impact, an essential part of any impact management strategy for nonprofit, and making change for good is the raison d’etre of every organization. With an increasing level of pressure to report on impact, taking a single step to meet this requirement is a great start. How does impact relate to both of these trends?

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

The capabilities of your online fundraising platform have a massive impact on your overall success, and platforms like Classy can help you connect with your supporters effectively and efficiently online. However, it can have so much more impact than just for your internal tracking purposes. Attend Our Virtual Nonprofit Conference.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your organization’s logo is the visual summary of your organization’s brand. However, if these engagement metrics are chronically low, your nonprofit may need more than routine maintenance—you may need an overhaul. Innovating for Dramatically More Scale and Social Impact. About the Author: Ryan Felix. How to Tell.

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Neon CRM

MAY 1, 2023

It’s all about targets and numbers and metrics. After every informational event, you should use all of the summaries you’ve written to build out your donor database. Wherever your donor focuses their support, ask for feedback from them and regularly show them their impact on the organization.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Leverage at-a-glance giving summaries. Donor profiles are compilations of everything you know about individual constituents, giving your team a summary of who your donors are and important personal connections. These factors impact how your team collects and leverages donor data. Process customized data reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

We begin with a summary and then group your information into three categories: Programs and Results . This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Our reorganized profiles offer a clearer view of each nonprofit organization. Operations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

The report is intended primarily for arts and performance organizations, but it has a lot of material that's useful to anyone who works with online media, including great summaries of what is and isn't covered under public domain and fair use.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2024

Bloomerang’s New Reporting Capabilities Last month we launched several new reporting capabilities to help you better understand volunteer impact, support grant submissions, and inspire existing and potential volunteers. You now have 60 new reports to help you measure volunteer impact. an hour, a 6.2% increase from 2021 to 2022.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 19, 2024

When more and more content is bad, good content deepens connections with audiences, ranks high in search engines, and amplifies impact. It’s about going beyond superficial engagement metrics to truly grasp what an audience cares about, what questions they want answers to, and what inspires them to take action.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Executive summary: The summary is a snapshot of your proposal. Use data to make a clear case for why the funder’s support is crucial to the impact you can make. Overall impact: Bring the grant review committee back to the main goal of your proposal by highlighting the overall impact your project aims to achieve.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

Here's my favorite summary: Punch per post! Beth Kanter had a great post a couple of weeks ago about the variety of social media metrics she puzzles over. Allyson Kapin wrote another piece you should read about measuring your impact on Twitter. Maybe social media metrics are a little like horseshoes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

A new whitepaper by Jonny Bentwood, a PR consultant for Edelman, Distributed Influence: Quantifying the Impact of Social Media. The white includes a summary of discussion from a roundtable of social media experts discussing the attributes and dimensions of influence and how it differs from other attributes, for example attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Change the conversation from vanity metrics to validated learning. In these early stages, it is more important to honor learning. But there is something else to add as well. Networks have been valuable to the social change sector because of the potential for collective impact rather than individual impact.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you were unable to attend the conference, we hope you can use the summary below to inspire thoughtful conversations at your institution and help in your planning for the new year. . . Conduct an impact analysis and use it! He encouraged the audience to create a “Major Gift Framework” that would help drive impact.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

you can still use the summary below?to?inspire?meaningful Colleges and universities are dedicating resources to develop separate stewardship programs that drive future giving and show donors the impact they are having on campus. . were not able to attend,?you meaningful conversations?and and help for your?20 20 20 planning.? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter. Run the impact report to help you identify influencers. This can be useful to find potential collaborators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2007

Sonny Cloward has an excellent summary and reflection over at the NTEN Blog and looks like we're also puzzling over the same issue: I???m but about how to distribute content as widely as possible to have the broadest impact on our causes. While I admit that metrics and branding are challenging, but not impossible, I believe it???

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Finally, its predictable and repeatable impression metrics allow organizations to put their resources behind a “sure thing.”. Advocacy email campaigns involve sharing information about the many ways your supporters can advocate for your mission publicly and have an impact beyond giving directly to your organization. Advocacy Campaigns.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 6, 2023

That blog post—instead of just being about the law—could show how it will impact your shelter’s beneficiaries. You can use it and link to it in a number of different ways to expand your impact. You’ll notice that the language of Ruby’s summary has been tweaked slightly. See what they’re doing now.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The following is a brief summary of the discussion highlights: Jen Burton , Community Director, Causes : Causes provides online fundraising tools for organizations that register with them. Causes allows donors to take control of their donated dollars and choose exactly how their money will make an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

By following best practices like repurposing compelling content, focusing on progress and impact, and creating new connections, you can build a newsletter that your nonprofit’s supporters will look forward to. Instead, you’re writing a two to three-sentence summary of that post focused specifically on the theme of your newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

For a deeper dive into visual storytelling, be sure to download this free comprehensive guide on how to develop high-impact videos. By recruiting a pool of passionate individuals to advocate on behalf of your cause, you’re able to meet new networks of donors and quickly scale your impact. 5) Fundraising Metrics. Impact Created.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For health data to impact health outcomes and related policies, the data must be made accessible to policymakers, health advocates, and other interested parties. Forum One has worked with dozens of organizations to effectively show impact and change outcomes using data. Other data-driven sites want to reach a much broader audience.

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