Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Measuring success of social media in your work can be a tricky thing to do, especially as we all explore and experiment with the tools every day and many tools and processes are still very new. Embrace storytelling. Value : These emerge from the Strategy choices and Benefits. This is something that the 350.org Crowd vs Community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

It's where I grabbed the above slide show that offers a conceptual framework for strategy and metrics. It's making me think of Gary Haye's Transmedia Storytelling and Co-Creation framework. He lays out what to measure for each of these areas. Here's the slide. Well, back to packing up the house for the big move.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Use of counting metrics. Key influencers take action, including media. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Measuring the Value of Your Blog.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

How to create an online fundraising strategy Tips for a successful online fundraiser 10 effective online fundraising ideas 8 online fundraising metrics to track Use the tips and ideas in this guide to create your own online fundraising plan and to determine the fundraising tools you’ll need to accomplish your ultimate goals.

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Ideas Guide Online Fundraising 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. Return on Influence: This will be a deep dive into social media metrics and keeping an eye on the new tools that will no doubt debut to help us measure. SXSW Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Google Earth Outreach from Rebecca Moore: Google’s mapping tools may seem like an obscure tool to use in your work but these aren’t traditional maps: the new generation of mapping technology is fully interactive, enables storytelling, and more. (Did Influence decision-makers; impact public policy.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

1) Visual Storytelling. Visual storytelling does exactly that. In fact, 80% of the top grossing campaigns through CauseVox use visual storytelling to showcase their cause and crush their fundraising goal. Try fitting it into the Pixar Storytelling Framework. 5) Fundraising Metrics. Consider this. Updates and news.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Organizations that invest in PCI-compliant online fundraising solutions can take proper cybersecurity measures to ensure that their online donation process is secure. Track key metrics To determine how successful your strategy is and see if you’re reaching your goals, you need to know which metrics to track.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 10, 2019

Set SMART(Smart, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely) goals to make the tracking of your success easier. We have created Story Builder, a storytelling feature in Lightful’s social media management platform, based on the idea of using social media to tell your story more effectively (you can try it for.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

Educate, inform and move people emotionally - inspire action Influence decision-makers; impact public policy To get started and to review more case studies, visit: [link] Questions & Answers: What do you think about the idea of organizations only using social media tools as an online presence instead of a traditional website?

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

employed powerful visuals to grab your attention and storytelling designed to keep you reading. To determine what to measure, we need a combination of “vanity metrics” and goal-specific metrics. To help educate the public on issues of unfairness in the U.S. Anti-sex-trafficking organization Amirah Inc. Online donations ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. It is also important to think about what specific metrics are needed to measure along the way.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 24, 2011

Ready to dive into how to convey messages using specific marketing channels, and ultimately, how to measure the results of your work? Storytelling. In Storytelling as Best Practice , Andy Goodman states that "storytelling is the single most powerful communication tool an organization can possess.". Keep reading.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. This information was used to create some cards that participants could pick up and review. The report out was a competition.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

ThePort, Ning) Multimedia content sharing is a powerful tool for storytelling, providing content that is easy to share and embed. Know when to respond and when not -- pay attention to people's tone and influence. Funnel: Measure the whole funnel! Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

2: Identify results, metrics, and mini goals for your campaign. What metrics will you use to measure success? If the answer to all those questions starts with a dollar sign, then you have your measurable metric. Successful crowd funding depends on great storytelling. Objective. Social Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Note from Beth: I’m working on the sequel to the Networked Nonprofit – it is a book about using measurement to prove and improve results with the Measurement Goddess KD Paine. (Her recent book, Measuring What Matters , is a must read.). First-Person Storytelling. Here’s how we’re doing it: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Come measure success. Once upon a non-profit theory, measurement was weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious meetings with little to account for, While I nodded, nearly napping, an idea for a strategy came a tapping, What if measurement could include social interactions and what they stand for? Oh my god, take a look.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One designed and developed the City Health Dashboard with NYU Langone Health’s Department of Population Health to share and compare data on 37 measures of public health across more than 500 U.S. This innovative tool took home a gold Healthcare Ad Award this year!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Forum One designed and developed the City Health Dashboard with NYU Langone Health’s Department of Population Health to share and compare data on 37 measures of public health across more than 500 U.S. This innovative tool took home a gold Healthcare Ad Award this year!

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Neon CRM

JULY 27, 2023

SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound. Here’s how to approach the goal of boosting engagement in a SMART way: Specific : Increase donor engagement with fundraising activities Measurable: Increase fundraising email open rates and social media followers by 20%.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). When writing your fundraising appeals, it’s important to opt for the latter. Checklists.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based). While you want to include the program’s metrics and efficacy, you’ll also want the central piece to relate to a real story from your community. Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. This is a good place to start.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Your goals should be SMART (Specific, Measurable, Ambitious/Attainable, and Time-based). While you want to include the program’s metrics and efficacy, you’ll also want the central piece to relate to a real story from your community. Don’t make these storytelling mistakes. This is a good place to start.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Measure – Prove to leadership that the investments made are yielding incremental results toward your goals. Storytelling is good, but no one likes to read a paragraph where a single sentence would do. If you’ve ever spent time on LinkedIn you’re bound to come across influencers.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We all use data and analytics in some measure every day to guide our strategic planning and tactical decision making. Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. Lifetime value measurements. by Jann Schultz.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2014

We may have lost one of the greatest writers of all time this week, but her work, her style and her authenticity, has forever influenced the way we tell our stories. The Storytelling Secret Sauce – Via Maya Angelou is Nancy Shwartz’s ode to the writer and activist that proved relevant and accessible storytelling is key.

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