Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

If you are not sure which metrics are essential or how to convert your data into something stakeholders can grasp and absorb, start simply by setting clear goals. Learn more: Using Data to Make Annual Giving Work for You Measuring Outcomes Outcome metrics are powerful, necessary tools for demonstrating transparency and accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” When you know what the right question is, you’ll know what metric to track in order to answer that question. That’s the OMTM.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. The first thing that caught our eye was that a nonprofit mission statement that focuses on the organization — including language around organizational survival and self-promotional language — was associated with higher income per dollar spent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Monitor metrics such as engagement rates, content reach, and donor response. The AI can suggest language that aligns with the SMART framework, aiding in conveying your goals succinctly. The AI’s ability to generate insights, prompt content ideas, and refine language empowers your team to make more informed decisions.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. This model was developed by Open AI and is one of the few language models to pass the Turing Test. What is ChatGPT? It can also provide high-quality analysis for a range of purposes.

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Association TV

MARCH 16, 2022

And if you want to convey a message to your audience, you better speak their language. Avoid cliche, jargon and flowery language: are you deploying effective verbal communication strategies with your exemplary and trusted colleague? Make jokes? Act absurd? Because their target audience of 18- to 35-year-old men do too. Not at them.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Then we recorded key metrics from their IRS Form 990s from 2016-2018. The first thing that caught our eye was that a mission statement that focuses on the organization —including language around organizational survival and self-promotional language— was associated with higher income per dollar spent.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 5, 2024

Keep an eye on your metrics. As you draft your messages, focus on incorporating clear calls to action, using personalized language, and appealing to supporters’ emotions. Keep an eye on your metrics. Segment your list of contacts. Write tailored messages for every occasion. Encourage supporters to respond directly.

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Media Cause

JULY 14, 2023

Use language and imagery that are relevant, culturally sensitive, and can resonate with diverse communities. Measure Impact: Define the metrics that will help measure the impact of your digital campaign. Inclusive + Accessible Messaging: Craft the messaging framework with inclusivity and accessibility at the forefront.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

It also summarizes 2021 metrics and milestones by combining colorful illustrations and bolded statistics. The American Kidney Fund uses eye-catching graphic design, but what they do best is centering the donor’s impact.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Highly organized racist, anti-Semitic, and transphobic trolling campaigns on social media by the Alt-Right, including racial slurs, hate speech, and abusive language and behavior, are part of larger efforts to push the Right’s ideas into mainstream acceptance. Center language justice in your content strategies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

LinkedIn Analytics offer an important key metric that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram do not – the ability to view clickthroughs on organic posts. List all languages spoken, honors and awards received, and publications. For example, this post by the Houston Food Bank tags and shows appreciation for their sponsor , CVS Health.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. Power Imbalance in Traditional Evaluation As grantmakers, we tend to monitor and evaluate our strategies and programs using metrics that we deem important. We all want to know whether our work makes a difference.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

You aren’t going to improve your metrics by hiding this required link behind some flowery description. Here’s a quick visual: If you want to add a little personality to your unsubscribe link, feel free to add some cheeky language such as, “We hate to see you go but you can Unsubscribe Here ”.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Using language or tactics from product strategy can help organizations focus on goals and audiences within larger projects. By viewing projects as products, it becomes easier to track usage or feedback metrics over time.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That core consists of working through and with other people to create value while using financial concepts and metrics to maximize the value created for all company stakeholders.

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Set up meetings, meet regularly, and leverage your task force’s expertise to build a data infrastructure with definitions and consistent terms that are common language for everyone in your organization to understand. Check out our Ultimate Guide to Data Governance for tips. Use dashboards in meetings to entrench data into your culture.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

For example, on social media you’ll want to modify your language to be simple yet engaging to encourage sharing. Equipped with solid messaging, develop a plan that details the communication channels you will use to reach and engage your audience, such as social media, email , events, online advertising, etc.

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Association Analytics

JULY 22, 2021

Keep monitoring the growth with metrics (for example, decreased number of duplicates, increase in completion rate of certain fields.). This will help reduce confusion and create a common business language. After a trade show, you may need to spend more time on data hygiene than other times. Measure Progress: Stay on top of your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

There are many chat bot authoring platforms that make it easy for anyone to create a bot without requiring the technical expertise in natural language programming. Ultimately, the bot helped the organization decrease the response time which is a critical metric for emergency and humanitarian work. Does your nonprofit use a bot?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

The results allowed the executive team to launch a video channel, rather than sending text updates, in order to reach the numerous indigenous language speakers whose languages did not have a written form.

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Whole Whale

MAY 3, 2023

AI and natural language processing have enabled far more sophisticated chatbots and voice assistants. 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

AI and natural language processing have enabled far more sophisticated chatbots and voice assistants. 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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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

There are two primary parts of a solicitation to keep in mind: the meeting setting and the language you use to ask for a donation. Language to ask for major gifts If you feel uncomfortable asking prospects for major donations, you’re not alone. Identify prospective major donors based on wealth and engagement metrics.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

And now, popular social media site Instagram is the latest to get a truly valuable profiling tool, a new service that gives users vital data on their audience breakdown and allows them to leverage those metrics to make the most of their social media efforts.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 18, 2024

With the rise of social impact as a business metric, companies are more eager than ever to contribute to meaningful causes, yet many nonprofits don’t make the most of this fundraising avenue. Then, you might have been asked why the receipt didn’t contain charitable tax receipt language.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. You can export monthly reports to track new followers, profile visits, and engagement metrics such as total likes, retweets, mentions, and replies.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

A well-developed planned giving program often will utilize a gift acceptance policy (with language for donors to include in their estate planning), donor journeys, communication plans, and an administrative breakdown for bequest processing to help maintain clear policies and streamlined communication between planned donors and the organization.

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Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Shakespearean answer : If the topic of Google Analytics and all things web tracking feels like a foreign language and you’re more of a theatre person here is a quick Shakespearean summary of what is going on. Why UA Metrics won’t Match GA4. In UA, there are two User metrics: Total Users, and New Users. analytics.js). .

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Implement procedures to asess metrics. In their research project “Exploring the Love Language of Fundraising,” Jen and Adrian are uncovering how often the nonprofit sector focuses on money within their messaging – “Your gift can” or “Thank you for your donation” – which establishes a transactional relationship with them.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2020

The world is going to face economic challenges and there are various key metrics to monitor as this happens. These events can cause a metric like retention or new donor acquisition to swing up and down. These events can cause a metric like retention or new donor acquisition to swing up and down.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Give Context : Make your style clear by using descriptive language about your audience and flex that thesaurus for tone. Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values.

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

A pro tip is to hide your progress metrics at first and do a soft launch where you share the campaign with a small pool of loyal supporters whom you feel will likely make gifts. Then, turn on the progress metrics for your hard launch to your wider network. Remove and edit any templated language on campaigns and emails. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Setting up systems and habits : Often, we set up systems for the Performance Zone, such as weekly meetings with a set agenda or dashboards with key metrics. These are great, but are we also setting up systems and habits for the Learning Zone?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2014

I did take along a few books, including Ariana Huffington’s Thrive: The Third Metric to Redefining Success and Creating a Life of Well-Being, Wisdom, and Wonder. The book is about how to reframe success away from money and power to a third metric. Above all, it is a great escape from your never ending to do list.

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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. Step 5: Define your metrics. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. Step 4: Define your benchmarks.

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