Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

At Monitor Institute we are interested in “emerging practices” in the social sector—including new more networked ways of working. Through a suite of online tools—including a social networking site, online training, do-it-yourself content, and a Google-map mashup—KaBOOM! 7. Care more about real-world outcomes than online metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Networked Nonprofits are not only experts in using social media, but they know how to streamline their work flow often based on an understanding of applying network theory to their practice. Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter. It shows nodes on your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Listening may happen at the personal, staff level as a best practice for doing their job whether or not it is embedded in the organization's culture. Laura's challenge is to get the right metrics to the right people on staff at the right time to reap insights. And you shared them! Here's what I learned. Observations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor co-wrote " Net Gains ," one of the first practical handbooks on building and working in networks for social change. Whether it is a network of organizations or individuals, this handbook provides a wealth of theory and practice on build, manage, and fine tune a network.

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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 Google’s Mapping tools include: Google Earth.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices. Who was there: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Tags: Global Health. Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center. The Institute for Systems Biology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I'm after are ways to tweak the design to improve learning and to improve instructional practice. I also like to practice my storytelling skills. And, while I practice before I present, many times - I have some parts that are new. What's the key metric? What's your strategy map? Tags as a metric.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. Look first at your organizational metrics. Quite the opposite. What does it look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. Tags: Training Design. Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

On-page SEO best practices Once you know your keywords, put them to work! Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

But for now local is still something I use a map and a tank of gas to determine the limits of. Best Practices: From @davidahood: Still strongly believe that there has to be an element of face to face/on the ground connection to any successful engagement and mobilisation of any community.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 18, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital channels, navigating the labyrinth of metrics can feel like traversing a maze without a map. It’s difficult, so we want to give you a reliable map. To evaluate your campaigns’ success and know where to spend your money next, it’s important that all these metrics sync in one place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I wonder whether face-to-face workshop delivery is the best approach for ultimately helping people put a social media strategy into practice. I'd include the implementation/metrics at the end or as an extension of the game. Some tangible first steps that people plan to put into practice are: Listening strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

The session provided an overview of networks, introduction to different network types and typologies, an overview on network mapping techniques, and a diagnostic that helps those leading networks identify areas of strength and improvement. Network use of social media tools and strategies incorporates metrics and ongoing learning experiments.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success. With interactive maps, private meeting scheduling, and a personalized agenda, attendees have everything they need to get more from the event. Individual tasks. Compliant reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. To show a practical example of how Google Analytics is used by a nonprofit organization. Act 1: Analytics This!

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We also approached best practices from a blind perspective that if it worked for someone else, it would work for us. We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Analog Strategies.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Build your site out with substantial content and optimize the user experience by following these web design best practices: Make your site mobile-responsive. Google also uses a metric called ‘Quality Score’ to measure the effectiveness of different keywords, and each of your keywords must have a minimum Quality Score of 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Visual Mapping and Diagnostics for Scaling Change : From Steve Waddel, Iscale - this paper has done the impossible! After you have your social network analysis map in hand, here's some tips for putting the information into practice. Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc. Tags: nptechtagsummary. Inspiration.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

You shouldn't choose the toolbox for your organization until after a strategy has been defined -- at which point the following should be considered: fish where the fish are , use tools that make sense for your audience , know there is no "one size fits all" plan and map tools directly to your strategy.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

So make that map and keep it updated so when a new product comes into your environment, somebody. Third thing, back to your technology inventory, mapping your universe of all the stuff you’ve got. Here are the metrics. And we talk about a topic that is practical and real for nonprofits of all sizes and missions.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

For January, I was originally going to write about a practical goal I’ve set myself for this year. There is no simple metric to understand how to consider efficiency and effectiveness in intellectual work. 45 minutes later, I had some solid graphs and a couple of zip code maps to pour over. And that is your choice.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

This attitude is often self-serving: it’s also a practical problem for those who actually want to create change. On the other hand, I appreciate the fact that research in the value of informal learning, and evaluation metrics beyond earned income, throughput, and educational outcomes are underdeveloped. Let’s change that.

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