ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

So, as I made my transition – keep in mind that I am still working a nonprofit, just a c4 instead of a c3 – the moment gave me reason to reflect upon the 10 years of experience I had at the Alliance and with colleagues across the country through the National Council of Nonprofits. Metrics should not stifle innovation.

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Reflection Arizona Nonprofit Classes 40

Candid

MAY 4, 2023

“Gender” combines two survey questions and reflects organizations that have answered either question. To produce this chart, a random forest model was used to calculate the probability that an organization shares demographic data with Candid based on each feature or characteristic.

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Demographics Share Data Taxonomy 98

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

While the framework allows each entity to remain true to its institutional identity, it also provides the organizational model necessary to scale impact. Commit to a shared measurement system: Common metrics hold the cohort accountable and informs future action. Collective Impact requires time and faithful endurance.

Impact 98

Impact Raleigh Arizona Collaboration 98

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

The strategic planning process involves reflecting on your mission to identify your most important goals and determining the strategies you’ll use to reach them. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives.

Examples 119

Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 119

NTEN

JANUARY 25, 2022

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. While our complete evaluation is quite long, we’ve summarized reflections and commitments for 2022 from every area of our commitments in practice. Staff, board, and volunteers. 2022 focus.

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Community NTC Sponsor NTEN 88

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Lucy brings up some points about metrics for Twitter.

Measure 67

Measure Relationship Metrics ROI 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Source: A New Model for Social Media (and Traditional) Measurement.     A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "     Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting).

Metrics 71

Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

” This post shares my notes from that session along with a reflection about my session and some resources. They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector.

Skills 96

Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

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. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

Results 97

Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

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. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner. If not, why?

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Some reflections from David here ). He gave a brief reflection with how is strategic consulting to nonprofits practice has changed over the many decades he has been in service to the field. ”It used to be that nonprofits developed five-year plans – we used to refer to as “The Stalin Approach.”

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For nearly a decade, Google has been developing and maintaining two different analytics solutions: Firebase, mostly used by developers to focus on app development and analytics, and UA, mostly used by marketers for website metrics. The biggest change in GA4 is the shift from a model based on sessions and pageviews to a model based on events.

FAQ 57

FAQ Organization Analytics Google 57

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results.

Social Media 108

Social Media Network Media Free 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. There not is a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. Example of A/B Testing Results.

Culture 115

Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. Tim Davies from the UK volunteered to be the guinea pig and test the thinking process (a logic model of sorts) for his newly launched web project that incorporates social media strategies. | View | Upload your own. You're almost there.

Guinea 50

Guinea Measure Social Media Wikispaces 50

ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 23, 2014

Increasingly, nonprofit organizations are looking for new ways to measure (and thereby validate) the importance of their work. Our organizations have been measuring outputs in one way or another for as long as there has been philanthropy. Many have focused on uncovering new ways of gathering this data and new metrics for analyzing it.

Memphis 63

Memphis Measure Arizona Nonprofit 63

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

The Networked Nonprofit wasn’t only about making smart use of social media and metrics. His particular passion is finding ways that technology can enable new models for delivery, measurement, and collaboration. How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook. By Noah Rimland Flower. Guest Post'

Arts 95

Arts Design Collaboration Analysis 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Learning and Metrics. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics.

Social Media 97

Social Media Training Train Network 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

This blog post includes some reflections on the instructional design, delivery, and insights that I hope will inform the field building discussion taking place over at the Packard OE Program site. Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. organizational change, and technology.

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Pakistan NGO Network Exercise 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis? Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio?

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Evaluation Measure Seattle Lesson 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It speaks to establishing culture norms among staff of curiosity, reflection, and trust. The term “continuous” that the organization has create a virtuous cycle of feedback that repeatedly inspires staff to reflect on what is working and what can be done differently to get better results. Senior leaders model the skill that Edgar H.

Culture 50

Culture Data Create Reflection 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The session was designed a mix of strategy with a deep dive into content, measurement, Facebook, and Twitter. Practical frameworks and guidelines for effectively developing an integrated content strategy and measurement practice. Measurement mini workshop. JD Lasica and I co-facilitated a workshop on measurement.

Social Media 100

Social Media Effective Media Social 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Use of counting metrics. As with all the capacity building projects that I’ve designed, it is based on a framework and theory of change.

Network 97

Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

Make sure to invest in a web design consultant who will work with your nonprofit to build a website that not only reflects your organization but is also something that your team can continue to update and maintain on your own. For your website design consultant, make sure to research each candidate’s services and business model.

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Consultant Web Proposal Nonprofit 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Rami Al-Karmi, a serial technology entrepreneur , is the visionary behind this project. Rami has based this program on the ideas in the Lean Start Up model and translated the concept for the Arab World. I saw some amazing projects – from an online social chat platform, a mobile app directory, and blogging platforms.

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Jordan Saudi Arabia Morocco Lebanon 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

Now couple what Ivan is saying with Wendy Harmon's advice on to begin to collect and reflect on your social media experiments and measure them little by little, adapt some of Charlene Li's case studies for big brands and spice it up with metrics from Dave McClure linked to strategy and calculate with Frogloop's spreadsheet.

Social Network 50

Social Network Mobile Network Organization 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I start with a crawl-walk-run-walk framework for staffing models for nonprofits. 8: Launch small pilots and reiterates using the right metrics to understand what is and what isn’t working.

Social Media 115

Social Media Media Social San Jose 115

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Looking at overhead alone is a poor way to measure a nonprofit organization’s overall performance (Letter to the Donors of America, 2014). This is an outdated model that limits the impact and diversity of the work in the nonprofit sector.

Build 49

Build Arizona America Iowa 49

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

That happens when leaders model and encourage it. The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley. Laura's challenge is to get the right metrics to the right people on staff at the right time to reap insights. She's recently retooled the organization's metrics dash board to include social media measures.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. " Davenport's book was published almost two years ago and is reflection on blogging circa 2004-2005. " Productivity would be defined in the context of some sort of evaluation of the benefits of the technology - perhaps using a logic model.

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ROI Social Media Media Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. It also raises the question, "Is influence what should be measured?" I mean, they're not called "intangibles" for nuthin'!

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Social Media Influence Meme Media 50

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

She realized it wasn’t just a day for giving; it was a day of individual reflection and a focus on how each of us can matter in the world —an opportunity to ask yourself “how can I contribute more?”. It’s a re-framing of where the power is in the decision. That’s the energy behind the movement.

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Baltimore America Giving Reflection 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

Measure 95

Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2013

Ahead of time,participants were asked to share a screen capture of their most engaging or best performing content on social channels and include some reflections based on sharing the metrics against goals. ” We kicked off the half-day training with a fun icebreaker. .” The report out was a competition.

Reflection 97

Reflection Action Learning Change 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

One thing that Eric Ries said that understanding the single metric that matters and what to measure is something that takes can a long time to get to. Of course, organizational leaders of to model this mindset and people in the organization have to practice it. Lean Impact Measurement Organizational Culture'

Arts 122

Arts Culture Metrics Measure 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

The key to success in social media is to leave room for reflection at the end of a project. Reflection gives you a chance to understand what worked and what didn't. You need metrics or measure against goals, but you also need harvest those insights. My challenge was to get into a reflective mindset.

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Classes Learning Fundraising Reflection 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Is this an advantage or disadvantage when it comes to nonprofits applying the lean start up model to their social change work? It is common for entrepreneurs to dodge accountability because being driven by the metrics suggested by the funder can get in the way of success. It is moving fast, but there is a reflective process.

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Conversation Benefit Metrics Impact 104