Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Whether you are considering a new fundraising and engagement CRM, advocacy tool, reengineered database, custom integration, CMS or back office system, a separate discovery is the BEST approach to ensuring success. It’s like that old adage from carpentry, “Measure Twice, Cut Once.”. Discoveries Drive Alignment & Adoption. <

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

It is a Twitter analytics tool. I couldn’t actually use it because I have too many followers and it took too long to synch, but they’re coming out a version to handle this problem. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

No longer an abstract concept, many nonprofit staff are experiencing the “dividend of time” as they adopt tools such as Copilot and ChatGPT for scheduling and managing meetings, processing email, writing drafts, summarizing long reports, analyzing data, and creating efficiencies in other common workflows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

AI tools are already being used by many organizations to brainstorm ideas, find efficiencies, and explore new ways of working. The good news is that many tools are incredibly user-friendly, and experimentation can be one of the best ways to learn what works for you. But if you’re just starting out, you’re not behind! Copyediting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Tools like Screaming Frog can be used to crawl your current site and download the results onto a spreadsheet where each piece of content can be assessed. It can also be used to measure progress and keep the planning team focused. What problems are you trying to solve? Step 1: Conduct a Content Inventory and Site Audit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Say Giller, “Our whole team reviews Google Analytics, like sipping fine wine.”

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 17, 2024

And, what was once a simmering problem shifted to a crisis when COVID-19 and the sudden transition to remove work isolated workers from each other as never before,” report the authors. If you don’t trust your team to take the right actions and make the right decisions after giving the appropriate context, you likely have a hiring problem. #2.

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Candid

APRIL 20, 2023

The problem is, this advice is often aimed at organizations with dedicated social media folks, or even teams of them. As you define your goal(s), also think about how to measure it. Increase donations: success is measured by an increase in donations on the platform’s embedded fundraising tools, such as those on Meta or TikTok.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The problem might be something you’ve never considered. ENA brings objectivity to the process by using the net promoter score as a tool to measure success. But there was agreement that membership retention and loyalty problems might be symptomatic of declining confidence. Maybe stale programming is stopping the love?

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, all corporations, whether “for profit” or not, need to solve a problem and create value for others. From the donor’s perspective, their “purchase” of investment in a nonprofit’s work results in the gratification of being a part of the solution to a societal problem.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured. Nonprofit organizations can benefit from this working model as it can be a useful tool in achieving a participatory culture. Nonprofit organizations can measure community engagement in a number of ways. There is no golden standard.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

These technologies should be viewed as tools to assist in decision-making rather than as a replacement for clinicians or administrators. Artificial Intelligence There is a lot of buzz surrounding AI technologies and rightfully so, as the AI healthcare market is measured to be worth $38 billion by 2027.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.”

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

It seems obvious that there should be a tool we can use to help us here. I have spent the last week or two trying more of these online project management tools than I can count. A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Basecamp. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using – Guest Post by Laura Quinn. Or if Google Analytics is a pain for you, you can track the traffic to each page through a shortening tool such as Bit.ly, which shortens each of the separate URLs and then allows you to view the clickthroughs on each.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

Numbers and measurements have their place, but there is an administrative function to them. Just because people have money, or whatever privilege you ascribe to them, does not mean they don’t have problems. The human tool to unlock philanthropy: empathy. Doing important work requires solving problems for others.

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sgEngage

JUNE 15, 2023

But once the risk is identified, it can be measured and planned for. When you are preparing for your annual nonprofit financial audit, you need to understand and identify the risks that could affect your organization so you can address and mitigate potential problems. Chances are you don’t if you aren’t using modern tools.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data silos are a common problem across all industries and can cause serious pain points, especially as data volume increases. Restricted research: Inconsistent data restricts healthcare teams’ ability to perform meaningful research and problem-solve. Use analytics tools to surface new patient insights.

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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. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 17, 2010

It seems obvious that there should be a tool we can use to help us here. I have spent the last week or two trying more of these online project management tools than I can count. A task management system folks will actually use - When they finish a task, will they remember to go to this tool and check it off? Basecamp. .

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TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

The website measurement and analytics tool serves as a dipstick into the effectiveness of your current marketing strategies, and into the effectiveness of your website as a whole. No problem. Use funnel conversion tools. This is a question I ask myself, and web masters around the world ask themselves, on a daily basis.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. If you don’t use analytic tools, it’s impossible to know how many people are engaging with your content and what, if any, action they’re taking after that engagement. You know what they say about measurement, right?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 1, 2022

And, what was once a simmering problem shifted to a crisis when COVID-19 and the sudden transition to remove work isolated workers from each other as never before,” report the authors. If you don’t trust your team to take the right actions and make the right decisions after giving the appropriate context, you likely have a hiring problem. #2.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

The second section primarily includes: How women tackle complex problems. I’ve been fascinated to see how these leaders saw the world and approached problem-solving. It inspired me to know that we can all push ourselves to be better–not by competing against others but by measuring our own progress against our own benchmarks.

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VQ Strategies

JUNE 4, 2022

A performance improvement plan intends to fix problems and close knowledge and skill gaps. For standard evaluations or leadership development, other tools are useful—such as VQ’s Individual Volunteer Plan (IVP). Describe the corrective action or improvement that is required and how progress will be measured.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 6, 2023

To help nonprofits understand the tools available to them and how they can be incorporated into their digital strategies , this guide will explore three uses of modern nonprofit technology. Donor Analytics Tools Nonprofits need to know who their donors are, what gift amounts to request, and when and how to request those gifts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2023

And, what was once a simmering problem shifted to a crisis when COVID-19 and the sudden transition to remove work isolated workers from each other as never before,” report the authors. If you don’t trust your team to take the right actions and make the right decisions after giving the appropriate context, you likely have a hiring problem. #2.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

This means that we help them to transform their business — not only digitally, but using a human-centered approach that develops solutions to problems by involving the human perspective in all the steps of a problem-solving process. Anna-Sophie Oertzen. Innovation Consulting Manager, Salesforce Ignite EMEA. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The second section primarily includes: How women tackle complex problems. I’ve been fascinated to see how these leaders saw the world and approached problem-solving. It inspired me to know that we can all push ourselves to be better–not by competing against others but by measuring our own progress against our own benchmarks.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). Revolutionary Lookup Tool Now Available to the Public. Try out the lookup tool. Funded by Google Inc., Image : Roger / CC BY-NC-ND. spanhidden.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

And, what was once a simmering problem shifted to a crisis when COVID-19 and the sudden transition to remove work isolated workers from each other as never before,” report the authors. If you don’t trust your team to take the right actions and make the right decisions after giving the appropriate context, you likely have a hiring problem. #2.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 25, 2014

Whether it’s software, hardware, or even biotech, the cost of prototyping and deploying new tools, then adapting them and iterating, is now extremely low. Now is the time to apply an agile approach to innovation—Joi Ito’s “Deploy or Die” at scale, if you will—to social sector problems. Let me explain. What could a billion dollars do?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2022

And, what was once a simmering problem shifted to a crisis when COVID-19 and the sudden transition to remove work isolated workers from each other as never before,” report the authors. If you don’t trust your team to take the right actions and make the right decisions after giving the appropriate context, you likely have a hiring problem. #2.

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