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The Heart and Soul of Lean Impact: A/B Testing Experiments and Validated Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Use human centered design principles, not your arrogance of thinking you know what works for your audience without testing. Good testing begins with a hypothesis and collecting data to understand if you are right or wrong. His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it. Don’t let your vision become delusional.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman. With old class photos, you can leverage memes like “ Throw Back Thursday , like in this example from Reshet Ramah , a network of alumni from across the globe.

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5 Keys to Effective Knowledge Transfer for Nonprofits

Wild Apricot

The evaluation tools and techniques you choose will depend in large part on the message, the method of delivery, and the outcome that you want to measure. "Evaluation explains the effects [on the recipients or the environment] that are expected as a result of transferring or exchanging knowledge.". General non-profit interest. membership.

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Give Local America: Getting People Excited About Giving Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the next 24 hours, over 7,000 nonprofits will share the work of their organizations, attract new donors, raise money for their programs, and have a lot of fun doing it. This guest post highlights some of the techniques Knight Foundation grantees are using to attract attention. Prepping is key, as is getting the word out.

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Social Media Glossary: 34 Terms to Know

Whole Whale

Maybe you’re setting up a Facebook campaign for the first time, or maybe you just can’t remember the difference between a meme and a GIF. A/B test . Testing one idea against another amongst split audiences, learning, and implementing the best one into your regular campaign strategy. A/B tests happen in real life too.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes. Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this. Be proactive.