Next week, I'm headed to Seattle for a couple of "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" book events generously sponsored by Microsoft. I'm very excited to participate in one of the evening events, a curated discussion on Data, Transparency, and Impact with Jane Meseck (Microsoft), Paul Shoemaker (Social Venture Partners) and Eric Stowe (Splash) and moderated by: Erica Mills, Claxon Marketing. (The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it) They are crowdsourcing questions for the … [Read more...]
How To Easily Repurpose Your Content for Social Channels
Your organization uses an editorial calendar to plan out content for different channels, but there is still need the need to optimize it for different channels and do that efficiently. Optimizing your content for social channels does not have to be labor intensive. Many organizations create great content for their web sites or blogs and slightly tweak it for Facebook or Twitter - with a focus on making it visual. And, of course, there are benefits to visual content like increased … [Read more...]
Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates
Last week, Bill Gates' 2013 Annual Letter highlighted the power of data and measurement to help lift the world's most needy up from poverty. I heard about it from several tweets asking me if he had read "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" and colleague, Marion Conway, wrote a great summary of the letter which was also available in an interactive format on the web. There are many takeaways from his letter, but I wanted to identify a few inspiring quotes here. 1. Define A Clear Goal for … [Read more...]
Liberating Nonprofit Data for Greater Impact
Note from Beth: In a report entitled Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data, authors Beth Novek and Daniel Goroff address the challenges of obtaining better, more usable data on the nonprofit sector to match the field’s growing importance. Information found in Form 990s, like other important data collected by governments, could potentially be far more useful if it were not only public but ‘open’ data. Government and philanthropy leaders talk today about this groundbreaking … [Read more...]
How ACLU NJ Defines Social Media Success: The First Important Measurement Step
When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit," I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. I followed up with Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director) to learn more about how they went about this first very important first step for measuring social media - defining results. Our book introduces nonprofits to the 7 steps of … [Read more...]
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