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Using Cartoons To Make Sense of Your Data
Note From Beth: If you've picked up a copy of the newly released "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World" than you no doubt noticed the cartoons, created by Rob Cottingham, that begin each chapter. Rob worked with us as we developed each chapter to pick out the key idea and poke of at it - we wanted to write a book about measurement that was accessible and fun to read. But, cartoons can be terrific infographics or used as technique for sense-making. Cartoons … [Read more...]
What is the Funder's Role in Supporting Good Measurement?
Meet Bib Filbon and Jeff Bladt who have the job title, "Data Scientist," and are on staff at DoSomething.Org. They work in partnership with DoSomething's program staff to collect, analyze, and make sense of data to improve impact of DoSomething's programs. DoSomething.org does not consider this overhead. Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. “Data Scientist” is a newly defined job that requires being … [Read more...]
How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement To Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change
Note from Beth: As many of my loyal readers know, I've been on a book tour with the newly released "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data for Social Change" with co-author KD Paine. In early October we made the rounds to promote the book in Boston and I had a chance to meet Brooke Freedman and Brian Halligan at Hubspot. I happened to mention that I was seeing reports from nonprofit folks about the recent change in the Facebook Algorithm and Megan Keaney Anderson offered to write … [Read more...]
How and When Should Your Nonprofit Organization Invest in Mobile
Note from Beth: In preparation for my book launch, I hired Rad Campaign to do a redesign of my blog. Aside from changing the color scheme to match the new book cover, I was ready to invest in "going mobile." After watching the percentage of mobile and tablet readers grow from 5% in 2010 to 17% in 2012 and receiving more than a few emails from loyal readers telling me that my blog was practically unreadable on their mobile device, I was ready to take the plunge into a mobile strategy. … [Read more...]
Measuring World Hunger Day
Note from Beth: My take away from this guest post is the advice that my co-author, KD Paine, has been saying for years. "Don't measure the world, if you don't have the time and resources to do so." It is a key theme in our book, "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit." What we talk about is the idea of taking baby steps in measurement to build the practice and you won't be able to do that if you attempt to measurement too many things and collect too much data. In this case study, there … [Read more...]
Three Simple but Powerful Social Media for Nonprofits Tips
Note from Beth: The Social Media for Nonprofits Conference is returning to San Francisco on October 11th. I've been honored to be a speaker at the past events held in San Francisco and would be there next except it conflicts with a NYC Measuring the Networked Nonprofit book tour dates. If you are in the San Francisco area, work in the nonprofit sector, and work on social media, you should attend this event. Guillaume Decugis, CEO, Scoop.it is on the agenda and most likely talking about … [Read more...]
Embrace the Data, Change the World
@kdpaine gets her hands on the book right before #emetrics keynote instagr.am/p/QTTfRJlZjl/ — Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012 I'm in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for "Measuring the Networked Nonprofit" where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! I shared an overview of networks for social change and some of the challenges that nonprofits face in … [Read more...]
To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and Is That The Question?):GlobalGiving’s Experiment With Facebook Promoted Posts
Note from Beth: Almost weekly, there is yet another tool, feature, or tactic that you can you try using as part of your social media tool box. But how do you know it is effective? Over the summer, Facebook has enabled you to pay for an individual post to be seen in more of your fans’ newsfeeds. If you are a FB Page administrator, you probably noticed the new metric Facebook has on the bottom of every post showing how many people it reached. Further, you probably wondered whether does it … [Read more...]
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