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...]

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...]

@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...]

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...]