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Scooped by Beth Kanter onto Social Media and Nonprofits: Measurement |
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Five measurement strategies that enable rapid course correction and continuous improvement. Key Point: Nowhere is learning more important to success than in advocacy. Developing a learning agenda—a list of assumptions and hypotheses you most need to test—can keep your measurement linked to the most important decisions you will need to make. Scheduling formal data review sessions (and being open to impromptu sessions when major contextual changes occur) can help ensure that you are adequately reflecting and course-correcting. Finally, consider working with experienced evaluators upfront to help you design these tools and processes, facilitate some early sessions, and build capacity (with the goal of eventually taking over this function yourselves). Delete the scoop?
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We'll be sharing insights for nonprofits in our new scoop.it magazine, as well as our web-based marketing insights. Where better to start our repertoire of nonprofit stories, than with something comparing nonprofit financial management to one of our favorite movies, "Moneyball." What do we think of this comparison? What is undervalued in the nonprofit world?