1. Is the time you
are spending
being networked
worth it?
Be Networked, Use Measurement,
and Make Sense of Your Data
Beth Kanter, Author, Blogger, and Master Trainer
April 21, 2013
Leadership Learning Community
3. Meet Keo Savon
I’m donating my author royalties to the Sharing Foundation’s Education Program
to send her to college!
4. AGENDA
OUTCOMES
• Interactive: Ask Questions, Use Chat
Leave webinar ready
to take a small step to
improve how you
measure and learn to
improve your social
media strategy!
Becoming Data
Informed
Nonprofit Measurement
Stories
How To Measure Social
Media in 7 Easy Steps
Agenda
5. Maturity of Practice Framework: Measure Progress
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if
you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you
have to keep moving forward.”
6. CRAWL WALK RUN FLY
Where to focus …
Linking Social with
Results and
Networks
Pilot: Focus one
program or channel
with measurement
Incremental Capacity
Ladder of
Engagement
Content Strategy
Best Practices
Measurement and
learning in all above
Communications
Strategy
Development
Culture Change
Network Building
Many Free Agents work for
you
Multi-Channel Engagement,
Content, and Measurement
Reflection and Continuous
Improvement
7. Maturity of Practice: Crawl-Walk-Run-Fly
Categories Practices Average
CULTURE Networked Mindset 2.3
Institutional Support 1.5
CAPACITY Staffing 1.8
Strategy 1.5
MEASUREMENT Analysis 1.5
Tools 2.0
Adjustment 1.8
LISTENING Brand Monitoring 1.5
Influencer Research 1.3
ENGAGEMENT Ladder of Engagement 1.5
CONTENT Integration/Optimization 1.8
NETWORK Influencer Engagement 2.0
Relationship Mapping 1.3
1 2 3 4
0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0 2.5
Arts & Cultural Alliance of
Central Florida
LA Stage Alliance
The Alliance of Resident
Theatres/New York
Austin Creative Alliance
Theatre Bay Area
C4 Atlanta
All Indicators
16. Crawl Walk Run Fly
Lacks consistent data
collection
Data collection
consistent but not
shared
Data from multiple
sources
Org Wide KPIs
No reporting or
synthesis
Data not linked to
results, could be wrong
data
System and structure for
data collection
Organizational
Dashboard with
different views, sharing
Decisions based on gut Rarely makes decisions
to improve
Discussed at staff
meetings, decisions
made using it
Data visualization, real-
time reporting, formal
reflection process
CWRF: Becoming Data Informed: What Does It look like?
Analysis
Tools
Sense-Making
25. Crawl Walk Run Fly
Lacks consistent data
collection
Data collection
consistent but not
shared
Data from multiple
sources
Org Wide KPIs
No reporting or
synthesis
Data not linked to
results, could be wrong
data
System and structure for
data collection
Organizational
Dashboard with
different views, sharing
Decisions based on gut Rarely makes decisions
to improve
Discussed at staff
meetings, decisions
made using it
Data visualization, real-
time reporting, formal
reflection process
CWRF: Becoming Data Informed: What Does It look like?
Analysis
Tools
Sense-Making
26. How To Improve Measurement Practice
• Use the 7 Steps of
Measurement
• Identify small pilots
and iterate
• Learn and improve
28. Audience: Artists and people in their community
Show the human face of artists, remove the mystique, get
audience to share their favorites, connect with other
organizations.
Focused on one channel (Facebook) to use best practices to:
Increase engagement by comments per post
Conversations that made the organization more accessible
Increase enrollment in classes and attendance at events
10% new students /attenders say they heard about us through
Facebook
Measurement Pilots: Small Steps
30. Outcomes Metric
Increase donations % reduction in cost per dollar raised
Increase donor base % increase in new donors
Increase number of volunteers % increase in volunteers
Increase awareness % increase in awareness,
% increase in visibility/prominence,
Positive correlation between increase
in donors vs. visibility
Improve relationships with existing
donors/volunteers
% improvement in relationship scores,
% increase in donation from existing
donors
Improve engagement with
stakeholders
% increase in engagement (comments
on YouTube, shares on Facebook,
comments on blog, etc.
Change in behavior % decrease in bad behavior,
% increase in good behavior
Change in attitude about your
organization
% increase in trust score or
relationship score
Increase in skills and knowledge of
staff Learning
Increase in revenue per employee,
% employees understanding their
roles and organizational mission
32. Goal: Grow the Movement
MomsRising is building a strong multicultural movement of people who
care about family economic security and well-being.
Need To Know KPI
Are we adding new members? Increased New Members
Are we losing members? Decreased Lapsed Members
Are we diversifying
membership?
Number of Collaborations
with multicultural orgs
Measuring Your Content: Flying
47. Is the time you
are spending on
social media
worth it?
48. Be honest – Social
Media is not “free”
Be transparent
Given your
investment, are
your expected
results reasonable?
Compare alternate
ways to achieve
goals
How much did it cost?
49. Results Value/Cost Metric
Increase donations More efficient fund raising % reduction in cost per dollar raised
Increase donor base More revenue from a more diverse
base
% increase in new donors
Increase number of volunteers More gets done,
Less burden on existing volunteers or
staff
% increase in volunteers
Increase awareness Increase donors/volunteers
Change in behavior
% increase in awareness,
% increase in visibility/prominence,
Positive correlation between
increase in donors vs. visibility
Improve relationships with existing
donors/volunteers
Better management, more stable
finances
% improvement in relationship
scores,
% increase in donation from existing
donors
Improve engagement with
stakeholders
Better feedback and ideas for
innovation
Better understanding of attitudes
and perceptions of stakeholders
% increase in engagement
(comments on YouTube, shares on
Facebook, comments on blog, etc.
Change in behavior Achieve the mission % decrease in bad behavior,
% increase in good behavior
Change in attitude about your
organization
% likely to volunteer or donate
increases
% increase in trust score or
relationship score
Increase in skills and knowledge of
staff Learning
Improved results from intangible to
tangible
Using best practices, saving time
Increase in revenue per employee,
% employees understanding their
roles and organizational mission
50. Was Your Time Worth It?
Tracked Results:
Stage 1 – Integrated into staff
Stage 2 – Hired social media staff
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January February March April
Uniques
Twitter Referring Traffic
Facebook Referring Traffic
51. 1. You identify success and failure first
2. Spend more time identifying what you want to
measure, not how to measure it
3. Measure in context – don’t ever collect data
unless you can connect it to your goals
4. Don’t wait until the end to collect or analyze data
5. Less is more
6. Uses measurement pilots to create a habit of
collecting and apply data and to learn
7. Do the is it worth it math!
Improving Your Measurement Practice!
Worked in the nonprofit sector for over 33 years. Had a front row seat at the creation of a field – nonprofit technology – use of technology for mission-driven work. I’m a master trainer so I get to travel around the work and work with changemakers on how to use the tools for social change or mission driven work. Most recently, have designed and delivered curriculum for nonprofits to become networked nonprofit – Middle East, Africa, India, etc. There are wicked problems in the world -- I’m passionate about social change and strongly believe that two of the skills that nonprofits need to embrace to solve them. Also a share of the royalities are going
Meet KeoSavon. It is important to me that the book has a social change mission so I am donating my royalities to send her to college in Cambodia through supporting the Sharing Foundation program for education. It will make difference in her life.She is a civil engineering major and is 2nd in her class. I met her this summer when I visited Cambodia. She lives in the orphanage that my daughter came from in Cambodia – and KeoSavon also calls me “mom.” She told me she wants to go to graduate school in the US – MIT or Stanford. I told her that I would have to sell a lot of books!
The maturing of practice framework includes looking at 7 best practice areas for networked approaches and social media – and some specific indicators – and looking at what they look at the different maturity levels. If you remember the application form, it asked you questions and that’s how I came up with the scoring system. If you were “crawl” you got 1, Walk 2, Run 3, and Fly 4 – and then I average the scores for the group. I also could come up with a score for your organization overall.So, if you got a 1.5, it means that you are on your way to walking.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AtsV5h84LWk0dFhENWFXVzBwZ2lWOGlzazZSek5Iemc#gid=1
The “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media practice framework is in Beth’s next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate our progress.Explain modelPhotos: Runhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/clover_1/2647983567/Flyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/micahtaylor/5018789937/
There’s another important organizational skill - data-informed this describes agile, responsive, and intelligent nonprofitsthat are better able to succeed in a rapidly changing environment and can fuel networks of networks. DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign per week. The call to action is always something that has a real impact and does not require money, an adult, or a car. Their measurable goal is to get 5 million active teen members engaged in social change campaigns by 2015. Their use of social media, mobile, and data all strategically selected and use to reach that goal.They are a networked nonprofit with a data informed culture – and it started at the top with their board and advisors ..Reid Hoffman and DjPatil – “A Data Scientist” – have advised the CEO – Nancy Lublin – not only what infrastructure is needed to collect and make sense of data, but how she as the leader can’t rely on hunches – decisions – have to be informed by data.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mkrigsman/3428179614/DoSomething has two data analyst positions on staff .. And they aren’t sitting in the corner playing with their spreadsheetsWhile a big part of their job is to become the stewards of the dashboard, they work with staff – so that making sense of data Is not an adhoc process, but one of continous improvement of the programs. The data analysts work collaboratively with staff to help them apply and understand their data.
One of their organizational mantra is “Spend More Time Thinking About The Data, Less On Collecting ItPregnancy Text” Campaign featured on their quarterly dashboard. This clever sex education campaign is an updated version of the teen pregnancy education program where young people carried eggs around and pretend they are babies. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.” Once they joined (and they could share it with their friends). they received regular annoying text messages at all hours from the “baby” that poops, cries, and needs their immediate attention.The team at DoSomething.org uses data to base the program design, key performance indicators and a hypothesis to be tested. They looked at survey data from the National Campaign: nearly 9 in 10 (87%) young people surveyed also say that it would be much easier for teens to delay sexual activity and avoid teen pregnancy if they were able to have more open, honest conversations about these topics with their parents and/or friends. So, success of this campaign would be mean that participants talk with their family or friends about the issue and delay sexual activity.The basic design had those who signed up challenge their friends to take care of a text baby either by (1) going to DoSomething website and selecting 5 friends to challenge or (2) after receiving a text from DoSomething (sent to DoSomething’s 300k mobile subscribers) would opt to challenge friends after reading a quick stat on US teen pregnancy. Participants that accepted the challenge would then start receiving texts the following morning from the text-baby. After completing the challenge user were prompted to send it to their own friends.DoSomething.org also followed up with 5k of the users with a text-based survey to measure impact.Once defining success and identifying the right data collect, here’s some of the insights they gleaned according to Nancy Lublin, CEO of DoSomething and Jeffrey Bladt:SMS as a platform: They are monitoring engagement per communication channel and it has revealed SMS to be 30xs more powerful for getting their users to take action as compared to emailChallenging 5 friends: we’ve tested various group sizes for SMS experience and have found the a group of 6 (1 alpha inviting friends) leads to the highest overall engagementResearch Based Messaging: The general messaging for the campaign was based on survey findings that found (1) big scare tactics (e.g. getting pregnant = not going to college) we not as effective as highlighting who being a teen parent changes daily life (e.g can’t go to the movies because baby sitter cancelled); (2) a CDC report that found: “The impact of strong pregnancy prevention messages directed to teenagers has been credited with the [recent] teen birth rates decline.A/B Testing: They pre-tested different messages and frequency of sending the messages to smaller test groups of teens to optimize the number of messages the baby would send during the day, as well as the content. They ended up doubling the frequency and rewording several interactions as well as building in a response system (so the baby would respond if teen texted an unsolicited response). The insights from these tests pushed up engagement and likelihood of forwarding at the end.Impact: They did a survey to measure this. 1 in 2 teens said that taking the Pregnancy Text made it more likely that they would talk about the issue of teen pregnancy with their family and friends.As you can see from the above insights, DoSomething just not gather and analyze topline data:101,444 people took part in the campaign with 100,000 text-babies delivered171,000 unsolicited incoming messages, or 1 every 20 seconds for the duration of the campaign. During the initial launch period (first 2 weeks), a new text message was received every 10 seconds.For every 1 direct sign-up, DoSomething gained 2.3 additional sign-ups from forward to a friend functionality. The viral coefficient was between 0.60 and 0.70 for the campaign.1 in 4 (24%) of teens could not finish a day with their text-baby (texted a stop word to the baby)DoSomething.org uses its data to continuously improve programs, develop content, and shape campaign strategies. So DoSomething.org wants its staff to spend more of its brainpower thinking about the data, rather than collecting it. To ensure that this happens, DoSomething.org’s Data Analyst Bob Filbin’s job is more than programming formulas in Excel spreadsheets. Says Filbin, “One of the biggest barriers in nonprofits is finding the time to collect data, the time to analyze, and the time to act on it. Unless someone is put in charge of data, and it’s a key part of their job description, accelerating along the path towards empowered data-informed culture is going to be hard, if not impossible.”
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Back in the office, the data scientists were looking at the data in real time to figure out what was driving people to their landing page and getting them to sign up.
Fail Fest And Pink Boas: Don’t Be Afraid To FailDoSomething.org doesn’t use its data to pat itself on the back or make the staff feel good. Lublin notes that they’re not afraid of failure. They hold regular “Fail Fest” meetings, where each person on staff has to present a campaign or program failure. They share three things they learned about themselves and three things the organization learned. To remove the stigma from failure, Lublin says, “We have to wear pink boas when we present.” http://www.flickr.com/photos/ruminatrix/2734602916/in/faves-cambodia4kidsorg/
The “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media practice framework is in Beth’s next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. We used to help us design the program, determine process outcomes, and help us evaluate our progress.Explain modelPhotos: Runhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/clover_1/2647983567/Flyhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/micahtaylor/5018789937/
HubSpot Sources tool brings it all together!
Easy to collect, difficult to actionUse
Categorize your specific social media measurement activities and relate to your objectivesSentiment (Messaging, positioning, themes)Attitudes (perceptions, behavior change, preferences, awareness)Do (Reach, Engagement, Action, Donate, Purchase)http://www.flickr.com/photos/leeontheroad/89666692/sizes/z/in/photostream/
They focused on developing a robust engagement and content strategy – that was integrated with other channels, all to support objectives in communications strategy and outcomes – and used measurement. They started with one channel – FB …
