Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Social Media ROI Case Study Slam. Tags: socialmediametrics. How Nonprofits Can Get The Most Out of Flickr. Eight Secrets of Social Networking for Nonprofits. Social Media: Start With A Proof of Concept Pilot. You Can't Quantify Love. ROI and Nonprofit Technology Presentation. Twittering and Forgetting.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Tagged as: CMS , CRM , nptech , opensource { 4 trackbacks } What we’re reading, week of 1/12 « i On Nonprofits 01.15.09 I’m assembling a panel now and need some good case studies, so if you’ve got examples, please email me. at 3:50 pm CiviCRM and Drupal (& Joomla) 01.26.09 11 Tompkins Spann 01.23.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

I had originally planned to talk about RSS/XML after tagging, but I decided instead to hold off on that as a start on the posts about the inner guts of Web 2.0. I can think of two organizations that I’ve worked with, which are, in a sense, case studies for why to have a blog, or not to have a blog. Such is life.

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MAY 14, 2009

M&R and NTEN just released an impressive benchmarks study that analyzed 32 nonprofits online advocacy and online fundraising programs in 2007 and 2008. The Nonprofit eBenchmarks study also analyzed specific list segments, such as donors vs. non-donors, geographically targeted audiences, surveys and tell-a-friend emails.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2009

Well, you can start by reading some of the most recent studies by Blackbaud, Donor Digital and M+R Strategic Services with 2008 year-end highlights, and smart tactics to deploy in these hard times. Things didn’t end so bad in 2008. Tags: Case Studies Online Fundraising. Average donations are down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

See this white paper by Susan Mernit for a detailed case study.). The first Tweet-a-thon took place in September, 2008. Here's how you can donate ten cents (or more) to the cause without spending a dime of your own money: Each A Powerful Noise Tweet must include the hash tag #apowerfulnoise to generate the donation.

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MARCH 23, 2009

For example, 12 of the groups in the study had a median increase in online donors of 39% from 2007 to 2008, while their offline donors decreased a median -3% over the same period. In 2008 they accounted for a median 16% of all new donors and a median 27% of all new revenue. Direct Mail response rates continue to decline.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 29, 2008

My co-panelists, Matt Wilson from Mobile Commons and Kristin Kich of NARAL Pro Choice America both had some great case studies about using mobile to build lists and generate actions. Tags: wireless NPTech mobile txt textmessaging. The President-Elect doesn't have a mobile strategy for nothing. .

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2009

In 2007-2008 America’s Giving Challenge encouraged 70,000 individuals to help raise more than $1.8 Just as in 2007-2008, the causes will compete to win cash awards totaling $170,000. Tags: Nonprofit Events Social Networking. million for nonprofit organizations. The heated competition will run through November 6 th.

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MARCH 16, 2009

M+R released a new case study on the impact of premiums in online fundraising campaigns. With the help of 4 nonprofits (including NTEN members Easter Seals and The Wilderness Society ) who tested premiums against control campaigns during December 2008, they found that premiums can increase both response rate and donation amount.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The system had three components: The Image Tagger — Volunteers sort through news photos coming out of Haiti and categorize (tag) them with keywords like “adult, child, alive, deceased.”

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. Read the full case study here. You can read the full case study here. To get started and to review more case studies, visit: [link]. Tags: socialmedia. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. Why is Joomla listed twice?

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MARCH 23, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) The Alt tag is a description for an imag.

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MARCH 15, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Use the description meta tag.

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MAY 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Word of mouth, etc. All rights reserved.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

We spent a lot of time at the end of 2008 working with one of our clients, the Humane Society of the United States, and our friends at the Watershed Company to come up with a nice mobile test for end of year fundraising. HSUS had already built a mobile subscriber list of about 12,000 activists through Mobile Commons by December of 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2008

Photo by PixelFarmer - Zen Mutt (a rescue dog) - Title "Precision" The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to rethink, reinvent -- again. Conversations are getting more distributed and it is getting increasingly difficult to use tagging to discover, aggregate, and summarize them. As Geoff points out: What???s

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All rights reserved.

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AUGUST 27, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) All rights reserved.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

All those tried-and-true strategies you read about in case studies, blogs and, yes, this venerable online publication? Case in point: I shared some results from M+R Strategic Services' work with the Human Rights Campaign, where we've repeatedly tested online premiums as a way to get that all-important gift from first-time donors.

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AUGUST 16, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Often, an effective title (e.g. com , Inc.

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JULY 14, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Often, an effective title (e.g. com , Inc.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. Looking back over the past year, I'm proud my thinking and writing about this over the past year: The ROI of Social Media published in NTEN January 2008 Newsletter. Social Media and Nonprofits: ROI Case Study Slam NTC in 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Learn from nonprofits and other organizations that have shared their social media case studies. Tags: socialmediametrics social media streamline metrics Information Coping Skills.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Know words like Blogroll , Permalink , and Tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The agenda didn't have a detailed description, so I thought this might be a case study along the lines of how to influence a UA policy similiar to this one about Trinidad. He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. Technorati Tags: ilaw

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Tags: sxsw. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

Making the Most of the News Cycle In September 2008, NWLC launched a voter education microsite that included a register-to-vote widget, and we started running Google ads on keywords like “register to vote.&# Tags: Case Studies Online Marketing. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Tags: sxsw. The nonprofit presence at SXSW has been growing steadily over the past couple of years.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. It was organized by Ed Schipul. I will also be tweeting this post.).

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

They provide detailed case studies of projects in each area, including project descriptions, informal science education goals, participant training techniques, and evaluation outcomes. Tags: evaluation Museums Engaging in 2.0 Projects design participatory museum.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

And finally, we’ll learn from a few case studies and go over some production best practices. data from edison research from 2008 on podcasting listenership. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. the only difference is that there is an enclosure tag that points to the file.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2010

It happened in April at our NTEN/NTC session on the Networked Nonprofit right before our eyes in a room filled with people from nonprofits and Shawn , a passionate free agent fundraiser and video blogger. (You might know Shawn from his “ Uncultured &# project – I first encountered him in 2008 through Blog Action Day.).

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APRIL 6, 2011

You’ll learn more about the strong link between online advocacy and fundraising, illustrated by multiple case studies and best practice tips. Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2009

As Holly said , smart phone usage grew 80% between June 2007 and June 2008. Best of NTC: Integrated Fundraising Case Studies. Tags: 10NTC how to NPTech NTEN. Your guide to the resources that will help you put technology to work for your cause. Market to Mobiles. The monetary figures are even more impressive: $1.9

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