Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Measuring the Value of Your Blog.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

Since 2008, SEFCU’s Community Support Program has helped more than seven million people within its branch footprint – which includes upstate New York’s Capital Region, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo areas – through funding vital nonprofit organizations. with more than $3.7

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MAY 4, 2010

Their report covers a lot of e-marketing campaign metrics, and attempts to really break down the differences between active subscribers of a campaign vs. users who do not take such an active role in terms of participating (e.g. Some of these were: Online fundraising grew in 2009 as compared to 2008 but the average gift size was smaller.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. Asking NTEN to show leadership by publishing web stats is to suggest that NTEN would think that publishing web stats is a useful measure of nonprofit accountability. That dog won’t hunt.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

One of the biggest challenges for a donor relations and stewardship program, as an indirect revenue generator, is success metrics. I first heard Penelope Burk speak at the International Conference of the Association of Donor Relations Professionals in 2008. You need to continually build trust and loyalty with donors. The basics.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Now in part 2, we will cover how to establish which key performance indicators (KPIs) youll be using to measure success. Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. Which metrics will help you achieve it?

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Established in 2008 as a collaborative response to the growing number of complex elder abuse cases in NYC, the NYC Elder Abuse Center helps professionals, organizations, and systems prevent elder abuse and improve their response to it. ] By Debra Askanase, Community Organzier 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

At e-metrics, someone told me it had to do with them dropping counts from different news readers. from December, 2008 wondering how the backend might change. This one point caught my eye: RSS subscriber metrics : For some sites, this information is very useful. There are other ways to measure your RSS reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

How to understand the listening data - what is the strategic process for the way the information comes into the organization and how the information is actionable?   More focus on the best practices of how to collect the information and applying it to decision-making.    In 2008, it became important. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I need get rid of clutter, but I first need to do the redesign thinking process before getting into the details of the information design, look, and feel. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Both internal and external stakeholders need to be better informed about why it is okay for overhead costs to be higher when the organization is trying to grow, become sustainable, and ultimately achieve its mission more effectively. Gregory, A.

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MAY 14, 2009

but pack in a tremendous amount of information. A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. Very cool project from 2008: Twitter Vote Report. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Need some metrics guidelines? If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. Job well done!

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Need some metrics guidelines? If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. Job well done!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Need some metrics guidelines? If you dont measure results strictly by fundraising -- maybe your results are based on advocacy or branding only -- you can just look at the "cost per friend" or "cost per email name" to compare with the costs of recruiting people elsewhere. Job well done!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I was honored to be on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. And how will this impact the way we build relationships and find information?

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB. There are lots of measurements, but theyre all relative.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

In this interview, she shares her insights into the strategic and the tactical information nonprofits might find useful as they consider their approach to using video to reach their communications goals. We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB. There are lots of measurements, but theyre all relative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. This spring, Video Party , in association with Art Matters 2008 and Apathy Is Boring , will be presenting a selection of films about creating a world that we want to live in.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Information for bloggers. Information about the campaign and how to get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. Twittered - for velocity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

(I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. I will do an overview connecting the idea of metrics to poetry. How do I measure thee, let me count the ways, etc). THIS is Iron Chef ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008). This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. " I think when that high volume usage kicks in is when we will hear more and more complaints about noise and information overload.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

A great example of using Twitter for real information exchange and for conversation. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue. We are all after real world changes, so how do we measure our use of these tools on real world impact?

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M+R

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

At the top of the page will be a box with a summary of information. If it does not: contact your CRM Format messages according to the Internet Message Format standard ( RFC 5322 ) These standards have been in use since 2008. If you read that, you may wonder how exactly they’re going to be measuring that — is it one click in email?

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

The best measure a lot (but not too much). frogloop: What metrics are the most critical to measure and track when conducting an online fundraising strategy? Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Many of their campaigns dont work, but a few of them do really well! To create a new comment, use the form below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Q: How can nonprofits define and measure success with an online video? Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded? Good metrics are often hard to come by, but measuring success is the only way to know if your effort and investment has paid off! Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

I first came across @paullyoung in September, 2008 when he implemented a birthday campaign as part of charity:water’s September campaign. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia. Tell me about charity:water’s approach/philosophy to measurement? Obviously $.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Now, restate your objective so it is “SMART” – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based? Make your objectives "SMART" (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound). While secondary research may help inform what general direction you may want to go in, there is no substitute for primary research.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Zooop — fast-forward to 2008: Charity Navigator gets new executive leadership in Ken Berger. The other is that Ken joins with other watchdogs and philanthropic leaders in a call to move beyond financial ratios and search for new and better methods of measuring donation-worthiness. So, what kinds of information, if not outcomes?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

We very quickly saw a jump in the website metrics we track. We shook up our e-news format again in November 2008. That November, we saw an 80% increase in blog traffic over November 2008. The information is there; our community will tell us how to use it. The Experiment. Our incentive strategy worked!

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Come measure success. While we have a number or random staff also creating relationships with people that are interested in what they do, the programs allow for a very specific audience to collect information about what they are most interested in. Keep this is mind for what you measure - for this is all I will implore.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

As a result, I had several "ah ha" moments and found a couple of connections for thinking about social media strategy - especially how we address culture change, social media measurement, ROI and the whole larger question of social media for social good. What you measure is engagement and trust. But first, some context. .

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

The trouble with social media thus far has been that it’s been difficult for practitioners to measure its efficacy. Some Basic 101 Resources and Metrics ROI = What you spent divided by what you got out of your investment. The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. Here are a few examples.

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