Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

I asked Best Friends Marketing Coordinator Claudia Perrone how they were measuring success. The ultimate KPI, of course, is dog adoptions. Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." After all, building and maintaining a meaningful social media presence requires a significant investment of time — and it’s not always easy to measure the return on that investment.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Starting over may not be an option, but in the absence of that, here are ten things event fundraisers and marketers should be considering to reinvent their plans for 2011: Become more data driven. Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The format will work for pretty much any event type, including: Auctions 5Ks Fundraising concerts Conferences/panels Galas Remember, as you plan a hybrid event, come up with ways to engage both audiences in equal measure. You wouldn’t want to focus all of your attention on one set of supporters, causing the other attendees to feel neglected.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

Note from Beth: This past year has been a deep exploration into how nonprofits can use measurement and reflection to improve their practices as a networked nonprofit and social media. As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I designed and facilitated several peer learning groups and exchanges. Flickr Photo by Johnny Hall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Not Data Driven.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Learn about the tools available that bring mobile, web and social together. When Goodwill was planning their mobile site, they knew from their web analytics that their most popular feature would be the store locator; more than 7 million visited the Goodwill website in 2011, and more than 6 million of those visited the locator.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2012

” By Chip Bell, Summit 2011 keynote speaker. Fundraising Analytics : Using data to support your donor-centric organization. Level Best : Better understand evaluation and measurement tools for valuable, practical results. Leap of Reason : Helping public sector leaders achieve more.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The 2011 September Campaign. But how are you measuring along the ladder of engagement – from awareness to conversion to donor. We’re also keeping a close eye on our Google Analytics to ensure that enough people are visiting the campaign page and the conversion rate. Tell me about this year’s campaign? Obviously $.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” After spending five years living and breathing networks and measurement and designing and delivering many, many nonprofit capacity building programs, my focus is going to be on how nonprofits can apply measurement and their networks to learn for impact. They created a fake ATM, then used an iPad to create the ATM “program”.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

AnnieCannons gives human trafficking survivors the tools to support themselves and their family. Since 2011, with the help of their supporters they have rescued over 2,300 vulnerable and traumatized children from the sex trade industry and helped keep hundreds more from entering the sex trade through their various prevention programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2011

Note from Beth: I’m working on the sequel to the Networked Nonprofit – it is a book about using measurement to prove and improve results with the Measurement Goddess KD Paine. (Her recent book, Measuring What Matters , is a must read.). Eventually, we anticipate adding these tools to our chapter websites as well.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

Back in 2011, Google Panda was released with one purpose in mind. It would be a stretch to prove a link between the post and exceeding donation goals without tracking analytics. You can also use a free design tool like Canva for nonprofits to create visually compelling case studies on a budget. How to set up Google analytics.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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