Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

Social change is hard. And sometimes it can feel that measuring social change is even harder. So here are four principles we used in designing GuideStar Platinum : Nonprofits should choose metrics that make sense for them. It is valuable to identify cases where nonprofits use common metrics. It’s the nonprofit’s job.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

A few weeks ago, HandsOn Network launched The Good & Ready Campaign that leverages interactive technologies and social networking to support their partners, The American Red Cross , Ready.gov and FLASH by recruiting, inspiring and mobilizing volunteers in support of their goals for September, National Emergency Preparedness Month.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

While it is advised to review event metrics after an event, it may be beneficial to review some fundraiser participation while the fundraising is actually happening. Sharing their fundraising page on their social media sites ? How often did you post a link to your fundraising page on a social media site (Facebook, Twitter, etc.)?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. One of the things we wished for as we navigated the campaign: benchmarks. We learned so much while running that campaign, but we also made lots of mis-steps along the way.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Come to our session to learn more about this cool cloud platform, how nonprofits can think about Azure in their work, and see great examples of Azure at work for social change. At TechSoup, the Online Community and Social Media team has made geographic distance less of a barrier in collaboration across different cities or even countries.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

To put that in perspective, the year before the first #GivingTuesday in 2012, there were just $6.6 Once you understand what actions you want to drive on the day, set milestones and benchmarks for success. Social media posts (including SnapChats, Instagram Stories, and Facebook Live videos). Blackbaud processed more than $47.7

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

Daily deals, airfare price alerts, offers from favorite retailers and social media alerts. MarketingSherpa’s gigantic 2011 Email Marketing Benchmark Survey found that, in the corporate world, the most effective email elements to test are: Target audience. Landing page. Subject line. Call-to-action link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

At Zoetica , we’ve been working on a peer learning project with arts organizations called “ Leveraging Social Media &# based on the social media lab. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks. Acquire 100 new donors through Facebook Causes by June 30, 2012.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2014

Published today, M+R and NTEN’s 2014 Nonprofit Benchmarks Study returns for the eighth year. Even though response rates for nonprofit emails continued to slide in 2013, online giving was up as email and social media audiences and web traffic kept climbing. Key email metrics, including open rates and response rates, declined in 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks). I’ve spent some time taking a look at various reports, studies, and International organizations and the use of networks and social media.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been going through changes, too, from figuring out new ways to help organizations incorporate new technologies, such as machine learning and AI , to keeping our client organizations in the know on new social media platforms like Threads. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We’ve been going through changes, too, from figuring out new ways to help our clients incorporate technology, such as machine learning and AI , to keeping our clients in the know on new social media platforms like Threads. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2013

Back by popular demand was Steve MacLaughlin’s analysis of the 200 email subject lines sent to him from nonprofits between December 1, 2012 and December 31, 2012. Aga Suida pulled from her experience of working with nonprofits to write on the importance of social media. But, what if it didn’t have to be that way?

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