Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

One of your first tasks will be to find interesting and valuable people and brands to “circle” and follow to support your goal to become familiar with the Google + landscape. I look for people in the nonprofit space, but also those who work for the platform or have specialized in blogging about the platform.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This immersive, interactive webinar experience(tm) will begin with a plenary session providing an overview of social media strategy, organizational adoption issues, capacity, metrics, and strategy execution.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

And while building awareness is a vital part of marketing — you need people to know you exist, after all — it’s equally important to build urgency so that the people who already know you exist are compelled to give. This is full-funnel marketing , and to do it effectively you need some technological assistance. Test both!

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. Those traditional metrics are a good starting point, but often do not tell the whole story. Data can help you think more broadly to identify a valuable product based on your specific goals and success metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. Twitt(url)y. pronounced Favored) is a service that channels the most "favorited" tweets on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0 You should reach out to both audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

I like to have fun experimenting and that’s just what I’m doing on my Facebook Page , a place for learning, and sharing insights about best practices in social media for networked nonprofits. I learn so much from the conversation threads and people sharing what they do. Facebook Strategic Objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. Will it make it easier for us to connect with the right people to get our work done? Will be efficient?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Virtual events offer the flexibility to create a live event that defies expectations and connects people in creative and unexpected ways. . The harder you make it for people to “find” you, the less likely they will be to bother and the less likely they will be to make a purchase. . Follow Up with Attendees Post-Event.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Making key health data easy to understand can change how people think, how policies are made, and, quite literally, save lives. Not only can users narrow down their search to the district level, they can then choose from various impact metrics to better understand specific factors, behaviors, outcomes, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Capacity: People, content, work flow, learning. Next, make it specific by adding a number, percentage, increase/decrease and a date. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

It's also an example of how online social networks can connect you to people in your professional area who may not have met and open the door to valuable informal learning. He introduced me (virtually via Twitter) to Alistair Croll , co-author of their forthcoming book called " Watching Websites ," a deep dive into web metrics and monitoring.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

It’s got to be said—their use of people to spread their message is what they do best. They counteract this by telling the stories of people both past and present who have connections with the American Red Cross. People like hearing about people, and you can use this to your advantage. What We Can Learn. Neverthirst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. There's also a paper that Steve co-authored about a methodology for social network analysis. Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc. But that would be a lot of content!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. It pays to spend a few hours reviewing the demographic or “technographic” details (what people are doing online). by Beth Kanter.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Each Friday in December, we asked people to donate the cost of a package of frozen peas to help fight breast cancer. When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. People are talking about you. Have you heard of Motrin Moms ? Amazonfail ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" I think this statement still holds true, although with more people thinking about ROI and Social Media, practice is evolving. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. What does that mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

It includes international trade and development, security, micro-finance, LBGT rights, renewable energy advocacy, water policy, security, human rights for indigenous people, terrorism financing, refugee protection policies and rights, law enforcement, trafficking, peace in conflict areas, and poverty reduction. 2013: A Year in Social Media.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Credit: Broken Banjo Photography] It takes a lot to jump onstage and pitch a brand new idea in front of a new group of people. Personalized Healing and Support Plan - Elaine Walters Online research-informed health and wellness assessment and planning tool for people who have experienced adversity and trauma. Come Out to Play?

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Candid

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In the United States, the social sector employs over 12 million people (roughly the combined populations of New York City and Los Angeles) and generates more than $3.7 trillion in aggregate annual revenue (a sum greater than President Biden’s $3.5 And perhaps more fundamentally, what is the social sector? Social Sector Dashboard.

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