Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. Why was it a success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

But a good CMS can also facilitate constituent relationships in a number of other ways, including facilitating comments, blogs and social media. A good CMS should also include a built-in Spam filter to keep obviously unrelated content from cluttering your comments sections. It will give what you need to be a smart consumer.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

Explore identity and feelings : Use proposition testing; A/B test Facebook ads; conduct sentiment analysis. Understand who influences them and whom they trust : Conduct content marketing testing, qualitative analysis, and social media listening (Do they follow celebrities vs. political commentators?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

Second, how easy is it to get your data OUT of the CRM database – not get into, but get it out, whether you need to run analytics, feed another system, or even migrate to a new solution. CRM Data Analytics Data Cleaning data cleaning data hygiene digital marketing donor retention fundraising fundraising data analysis'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.    Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). So trackbacks and comments get more weight than clicks and views. Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

Don't Automate All Your Facebook Posts Facebook actually treats posts from third-party apps differently, and they could be lost in your community's news feeds. John Haydon did a pattern analysis of different Facebook Wall posts that were questions to illustrate this. You need to comment quickly, often, and respond to everyone.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

And now a n ew study by Applum, the developer behind Page tool EdgeRank Checker says that using 3 rd party apps like Hootsuite to post Facebook updates decreases comments and Likes by 70%. Applum ran their analysis on 1,000,000+ Updates on 50,000+ Pages that influence over 1,000,000,000+ Fans.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

These are just a handful of nonprofit-focused data sharing sites to get you started: National Center for Charitable Statistics: NCCS provides data, as well as analysis tools and reports, on Nonprofits around the US. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Are they tips?

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. I appreciate your analysis of the claims that the sector is becoming more commercialized. Have you shared your analysis with those who have argued otherwise? It's not my analysis. Another analysis that fits with Michael O'Neill's "Plus ca change."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Update: See Ben's Comment over here. January 12, 2007.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They educate and entertain viewers quickly, feeding information to them in a comfortable, effective way. Engage with your viewers when they post comments and encourage them to share your video to further its reach. To get the right message across to your viewers, it’s important to understand the purpose of your video message.

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

80% of your posts should add value to your followers’ social media feeds. The third main responsibility of a social media manager is community management–answering questions, DMs, comments, maybe creating policies if you work in a controversial or polarizing issue and need to make sure your community is safe. Summarize it!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " The trend is up 12.1%!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Information is what we feed our brains, so we should consume healthy, fresh, local, organic information, and be concerned with ethical sourcing. But if you're just getting started with data and analysis, almost everyone uses Excel a little bit. Here are some quick tips for using Excel to improve your data analysis.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 8, 2011

Click here to read Dr. Mark Hagers analysis of current research on this topic. Interested in learning more about commercialization within the nonprofit sector? Research Friday: Really, Your Tax Exemption has be. Crafting a Successful Third Generation Nonprofit-B. The Future is You: Philanthropy in the 21st Centur.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. If our research is to be valid and useful, the design, data collection, and analysis must be meticulous and exacting. These headlines illustrate the challenges and opportunities inherent to research analysis and dissemination.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening by using rss feeds helps refine their services and help stay sharp and connected to experts in the field. Pattern Analysis . Your pattern analysis will tell you when to ignore something or when to address it right away. Set up aside a small block of time to read your feeds everyday. Keywords Are King.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. Rinse and repeat.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Both Edgerank Checker and Post Rocket have good posts on the details, but in a nutshell, Facebook has altered the way it displays posts in the newsfeed to prioritize posts that have the greatest number of interactions – a cumulative figure determined by the number of clicks, likes, comments and shares a post receives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Remember last September when Facebook announced all those changes to individual profiles, including the timeline? One of the changes was that your friends and fans can do more than “Like” or “Comment” on Facebook. Donate: “Kylie has started a virtual food drive with Feeding America”. Definitive best practices are still emerging.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Interesting analysis. Site Map Accessibility Contact Site Setup RSS Feed Copyright & Trademark Accessibility Privacy Emergency Contact ASU ASU Lodestar Center for Philanthropy & Nonprofit Innovation College of Public Programs | Arizona State University | University Center Mail Code 4120 411 N.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? What else would you add to the list?

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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. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

I might instead read through some blog feeds or find interesting links from people I follow on FriendFeed or Twitter and then bookmark posts on topics (within my "beat"). Sometimes I get an idea based on a pattern analysis or connecting several seemingly unconnected posts/ideas together. thanks everyone!). Why or why not?

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 29, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. exist, the analysis falls apart when considering nonprofits that provide services instead (often to our most vulnerable citizens). In a prior post titled, "Really, How Many Nonprofits Are There?" city, county, etc.). While there may be value in knowing where building-centered nonprofits (e.g.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2007

I've been reflecting on some of the points made about the pros/cons of the NpTech Tag and the comment that Laura Quinn left here. I scan the tagged items every week and do a pattern analysis and summary of these undifferentiated items. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources? How are you using the NpTech Tag? I admit it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Personally, I really like the analysis and detail of Rooney's myths. As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Seeing the Forest Through The Trees: Pattern analysis and synthesis of findings. I spend a majority of my time listening and responding to questions, commenting on blogs, and tracking NWF's mentions and various programs. What’s the best way to handle negative comments? The most important listening literacy skills are.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

In addition, find ways to seed your feed with external content that is interesting and relevant to your audience. And by all means, when people comment on your Page's posts, respond! For deeper analysis and improved understanding of what Facebook is tracking, click the "Export Data" link at the top of the Insights page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

I appointed two Twitter advocates who live Tweeted the discussion and also verbalized questions and comments from Twitter, providing a link between online and offline. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media. How Feeding America Uses KPIs to Measure Social Media. Actionable Social Media Listening for Nonprofits.

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