Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

For the past few years whenever I doing a training or speak about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit , someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.&#. It isn’t about following thousands and thousands of friends on Twitter.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a new year and that means a new, comprehensive benchmark report on the performance of nonprofits using Luminate Online. The new Luminate Online Benchmark Report is a powerful asset that studies over 500 organizations and their online marketing and fundraising efforts. Just between us, I’ve grown to love analytics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The primary goal of the report is to set a baseline of benchmarks for success for NGOs worldwide in their use of web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and mobile media. 72% have a Twitter Profile. Of those, the top three live reporting tools are Facebook (79%), Twitter (56%), and YouTube (23%).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

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). New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right? Would love to hear your thoughts!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? Photo by Smitty42.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name. For example, here's the arts programming account.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

At #MFOM14, I participated as a speaker, leading one workshop, Email Marketing to Support Year-Round Online Fundraising , and as a panelist for the session, Visual Communication: Create pictures, videos, and presentations quickly, easily, and affordably. Special thanks to the mighty team at the Grassroots Institute for Fundraising Training!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

View more presentations from YMCA of Metro Chicago. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution. NTEN – E-Nonprofit Benchmark Study. PostRank Nonprofit Blogs Benchmarking. NTEN – E-Nonprofit Benchmark Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I’ve also used this as benchmark for my training and peer learning projects so one could quantify transformation. In advance of convening on Social Media Metrics hosted by RWJF, there will be a Twitter chat on Thursday, April 18, 3-4 p.m. Join RWJF online Thursday, April 18, at 3 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

This is a terrific presentation from Lee Raine from the Pew Internet and American Life Project that looks at the issue being “hyperconnected” or “over connected” to the web, mobile technologies and social media. The study and presentation begins with some context.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Reference Sheet: Keep the benchmark rates at your finger tips with this handy reference sheet!

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Care2

JANUARY 27, 2011

Please take just 10 minutes now to complete this 3 rd annual survey , and help us compile an updated snapshot of nonprofits and their use of social networks - commercial social networks like Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube, and organizational house (private label) social networks.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

La Teva Alta Anoia : The main objective is to create a new web portal of Alta Anoia, through which an innovative way to serve as a benchmark for tourism promotion as a tool of identity and cohesion of a country and a brand: Alta Anoia. copòns.net. How did your work getting the local council online get started? as a backdrop. Passes from 2.0

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

According to our webinar presenters, nonprofits are already using super-short videos in the following ways (scroll on down for examples): Thank you videos. You can also share Instagram videos on Facebook, Twitter, and other channels. The company was founded in June 2012 and was acquired by Twitter later that year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

View more presentations from womenwhotech. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. What I’m most interested is how to use social network analysis and the various tools to better understand your network on Twitter or Facebook or elsewhere. Networked Nonprofit: Care2 Webinar. Family members.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Sign up for the Nonprofit Finance Fund's Financial Management Webinar Series to increase your knowledge and skills - presented by the ASU Lodestar Center Nonprofit Management Institute. The report presents an excellent case for why the field of fundraising needs to be elevated. How strong are your nonprofit financial management skills?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

This is the fourth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. According to the 2020 Benchmarks Report , revenue from monthly gifts increased by 22% in 2019 and now accounts for 17% of all online revenue for nonprofits.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Some people are beginning to use twitter for adverts…and doing ‘paid tweets’ Is this going against the whole ethos of SM and especially Twitter, when authenticity is the key?” 2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I Tags: interview resources expert fundraising london ncvo presentation socialbysocial wearemedia.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2010

Earlier today I decided to see who had already taken advantage of the new feature by asking on Twitter. ” – Robert Scoble. Nonprofits already taking advantage of the new features. Here's a few of the responses I got back: PETA’s Ringling Bros Beats Animals campaign page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. KD Paine’s Twitter Measurement List. Notes and Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. retweet this message and our company will donate $x to charity), there is a better a benchmark. But if we look at for-profit companies using the sponsored tweet model (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The engaged crowd on the webinar asked many smart questions of the presenters, who included Knight Foundation’s Bahia Ramos and GiveMN’s Dana Nelson , in addition to myself. These community foundations are actively using the Giving Day Playbook to host Giving Days in their communities and it forms the backbone to peer exchanges.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2018 to some (hint: it’s not ), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2017 has taken you. 10 Nonprofit Twitter Accounts Doing it Righ t: These accounts offer some inspiration for creative ways you can boost your own organization’s Twitter profile.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2020 to some (hint: it’s not), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2019 has taken you. 10 Nonprofit Twitter Accounts Doing it Right : These accounts offer some inspiration for creative ways you can boost your own organization’s Twitter profile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

KD Paine's presentation rocked!  On Twitter, a start up company got 100 great marketing ideas for free, women raised $6,000 in a day and a wooden toy maker in NH got a nationwide contract. I got to meet KDPaine at the eMetrics Summit! some pics of slides are here ). Today, it's about relationships. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

On the “birthdays” section of their website, after discovering that many others with the same birthday as you––and 47,492 people in total at the time of writing––have asked for donations instead of presents for their birthday, charity: water tells you how cool celebrities like Depeche Mode and Tony Hawk pledged their birthdays to the nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. I will be co-presenting with Emily Riley , a senior analyst from Jupiter Research. Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . Source Coding : If you’re not doing it now, set up source coding for the links posted in your interactions on FB, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Why is this important?

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

JUNE 24, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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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 uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics. Twitter on Paper Icebreaker.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

According to the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , online revenue grew by 21% over 2011 totals, presenting nonprofits even more reasons to pull out the heavy gear and start online fundraising. With these experiments you can establish your own benchmarks. You can reach her out on Twitter or Google+.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

" They probably said the same thing about Facebook, Twitter, and other social media tools. Target Analytics noted in the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Analysis study that as much as 16% of new donors and 27% of new revenue came from online sources in 2008. The Present and Future are Integrated.

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Forum One

APRIL 17, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2008

Read More » Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input Joe Pringle in Influence 4 Jun 2010 I was invited to present last week at the University of Marylands Human Computer Interaction Labs workshop on Government and Social Media. In this case.

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