Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

For those 79% of nonprofits out there, I have listed 10 social media metrics below that can be easily tracked and plotted on a Social Media Return on Investment (ROI) Spreadsheet ( Download ). If you don’t already, get access to your website’s traffic logs and track and plot unique visitors on the Social Media ROI Spreadsheet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2011

Please join Zoetica in celebrating the release of two books, Katie Delahaye Paine ‘s Measure What Matters and Olivier Blanchard ‘s Social Media ROI. Zoetica is giving away five free copies of each book today to the first 10 people who answer the question, “Why will ROI never die?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

The following year, I organized an Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam where panelists delivered their presentations as poems. In 2010, did a crowdsourced session on crowdsourcing. Web ROI: It’s not dollars, it’s (common) sense. Share the link, title, and names in the comments. Social Media for the Non-Sexy Cause.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Drafting inbound message and comment response templates. Do you often get the same questions or comments on your posts? Ask an AI tool to help make your writing more succinct or engaging and see what the results are. (It It will rarely be 100% on the mark, but can spark new ideas.) Template creation. Drafting and testing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. received 93,000 visits and as traffic grows consistently from month to month so does my ROI. Thanks to the Social Web, there is no shortage of possible topics for your nonprofit to blog about.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2011

They are simply tools that can result in high ROI for your nonprofit, but only if the person sharing Status Updates, Twittering, and Checking-in on behalf of your nonprofit has the right skills, experience and training to make social media produce results. Fresh content drives the Social Web. 2) Is mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

Last week’s case study about how the Students for Free Tibet vets participation generated some great responses and advice in the comments from Wendy Harman , Red Cross and Stacey Monk , Epic Change, both veterans of online fundraising and voting contests. Tags: Fundraising ROI Strategy agc2 case foundation contests.

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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? Getting Ideas for Campaigns or Programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 17, 2010

The new design places focus on where the vast majority of ROI (Return on Investment) for your nonprofit comes from on Facebook… the Status Updates. As long as this new design doesn’t affect the ability of your Status Updates to show up in the News Feed (s), then you shouldn’t notice any difference in your Facebook ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 18, 2010

Earlier today I followed a link from Twitter to an archived guest post on Pamela’s Grantwriting Blog by Aerin Guy. Is ROI limiting our community impact? .’s ’s focus on community, the idea of ROI doesn’t make sense. ROI asks how many email subscribers; ROE asks how many people send you emails.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

It's about why a blog behind the firewall makes sense -- part ROI business case, part introductory training. The idea was to orient folks to why do it and what practically it will be for and then some brief training in how to blog. Is this a prelude to blogging outside of the firewall? What were some of their questions?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. I still think these are components are essential and should be applied to looking at the ROI (Results on Insight) for nonprofits and social media. Do you agree?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2009

Tags: ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Blog: BigCatRescue.org?/Blog. We have 325 social media sites that we post to regularly, but in addition to all of the ones that everyone knows about, two of the most effective are Posterous and TrafficGeyser because we can post once to these accounts and they syndicate out to hundreds of article, podcast, blog, video and photo sites at once.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Blog: pancan.org/blog. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. I am tracking the ROI. I track the ROI a few ways. (1) Summary of ROI. Averaging 200 interactions per post on Facebook (this includes comments, likes and wall posts). Name: Allison Nassour.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

published its first blog post. In fact, what I have discovered over the last year is that blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy. 10 Most Popular Blog Posts :: Year One: Views. Five Simple Ways Nonprofits Can Measue Social Media ROI. Tags: Blogging Social Media. just surpassed 254,000 visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

The brutal but honest — and hopefully well-received — truth is that the majority of nonprofits are making mistakes on social-networking sites that directly undermine their ROI. If all your nonprofit does on social-networking sites is marketing, then I guarantee no one is listening and your ROI is next to nil. Not blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value. 

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For more ideas on how to maintain a healthy and lasting relationship with your donors, check out our recent blog post So, What’s Your Donor Relationship Status , as well as our E-Book, Your Donor Retention Toolkit. Share in the comments below. To make your Giving Tuesday campaign garner maximum ROI, visit the Giving Tuesday Hub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2008

I'm working on workshop curriculum and a presentation about ROI and Nonprofit Technology for Legal Services Conference. That brought me to the question of "What are effective ROI storytelling techniques?" Do you have an example of a good ROI story telling? I'm focusing on Part 4: Effective Ways to Make Your Case.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

For more than a decade the blogosphere has touted the power and promise of social media (this blog included) , but there is also a downside to using social media for your nonprofit. The Next Big Thing in social media has no tangible ROI. The last Next Big Thing still has no tangible ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. If your panel isn’t on the list, add a link and title in the comments. (Check out his illustration of the panel). Trust me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s useful to have your photos and links (to your website, a blog post, a news article etc) ready in a folder or folders so that when you want to schedule new posts, it’s easy to access the content. There’s no need to be active on all social channels if you don’t get ROI from them. 10 Steps to Create a Content Calendar.

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Qgiv

MAY 31, 2023

Reply to comments, messages, and questions quickly, politely, and personally. Ask questions that encourage your followers to answer in the comments. Through direct mail, email, social media, digital ads, and holiday campaigns, his clients are seeing successful results and ROI year after year. That doesn’t feel personable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 2200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. In addition, there's be lots of learning shared freely.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

WHY THIS CAMPAIGN People were buzzing about the issue online and obviously outraged by their comments. We could tell by all the comments and images floating around. to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? Media coverage - Tv, blogs, newspapers Was it worth it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

I just didn’t see how a Facebook Group could ever compare to a MySpace profile in terms of power and ROI (Return on Investment). It’s a good thing I did or this blog and my communities on Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and now Foursquare would likely not exist. Then Facebook launched Facebook Pages in November 2007.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 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). Introducing WebAPI ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Note from Beth: Celeste Wroblewski writes the studio 501c blog. If you have thoughts, comments, or questions, let's discuss this over in the comments at the original post. Photo credit: [link] / CC BY 2.0 It's what I wrote in 2006, when Godin slammed nonprofits for not using his Web service, Squidoo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Blog: wfwnotesfromthefield.wordpress.com. Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the Notes from the Field WordPress blog. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Title: Multimedia/Online Coordinator. Website: www.womenforwomen.org. Facebook: facebook.com/womenforwomen.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Be sure to add a description with a link to increase your return on investment (ROI)/traffic from using Pinterest. Finally, make note that people can “Like/Repin or Comment” on your Pins. Add the Pinterest icon to your webite, blog, and e-newsletter. It’s a simple oversight that dramatically reduces ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 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). Accidentally, of course.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Measuring the Value of Your Blog.

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TechImpact

JULY 7, 2014

Often citing their ROI is difficult to understand to deliver upon. Let us know in the comment section below. The post Your New 4 Step Guide To A Successful Tech Implementation appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology. How did your nonprofit handle its last tech implementation?

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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!" ROI (Return on Investment) in its simplest form has has a very specific mathematical definition.

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