Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

The estimates below allow for the time required to research and create content for your social media campaigns, the actual time spent engaging and participating in your nonprofit’s online communities, and the time necessary to monitor and report ROI. The era of “winging” it in social media is over. LinkedIn: 5 Hours Weekly.

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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Title: Social Media Manager. Blog: pancan.org/blog. Facebook has been a highly effective tool and is the strongest in communicating the message of the Pancreatic Cancer Action Network, but also allows people to connect and offer support to each other.

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Cancer Social Media Los Angeles Action 208

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. Nonprofits have to pay full price for advertising on social media. Nonprofits couldn’t expect social media to be free forever.

Social Media 100

Social Media Media Social ROI 100

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. For detailed best practices on how to use email effectively, see 10 Email Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 31, 2012

To truly succeed online, businesses need to have a comprehensive strategy inclusive of all the pieces, including: Blogging. Social media engagement. Whether you're using a blog, engaged emails, websites, or social media, getting noticed and having relevant content has a strong interdependence. Landing pages.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 9, 2012

The successful use of social media requires a significant time investment. To be successful on the Social Web, nonprofits need to have a presence on mutliple social networks and should be consistently creating content that can be shared on the Social Web, such as blog posts, photos, and videos.

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Social Media Media Management Social 253

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 shared case studies and tips for nonprofits on measuring efficiency and effectiveness and looking at tangible/intangible benefits. I think that is dangerous.

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

During the NTC, ThePort Network, Inc , NTEN , and Common Knowledge released results of a survey that examines the use of social networking as a marketing and fundraising tool. The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Blog: BigCatRescue.org?/Blog. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Who maintains your social media campaigns? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Name: Carol Baskin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Peter Campbell, publisher of Techcafeteria Non Profit social media maven Beth Kanter blogged recently about starting up a residency at a large foundation , and finding herself in a stark transition from a consultant’s home office to a corporate network. Restricted systems are more secure. This is all correct.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. I took some much-needed time off in December and was able to spend some down time reflecting on the future of social media and mobile technology for the nonprofit sector. Learn basic HTML.

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Social Media Media Management Social 225

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Even more cumbersome is the trend to not only publish your stories on your blog and website, but to also have to publish them on Medium , Steller , as Facebook Notes , on LinkedIn Publisher , and soon directly into Google.com. Your nonprofit blogs or publishes a story on your website at least twice monthly. We’ve all heard it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Social Media ROI View more presentations from Deanna Zandt. The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. When I first started thinking about metrics for social media, I wanted to start out reminding our group about some fundamentals of the sphere. (A

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages. Do we attempt quantify them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

One barrier to adoption of social media tools (and other technologies) is a concern from management or your boss about the value or benefits. What's the roi? Tony points out this paragraph: I believe that blogging falls into the unproven category. I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog. The least effective—probably Friendster. Dupe: I love our blog – I has surprisingly become one of the strongest presence on our website. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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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. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

m a self-proclaimed social networking junkie. important with higher-engagement leveled UGC campaigns PROCESS - marketing Email Website Social networks Web badges Blogger outreach OUTCOMES Both tangible & intangible Increase list members (we don???t I run the org???s and online advertising campaigns. Our mission is ???celebrating

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. And of course the word “excel” is short for excellent or To do or be better than; surpass – and it is also the name of one of my favorite social media tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2010

Here's the social media policy I created for Beth's Blog. The process around policy - that is the discussion, buy-in, and education - is so critical for effective use of social media. Does your nonprofit have a social media policy? How did you create an effective one? Social Media Policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." But, if an organization simply cuts and pastes a social media policy without the internal culture change, it won't be effective. with "just for fun."

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Social Media Policy Media Social 100

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

So be sure to encourage your speakers, staff, and partners to promote the event on their social networks, in their industry associations or networking groups, and through their portfolios, blogs, or websites. . Accelevents integrates with social media platforms, email platforms, and CRM tools. Give yourself time.

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Virtual Marketing Guide Stream 95

Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

In this blog series, we're focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. Luckily, technology can make this process easier, enabling universities to communicate with alumni effectively and cultivate deep relationships over time.

University 40

University Practice Tech Mail 40

Everyaction

APRIL 30, 2018

In this blog series, we're focusing on how Higher Educational Institutions use technology to communicate with and engage their students and alumni. Luckily, technology can make this process easier, enabling universities to communicate with alumni effectively and cultivate deep relationships over time.

University 40

University Practice Tech Mail 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient.

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Social Media Media Tips Social 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas. Sense: Sensing is making sense of the information. Most of all, sensing requires discipline, a routine, systems, and being organized.

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Share Reflection Social Media Slideshare 103

NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Read more posts on our blog. Effective data visualization is the future of nonprofit storytelling. Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?" James Surowiecki believes the " Wisdom of the Crowds " can be used to answer questions effectively.

China 40

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

For the two months leading up to my brief vacation, I've been doing a lot of training and presenting - chewing on some lessons learned from the America's Giving Challenge , Social Media ROI , and Cute Dogs. What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? Fun with Metrics: Measuring Success and ROI.

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Florida ROI Metrics Social Media 50

AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

So be sure to encourage your speakers, staff, and partners to promote the event on their social networks, in their industry associations or networking groups, and through their portfolios, blogs, or websites. . Accelevents integrates with social media platforms, email platforms, and CRM tools. Give yourself time.

Virtual 52

Virtual Marketing Guide Stream 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Numbers are the first tangible indicators, but documenting and seeing the actual change depends on how well equipped and capable those who won the popular vote and the money are to achieve those social change outcomes. While difficult to link cause/effect, it will be interesting to see what the long term impact is. Respond here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

There’s no doubt that social networks are allowing organizations to connect with and recruit non-traditional volunteers in new ways. In a networked nonprofit, VCs might mine their personal and professional networks for ideation, best practices, and case studies to learn how organizations are engaging volunteers effectively.

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Volunteer Network Organization Help 105

Care2

OCTOBER 8, 2012

Justin Perkins -- Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2 Since 2006, Justin has worked with Care2 on over 250 campaigns to recruit millions of supporters for nonprofits across a wide variety of social and environmental issues. He also launched frogloop.com , a leading nonprofit marketing blog.

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See3

MARCH 13, 2008

Work with the Public Affairs team to identify, develop, and execute communication tactics via the organization’s website, including video streaming, blogging, RSS feeds, subscription systems, social networking media, and other forms of electronic communication and convening. Kellogg Foundation The W.K.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

This is the sixth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. billion monthly active users , Facebook is the largest social network in the world.

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