Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

If not, it may be time to get some training. I was a reluctant blogger. I didn’t think the world needed another blogger. If your nonprofit is already blogging, plot your stats. If you are using social media correctly, then your numbers should rise from month-to-month. Website Traffic. Blog Traffic. I was wrong.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

The best new media managers, online community builders, bloggers, and activists will be connected and communicating with their supporters from anywhere, at any time when the need arises. TwitPic.com allows you to easily share photos on Twitter in real-time. Related Links: [STATS] New Study Shows the Mobile Web Will Rule by 2015.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

My brain was completely fried and those around me were getting pretty fed up with the fact that I was never present, only connected… online, all the time. If you are managing numerous social networking profiles Monday-Friday, then you need some down time on Saturday and Sunday. Pick a time to quit in the evening and stick to it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

" Traveling Geeks - "The Traveling Geeks are an informal group of technology influencers and bloggers rooted chiefly in the San Francisco Bay Area. will screen the best of the over 130 documentaries, PSAs, shorts and feature length films submitted to the festival." " Facebook Users Are Getting Older.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

But are these stats meaningful? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? Track these conversations each week and put them in a spreadsheet; this will allow you to track your growth over time. What are your bounce rates, time spent on site, etc?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 16, 2013

Here are three pithy stats (one for each decade) and associated actions to catch more Millennial dollars: To Facebook or to Website. Time or Money. Here’s another tip: 47 percent of Millennials prefer to support nonprofits with their time, while only 16 percent prefer to give exclusively through financial support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. Blog is Beautiful Latino, Asian/Pacific Islander-American, and black bloggers. often these bloggers discard the handcuffs of their ethnic origins to tackle subjects affecting a range of racial or ethnic groups.

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 24, 2009

Unfortunately, this was a matter of bad timing. The geeks are rolling their eyes at the obvious advice, but the average, every day blogger with a self-hosted install doesn’t think of these things. Related posts: Wordpress.com stats on self-hosted blogs One thing that I really like about Wordpress.com blogs is. Just do it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

UPDATED 1/8/12: Thanks to the launch of Google+ Pages for brands, Google+ traffic hit an all time high in December 2011 and it’s likely that the trend will continue in 2012. If your nonprofit has yet to get on Google+, now would be a very good time to start. Powerful stats. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once we hit November and we’ve gotten through Halloween, Daylight Savings Time, and the first frost, it’s officially the holiday season – and for nonprofits, that means it’s also time for year-end giving campaigns. The reason is twofold: first, it makes sense to align with the holiday season, a time of generosity and giving back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Michelle Murrain weighs in with a thought provoking post, " What Do Web Stats Mean, Anyway? " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. He suggests starting with the context here and then read his article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Our biggest challenge as bloggers was getting off the soap box and into a facilitation role. This diagram, credited to the “ New York Times via Ed Philp ,” (original source ) illustrates the flow of comments on a blog. You type in the URL for the post and it shows me the stats and actual mentions. It is very easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. He summarizes the Google acquisition in February, 2007 and how the service has evolved slowly since that time.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Share important news, feed them useful stats and resources that relates to your cause and the issues they have been writing about. What is Earned Media?

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

How are you going to maintain the website and make it compelling over time? Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Share compelling content on Facebook (1-2 times a day), Twitter (at least once a day), and other social media channels.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Over time and through implementing the best practices listed below and those yet to come, you will find your Google+ voice. Powerful stats. Unfortunately, the Google+ App does not yet allow page admins to publish to the stream, but it’s just a matter of time. Post quality content to the Google+ Stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

Since this brought dogfighting into the spotlight and put it on the minds of many Americans, we figured it was a good time to reach out to people. That way can recoup the $ spent and justify time spent. to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? If it was worth your time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2005

Ethan Zuckerman has been analyzing Global s stats since the site's redesign last month. The tool used to count total links is Blogpulse (He also shares his worksheet ) In the analysis, he mentions that the average blogger links to Global s 1.86

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

For some good how-to posts, check out my co-blogger Alissa Ruehl , perhaps starting with her Intro to Google Analytics. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. Time spent on the site. What’s Next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Get affiliated (trained/certified) (so that an emergency response organization can put you to work in a leadership position immediately in a time of disaster. At the time of this writing, one week into the six week campaign there were 1,337 actions pledged. A breakdown of the engagement and site visit stats are below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There was a quick exchange about nonprofit blog traffic the other day and someone mentioned that building traffic takes time, " particularly from RSS subscribers who must be convinced that the blog is worth investing the time to read and therefore subscribe." A pdf version can be found here. )

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Once a year, Blog Action Day unites bloggers around the world to focus on an important global issue and to create a dialogue that transcends international borders. The stats on world hunger are staggering: According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN, close to one billion people are chronically hungry.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is media you dont “buy” but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Share important news, feed them useful stats and resources that relates to your cause and the issues they have been writing about. What is Earned Media?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Do you have a small staff with no time, but who are handy with a FlipCam? This will help you understand where they spend time watching videos and their comfort level with different technologies. First, evaluate your assets and think about where your resources are best invested. 30-year-old moms? 65-year-old dog owners?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Marketing, Fundraising, and Philanthropy So far, there will be at least four bloggers live blogging at the Council on Foundations conference. The "invited live bloggers" are Susan Herr , Tactical Philanthropy , Worldchanging and Lucy. What about other conference attendees who might also be bloggers?

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2009

We need to invest time to scrutinize our everyday business processes to see if we can make them more efficient. In our case, this means we'll move more customer service features online to try to reduce the number of phone calls to our office. Investing a few staff hours up front may save you oodles of time over the long run.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. We looked at the site's stats over the last year and made the goal: double the site's traffic in the coming year. Save Yourself Time. Be Out There.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2007

Birdie's blogs and stories have been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, Positive Thinking Magazine , and the Wall Street Journal as well as many other news outlets. Corante , and other topics for The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine, Worthwhile , and The New York Times.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it. Thank you again for your help. 6 Debjit 01.01.10

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. We'll also use the Idealware stats to demo a methodology that connects metrics to business questions. Which is real life is always much harder and complex than in a training context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

" They have begun inviting local bloggers as press to openings and events - usually they get in touch with Mike Woycheck or Cynthia Closkey, two of the co-founders of Pittsburgh Bloggers , who then re-blog the invitation and spread it via Facebook or their own Twitter streams. Can I help next time? s Blog about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

My mental image of him for a very long time was the painting of St. It's more personal than e-mail in many ways when someone takes the time to leave a comment for instance. How much time do you spend blogging? I started to spend too much time browsing around for ideas and I found out that that was just a timewaster.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2011

Author: Guest Blogger. The biggest downside is that when non profits start mobile initiatives, many times they are starting without a list. The ability for coworkers to text in and see the interaction happen in real time is a conversation starter. The following blog post is by Michael Sabat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2006

The live video feed was being streamed from the Netsquared gathering in San Francisco happening at the same time as the virtual gatherng in Second Life. Pathfinder gave a presentation to a small group in Cambridge , while his audio (some of the time) was streamed into Second Life along with his Powerpoint Slides.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

It also pulls in a feed of most recent Facebook news and illuminates in real-time the fastest growing countries using Facebook. Cinchcast is ideal for nonprofits that are advancing their communications into real-time reporting while on location from fundraisers, conferences, protests, etc. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/en/landing/internetstats.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 22, 2006

Because many of CUAV's volunteer bloggers were more knowledgeable about issues such as the trans-phobic tactics that were being used by the lawyers, they were able to address many issues that the mainstream media missed. Check out these stats from an article entitled, "Blog Readers Spend More Time and Money Online."

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