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. Nonprofit social media managers are bombarded with depressing content. Don’t. Just block and forget.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

I’ve watched the early adopters of MySpace in 2005 propel themselves into the national and international spotlight using social media, and I’ve seen latecomers begin to dabble with Facebook and Twitter just this year. Not adding social-networking icons to your website. Using a horizontal logo for your avatar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

I do occasionally give thumbs up, and sometimes I’ll even comment. That would be fine if the ROI was there, but even with over 7,000 fans ROI-as-defined-above is elusive. Thumbs up and comments are difficult to inspire. Is Facebook ROI there, but not possible to track since most fans are silent on Facebook?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Please summarize your ROI.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Title: Social Media Manager. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Title: Director of Emerging Media. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Six months ago I came pretty close to complete social media burnout. I was running over 20 social networking profiles, logging in seven days a week, and at minimum pulling 60-hour work weeks. If you are managing numerous social networking profiles Monday-Friday, then you need some down time on Saturday and Sunday.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? Please summarize your ROI.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, I was asked to conduct a social media marketing workshop at Planet Philanthropy (an annual conference for fundraising professionals by. After what felt like hours of agonizing over potential topics, one of my coworkers suggested the idea to discuss common social media mistakes we see our clients making all the time!

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Studies show that people spend an average of almost eight and a half hours interacting with digital media per day. This includes time spent scrolling through social media, checking emails, watching shows and movies on streaming services, and more. Then, that page can include a link customers can use to book an appointment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Council on Foundations ROI Panel. I participated on a panel called Face, Tweet, Link – Socia Media, Grantmaking & A True Social ROI. Slightly more mature practice for measuring business results vs social impact. But as Kathy pointed, “The thing is, social media is not a grantmaking strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March, 2012 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. For 2011, I’ve submitted a panel titled “ Making Social Media Measurement Sexy &# with a dream team of colleagues Danielle Brigida, Frank Barry, Wendy Harman, Jon Dunn, and David Neff.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Many organizations struggle with the idea of ROI and metrics when it comes to social media because so much of it feels, well, untouchable. Be sure to focus in on the problems you plan to address with your social media strategies (we all want to change the world, but that’s not a specific).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2014

Her expertise includes brand marketing , social media , employee engagement , leadership development , and customer experience marketing. This week, Debbie was kind enough to answer the following three questions about social media and marketing : Question 1. First, there is the "what''s social media" mistake.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2010

Social networking communities are migrant communities. Social media skeptics often say that it’s a waste of time to utilize social networking sites because they are here today, and then gone tomorrow. Social networking communities are migrant communities. Social media in many ways is a numbers game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

Engage Media's Theory of Change. I’ve been mulling over the “Social Media ROI&# concept and how it doesn’t necessarily work for nonprofits, especially when it applied as a litmus test to see if there are financial outcomes — cost reductions or increased revenue. Why Use A Theory of Change.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2013

The webinar then hones in on the importance of the News Feed and showcases tactics to increase Likes and Comments on your Status Updates, as well as numerous strategies to grow your nonprofit’s Facebook Fan base. The webinar then closes with strategies on how to monitor your Facebook Return on Investment (ROI).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The webinar then hones in on the importance of the News Feed and showcases tactics to increase Likes and Comments on your Status Updates, as well as numerous strategies to grow your nonprofit’s Facebook Fan base. The webinar then closes with strategies on how to monitor your Facebook Return on Investment (ROI).

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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. Internet Use Policy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

I wonder if the secret sauce is to do a cost/benefit analysis before you start preparing your favorite social media sauce? Do they get social media? You also need to analyze the social capital cost. Does the contest help us build social capital or do we have enough deposited to make a with drawl?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The webinar then hones in on the importance of the News Feed and showcases tactics to increase Likes and Comments on your Status Updates, as well as numerous strategies to grow your nonprofit’s Facebook Fan base. The webinar then closes with strategies on how to monitor your Facebook Return on Investment (ROI).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2012

The webinar then hones in on the importance of the News Feed and showcases tactics to increase Likes and Comments on your Status Updates, as well as numerous strategies to grow your nonprofit’s Facebook Fan base. The webinar then closes with strategies on how to monitor your Facebook Return on Investment (ROI).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 21, 2009

Tags: ROI.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Nonprofits are organizations that have a social impact. When nonprofits “profit” by running their organizations effectively, the profit gained does not have to end in increased financial margins – the profit, ultimately, is the social impact. Focus on both short-term and long-term ROI. Tell us in the comments!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2012

The webinar then hones in on the importance of the News Feed and showcases tactics to increase Likes and Comments on your Status Updates, as well as numerous strategies to grow your nonprofit’s Facebook Fan base. The webinar then closes with strategies on how to monitor your Facebook Return on Investment (ROI).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Innovation in online fundraising was driven by the release of new technology, such as email marketing services like MailChimp in 2001, the launch of WordPress ( a content management system now used by 44% of nonprofits worldwide ) in 2003, and social networking websites beginning with Myspace in 2005. 2020 Social Media Size Guide ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. As readers of this blog well know, digital and social media can be difficult to keep up with.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2009

Today was the first webinar in the Storytelling & Social Media series from NTEN and TechSoup Global. Today’s webinar focused on the building blocks of social meda; things like tagging, RSS and how to get started finding the conversations taking place online. Here’s my slide deck: Social Media Building Blocks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I'm working with a small group of Packard Foundation grantees on a social media lab where they are implementing different social media experiments. We know that good practice is to establish measurable objectives for your social media strategy and identify the audience before you executive. Unsubscribes.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2013

The webinar then hones in on the importance of the News Feed and showcases tactics to increase Likes and Comments on your Status Updates, as well as numerous strategies to grow your nonprofit’s Facebook Fan base. The webinar then closes with strategies on how to monitor your Facebook Return on Investment (ROI).

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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.

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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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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Was the social media plan you implemented worth the time you spent running it? In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis. You need to make social media a daily habit; understand the rules, the landscape, and above all give it time to work. Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

In fact, what I have discovered over the last year is that blogging was the missing piece in my social media strategy. Five Simple Ways Nonprofits Can Measue Social Media ROI. 10 Social Media Metrics for Nonprofit Organizations. 10 Tips for Managing Social Media Burnout.

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