Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2014

In comparison, @BarackObama ’s tweets are only retweeted an average 1,400 times each, despite his massive following. A number of foreign offices have used this channel to reach out to peers and other influencers to set the record straight or to coordinate their digital outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Thanking donors individually on Facebook and including the link to the fundraiser triggered donations based on comparison of time posted and donation made, second most effective solicitation was a personal ask via private message. Think About Different Levels of Influence. These were collected using storify.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 24, 2020

This public perception influences nonprofit leadership when determining compensation structures for their employees, and can lead to significant pay disparity between the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. So, what can nonprofit leaders do?

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Media Cause

JANUARY 20, 2023

You have influencers on social media who call themselves content creators, posting videos and content online, and people like myself who consider themselves content writers, because, well, we write for a living. This provides a good ground for comparison on what speaks to your brand and what does not.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Where appropriate, we’ll also draw out some conclusions and comparisons to help contextualize where and how GivingTuesday can fit into your nonprofit’s overall strategy. Much of that performance improvement was influenced by emails’ subject lines. Where Do Donors Give? Click here to see a larger version of this graph.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Check out the comparison chart below. The study also highlighted the important role and influence moms and Millennials play in consumer marketing. And more importantly, can nonprofits exert some of their influence over these companies to not only donate money but to become more socially responsible in their everyday business? ?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Additionally, while nonprofits only have so much influence over whether a company starts a workplace giving program, they still do have some influence, which can be leveraged to diversify their revenue. Your nonprofit’s matching gift software can help you here, as you can easily search for other businesses and find comparisons.

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Classy

JULY 20, 2021

Loyalty, trust, and a strong understanding of the product offerings are some of the main factors that influence a customer’s decision to work with a certain company, and that starts with one of the first people they meet, an account executive. What else have you noticed about Classy in comparison so far?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

People are better at judging length, so bar charts are a decent option also useful for comparisons. We graph our social media impacts because we need to see how launching new platforms has influenced our clients. It’s difficult to interpret area, so if you use a pie, restrict the number of wedges to 4 or fewer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

She also said that the pressure of measurement is not lessening and the drumbeat is getting louder. But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Within a system are stakeholders that can include individuals, organizations, networks of organizations, the range of their actions, their ways of thinking vis-à-vis the issue, and the natural and man-created environmental factors that influence the system. Stakeholders may or may not identify themselves as participants in the system.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. to help build this system and has shared some analysis of these retweets. I'd use something like this to identify influencers in my network whose retweets had reach or velocity. hatip stacymonk ) He collected over 84,000 retweets.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

On the most surface and performative level (thanks, social media influencers), it’s all about massages and candles. Comparison? But I needed something provocative to get you to read. Self-care IS probably one of the most overused and misappropriated terms out there right now. Clean eating and meditation. Sleep and water. Supportive?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2017

Keep in mind that an organization's annual budget, with the implied increases in staff and infrastructure in tandem with the increases in budget size, influences collaborative activities. In comparison, in the fall 2016 report, the entry point was $1 million.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2011

In comparison, local officials are much more accessible and, for many constituents, reaching out to them is less intimidating. For organizers, identifying your grasstops, or influencers, has become a cinch in the world of social networking.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2019

These events all pale in comparison, though, to the implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) in the European Union. GDPR is the legislative equivalent of an Instagram influencer. Its executives were hauled before Congressional committees.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Understanding your own goals and your nonprofit’s impact will keep you from getting too caught up in the comparison game. By finding the people that both support and are influenced by your cause, you can consider the best approach to take when communicating your mission to them. Nonprofit Competition.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

By comparison, social media marketing is based on relinquishing control, two-way communication, building community, and breaking out of campaign-thinking to build trust over time. If the goal is to integrate social media marketing into your traditional marketing, you're setting yourself up for failure.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 25, 2011

Then, they interviewed 400 people by phone and online, presenting them with a short framing argument (80-120 words), followed by a series of open-ended questions intended to determine how memorable the argument was, how it influenced their perception of the public value of the arts, and how likely it was to inspire action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2008

Find the influencers - also find out who they are following Start by participating in other people's blogs Tool for Twitter - Twellow.com - searches through profiles If there is a new service, shiney object, you don't have to use everyone - you can create an account with your organization's brand.   Time is the new money. 

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Candid

JULY 21, 2021

For comparison, total human rights funding in 2018 was equivalent to just 12 percent of Facebook’s operating expenses in the same year. . A handful of funders have considerable influence. Yet, we hesitate to paint too rosy a picture: this funding is a drop in the bucket.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Keep It Multi-Channel, But Within Your Capacity To Implement: I have 1,500 friends on Facebook, although it pales in comparison to some super connected social media gurus like Chris Brogan and Robert Scoble. He has a large network, is an influencer, and used Twitter and his blog to raise money at the speed of light.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2006

He starts with how Lost gave us a control study with a comparison - Gilligan's Island - to compare the complexity. Crazy people get influenced to crazy things. Is there a way of hindering the space race? Is it ever worth it not to build a shrine for your first great prophet? Beware of the sudden collapse experience?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

The agenda didn't have a detailed description, so I thought this might be a case study along the lines of how to influence a UA policy similiar to this one about Trinidad. But what if they went to wikipedia and made a critical comparison? My wife teaches high school and they don't like it. Tourism is the number saving industry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Financial calculations: net gain, opportunity cost, or comparison to other method. Creating effective stories is not hard, provided you clearly understand who these decision influencers are, know well what they most care about and understand where to place stories for the most impact. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Alternatively, you can run two different email campaigns and compare their performance, then use that comparison to inform future campaigns. Recruit Social Influencers Social influencers are people outside of your organization who have a prominent social media presence and post positive messages about your organization.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2017

By comparison, only 29% of online only donors were 65 or older while 58% of offline only donors are represented in these age brackets. This tends to skew income comparisons with older donors across giving channels. Here are 4 facts your organization should know about online donors, according to the data: 1. They’re Are Younger.

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Gyrus

APRIL 12, 2018

Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. Since millennial buyer behavior is so vastly different than what traditional advertising channels can influence, understanding the demographic completely, is vital. How to Train and Develop Millennials.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

The unofficial Iraq Body Count (IBC) , which tracks civilian casualties in Iraq based on press reports and administrative records, has initiated a comparison of their own data to the deaths documented in the SIGACTS data.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

Many Komen supporters expressed anger that an organization positioned to make such positive impact would allow for political influence and would make a decision that appeared to be going against the mission of serving women (especially low income women served by PP affiliates). An interesting model to use for comparison is Occupy Wall Street.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2015

The comparison to events like the ACS Relay for Life may not be an apples to apples comparison. When you see just how much money is donated online on the 30th and 31st you cannot deny that EOY is a special/important window of time when you have to get fundraising right. – Bryan Snyder, Senior Marketing Anaylst.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." The categories were audience, engagement, loyalty, influence, and action. What's interesting is the acronym aelia stands for Jerusalem ). What is the trend?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

calling me a pro -- but honestly in comparison to Vicky's work, I feel like more a Sunday afternoon painter.). That marvelous patch work quilt of different and connected s in the blogosphere that influences your thinking, your writing, and sometimes your practice. Flickr photo from AussieGal.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Look at week-over-week and month-over-month comparisons. Build relationships with social media influencers and content amplifiers relevant to your mission. Traffic sources: Where your visitors come from (search, social, referral sites). Lets you identify top channels. Dig Deeper Segment data by source, page, geography etc.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

A path to success on Instagram is connecting with influencers who have large followings. Twitter: At 330 million users per month, Twitter feels like a fading platform in comparison to the others. See if your volunteers and supporters are active on the platform. Tag them in captions and photos.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

Or maybe even policy makers who have influence over government, you know, budgets, you know, for the CDC or things like that. Sarah: Yeah, RFPs, you know, the goal of an RFP is often to do an apples-to-apples comparison. Who could you engage with? Well, that’s sort of the outer tier. So that makes total sense.

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