Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. I asked fans on Facebook, “Does your organization use an editorial calendar and “editorial meetings” to get ideas and manage content for a content strategy?” My answer: Yes!

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Google has emerged as one of the most influential and powerful organizations of our time. Starting out as one of many search engines, Google has since branched out into software, mobile devices, and other technology ventures. . Eligible charitable organizations apply to Google to receive $10,000 a month to use on Google Ads.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

Understand Digital Engagement Metrics Before you launch your digital recruitment marketing campaign, you need to understand how digital engagement works so you can fine-tune your strategies accordingly. Ensuring your website is accessible to all web visitors increases the amount of potential members who can view your content.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Brainstorm which tactics, content, and communication channels will best engage each audience to increase the chance that they will purchase your product or service. The higher your business ranks in Google search results, the more likely people are to visit your website and invest in your products or services.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). The audience should set the tone for your campaign, including the messaging and content creation.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Through the Google Ad Grants program , nonprofits everywhere can leverage pay-per-click (PPC) marketing for free. Google gives eligible nonprofits $10,000 monthly to spend on its paid advertising platform. We recommend you reach out to their team for all your Google Grants needs! How do I manage Google Grants?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Measure and track your success. How to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy There are several ways to measure the success of your nonprofit branding strategy. Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased? Be open to making changes to your branding as needed.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 10, 2021

More nonprofits are beginning to see the immense value of the Google Ad Grants and have acquired it for themselves. From there, your organization has to stay on top of task management to maintain compliance with Google’s standards, make the most of your Google Ad Grant, and jumpstart your organization’s digital marketing efforts.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Nonprofit marketing content also needs to consistently tie back to your cause and the work you do. Inbound marketing often help you draw people in through content such as: blogs, videos, social media, SEO, and other organic marketing channels. However, marketing for nonprofits can come with its difficulties.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

What is it and what it means to use it as a measurement for improving Facebook engagement on your Facebook Page? This post summarizes some of the key points and resources shared. Edgerank Is To Facebook As Pagerank is to Google. A popular piece of content will stay for a longer period of time in the News Feed of your fans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering relevant content marketing. If you don’t use analytic tools, it’s impossible to know how many people are engaging with your content and what, if any, action they’re taking after that engagement. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Website : Looker.com – Google Cloud Rebrands Data Studio As “Looker Studio” What is it ? About Company : Founded in 2012, Google acquired in 2019 for $2.6bn and has included in Google Cloud Platform.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 4, 2021

At Nonprofit Megaphone , we specialize in helping nonprofits acquire, maintain, and utilize a specific kind of resource: The Google Ad Grant. The Google Ad Grant presents a cost-effective opportunity for nonprofits of all sizes to jumpstart their digital marketing efforts. It’s crucial to understand how the Google Ad Grant works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!” ”).

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 20, 2020

5 Tips to Increase Donations with the Google Ad Grant. Getting the Google Ad Grant is step one, now you need to make sure your using it wisely to increase your donations. The Google Ad Grants provide up to $10,000 worth of Google search advertising every month to nonprofits across the world! by Olivia Warnes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Alex Abelin: Google + for Nonprofits. Does Google + have the potential to be a valuable platform for nonprofits or is it just another shiny object to distract nonprofits? Should your nonprofit do more than simply set up a presence on Google + and not invest any more time? Become Familiar with the Google + Landscape.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. We offer a number of analytics-related services including web analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and data reporting and visualizations, so we can certainly assist your team. However, not all metrics will be useful for your organization’s strategy.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. Last week during the Salsa Conference, I was asked this very question, why is social media data important - by Adrianne Burke, of Salsa Labs, during our panel Measuring Your Social Media. Why is Social Media Data Important?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Engagement: Readers engage with their content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Therefore, when we create a media campaign , we always have a plan in place to measure paid media ROI (return on investment) and the success of every dollar invested. Paid media helps nonprofits reach an audience that owned media (the content that you own, such as your website and social media posts) cannot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. In fact, a study by Salesforce found the number one most valuable metric of success for service organizations is customer satisfaction. How are you measuring if you’re meeting or exceeding them?

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Make your blog the place where you produce original content that’s tailored to your audience. Remember, great content is the key to successful social media. link] and measure your sharing effectiveness. Create great content. The hard part is creating the great content. Google Analytics is free.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Benchmarking, whether an informal or extensive research study, can be an incredibly valuable exercise because the numerical analysis can help you craft realistic measurable objectives. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2011

In this example of using grassroots organizing to influence grass tops debates, how do we measure it? Use the “ Valid Measurement Grid &#. A funnel for donations or volunteering may be different as well. The important thing is that you need to have tactics to get people to the next stage and metrics to measure effectiveness.

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Care2

AUGUST 31, 2015

Are Google Analytics your best friend? Analytics and metrics are what should be informing your content, your strategy, and your nonprofit campaigns. They cover what your analytics should look like, and what exactly you should be measuring. But you also don’t have to be metric-savvy before diving into the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

It isn’t all private or all public – it’s a continuum. Facebook’s new changes (and Google +) gives us a couple of shades of gray. You need to think about what you’re sharing and who you are sharing with. Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About. What Are You Sharing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

I taught a section on developing and implementing an effective content strategy after some exercises to help participants identify target audiences, create personas, measurable objectives, and channels. It struck me that an effective nonprofit content strategy is a process of continuous improvement.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

This week, as part of Member Appreciation Month, we're talking about technology that supports communications and information, so I thought I'd share some of the metrics we use to track our effectiveness that don't really warrant a complete blog post in-and-of themselves. We'd also love to hear about your favorite metrics.

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Kindful

MAY 12, 2021

When it comes to answering your questions as a nonprofit professional, using search engines like Google is a fast and effective way to find information. When the world presented a challenge, nonprofit professionals turned to Google for solutions. Source: Google Trends. Create a content plan with your keywords.

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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

You’ll quickly learn that you likely have more than one audience and must address their specific needs with targeted marketing that adjusts for both content and channel. You should consider: Google Ad Grants. For each target audience, draft a separate appeal with content designed and distributed according to their stated preferences.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

Some of the most helpful solutions for fundraising are data processors like IBM Watson or Google Cloud AI. Developing personalized messaging for different segments Use targeted AI prompts to help develop content that specifically appeals to different groups.

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