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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

The design and layout of your e-newsletter in order to maximize online fundraising success and social media ROI (Return on Investment). The design and content of your nonprofit’s blog. Your nonprofit’s presence on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, Google+, and other social networking websites.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Nonprofit social media managers are bombarded with depressing content. Nonprofit social media managers live in a social bubble of depressing tweets and posts and while we’ve chosen this profession, the toll of such content on your mental health and general outlook on humankind is real and needs to be managed.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Subscribe to social media and mobile technology blogs. Get the necessary training (HTML, digital photography, video, social media, and mobile technology). Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Experiment with social media dashboards. Add social networking icons.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

In June 2007, I presented my first social media training to a small group of nonprofits in Lowell, MA. There’s definitely a math to social media synergy, and those that start early have both time and math on their side. Executives were terrified by the legal implications of using social networking tools.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. They usually have the staff, passion, resources, and training necessary to make a new tool succeed if it has any possibility of succeeding. Learn basic HTML.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

and training (HTML, photo-editing, social and mobile media best practices ). The era of winging it in social media is over. If you need to pop in to an Internet cafe to connect every other day or so, please do… but my advice to you as social media manager and a fellow traveler is to leave the gadgets at home.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized! Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Over the past decade, the Internet and social media have been one of my primary sources for professional learning. networks, training and capacity building approaches, and culture change. Some topics of interest for me include: social media measurement, ROI, networked learning, information overload and mindfulness, Civil Society 2.0,

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Care2

APRIL 6, 2009

I was looking for ways to be accessible to our constituents, grow our audience, and virally promote our content, so Twitter seemed like the way to go. DZ: Was there any organizational resistance to Twitter (or other social media)? DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

using social media tools. Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? Fun with Metrics: Measuring Success and ROI. What are metrics, measurement and ROI?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2013

Still feel like your social media event content is still battling the other things on your organization’s plate? Then, perhaps it is time to develop a social media site for your event on its own. On your organization’s social media sites also ask your audience to share your message on their pages and feeds. Related Posts.

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Care2

MAY 17, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We are glad people enjoyed the training. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" We are glad people enjoyed the training. All rights reserved.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. The research is based on brands with a large following, a vast array of visual content, and a significant budget for advertising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I have years of blog content and resource collections. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. This will go hand in hand with the training work I do. I have a confession.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Which is real life is always much harder and complex than in a training context. I'm also prepping for a panel session I'll be doing at the Museum Computer Network Conference later this fall on Web Analytics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics. Good content matters. Good content matters.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « How Sticky is Facebook?

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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. What we put into our social media engagement is what we get out of it, like everything else in life. Review the Social by Social Handbook (read for free online, or buy).

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Care2

MAY 9, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" May 9, 2008 | Kaya Matteo Thanks for sharing.

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Care2

MAY 8, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" May 9, 2008 | Kaya Matteo Thanks for sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What I most enjoy about doing face-to-face training workshops is the right after reflection questions: How could this learning experience been improved? I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. What worked? What didn't? What lies beneath this?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Make your blog personable.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

Some of the opinions I express below I have had for a while and speak to them in my webinars and trainings, but some are so recent that I am still in the stage of “Seriously Facebook? At a training last week with a lot of long-time Facebook Admins in the room, I saw much head-nodding and eyes rolling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

(I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook. s what makes it fun. You have a "personal professional" blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 5, 2014

Action Items (Mobile-optimize donate page, launch presence on Instagram, host Google+ Hangout, rebrand social networks, etc.). Track and report success in a Social Media ROI spreadsheet. Your editorial calendar should be added as an addendum to your Mobile and Social Fundraising Strategic Plan (as discussed in Chapter 2).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for mobile social networkers, this $.99 A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. Based in the U.K.,

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Your supporters fundraise on your behalf by reaching out into their social networks through personal and team pages. Their in-person fundraiser had a 212% ROI, while their virtual fundraiser had a 1617% ROI – that’s 8x higher with the help of online peer-to-peer fundraising. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign Checklist.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Your supporters fundraise on your behalf by reaching out into their social networks through personal and team pages. Their in-person fundraiser had a 212% ROI, while their virtual fundraiser had a 1617% ROI – that’s 8x higher with the help of online peer-to-peer fundraising.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Your supporters fundraise on your behalf by reaching out into their social networks through personal and team pages. Their in-person fundraiser had a 212% ROI, while their virtual fundraiser had a 1617% ROI – that’s 8x higher with the help of online peer-to-peer fundraising. Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaign Checklist.

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