Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. Finding the ROI. It’s no surprise that a tactic with a cost is high and unclear ROI gets minimal resources. But we have reached an inflection point.

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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? This requires engaging in a conversation. And you shared them!

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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). Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.    Do you need it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Social Media ROI View more presentations from Deanna Zandt. The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. When I first started thinking about metrics for social media, I wanted to start out reminding our group about some fundamentals of the sphere. What about Twitter?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. … So in this post my hope is to share with you what is unique about measuring one such channel, Twitter. ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence. . "Over

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Twitter: twitter.com/taprootfound. Megan: We currently have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Jumo, YouTube and Vimeo. We use Hootsuite and Sprout Social to manage our accounts and track metrics. I also love Twitter, but that’s just my personal obsession with the tool! Please summarize your ROI.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

Result: 63% more donations, 55% higher conversion rate and a 2X ROI. Had a 55% increased conversion rate. Saw a 2X ROI on ad spending. Result: 119%-203% higher conversion rates. In some cases, organizations saw between 119% and 203% increase in overall conversions. conversion rate) to donate $10.00

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Clear Analytics for Tracking Audience Funnels, Lead Retrieval and Conversion, and ROI Measurement. In this way, a hybrid event combines the best of both worlds and allows you insight into all of these key metrics. . Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). Social media platforms (i.e., Google Analytics. Stripe, Square).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2009

The panels, judges, twitter moderators and audience rocked! Who knew that using the discipline of poetic form could generate such a great discussion about measurement and metrics. We used the hashtag #roi for audience participation and we trended 8th on Twitter , generating some entertaining tweets. Tags: ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

This post summarizes the content I shared in my presentation and offers some reflection on the conversational keynote. I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Clear Analytics for Tracking Audience Funnels, Lead Retrieval and Conversion, and ROI Measurement. In this way, a hybrid event combines the best of both worlds and allows you insight into all of these key metrics. . Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn). Social media platforms (i.e., Google Analytics. Stripe, Square).

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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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Twitter Demographics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

We get so overloaded by meaningless data collection, that we're exhausted before we get to do the fun part: making sense out of it. My Facebook page is focused on a listening and engagement objective - starting and maintaining a conversation. I look at the following metrics: Total Interactions. The key here is actionable data.

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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!" Need some metrics guidelines? It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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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!" Need some metrics guidelines? It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Their team also leads attention campaigns, informed by data and inspired by online conversations. They curate the best from the abundant sea of online ocean content and rapidly experiment with creating, amplifying and circulating stories that spark vibrant conversations.

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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!" Need some metrics guidelines? It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

The Conversational Keynote: Room Configuration Is Key. I’m working on perfecting the conversational keynote. The space where I gave my keynote in Toronto is well designed designed for conversational keynote format. This made it easy for me to get off the stage and wander into the audience to engage them in conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. So, you want to build a MashUp?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Usability is a Conversation. Return on Investment, Return on Reflection: I will integrate my work on social media ROI with general nonprofit technology ROI More about this theme is below because it will be a major focus area for me this year. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

With advancements in technology, hybrid and virtual event platforms have made it easier to track ROI and increase visibility into how leads travel through a sales funnel. Can they provide thought leadership, expand knowledge, bring in a network, and add value to the conversation? How many conversions come from email?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The From Conversational Keynote To Conversational Workshop. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

For the two months leading up to my brief vacation, I've been doing a lot of training and presenting - chewing on some lessons learned from the America's Giving Challenge , Social Media ROI , and Cute Dogs. What are your key metrics for success? Fun with Metrics: Measuring Success and ROI. How do you calculate the ROI?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of January 24th).

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

billion active users*, Twitter -330 million active users*, LinkedIn -303 million active users*, Pinterest -250 million active users*, Snapchat -287 million active users*, & TikTok -500 million active users*. The conversation usually goes something like this: . Make sure conversions are trackable. This mistake is a doozy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also doing a session at the NTC in April called " Mapping Metrics To Strategy: Using Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Efforts " with panelists Wendy Harman, Red Cross, Qui Diaz, Livingston Communications , Danielle Brigida, NWF, and Susan Granger, PDF. Listening is an important piece of the strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  It included two excellent case studies and social media metrics- one on ASPCA and the other Georgia Tech. Dell measures ROI based on the number of useable ideas generated.   ROI    what's the ROI podcasting that cost $500 and sold more product that a $40,000 campaign. 

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 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!" Which metrics will help you achieve it? Is it to gather donations or content?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation. I’ve tried to pull out some of the relevant tweets from the Twitter stream to help follow the flow of the conversation in case you missed it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Today, we had an amazing conversation and interview with Cecile Richards and Tom Subak to learn more about Planned Parenthood 's Social Media Strategy and their movement building techniques. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. It's how you use the conversation to generate, aggregate, and facilitate social content.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

Conversions? If your embedded donation form isn't getting traffic, does that mean your FB page has no ROI? Metrics, metrics, metrics. “They all say they like our Twitter account, but none of them retweet any of our posts!” So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Video views?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

How to create an online fundraising strategy Tips for a successful online fundraiser 10 effective online fundraising ideas 8 online fundraising metrics to track Use the tips and ideas in this guide to create your own online fundraising plan and to determine the fundraising tools you’ll need to accomplish your ultimate goals. Social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I am just back from Legal Services Corporation and a keynote on ROI and Nonprofits. " And, of course, such metrics are useless. The discussion around trying to quantify it - can lead to productive conversation about why the technology is important to mission. s reports on Twitter. could actually.

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