Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc. Facebook and Flickr have been two of the most useful social media sites.

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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. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. 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? Please summarize your ROI.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

That makes it challenging for the agency to show adequate ROI or valuable conversions to their client when there is no strategy behind the advertising spend. Your marketing and competition analysis should clearly display marketing and advertising channels that have given you the best ROI. Now you see your ROI and who your customer is.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Whether the initiative is purchasing smart phones for staff or replacing your accounting system, measuring the Return on Investment (ROI) should be a key aspect of your decision. While "measuring ROI" may seem like a daunting task, it can be broken down into a few simple steps which are feasible for projects of all sizes.

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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? Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? I join as many social media sites as I can and try to spend time learning each community so I can offer advice to others on how to engage with them. Who maintains your social media campaigns?

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

The key, though, is doing it in a way that delivers maximum ROI. Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. This should generate enough data to give you a good sense of your cost per action and ROI.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

Nonprofit budgets are often tight, and each of your campaigns should aim to hit as high a return on investment (ROI) as possible. To better analyze your campaigns, you’ll need to understand a few fundamental metrics, including ROI, cost per dollar raised (CPDR), and cost per acquisition (CPA). You’ll also need to measure your outputs.

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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. You are all the experts here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

This week's theme is social media ROI. That's what I've been thinking, speaking, and writing about and have also recruited guest posts on this topic. As KD Paine, the queen of social media measurement says, yes we can measure social media and here's how. This week's theme is social media ROI.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC second annual Social Summit and sharing some information on social media ROI and metrics. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Measure THIS! 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. Social capital. Let's talk for a minute about social capital. The tricky part is, of course, measuring it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. What are the right tools to help measure success?

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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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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

Social media is a hot topic these days. While we’ve seen explosive growth in use of social networks ( NYT reported last week that time spent on social networks has exceeded that of emai l ) many organizations are asking how do you effectively deploy a social media strategy and what is the return on investment (ROI)?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

For example, if you track just how many people come to your website, it doesn’t give you much action. In this scenario there is no way to exchange social media coins for broader communication or marketing dollars. Download ”See, Say, Feel, Do: Social Media Metrics that Matter” here. . What do you think?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

If we continue trying to measure social change by financial criteria alone, we’ll never have full view of the inputs and processes necessary to create lasting impact. However, we shouldn’t rely on for-profit output measures to paint a complete picture of nonprofit success. How is ROI calculated? How did we get here?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Measuring the return on investment for any organizational effort is a standard of doing business. Was the social media plan you implemented worth the time you spent running it? In starting, define what metrics should be measured per social media tactic employed and ensure all meaningful elements are measured.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

These insights help organizations tailor their engagement strategies and ensure that your team’s time and resources go to the individuals most likely to contribute significantly⁠—which increases the ROI (return on investment) of your major giving efforts. Establish specific major giving levels and benefits.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 30, 2014

For example, donating money to charities that are associated with that great story or narrative. While the ROI of storytelling is a difficult one to measure , what’s important to understand is that it does work. Another example story to tell is how your nonprofit got its start.

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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 shared case studies and tips for nonprofits on measuring efficiency and effectiveness and looking at tangible/intangible benefits. I think that is dangerous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." The chapter is based on interviews with folks in the field and includes step-by-step checklists, examples, and tips.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2011

Being new to this, we also had to determine how to measure the return on investment (ROI) of our ad buys, to help guide our efforts in the future. Let's use Facebook as the example. for the 785 clicks that turned into 281 conversions: Your actual ROI calculation will depend on the value you put on this conversion.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Strategic Goals and Objectives: Specific and measurable targets the nonprofit aims to achieve. Evaluation and Impact Measurement: Methods for assessing the effectiveness and impact of nonprofit programs. Let’s look at the Red Cross mission statement as an example. Surveys can be a great tool for this.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2011

Flickr: bitzi One of findings from our latest annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey stood out to us: Those organizations that evaluated their Return on Investment (ROI) for IT expenditures were much more likely to be leaders— 44 percent, compared to just 17 percent of stragglers. And sooner or later, they won't use it at all.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I used David Hood as an example. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Effective Social Media.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to SureImpact’s Primer on Nonprofit Impact Measurement , impact is “the quantifiable difference an organization makes … the collective effects (intended and unintended) of a nonprofit’s work on the communities it serves.” For example, do you want to increase participant knowledge or improve their economic conditions?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

This will help you measure whether or not your campaign has been a success and will give you a benchmark for the year following if it’s your first time getting involved. A good example of a charity planning a Giving Tuesday campaign is the children’s health charity, Tiny Tickers. Get Planning Now.

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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. Actionable Measurement. I don’t try to measure everything.

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CauseVox

APRIL 20, 2021

If social distancing measures aren’t followed, a stronger virus could rapidly infect and kill hundreds of thousands of people before they can be vaccinated.”. They increased their ROI by 8 times. If you have the option to use an outdoor venue, you’ll have more freedom with distancing measures.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages. You cannot rely on being ???

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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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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

Your organization can use VolunteerHub to send group emails and texts, integrate your volunteer program and social media platforms, and encourage friendly-competition through a points-based reward program. Here are a few examples of how organizations are using the VolunteerHub platform to engage volunteers and staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 5, 2011

My last deep dive into social media and health care was when I delivered this keynote for a health care organization so this was an opportunity to see how the field has progressed. Some reflections: Health Organizations: Social Media. I introduced some concepts about Social Media ROI and steps to making a case.

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