Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

He’s one of many four-legged and fine feathered fans of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” It was a time to focus on family and health (I had my gallbladder removed). But in the quiet and last days of 2012 and the reflective moments in the new year, it was time to face the new year!

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Facebook Insights.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

“Is it even possible to measure online influence, divorced from offline influence?&# Gloria Huang, a Red Cross employee, mistakenly posted the comment to the wrong account through the online application HootSuite, which can support more than one Twitter account at the same time. asks Tom Webster over at BrandSavant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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." And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Return on Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. You might also consider setting up a Facebook Group just for alumni and encourage them to share this information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Does data collection may occur from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Many participants were interested in using facebook as a communication platform for local campaigning and I created a session all about it. Most of the time, if someone has something bad to say, other community members will step up to right the remark before you even have a chance! Do you have videos, pictures, or slides?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

One of the slides that struck me was a map that look at the full range of their activities offline and online (including social media) using two data points (numbers of people and ladder of engagement ). The challenge is how they move people through these different stages. Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? I’ve written a lot about how nonprofits without a lot of time or money might apply this easily to content curation to get started. Content Curation for Nonprofits.

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MARCH 23, 2012

Instead of trying to get people to give a one-time gift through a donation form, Autism Speaks created Puzzlebuilder - an engaging app where supporters can create a puzzle with their personal photos along with giving a donation of $10 per puzzle piece in support of a great cause. Your Turn … How does your nonprofit measure up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2007

What you're seeing above is a visualization of sharing intensity - this was the slide I took out of my presentation for the Bridge Conference Presentation earlier this week. In between plastering a copy of Hugo's photo ( Nina Simonds ' cat) on Facebook Profile and letting me know that blip.tv time on site.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Purposeful Measurement to Inform Replication. Grantee organizations will measure what matters. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. It is also important clarify these expectations with participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Global was the co-sponsor and it was great to catch up with long-time colleague, Marnie Webb , Co-Ceo. So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

My slides are above and my reflections are below. When I tell people that they might see themselves in the slide show, there is always nervous giggle. Here are a few main points of the second half of the presentation that resonated on the backchannel: anilkanji : Social influence: should orgs measure reach or affinity?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Allow you to time your appeals for the best results and spread your grant writing throughout the year, instead of cranking out a year’s worth of grants in the fall when you’re also planning your year-end campaign. Feel confident that you aren’t wasting time on unproductive tasks. But there is no time like the present!

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On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment. Our platform also gives donors the option to cover processing fees, which they choose to do about 70% of the time. for ACH transactions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

View the session recording or download the slides to learn more. View the session recording or download the slides from this session to learn more. Now it's time for the magic. View the session recording or download the slides for this session to learn more. Now it's time to see how well you did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

some pics of slides are here ). " She talked about the importance of measuring your social media efforts.   This was a great positive spin -- rather than measure to show me or prove the impact, it's measure so you can quantify it.  Dell measures ROI based on the number of useable ideas generated. . 

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. We even forgot about our own website at times.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore. Facebook General Growth data: More than 200 million active users. billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide). There are many people on Facebook; but far more people have the internet and are not on Facebook than those who are.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. Time spent on the site. Time spent on the site. Methodology. Research Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success?   Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success.  tags: blogging nptech ).

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 30, 2012

As what I hope is the next best thing, I’m sharing the content from a few of my slides for today and a some notes on them. Celebrities, athletes, mere mortals like you and I say stuff on social networks all the time but that doesn’t mean it’s truly proactive. Social Media for Nonprofits Excerpt on Prezi.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2010

(**full presentation slides can be found here ) My favorite quote from their presentation - "Gardens are lovely as long as you water them. Facebook [or any social network] is your garden." Creating a meaningful relationship and conversation that grows over time. What are the right moments to measure? Where are you now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

Ahmed Hamza, the training coordinator in Tunisia, who speaks all three languages fluently, helped with last minute translation tweeks and with flipping slides in Arabic. Facebook was critical in their strategy. We did a sessions on measurement, integrated content strategy, and content for blogs. Localized Content Delivery.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2009

I think this was the point that Peter Deitz was making in his slide show " I am not an ATM Machine: Your Charity from the Donor Perspective." True listening - active listening - involves more than just nodding your head at the right time. This slide shows the different type of relationships and shift in thinking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

Facebook), as well as their own hosted social networking communities. Some definitions they used in the study: " House Social Network " refers to a socialnetworking community built on a nonprofit's own web site. " Commercial Social Network " An online community platform owned and operated by a corporation such as Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

The third article, soon to be published, and also written by me, covers tips for using Social Networking sites and is based on research I did in November with nonprofit folks on Facebook. Jeremiah Owyang's post was a summary from a free social media measurement seminar with Glenn Fannick of Dow Jones last week. (I Some takeaways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

This post includes my slides and summary of the main points I will be making as well as links to resources. Isadora Faber, 14-year-old Brazilian student who launched an online Classroom Diary on Facebook to discuss problems in her school, such as broken desks and bathrooms without toilet seats. Gen Z By The Numbers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

That's why this is the perfect time to make a fresh start on your nonprofit tech resolutions. NetSquared Vancouver** shares [slides and videos]([link] from their November event. * Naples, Florida: How to Stand Out and Get Attention on Facebook! Cleveland, Ohio: Measuring Results. Prefer to go at your own pace?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion." What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

And, while I practice before I present, many times - I have some parts that are new. While I was presenting, I was thinking what ten-minute chunk to cut or where I should skip through some slides. I also didn't facilitate the whole room discussion around the slides which I usually do because I worried about going over time.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

Instead of trying to get people to give a one-time gift through a donation form, Autism Speaks created Puzzlebuilder - an engaging app where supporters can create a puzzle with their personal photos along with giving a donation of $10 per puzzle piece in support of a great cause. Check Out the Presentation Slides.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2008

I heard about it because it turned up in one of my friends activity feeds on Facebook. In fact, Taylor was named VP of Game Development throughout that time. Hard to measure, may not reap immediate returns. The investment is time more than money. to the Susan G. Komen Foundation to support breast cancer research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

Slide from David Wilcox. When we found that MySpace was good for advocacy, Facebook for fundraising, Flickr for easy website photo slideshows, and YouTube for increasing video views, we decided to invest our time into those four. As a result, I was able to hire 2 full time employees this year to help with internet marketing!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

But it can be time-consuming to pick through a wide range of slideshows to find those that are up-to-date, actionable, and appropriate to nonprofits. Social Media for Non-Profits: Overview What is social media, why should a non-profit care, and who has the time for it anyway? No instant gratification — results require effort over time.

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