Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

If you haven’t been using the ”friends list” feature that allows you to group friends into categories, it might be more useful to you because you can filter the stories you see in News Feed or post an update for specific people They’ve now added “ Smart Lists “, these are the lists with the icons.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . How many people are you planning to feed? . How much food do you need to feed them, and within what time period? . If you need 200 more donors at the $500 level to reach your goal to feed 1,000 families in September, make that clear.

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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. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

LinkedIn Analytics offer an important key metric that Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram do not – the ability to view clickthroughs on organic posts. For now, LinkedIn Pages outperform Facebook and Twitter in organic reach and engagement. 3) Monitor your LinkedIn Analytics.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

A podcast is basically a coded feed of XML that lists the information about your podcast, titles, descriptions and a link to where the MP3 audio file lives. Shouldn’t this just be a number I can lookup on the backend of Apple Podcast once I set up my feed? The feed was submitted to iTunes Connect and the Stitcher Publisher portal.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2011

Opting out – Unlike your email list subscribers, Facebook page users can opt out of receiving your posts in their news feed while still being counted as “likes.&# . “If groups had a lot of email subscribers, they tended to have lots of Facebook fans,&# said the study.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Users have the ability to add profiles for newborns and keep track of key actions and data in relation to their newborn, such as weight, feeding, and skin-to-skin contact. By viewing projects as products, it becomes easier to track usage or feedback metrics over time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2016

Just because 4% of fans were shown the posts in their News Feed over the last month, that doesn’t mean they actually saw and read them. A more useful metric to track is your “Engagement Rate.” That said, how many of the 4% of people actually saw and read the posts is unknown.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

Our diversity and inclusion efforts also feed our mission toward advancing social good. These will be critical metrics for us to gauge our performance. These metrics, that include D&I data, help investors evaluate companies based upon criteria broader than just mere numbers. It allows us to “walk the talk”!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). Cost (what!).

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

Creating a memorable brand ensures that your year-end fundraising efforts as a whole are memorable and that they stand out in supporters’ social media feeds, email inboxes, and mailboxes. After the year-end giving season ends, assess relevant metrics to determine how well your strategy played out. Analyze your success.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Whenever you post something on your company page and a staff member or volunteer interacts with it, your post will reach the news feeds of anyone in their extended networks. LinkedIn offers multiple ad formats, including sponsored content, which are video and image carousels that will show up in your target audience’s news feeds.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. Powerful platforms like Bloomerang also allow you to create donor segments for more targeted research and communications, view donor engagement and generosity metrics per supporter, and track fundraising campaign progress. Email marketing software. Wrapping up.

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sgEngage

MARCH 31, 2023

With applications that feed directly into the grants management system, funders can easily run reports to see if they are meeting their goals for a diverse set of grantees.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The Bible is replete with God’s commands to proclaim good news, heal the sick, comfort the downtrodden, feed the hungry, and to care for orphans and widows. Commit to a shared measurement system: Common metrics hold the cohort accountable and informs future action.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

But since I’m not on twitter anymore, and I don’t read my RSS feeds as often as I should. I know for many of you this is old news. In July, Idealware published the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. It’s great – chock full of good information, and some very, very interesting research.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 14, 2022

Record and analyze key matching gift metrics. By spoon-feeding donors all the details they’ll need, you can significantly streamline the process and drive more match revenue for your cause. Record and analyze key matching gift metrics. Provide donors with access to an employer database.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

I do 99% of all posts manually as it gets the best EdgeRank score (News Feed visibility). They also can get collapsed in the News Feed (e.g. They assure me posts from their app don’t get collapsed in the News Feed… but that could be just because not that many people are using it yet. Repeat the Proven Stuff.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Key metrics to measure on social media Like with any campaign, it’s important to decide on how you’re going to measure the success of your social media strategy. Understanding the metrics behind social media is key to evaluating the success of your social media and help you fine-tune your approach as you go. Higher reach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Let’s dissect an act of sense-making using Facebook Insights. Your Facebook Insights analytics programs is most likely going to give you some “associated metrics.” My result metric is the number of good ideas and saved time getting those ideas that I get for blog posts, curriculum development, and presentations.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. Feed digest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

What useful nugget did you learn from analyzing your social media metrics data or your measurement process that lead to a success or improvement in your social media practice? When a nonprofit partners with a company on project that uses social media, what metrics do you use to measure success? Data Analysis.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

To leverage social media to the fullest, use these tips: Think about your target audience: In order to stand out in potential customers’ crowded social media feeds, you need to generate content that is tailored to your target audience’s interests. As you share content on social media , track metrics like reposts and total impressions.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Too often nonprofits follow a small number of accounts on Twitter in order to control the chaos in their “Home” feed, but that’s the purpose of lists. You can export monthly reports to track new followers, profile visits, and engagement metrics such as total likes, retweets, mentions, and replies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2005

Currently, blogs are measured in systems like Technorati or ranked in PubSub by links or by number of subscribers to a feed in Feedster. She has a table that lists the items that could be in a new metric and their relative weight. This is about celebrating the niche, and measuring engagement over time. Interesting food for thought.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. However, this goal should be the one that all the other smaller goals feed into. If you start working on something in the year that doesn’t feed into this goal, then you need to question whether it’s worth doing.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Is there an organization you could partner with, as Feeding America did with Mother Jones? Your open rate is, of course, one of the most important metrics you’ll want to track. Consider implementing one or two solid list-building activities a year, like this one from Children’s Medical Center. Something like this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

Facebook reach metrics will now include a combined number that accounts for both desktop and mobile reach. And Facebook added that it will load new stories quickly, eliminating interruption in how users scroll through their news feeds. In early July, Facebook announced that it will include mobile data.

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Allegiance Group

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Sometimes, it might be helpful to integrate real-world metrics or examples into the impact statement to make it more relatable. A donation of $5 can feed a rescued animal for a week. For many prospective donors, understanding the tangible outcomes of their support can be the tipping point to contribute. Now imagine a lifetime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

A popular piece of content will stay for a longer period of time in the News Feed of your fans. AVES is the process of using bogus social media metrics to indicate value — metrics like influencer scores. Manual posts receive more weight than posts by apps. Measuring Your Edgerank Score.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). It can also distract citizens and feed apathy. Yes, the Internet can help activists mobilize and re-frame public issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

I had some privacy concerns and also it felt like it would require feeding another channel – why bother when I already had a brand page. I’ve changed my mind. A few days ago, Mari Smith posted this update : The News Feed is *clearly* favoring posts and activity from friends and subscriptions (vs. If not, do that first.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Be familiar with every fundraising program, event, campaign, and activity so you can tell others (sustainers, major gifts, events, direct mail, giving circles, etc.).

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 16, 2021

You may also want to invest in high-quality production equipment so that the live-stream feeds are of premium quality. . From lead retrievals to registration and ticketing, sponsorships, and audience metrics, you can quickly maximize your ROI before, during, and after an event. . You want to find software that will work on your behalf.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. Post Quality Score - One of the most important new metrics to pay attention to is your post quality score.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

“As Likes and comments increase a post’s prominence in the news feed, driving more impressions and clicks, all Pages using auto-posting apps should look to switch to manual posting if possible.&#.

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