Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2007

needs $697 in the next 4 days to reach goal. Help me make my goal. The T-Shirts are starting to arrive and I will not to be able to deliver them to the bloggers conference unless I get to goal. The Cambodian Bloggers Summit Campaign. I need 30 people to donate $23.00! But, wait you say. That leaves another $7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

As a member of a nonprofit fundraising team, you always have your eyes on a fundraising goal and are working to improve your online donor engagement strategy. . Step 1: Your nonprofit sets its fundraising goals. Start thinking about what your nonprofit wants to accomplish in the context of this year and set your fundraising goal!

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JANUARY 3, 2024

Rituals can boost our personal productivity because they allow us to focus and reach our goals without distraction. I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I I will also continue my focus on my physical health, particularly my daily walking ritual with a step goal of 15K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2007

Justin Kownack of Something To Be Desired brings the Cambodian Bloggers Summit Campaign to goal! This morning, I noticed via Twitter that Beth needed another $57 to meet her $4,000 goal. A special thanks! Here's how and why from Justin: When Michael Bailey decided to try a group donation experiment. The blog is here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2023

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2021

Rituals leverage our brains’ ability to run on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted by other things, such as potentially contracting a deadly disease. My journal is not only an annual planning and goal-setting tool but also supports daily reflection as the year progresses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In “ I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2022

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. (In “ I use it for annual planning and goal setting.I

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2020

Rituals can also be used by professionals to boost personal productivity because rituals capitalize on our brains’ ability to direct our behavior on autopilot, allowing us to reach our goals even when we are distracted or preoccupied with other things. ” I use it for annual planning and goal setting. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2008

Photo by Markpolous I am one week before the NTC , Day of Service , and Penguin Day and it's pretty crazy to say the least. I wanted to get my schedule in one easy to reference place (for myself) and think about how to incorporate some new panel moderation/panel techniques into my practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

While some people are experiencing a social media hangover , especially on Facebook and taking a step back from social, using social media professionally in support of your organization’s strategic goals is still more important than ever. … Read More

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

A newly-hired Development Director is struggling to meet their capital campaign goals. She exceeds that goal with tips from a veteran fundraiser. Find your nonprofit ally. Do you have experience or know-how to share with a nonprofit? Stop “reinventing the wheel” create a larger sense of community, and together, make a bigger impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. I started off with modest step goals, and added steps incrementally each week, 1,000 at a time, all the while monitoring my progress on Fitbit dashboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Just answer a few questions about your goals and motivation levels, the Genie will offer up some suggestions. The ScreenTime Genie , a clever chat bot designed by the BJ Fogg’s Behavioral Science Lab at Stanford can help grant your wish for reduced screen time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2018

Did it help you accomplish your organizational goals? Knowing those principles, I anticipated that the retreat would be meticulously planned and organized, with clear intent about goals. What are your goals and objectives? Our theme, “A Patchwork of Connections,” brought us back to these goals throughout the day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2014

Note from Beth: What if your organization embarked on its first ever crowd funding campaign with a goal of raising $50,000 and only raised $10,000? We initially thought we’d get them to commit to raising $456, but we experienced glitches with the platform, our champions were confused about the process, and very few had reached their goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

These numbers only have real meaning and value if you understand their connection to the underlying organizational goals that the video was meant to achieve. If, for example, your goal is email sign-ups, how do views translate into constituent engagement?However,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2014

What patterns can social media use reveal that provide strategic insight for network? How can social media be used to build high-quality connections, a motivating relationship between members and build trust and reciprocity?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Idealware created the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide to help organizations like yours determine what results and benefits you can reasonably expect from social media, and to guide you through the process of identifying the right channels for different goals. Defining Social Media Goals and Audiences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

How can we set an accurate, measurable goal for a Giving Day if it is our first one? Remember also that goals for Giving Days go beyond dollars. You can also set goals for donor engagement, brand awareness, or capacity building for local nonprofits. See this for Giving Day metrics to track your goals.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2014

Start with a measurable goal. Your goal aligns your team and supporters with your crowdfunding campaign. After you think through these questions, create a well defined goal that follows the SMART framework : specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely. How much does the product or service that I want to create cost?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

Total raise $5563 or 10% over goal of $5,000 in 2 weeks. 80% of the goal was raised before the Online Memorial Event on July 3rd. 143 people signed up for the Thunder Clap, 43% over the goal of 100. Set A Realistic Goal Based On Benchmarking. For the event, I used the Facebook Insights, Rowfeeder, and Storify. Fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

One of the biggest lessons it learned was the need to set sharp and clear goals at the start. The most important question to ask yourself before you start: If measurement shows you are not on track to achieve your goals, are you willing to change course or establish new goals altogether? Goal setting is often rushed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Before social media, “Influencer Marketing,” was a matter of finding a celebrity who had an affinity for your organization’s brand or programs and the goal was to get them to talk about it with their audiences. Developing a strategy requires several steps: Step 1: Identify goals. What do you want to achieve with your strategy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2017

From Simple Start to Grand Goal. Let’s get some more folks involved and set ourselves a goal of one million steps over 5 days!” This may be the week we reach that million step goal! Stepping up. Living our values. It started simply—as all great movements do. The group grew, and so did the number of steps logged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. What are our goals with social media?” “Who What questions did you ask?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 20, 2013

Social Media Guidelines or what some call a social media policy summarizes your organization’s social media goals, how staff will participate (dos and do nots), identifies legal and privacy issues , a social media work flow , and staffing needs. The general tone should be one of trust and empowerment. Dos and Don’ts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” The goal of the program is to connect these leaders with technology experts to create a connected movement. Earlier this week, I had the honor of kicking off the first day of a week of workshops for 50 women’s right leaders from the United States through a program called “ Tech2EmpowerUSA.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2013

Each company will identify a specific, goal; design an experiment to meet that goal using one or more social media platforms; run their experiment; and then assess the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Step 1: Define your goal(s). How do your efforts connect with those audiences to achieve the goal. ” KPIs are simply data points for charting progress towards results. It was challenging to select associated metrics — always asking if these are the best metrics to use to meet my goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

The site also offers content that is expertly curated to cover trends, research, topics, causes, and other information — all with the goal to help improve giving and philanthropy. It analyzes your giving and provides some good feedback and guidelines for making sure your giving has impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2012

The Benevolent fundraising platform helps people living in low-income circumstances to make progress toward personal goals of self-sufficiency that may hinge on a one-time need or opportunity—like the example in the video of Stefanie who needs $700 for security deposit for an apartment. We needed to fail fast, and we did.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Sina, age 15, is an orphan and head of her family -- two younger sisters aged 11 and 8 (Sina is in photo with the white shirt and blue shorts on the left).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

” David gave an overview about the difference between a nonprofit strategic plan and business plan: A strategic plan describes goals, strategy, and actions. Once the nonprofit has formulated goals and KPIs, then it is the right time to talk about collecting right data. It goes deeper into the numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2013

These include a review of the year’s accomplishments and two techniques that help you focus on your goals: Peter Bregman’s theme for the year , and Chris Brogan’s “ My Three Words.” I also throughout the month of January review my work routines and systems and redesign or tweak to improve productivity. Year in Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The goal is for students to create an Individual Giving Action Plan to guide their future giving in a meaningful way. Students will also be provided with ongoing, post-MOOC philanthropy education content that will support continued development and execution of their philanthropic goals. Week Two: Creating a philanthropic strategy.

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