Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan. And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." Change the internet?

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Many organizations understand the value of speaking directly to their audiences. Over the last few years across the board, communications and marketing teams are having to increase their investment in digital advertising—from Google Ads to social media spend. Create Impact with Inclusive Audience Research.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Team DNL provides Digital Nonprofit Leadership to mid-sized and large nonprofit organizations. For example, if an organization realized that its budget for a previous campaign was too low, it can predict that the budget for the next campaign, if unchanged, will also be too low. This includes assisting with nonprofit analytics!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

I had the great honor of moderating the panel Tools Galore in Online Communications: From Google Earth to Wiki’s and Twitter this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest tools organizations can utilize to ramp up their next online campaign. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization.

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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!" Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites.

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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. It becomes part of your organization's culture.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Your organization is awash in data, but (while we hate to be the ones to break the news) nobody wants one more boring spreadsheet. XKCD has finally updated its Map of Online Communities , showing the size of Facebook relative to its smaller brethren. Note: You probably need Google Chrome to watch it.). Nobody upstages Grover.

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Care2

AUGUST 21, 2007

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

" Introducing the Knowledge Graph: things, not strings | Official Google Blog – "Search is a lot about discovery—the basic human need to learn and broaden your horizons. " The Identity Spectrum – Identity Woman – I love this spectrum map of the various kinds of online identity!

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" For many people who find you online, your website is the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Through demos of free tools such as AWStats and Google Analytics, we'll look at what these tools can tell you about your site. We'll close with a discussion at some of the more advanced packages - such as ClickTracks, WebTrends, HBX Analytics, and Omniture - that might be useful to larger organizations. Numbers Alone Are Meaningless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. We have a thing for maps, it's true. Holly posted a video of the Nonprofit ROI Poetry slam at SXSW. Beth Kanter tipped us to this flowchart on how to respond to blog posts about your organization. Google's Chrome Experiments. Geek poetry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2010

I've been preparing for a Leadership Conference with TCG (Theatre Communications Group, the service organizations for theatre companies) on strategic social media.   I've written about  how nonprofits can use it , including arts organizations like the Brooklyn Museum as chronicled on Shelley Bernstein's blog.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. You don't need to produce many good outcomes to create a positive ROI, and excellent outcomes are quite possible.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

In cases where an organization wants to engage in collaboration online but doesn't know exactly how, they could certainly evaluate the options and do a detailed software selection to find the "right" solution. You don't need to produce many good outcomes to create a positive ROI, and excellent outcomes are quite possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. Think about what is most effective for your organization's goals, mission, and capacity. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Collective action can take the form of signing online petitions, fundraising, tele-calling, or organizing an offline protest or event. Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior. Tags: ROI.

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Care2

MARCH 23, 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!" Create an XML sitemap and submit it to Google (and Yahoo too!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences. The Challenge of Transfer.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities.

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! But can they also combat apathy?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? How about Digg ?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. And like last year's ROI Poetry Slam , our session will be interactive, thought-provoking, and dare I say, fun! The Real House Wives of Social Media.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? How about Digg ?

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 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!" If youve ever used My Yahoo! Well, thats exactly where APIs can be helpful.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re looking at your technology budget and wondering whether you’re getting your money’s worth, join Digital Strategist & Technology Coach Maureen Wallbeoff and learn exactly how to harness the power of your technology to help your organization grow. Full Transcript: Steven: Yeah. Maureen, I got two o’clock Eastern.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

How to set up Google Search Console. How to set up Google Analytics. An opportunity that isn’t as accessible for most young professionals at larger organizations. Begin by mapping out your content to support your donor’s journey. Prove return on investment (ROI) of your marketing activities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

The only way to do that is to benchmark against your organization’s performance or peer organizations. ” Google Analytics is one of the most common analytics tools used by nonprofits. Donna Mehr, Smart Annual Giving, wrote “ How To Evaluate the ROI of Your Annual Appeal.” Pick Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Knowing basic HTML or using a tool like Live Writer to generate HtML can transform a nonprofit’s ROI (Return on Investment) from using social media. TweepsMap is a free tool that provides a visual, interactive map of your Twitter followers by country, state or city by simply logging in with your Twitter ID.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

For nonprofits that sell products online, Aradium offers their service to legal 501c3 organizations for free. Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. It must be downloaded and is available only to nonprofit organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

Nonprofit staff often need to manage and organize large quantities of web links for later viewing, and bookmarking via browsers is becoming cumbersome. Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. The Tools by Jordan Viator of Convio Social media tools tend to be "bright, shiny objects" with which organizations become enamored. It's just one step away from looking at ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

Ideal for activist organizations, CrowdVoice allows organizers to create “Voices” of protest where users can monitor and contribute links, photos, and videos of protests worldwide. It’s a creative, visual way to tell your organization’s stories of protest to your online communities.

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