Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. Facebook reach metrics will now include a combined number that accounts for both desktop and mobile reach. Yes and no. Using best practices and tips based on research can help you improve.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Prime with your data : To personalize the AI-generated content, incorporate relevant information from your nonprofit, such as email copy, key metrics, goals, mission and core values. These models are presently built on snapshots of internet data and aren’t designed to be research assistants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

We are in the middle of global disruption due to widespread mobile Internet and cloud technology, Big Data, the rise of the collaborative economy and crowdsourcing/funding. The app gives you a dashboard that gives you metrics and you can also track conversion rates on the landing pages that you send users to. .

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. Since integrated marketing is another skill the sector is working to hone, we may be able to boost giving further still. Get the report and read it. It points to some great momentum in online giving.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2011

E-skills are no longer required only for those. that many of the goals and metrics outlined in the European Commission's new Digital Agenda. – public Internet use, availability of government services over the. – public Internet use, availability of government services over the. digitized economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change. The latter includes a lack of a formal communication strategy or staffing limitations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. Listening skills and tools upgraded. Armano describes this as digital anthropologists sifting through qualitative data and metrics to reap insights.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 11, 2020

With the internet saturated with different content and experiences, how can you ensure that your own volunteer opportunities reach the right people and inspire them to participate? For instance, create a specific group for those who are skilled in coding and web design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Peter is a president and co-founder of nuPOLIS is the Internet presence of the Innovation Network for Communities (INC), a national non-profit helping to develop and spread scalable innovations that transform the performance of community systems such as education, energy, land use, transportation and workforce development.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

We we use the “with” instead of the “for” perspective, we are able to see skills and contributions the community can make, opportunities for growth outside of your programs or your walls; we are able to see that we are part of a solution and not responsible for engineering the entire fix. Look first at your organizational metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You'll want to identify easy, simple first projects that flow from your organization’s internet marketing plan. The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. The important skill set of listening is knowing what key words to use.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

As proof of your success, you need to gather data from each and every encounter you have with your clients and partners and field projects, and use that data to create qualitative and quantitative metrics of success. Telephone, and internet, and electricity, and fuel are spotty. There is no real infrastructure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

When I first started thinking about metrics for social media, I wanted to start out reminding our group about some fundamentals of the sphere. The Internet. Access to ideas, talent: Beyond your own skill set, do you have ways of reaching out to others with talent and knowledge? That's one of my favorites. Radio, television.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Find more videos like this on Internet Time. I especially appreciate Maryam's speaker wrangling skills. Video from Jay Cross and more about Matt from Jamie Nelson. There were approximately 250 social media power users. There were two full-days packed with excellent content and fabulous speakers.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Online fundraising is the process of raising funds from supporters via the internet, usually using an online donation page. Track key metrics To determine how successful your strategy is and see if you’re reaching your goals, you need to know which metrics to track. We’ll cover more about the metrics you should analyze later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2009

Communication tools are appropriate given member skills. Network use of social media tools and strategies incorporates metrics and ongoing learning experiments. How can we best support our network's work online if some members have slower Internet connections? Are there best practices? Inward Facing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

I've gathered up some of best of the best folks in the nonprofit tech field to share their stories, metrics, and lessons learned - this will be informative AND entertaining. I will do an overview connecting the idea of metrics to poetry. Ever wonder if there's a higher good you could be serving with your tech skills?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Perhaps you're wondering what type of skills you need on staff to implement a social networking and media strategy. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. If you are the Internet marketing person or responsible for your organization's web strategy, how does this impact your strategy? What is Openness?

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Note that we use a monthly metric here at VisionLink. Are their server systems fully redundant from the incoming Internet connections all the way through to their back up generators? The devil is in the detail. At 99%, the system can be down 7 hours a month! At 99.9%, the service will be up for all but about 45 minutes a month.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. Analog Strategies. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

One of the challenges, of course, is integrating social media strategy with overall communications planning as well as Internet strategy without having the time in the workshop to drill down into those other topics. How does your social media support other components of your Internet strategy plan? by Beth Kanter. Measurement.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

When people browse the internet, they’re usually seeking entertainment, answers, or solutions to their problems. Identify Your Expertise To attract new donors , your primary aim should be to leverage the knowledge and skills that drive your mission. Rarely are they actively searching for nonprofits to support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While the primary goal is for students to learn about strategic use of networks and social media for international organizations, I will also be covering some practical career skills such as effective networking and self-directed professional learning (also called “Social Learning”).

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Maybe she’s even worried that she doesn’t have the skills to actually do her job anymore. Here are the metrics. You can do this with the skills that brought you to the job that you have today. And do you have the internet bandwidth? Something’s going on with Cape Cod internet today. I agree sure.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Pinterest was used by 28% of all adult internet users last year. These resources are perfect for beginners and veterans wanting to learn and develop their social media skills. In this template you’ll learn how to: Establish your most important metrics. Snapchat gets 6 billion video views per day. Facebook For Nonprofits.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Fundraising Tools: Most nonprofit CRMs also come equipped with fundraising tools that facilitate donations, both online and IRL (that’s “in real life,” for those of you who don’t speak Internet). Easy to use: Spreadsheets are relatively easy to use, even for people with limited technical skills.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 31, 2013

What would happen if we combined some commonly *overheard* phrases from the nonprofit sector with the most popular Internet memes? Steve MacLaughin showed us when he created the Top 12 Internet Memes for Nonprofits. Steve MacLaughlin confessed that he used to believe that online average gift size was a vanity metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

I dusted off my weak Excel skills to determine that we had 173 different people use the #nmc2009 tag, and then did a count and sort to look at the frequency. For us giving three bloggers a special perch (and actually the table was cramped), electricity, and internet, we got amazing results. twitter-summary.xls.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Check out this Fundraising Fundamentals eBook we made with our friends at Donorly to keep learning and honing your fundraising skills! One of the best ways to share is by making sure your newsletter also has an internet browser-friendly format anyone can access. Nonprofit Newsletter Best Practices. Understand your objectives.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 4, 2019

According to Ahrefs , a popular SEO tool that tracks keyword search volume, among other digital marketing metrics, shows that the search term receives over 2,000 monthly searches. One of the greatest strengths of WordPress is that it requires little to no coding skills (HTML, CSS, Javascript). But, it get’s better.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

This was in the days where anything that moves on the Internet was exciting, so we had a real leg up. In this world the name of the game, in a lot of ways, is collecting email addresses, getting donations and that is the metric by which a lot of these non-profits measure themselves. That's what we're trying to do now.

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