Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

" Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools - frogloop Home~Care2’s blog for nonprofits - frogloop - Allyson Kapin has a great post that lists 8 tools for tracking your social media impact. I love posts like this because I always find at least one new tool to play with and test! " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

I invited him to share a guest post based on his speaking notes from this wonderful presentation he presented in NYC at the Social Media for Nonprofits event the beginning of August. (Hat Tip Farra at Big Duck for the terrific roundup from the conference.). o Google Analytics is free, as are many other basic analysis tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

"This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class." …That means setting aside our shiny online tools and tactics long enough to ensure that we're using them to deliver real impact."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2009

" PR Communications: Measuring Your Level Of Social Media Engagement - John Cass has a new post in which he discusses "the engagement relevancy rating." " Definitely worth a read - another reminder why building a strategy for engaging your community is the most important part, BEFORE you dive into the tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

. … So in this post my hope is to share with you what is unique about measuring one such channel, Twitter. There are so many tools, none of which you’ve used before, so you don’t have an intuitive sense of how they work, let alone if they are really helping you get the work of your organization done.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

These boiled to do: Lack of strategy, capacity issues, adoption issues, and lack of measurement techniques and approaches. I used their problems to share a few points about how to begin to address those challenges, holding the space for other participants to add their knowledge. Social Network Analysis Tools for Social Media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

It’s one thing to justify huge consulting fees for large for-profit companies where the value can be measured in increasing profits, for instance, and the consulting fees are small fractions of the increased profits. This is a business, and successful consultants have to regard it as such. 3 admin 10.23.07

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

. * The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! * This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Portland, Oregon: Get 'Er Done: Surveying Digital Project Management Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Friending the Finish Line. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. New York, New York: Measuring What Matters, The Easy Way. Orlando, Florida: Workshop: Must-Use Apps and Tools for Every Nonprofit. Its next event is an introduction to iPhoto and iMovie.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Los Angeles, California: Can We Measure Social Impact? Birmingham, United Kingdom: November Meetup: Open-Source Tools. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Naples, Florida: Collaboration Tools for Board and Remote Workers. " Five Tools to Make Social Media Magic. Melbourne, Australia: Social Media Tools (Tentative Date). Tuesday, May 2, 2017.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

Database Connectors are specific tools to help people connect Convio and specific apps, including Blackbaud’s Raiser’s edge, and … Salesforce! Their code on the server-based method examples only include PHP at this point (the client based method code examples are in the expected HTML and Javascript.) apps out there.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Remember, this is a free tool, one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action. The point of my roundup: Seth’s post has definitely sparked some healthy debate and I’m interested to hear what others think. Is the number of Twitter followers of any given nonprofit the measure of their success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. This guide on the Total Cost of Technology from the ICT Hub may also be useful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

If it had been, we would have done a lot more work on how to measure security. Anyway, the metrics were not meant to be misleading, and they weren’t meant as a measure of the security of a particular system – they were meant as a means of comparison. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. David Wilcox has been doing a lot of thinking about re-inventing membership organizations or associations given that one can connect and meet people who share their interests online more easily with social media tools. asks Rich Reeder.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Covina, California: Productivity Tools for Nonprofits and Small Businesses. Seattle, Washington: Define, Measure, and Achieve Fundraising Success. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Phil’s observation about less money to be made in open source has this choice retort: “Remember, trying to measure the information / attention / netocratic economy in dollars is like trying to figure out the worth of Microsoft by the number of acres it occupies.&#

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

Establishing a baseline rooted in past successes and failures allows you to set measurable, realistic goals. The best goals are SMART goals: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. What can you reasonably achieve with the tools and capacity you currently have? Define goals. Update your case for support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. It may be the basics not social networking tools.) " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. Philthanthropy.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

In this weekly nonprofit marketing link roundup , we’re looking at email marketing strategies for year end fundraising success! A word of caution if you go down this path: It may be near impossible to measure and report on progress between cross platforms. Or how about measuring the impact of brand awareness?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Closures and social distancing measures have wiped out organizations that didn’t have a rainy day fund. So we started a newsletter called the ‘New Reality Roundup’. a well-wishes email, helpful tools, special events, etc.)? million workers between March and May of this year. If so, what did that look like?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Post weekly roundups of blog posts about your issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

In April, I blogged about HSUS "Stop Canada's Cruel Seal Hunt" campaign over at blogher and my blog and last December on my blog as part of a roundup of articles on using social networking spaces for campaigns. tools for online advocacy. Why and how has using these tools been effective? s online journal , without.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. Social Media Roundup There are places in the world where YouTube has been banned, including Turkey and Thailand. Michele Martin has a very useful post about how to use a set of 3 tools to support a group or collaborative blog. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

I put the call out for nonprofit blog posts on the topic of measuring your nonprofit’s marketing or communication strategies. The art part is how you articulate your organization’s measure of success and formulate strategies to realize that success. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Your nonprofit can use a variety of tools and techniques to track donors’ progress through the donor journey, including donor management software , surveys, and analytics. Next, the database: A nonprofit CRM should give you the tools to create donor segments based on different criteria right there in your database.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

How to start fundraising online 20 effective and simple online fundraising ideas 8 top online fundraising platforms for nonprofits Tips for a successful online fundraising campaign Use the tips and ideas in this guide to create your own online fundraising plan and to determine the fundraising tools you’ll need to accomplish your ultimate goals.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Take part in Philanthropy Talk''s upcoming Measure It! StartingGood Digital Summit is an online event exploring the tactics, tools, and techniques entrepreneurs are using to create change today. If you''ve got some happenings and news of your own to share, let us know and we''ll feature it in an upcoming Member News RoundUp!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Here are seven tips to help you start measuring social media efforts. Hard data points: For this, I use the PostRank tool, which ranks your blog posts with a number from 1 to 10. Remember, it isn’t about the numbers alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

As part of our ongoing research, we are tracking the conversation about AI and Nonprofits,here is a recent roundup of articles, blog posts, and research on the Age of Automation and Nonprofits. However, as the tools have grown in sophistication, so have their uses. Is the next frontier mining internal emails?

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