NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As of September 2009, scores of Facebook applications have been developed to support the nonprofit sector in one way. According to the Facebook Causes blog , the application has helped raise more than $12 million for nonprofits based in the U.S. Over $5 million has been raised in 2009 alone. 2 ) Money Is Not the Only Metric.

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Facebook Money Raise Strategy 99

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. On January 1st, I wrote about my goals for 2009 using Chris Brogan's process of selecting three words or larger concepts to frame them. Why the number 52?

Social Media 98

Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

For more in-depth learning experiences, I do a pre-workshop assessment, but for this mini-workshop I did a living assessment in the room. Set realistic expectations and objectives for pilots, focus on learning and engagement. Let your stakeholders share their story and passion about your organization – from the heart and humor work.

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Community Giving Fundraising Contest 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Here are six fantastic books that I read this year that help you gain 21st century skills like learning from failure, reflection, visualization, and more. If you’re doing social media and you’re trying to be perfect, get over it – you won’t learn how to improve what you’re doing. Schoemaker.

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Skills Network Technique Evaluation 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

By “pitch”, I mean opening the door to deeper engagement with your organization, whether through a quick conversation with someone who is learning about you for the first time or the ask in a year-end appeal letter to a donor who has supported you for a long-time. Those initial conversations tend to be awkward and creepy.

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Sound Conversation Social Media Stats 121

Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

What you'll learn: How to lead with a networked mindset. Lots of useful and practical tips and tools for using measurement for learning and continuous improvement. Funders and board members expect to see results, so networked nonprofits need to focus on metrics that reinforce these online efforts. The 7 steps of measurement.

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Measure Network Empowerment United States 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

In 2009, a dollar spent by the organization on online tools helped to improve 10 times as many neighborhoods as a dollar spent on playground equipment. The more you can simplify your program model and codify it, the easier it will be to help others replicate it in their own communities. What lessons are YOU learning?

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Network Case Study Social Offline 95

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. We learned so much while running that campaign, but we also made lots of mis-steps along the way. An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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Web Indiana Case Study Bookmarking 117

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

In 2009, 350, working in tandem with communities around the world and partner organizations aligned on the shared goal of creating a global movement to solve the climate crisis, ignited the largest collective action that has ever been taken around the world with their 10/10/10 Day of Action. Look first at your organizational metrics.

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Build Community Technology Action 220

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.

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Analysis Twitter Giving Lesson 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

Balancing Learning Through Content Delivery and Sharing Experience. What I’m most excited about is “networked learning&# – it is part peer learning, part content-delivery, and another part engaging people in the room and not in the room in conversation through the use of social media. Some Reflections.

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Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. What are the lessons learned from Free Agents about working with nonprofits? Trust me.

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Comment Artist Social Media Hype 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. It was also set up in a way that I could get help from someone else. Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada.

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Reflection Florida Social Media Metrics 76

NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Last year, Convio clients raised more than $777 million online and 2009 looks to be even better. Do you need help getting your leadership or board on board to make the move to a more robust online fundraising program? The fact is, you too have the resources and you can’t afford NOT to get into the online game.

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Convio Mail Newsletter Game 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Also, given the different benefits and limitations of different mobile platforms, I wanted to learn more about how they navigate different mobile platforms. The original Seafood Watch iPhone app was released in January 2009. Each time they do, they’re helping others make better seafood choices. What were some of the results?

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Mobile Integration Strategy Green 111

NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

million gifts 1.879 million unique donors 66,470 different nonprofits Seven-year time span (2003-2009) Donations from a wide range of nonprofit sizes and types About the Study The purpose of this data mining wasn’t to create another study about the rapid growth of online giving (though it is skyrocketing). We looked at: 3.6

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Studies Donor Giving Online 95

Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Need some metrics guidelines? If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. My hope is that people will help me refine this to make it a more user-friendly tool, and hopefully save the nonprofit sector millions of dollars. The irony).

ROI 74

ROI Social Network Social Media Network 74

Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Need some metrics guidelines? If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. My hope is that people will help me refine this to make it a more user-friendly tool, and hopefully save the nonprofit sector millions of dollars. The irony).

Social Network 74

Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Care2

JANUARY 15, 2009

Main | Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team » Wednesday Jan 14 2009 10 Fast Tips to Boost E-newsletter Performance Wednesday, January 14, 2009 at 10:40AM | by Allyson Kapin Let’s face it: People have a love hate relationship with their email. January 15, 2009 | Samer Excellent suggestions! com , Inc.

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Newsletter Social Media Advocacy Tips 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. 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. THIS is Iron Chef ??? With snacks!

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Comment Open Source Social Media Drupal 50

Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Need some metrics guidelines? If you think that fundraising and recruitment from social networks is the way for you to go, here are a few articles to help you get started. My hope is that people will help me refine this to make it a more user-friendly tool, and hopefully save the nonprofit sector millions of dollars. The irony).

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ROI Social Network Social Media Advocacy 53

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. How Google Earth & Maps can help Non-Profits : Show what is at stake – don’t just tell people.

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Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Care2

MAY 15, 2009

With email newsletters and emails as part of your campaigns you can move your supporters up the ladder of engagement to take more actions and help you more and more. You can embed Google Earth into your website to present information to your community that really helps tell the story of your work and your issue.

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Social Media Tools Online Communication 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

Submitted by Alan Levine, publisher of CogDogBlog Since it is already a week in the rear view mirror, this ought to be my last post about the 2009 NMC Summer Conference. Post conference, I also learned of TwapperKeepr and Roomatic as hashtag grouping tools. metric tons – the equivalent to the annual emission of 43 cars.

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

This class answers the question "How to leverage the power of new social technology to effectively create real social good." The theoretical framework, " Dragonfly Effect: Mindset and Method " is geared towards helping students create a project with a clear single, focused goal to cultivate social good. Metric: Content created.

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Classes Celebrate Cambodia Exercise 95

NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

We very quickly saw a jump in the website metrics we track. Then we added a twist to the experiment in Fall 2009. That single month was a huge factor in our 22% increase in blog traffic in 2009. Nothing helped us reach the boost that the social network November 2009 edition created. Looking to the Future.

Content 88

Content Create Newsletter NTEN 88

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

There’s all kinds of goodies on there, watch videos, learn all about us. Thank you for taking the time to learn a little bit more, discuss grants. So I hope that you can kind of take some nuggets of information to kind of help you think through ways that you could be more responsive, build a better process related to grants.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 114

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. In 2008, I helped start the Frozen Pea Fund against breast cancer. I shared some learnings from my Birthday fundraiser on Twitter and Facebook.

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Social Media Media Cancer Social 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

One of them @peoppenheimer was kind enough to critic and help my own poem's meter and rhyme! And anxiously anticipating metrics that assign value even more; And my hopes have all the seeming of a marketer still dreaming, That my efforts not in vain, will yield intangibles and metrics all the same. DEFINE the METRICS.

ROI 76

ROI Social Media Slides Media 76

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. By the end of 2009, Charity Navigator is doing two extraordinary things. Wow, Mark, I learn a lot from the blogs you post! Magazines like Forbes , U.S. But thats okay. Its an exciting time.

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Teach Ratio Student Classes 90

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2009

I decided to do an interview with Scott to learn more about what he is learning about Social Media and Cause-Related Marketing. I am a cause marketing director for MediaSauce, helping non-profits and corporations use online media to pull off their next big thing. (2) To help fuel this state-vs.-state 1) Who are you?

Causes 52

Causes Marketing Interview Pledge 52

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 13, 2009

With finances a little tight this year, I've had to reduce the number of organizations I'm donating to in 2009. This is my second year as a "sister," which means that I pay $27 a month to support one woman for a year while she goes through a program to help her rebuild her life after war. That's the story of Women for Women.

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International Interview Bosnia Congo 40

Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The panelists each described a handful of tools to help with online communication, specifically for nonprofit causes and social activism. Look at who’s doing well in these spaces and follow their lead by learning from their successes. Women Wired Tweet LiveStream for 2009-05-13 (via Women Wired In).

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