NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

Danielle Brigida from the National Wildlife Federation -- one of our amazing panelists for the upcoming presentation at the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference , "Let's Go Stalking! Without them, you're just reading content or broadcasting, and that's not nearly as insightful. Come to our panel at the 2011 NTC !

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NTEN

JANUARY 11, 2011

For example: Address information tells you where they live. For example: “Jane, did you know that the $187 dollars you raised last week for the Walk will buy seven bags of groceries for hungry families this week? This is not an exhaustive list of the things you can measure, nor is it the appropriate list for every organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Last month, our theme was measurement and we shared a summary of the best measurement tips and resources here , here , and here. But, maybe you’ve done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media activities in 2011 and have gleaned some insights. Good for you! Tell us about your success stories!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

How will you measure success? That’s why it is a good idea to start with small, incremental steps and a low-risk proof of pilot where you can measure the impact and learn. For example, focusing it on an event or taking an easy first step of making sure your web site is readable on a mobile phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

Time Magazine provocatively named “The Protester” as its 2011 “Person of the Year” for its riveting influence on last year’s social and political events. Chalk up my vote for 2011’s “Best Debut Artist” and “Best Supporting Actor.”. As Beth Kanter invokes: Crawl, Walk, Run and Fly.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

To better understand why promoting “breathing space” for creativity is crucial for copyright to achieve its purpose of encouraging innovation, consider some examples from Benetech’s work that demonstrate how copyright exceptions can create a framework for innovation in action. However, I don’t want to understate the challenges we face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

We will be discussing these questions: What are some successful examples of nonprofits incorporating a mobile/social integrated strategy? The campaign is an example of an integrated social/mobile campaign that seamlessly integrates the message across different channels for different audiences. What are the best practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Last week, I facilitated an interactive keynote in Seattle at 2011 Tech for Good Leadership Summit sponsored by Microsoft Community Affairs , in partnership with NPower Seattle. By all accounts , the event held the space for peer learning. What people in the room were most hungry for were tips and steps on listening and measurement.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Quite simply, donor retention is a measure of how many donors continue to donate to your organization. For example, if you have 159 donors who gave again this year, but had 300 who gave last year, your donor retention rate would be 53%. . Donor-centric content. But what is donor retention? And why is it important?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

They send relevant content based on subscriber interests, preferences and actions. A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Delivering personalized content to your audiences can significantly increase click-through rates. Building in targeting capabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2014

It was a great learning experience from both a process and content perspective. In Connecting to Change World , the authors have a diagnostic for measuring the intensity of connections between people in an network. It looks like this: I have introduced to this person, but do not exchange information with them on a regular basis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The book looks at how ICT can help solve global poverty issues in a range of fields, including disaster relief, health education, micro finance, and education. It is filled with great examples and stories from around the world. The book is well-researched and offers frameworks for thinking about how to link technology to a theory of change.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON. I’m not sharing these examples of mergers as a way of saying I believe there are too many organizations. Instead, they are examples of what it looks like when we double down on our focus to make change.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

The 2011 TMWL activity on Twitter was driven primarily by people very close to the campaign, whereas the first Tweetsgiving was driven by people Stacey didn't know yet or hadn't invested time cultivating relationships with. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. What we see clients try to do is reformat their direct mail content into an email – that does not work. As examples, check out Conservation International. Another example is Team Fox, with it’s peer to peer fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Mobile strategy : From defining goals, to designing for mobile, to developing and executing campaigns, to measuring results, a growing number of digital strategy consultants can be your partner in effectively using the mobile channel. For example, Humane Society saw that number grow from 7 percent to 16 percent during 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. Social media tools for engaging and capturing the work of crowds include: wikis, custom platforms or web sites that facilitate voting, rating, giving feedback, adding content, or funding. 2) Crowd Creation.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

The most difficult part is creating good content, content your subscribers want to read. For many organizations, simply getting an e-newsletter out regularly, with enough content — let alone enough good content — is a win. Unfortunately, blog traffic in every other month (when we curated newsletter content) flatlined.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Microsoft's new Surface Pro is an example of this type of new type of device. It's a 40-page study that measures what's going on with nonprofit email, fundraising, social media, and mobile. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. I'm just wondering how they're different from today's PCs?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Originally posted in April of 2011, just before I hung up my consulting hat for my current job at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History. For more on the differences among different types of museums (with examples), check out this post. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Sure, you may raise some extra money that day by sending out an e-mail, but that’s not the measure of success. The real measure of success is, if you sent out the same fundraising e-mail at a different time (say, the week after #GivingTuesday), would you raise more or less than if you sent it out on the big day? You Won’t Raise A Lot.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2011

A third (33%) of nonprofit executives take over from someone who was fired or forced to resign, according to the 2011 Daring to Lead report, which surveyed 3000 nonprofit executive directors earlier this year. Because you can’t change performance without showing that you’re measuring it. Author: Jennifer Darrouzet.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I'm live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. What we see clients try to do is reformat their direct mail content into an email - that does not work. As examples, check out Conservation International. Another example is Team Fox, with its peer to peer fundraising.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

That conversation is a perfect example of both the kinds of conversations I have had countless times when talking to people (whether they work for a library or not) about the future of libraries as well as the frame I’m using for this talk. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We sought out case studies or examples that reinforced much of how we already operated. For example, knowing that a certain message or call to action, or even type of service, worked for one organization in one community translated to other organizations as a packaged up and ready to repeat solution. Social Tactics. Social Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

As we head into the year’s big Giving Day season, we wanted to share four big things you need to do now to prepare a successful campaign: #1: Set explicit, measurable goals, so you know what success looks like. You can learn more about the Giving Day Play Book from this press release or upcoming Webinar. Registration is here. ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The 2011 September Campaign. But how are you measuring along the ladder of engagement – from awareness to conversion to donor. We also keep a close eye on the video views for the campaign trailer as well as referrals – we think it’s a great piece of content so we hope a lot of people will watch it! Obviously $.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 14, 2016

Take Apple as an example. But if you search for @apple , you’ll find that username has been locked down since 2011 but never tweeted. Sit down and figure out your social media strategy so you know when a social network is worth your time and how you’ll measure success. Set up some reasonable goals to measure success.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

All who were involved agreed that intervention was needed to save the condor, but what kind of intervention became a point of bitter contention. As of July 2011, there are 399 condors known to be living , including 188 in the wild, in California, Arizona, and Mexico. So, what about all the egos, politics, and conflicts?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Microsoft's new Surface Pro is an example of this type of new type of device. It's a 40-page study that measures what's going on with nonprofit email, fundraising, social media, and mobile. Online revenue grew by 21 percent since 2011. I'm just wondering how they're different from today's PCs?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 18, 2011

The blog has been the key standardized staple that helps to regularly generate content for readers, which then is further shared via Twitter and Facebook. Currently, WITNESS’ ROI tracking is measured by way of increase in awareness and donations. A good example is witness.org/spring2010. Please summarize your ROI.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

In Mozambique, for example, a recent study showed that using just 1GB of data can cost well over two months’ wages for the average citizen. It has been in use in Europe since 2011. Ginny Mies is TechSoup's global content curator, and one of our experts. Argus II can restore only limited vision.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

The constant pressure to create engaging content to reach members can test even the most seasoned of professionals. Even the most resource-strapped organizations can realize huge revenue growth opportunities with minor tweaks to their content strategy. Understand How Search Engines View Content. P enalize spammy low-value posts.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore.

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