Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

This year, we updated the entire guide with new research, additional sections on goals and strategies, and information about using social media for advocacy and fundraising. Social media is a conversation the world is having. Through tools like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, you can post information, encourage comments and get feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The event is sold out, but they are live-streaming it ) They are crowdsourcing questions for the conversation here. I can’t help but wonder if their methods are similar to how VolunteerMatch measures its impact and results , although VolunteerMatch does not receive the same scale of foundation funding as nonprofits in this sample.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

It’s there that we recognize, inform and direct. A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2011

Last month, we launched the The Zoetica Salon on my Facebook Page with my Zoetica colleagues, Geoff Livingston , Kami Huyse , and Julie Pippert (the newest Zoetican ) where over 7,000 nonprofit leaders have been engaging in informal learning about nonprofits and social media. Good for you! Tell us about your success stories!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of June 6th). Take a query like [taj mahal].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

I asked Best Friends Marketing Coordinator Claudia Perrone how they were measuring success. The ultimate KPI, of course, is dog adoptions. Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 1, 2012

You can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the copy below. —– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. My latest post on the Stanford Social Innovation Review blog is now up.

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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. Watech4good Summit. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. It’s a design challenge.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Starting over may not be an option, but in the absence of that, here are ten things event fundraisers and marketers should be considering to reinvent their plans for 2011: Become more data driven. Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy. Remember the 80/20 rule.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The power of social media really proved itself for us when the Gulf oil disaster first hit mainstream news, it was our web and social media presences that helped disseminate news and information to keep people up-to-date in real-time with our work on the ground. What is on your To Do List for 2011? Please summarize your ROI.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. With your help, we’ve amassed a wealth of current information on demand for services, trends in government support, board participation, and financial health. What are the big picture conversations about? In 2011, 85% of respondents reported an increase in demand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Beth Kanter, “ Data Informed. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.”

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. First, meet with your board finance committee as soon as possible and begin the conversation. This is a time to make informed and collaborative decisions. percent in 2009. Now is the time to think about a budget reforecast.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012. Risa sums up the value of a collaborative approach: "Our staff conversations about ways to utilize social media are creative and energizing.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 19, 2010

By using a hashtag on your information, you are able to search for that information across multiple public data streams and see what people are talking about. Monitoring can deliver real time intelligence to ytou about honest conversations taking place unmediated all over the web. The hashtags kept the conversations separate.

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NTEN

JULY 6, 2011

Having a conversation with your community of stakeholders is an essential activity for nonprofits. In our session on Community Voice at NTEN’s 2011 Nonprofit Techology Conference, Arthur provided a case study of the LikeMinded program and how it was built based on engagement with the community. Conversation. Technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Today, January 17, the 30th anniversary of the Betamax decision, we’re proud to mark Benetech’s participation in Copyright Week —a week of action that aims to engage communities in the ongoing conversation about changes to copyright law and celebrate six principles for a balanced copyright system.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Your constituents now expect to receive relevant and interesting information in every email. Conversely, if you’re not delivering personalized content, your email could negatively impact your relationships.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2011

We use technology really well in a measured and strategic way. The launch of a new website in January 2011 (new design and updated content from the previous iteration), this included an increased focus on Facebook and the addition of a Twitter account.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

Resident apps help us put the most up-to-date information in the hands of users, since our consumer seafood recommendations are updated twice a year. It’s won awards from Treehugger.com as the “Best of Green in Food and Health” and is cited regularly in mainstream and new media as a trusted source for sustainable seafood information.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 5, 2014

Data published last year in the Chronicle of Philanthropy shows this trend clearly: online donations to nonprofits increased 14% in 2012 relative to 2011, while overall donations increased by only 1.5% Too many nonprofits have complicated donation forms that ask for unnecessary information. in the same period. The result?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 31, 2013

Because user experience issues invariably impact conversion rates. The term “usability testing” may sound complicated and esoteric but the purpose is to objectively measure if your website is useful and easy to use for your donors. What exactly is usability testing? Can my donors easily find where to donate?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

Disclaimer Friday, February 25, 2011 Research Friday: "Executive Compensation" posted by Stephanie La Loggia, M.A. As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I’m live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. 70% said trust was in understanding financial information and how their donation would be used. 56% want information about fundraising events and about activities for your professionals. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

So, let’s get out the nonprofit vote for the nonprofit panels at SXSW 2011 ! Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed. How has human behavior changed?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2011

I’ve been heads down working on my next book about measurement and networked nonprofit s with KD Paine and our editor, Bill Paarlberg , sprinting towards our deadline. When you have a co-author who is a measurement geek, you measure progress towards your deadline.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Today, I'm live blogging a few sessions from the 2011 Millennial Donor Summit. 70% said trust was in understanding financial information and how their donation would be used. 56% want information about fundraising events and about activities for your professionals. What did they find out in the Millennial Donor Report?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Below, I’ve shared my keynote remarks and slides and I hope you’ll share your ideas and further the conversation in the comments. Why focus on that instead of content, or knowledge or information or anything else? Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. Why Community? So, why community? Community-Driven Model.

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NTEN

MARCH 25, 2013

In January 2011, at a gathering hosted by TechSoup Global, we began talking about how to model our own ideals. In summer 2011, we received funding from Microsoft to bring our groups together to answer at least one question: which nonprofits do our organizations serve separately, and collectively. By most measures, we did.

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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’re also keeping a close eye on our Google Analytics to ensure that enough people are visiting the campaign page and the conversion rate. Tell me about this year’s campaign? Obviously $.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

” After spending five years living and breathing networks and measurement and designing and delivering many, many nonprofit capacity building programs, my focus is going to be on how nonprofits can apply measurement and their networks to learn for impact. Fasal was created to combat this issue.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. For this conversation, we are going to start with the frame of the analog paradigm and move forward from there. We don’t, though, have a lot of efficiency or shared information. Social Tactics. What are we doing there?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Friday, October 8, 2010 Discover Your Leader Grade If you need a tool to measure your leadership skills, check out LeaderGrade , by Quantum Workplace, which measures your leadership influence by asking your peers and followers to rate your leadership skills. Make conversation with your team.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. INFOGRAPHIC] – "Everyone says it’s hard to measure social good success. Any others you'd add?

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