Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

Holly published the 2013 version back in December, but you can never have too much of a good and incredibly useful resource!!! It’s Not Too Late To Set Your Communications Agenda with LightBox Collaborative’s 2013 Editorial Calendar – Guest Post by Holly Minch, Lightbox Collaborative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Nonprofit Examples and Getting Started or Rebooting A Strategic Approach. If you want to or reboot your nonprofits Instagram presence, spend some time looking at nonprofit examples to get inspired: Nonprofits That Get Instagram (2014) by Kerri Karvesti – an excellent Pinterest board of great examples.

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Candid

JULY 26, 2022

It’s not a new concept; in fact, as far back as 2013, GuideStar (Candid’s predecessor organization along with Foundation Center), the BBB, and Charity Navigator came together to issue a call to stop the overhead myth. . Let’s consider one example— setting nonprofit staff compensation.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 29, 2013

21, 2013), with a step-by-step guide to creating an organized and successful Giving Day Campaign. Here are the 4 core steps to launching your nonprofit’s Giving Day campaign: Set measurable, attainable goals. The Knight Foundation gives the example of engaging over 500 donors to contribute and increase the total raised by 25%.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Check out this example from Denver Rescue Mission. In December 2013 there was much fanfare when Facebook unveiled a “Donate” button for nonprofits , but not much came of it and it dwindled in popularity. Here’s a great example from the St. Make sure that you can track your progress and measure the success of your efforts.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Here are a few examples of what purpose-driven companies do that set them apart. For example, when it was time to make decisions about how to remove tobacco from stores, CVS assembled a team from finance, merchandising, marketing, corporate social responsibility, retail store operations, and inventory. What’s next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar. But bench learning can be richer than simply collecting numbers.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. To say this is a highly anticipated, monumental report would be an understatement.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Email lists and email marketing continue to grow, especially for the nonprofit sector where list size grew at least 14% in 2013, according to the 2014 eNonprofit Benchmark study. For example, on Facebook, you can use Facebook Custom Audiences to target your email list members and further engage them on your advocacy campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results.

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Care2

MAY 13, 2014

Email lists and email marketing continue to grow, especially for the nonprofit sector where list size grew at least 14% in 2013, according to the 2014 eNonprofit Benchmark study. For example, on Facebook, you can use Facebook Custom Audiences to target your email list members and further engage them on your advocacy campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion! RamahSeminar (@RamahSeminar) December 24, 2013.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For example, if you were writing a post on how to keep dogs cool in the summer, you could reference a dog popsicle recipe on your blog, providing a direct link to that page. There are also programs online that rank how your text works with SEO and programs that help you measure your site’s search traffic performance.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 22, 2012

The Communities of Impact program, generously supported by Microsoft, combines NTEN’s strengths in community building and education delivery to create clear, measurable organizational change to participating nonprofit organizations while sharing the learnings and findings with the whole community.

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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. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. It's a 40-page study that measures what's going on with nonprofit email, fundraising, social media, and mobile. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. In addition to the case studies NTEN has compiled , here are some more examples the Communities of Impact and I have spotted: Children’s museum data informs health policy. Global nonprofit measures and shares its impact in real time. Now it’s your turn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

Gwen Walden (@WaldenPhil) April 15, 2013. gpf13 Technical part about data easy – hard part is getting humans to collaborate @ jacobharold — Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 15, 2013. Beth Kanter (@kanter) April 16, 2013. Fdns use 3-yr old data to make 5-yr plans.Is this any way to run a sector? gpf13 #philanthropy. A new type of CSR?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The NMC’s annual reports that highlight emerging technologies and their impact on the education sector over the next five years include NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition and the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition and were published this spring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

I’ve been a huge fan of Crisis Text Line since it launched back in August, 2013. Over 13 million text messages have been exchanged via Crisis Text Line since its launch in August 2013, qualifying this as the nation’s largest open set of crisis data.

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John Kenyon

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Here is an example from one of my nonprofit client’s websites. In the example to the right, taken from 2018 data, you can see the top five categories that Google assigns to the visitors of this website. A study from Bowker Market Research in 2013 showed that the majority of book buyers are female. What does the data show?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 15, 2014

Focus on five key areas: help them build brand visibility, recognize their generosity, offer creative approval, measure metrics and keep lines of communication open. When a company sponsors an event, they want to measure their return on investment. So how can you ensure a successful relationship with your corporate sponsor?

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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.” Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Long Live Strategy.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2013

” I started with a full-day workshop outside of Auckland called “The Networked NGO in New Zealand,” this workshop was for activist organizations and focused on strategy, measurement, and best practices for managing and implementing social media as a network. Paul Rees (@paul3141) May 15, 2013. Walking Debrief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2014

million in a day on #GivingTuesday 2013. ” All good nonprofit strategists know that you have to begin with setting measurable goals. The guide offers a few examples, and a reminder that you don’t have to use them all: Dollars to be raised. Number of donors. Number of new donors.

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Gyrus

DECEMBER 10, 2015

An exception is a start-up vendor that is so new that they really don’t have a release history, other measures must be taken to validate such companies.) As an example, Release Notes are provided to you by a vendor in December, 2015 with history that ends in 2013. It may indicate a loss of product focus or worse.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2012

As a long time reader of Beth’s blog, I am very excited by the release of Beth’s new book, Measuring the Networked Non-Profit. For inspiring examples we need only look at Doug Ulman, Melinda Gates, and Beth herself, each of who provides the shoulders on which others stand to reach greater levels of social impact.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

posted by Maureen West Project Manager, Social Impact Measurement ASU Lodestar Center. The anecdotal stories are compelling: benefits overwhelmingly outweigh the costs in the usual cherry-picked examples. The garden program leaders are therefore collecting deeper data to measure the real impact of the gardens.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

79% of LinkedIn’s users, for example, are 35 or older and have high paying jobs. Unfortunately, response time in social media is measured in minutes. In 2013 he was named one of the country’s top emerging nonprofit leaders by Bank of America. . . 1) Not All Social Media Channels Are Created Equal.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Examples include goals for implementing new fundraising channels or techniques, top prospects you hope to engage, check-in points along your timeline, and any limitations that could keep you from adjusting the plan as necessary to account for challenges that arise.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published their findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013. A recent study says no. Fundraising'

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Here are some ways you can do this for your nonprofit organization: Take a look at your fundraising efforts so far, measuring your fiscal year results over the previous fiscal year. For example, you could look at evaluating the following: How many newly identified mid-level and major gift prospects have come to the forefront?

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 31, 2015

He’s the writing whiz for WonderWe —a crowdfunding social network that provides free viral tools for nonprofits to fundraise, recruit and measure impact like a pro. For example, you want to raise money to build a school in 6 months, so you create a crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising a certain dollar amount within that time.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 31, 2015

He’s the writing whiz for WonderWe —a crowdfunding social network that provides free viral tools for nonprofits to fundraise, recruit and measure impact like a pro. For example, you want to raise money to build a school in 6 months, so you create a crowdfunding campaign aimed at raising a certain dollar amount within that time.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 11, 2013

For example, one interviewee, David, is a financial adviser from a family of long-term philanthropists. References: NextGenDonors: Respecting Legacy, Revolutionizing Philanthropy (2013). Time, talent, treasure and ties Yes, ties. They want to be hands on and linked in. They want to be hands on and linked in. Only time will tell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

He gave numerous examples of how pervasive access to the Internet has changed families, the nature of work and society. Jim Canales (@jcanales) April 5, 2013. He also mentioned that older people are connecting on sites related to health care issues, especially the caregiver communities.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. For example, if you know I’m interested in lung cancer issues, send me a lung cancer project or research to fund. Note: The 10 percent/10 percent/80 percent example works best for 10,000+ email lists.

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