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. " Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Adopt a classroom project from DonorsChoose and lead a blog fundraising campaign. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. link] [link].

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. Asking NTEN to show leadership by publishing web stats is to suggest that NTEN would think that publishing web stats is a useful measure of nonprofit accountability. That dog won’t hunt.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The Non-Profit Tech Blog drills down deeper on the limitations and suggests waiting before adopting. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

There are quite a few options for doing this, some open source and free others not. But, if you have a good percentage of your constinuents who are early adopters and tech savvy, it’s a great place to be. We are all after real world changes, so how do we measure our use of these tools on real world impact?

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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. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. asks Rich Reeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

The nonprofit technology community is aksing: " What will Google Open Social mean for nonprofits? " Allan Benamer answers : Not much because the average nonprofit does not have the infrastructure and skill sets that would allow for rapid adoption for new technology. What is Openness? as a sole measurement of success.

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