Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

O’Reilly took us through some examples of designing with citizens in mind can radically change the trust equation. These are creating an age of context – where because so much data is being collected about you – that everything will be tracked and customized.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 14, 2020

Here are a few things to keep in mind while creating your reimagined competitive experience. Don’t let social distancing stop the fun, and keep in mind that not every community building event should be virtual. Riders are encouraged to join their Strava club to track their training and ride day progress. .

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sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

Grants data we receive has sometimes been anonymized at the grantee level or provided in aggregate form to further mitigate risk. Keeping track of where this data has been shared, whether by program officers, grants management staff, or others, is essential. To some extent, Candid has a front-row seat to this decision-making.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

With advancements in technology, hybrid and virtual event platforms have made it easier to track ROI and increase visibility into how leads travel through a sales funnel. This can be difficult to track and manage without full customer service, sales, or marketing teams at your fingertips. Data-Driven Lead Tracking.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

There are big problems with tracking and verifying a learners’ CE balance. Just as importantly, ledgers transparently track the movement of credits from party to party – in our case, from CE provider to certificant to certifying board. As we know, these transactions are often managed in the most labor-intensive way possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

I heard about tools for building campaigns and aggregating citizen science data I wouldn’t have discovered at an ocean-themed event because they’re not being applied to coastal problems just yet. I’m a network-minded funder who works on oceans, because the oceans are connected to everything. That’s how I ended up at PdF.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. You can search by keyword and also see who else has favorited a particular tweet in order to identify like-minded contacts. Twitt(url)y. I wonder how Laura Lee Dooley would use this tool?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. You can search by keyword and also see who else has favorited a particular tweet in order to identify like-minded contacts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2008

.   People can make comments about you on other blogs and if you only track links from blog posts, you won't see it.    You can also track other bloggers and see where they commented  -- I might do this only to study how the masters do it.  Why Commenting and Comment Tracking Is Important.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 17, 2016

Aggregate Your Fundraising Data. Keep in mind that your plan is not just a nice-to-have: it will help keep you organized and on track—and will help you clearly align your resources to what you need to accomplish before the end of the year. So, how do you make it happen? Send Tailored Communications.

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Media Cause

MARCH 19, 2021

update (which will likely roll out sometime this month ), Apple will begin requiring users’ permission for apps to track them and use their data. People will be prompted when using iOS apps to either opt into tracking (for more customized ad experiences) or opt-out of tracking (for greater data privacy). . Click “Add Event”.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

With that in mind, here are four reasons nonprofits should make the move to leverage outcomes and program data in fundraising to maximize impact management. Fundraisers can see aggregated program data defined by their metrics in real time. This source of truth sits next to actual results, making it easier to monitor if you’re on track.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

All of these conduits were built with individual users in mind, so they lack built-in tools for organizational use, but here are a few external tools that can help. Among the benefits are the ability to schedule posts in the future and customizable feeds that let you track what people are saying about your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 28, 2023

As you reflect on these questions, keep in mind that this is a problem many organizations face. Say you’re launching a new fundraiser and want to stay on top of donation tracking and communicating with donors. Tracking your campaign’s progress is the best way to ensure your team will reach its fundraising goal.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? Understand What You Want to Track.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

For example, if people are newly selecting ‘Middle Eastern/North African’ but had previously selected ‘White’ or ‘Different identity’ (or some other category), those aggregate figures may go down as a result. At Candid, we’re honored to play a role in enabling and supporting the sector to track its progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

The Twestival partnered with amiando and tipjoy to ensure that the money goes into a central source and can be easily tracked. (See Also bear in mind that charity:water had been aware of the event plans long before any formal announcements were made. The nonprofit wanted to make sure that the money raised got to charity:water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Searching between the cracks There are so many different places where nptech resources are being aggregated and thanks to Yahoo pipes many variations on the meta feeds that occassionally you discover little pockets of resources that either get lost in the flow or don't make it into the main fire hoses for one reason or another.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Instead of having one source of truth for school and student information, someone on your team will have the responsibility of manually aggregating data from reports that come from disparate systems. These integrations mean more efficient tracking and maintenance of the data the specialized software collects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. So, if your nonprofit web site has complex tracking and analysis needs, you may need to work with a specialist consultant to set up your account and train staff to use it.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Instead of providing a scanning tool for independent reading, Bookshare would aggregate the scanning activity of the entire community. Although it had never been created with crowd sourcing in mind, the Bookshare concept fit the existing exception like a glove. Fast forward to today.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

The goal is to understand which solutions you’re currently using and how well they perform with the following questions in mind: What works well? Research top providers online using third-party sites, review aggregators, and educational guides. What do we do well with our technology?

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Ben, isn’t the popcorn thing blowing your mind? So when I think about back to work as a manager, these are some of the things that comes to mind for me. So however it makes sense to move information within your organization, that’s how I would take your input in and aggregate it. It’s the funniest thing ever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You’re increasing your visibility in the right areas and trying to stick in the minds of others through active interaction on many different levels. You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Mikey O'Connor of ICANN provided one of the pithiest warnings: "The Internet will be used as the most effective force of mind control the planet has ever seen, leaving the Madison Avenue revolution as a piddling, small thing by comparison." There are apparently over 2,000 of these things that track us.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Admittedly most tools are a waste of time and money, however, we’ve managed to track down a few exceptions to this rule and provide a brief overview of how nonprofits can leverage them to get results. We’ve taken the guesswork out of the equation by aggregating only the best social media marketing resources available online.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Our monitoring includes: Tweetdeck for iPhone Dual office monitors -- one for work, one for Tweetdeck "As it happens" Google Alerts for name, acronym, CEO's name An iGoogle dashboard aggregating web alerts Make your commenting policy known and fair. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

It was our executive VP who had unfounded belief in me, Thrilled me filled me with fantastic insight I’d never known before; So that now, to still the ADD of my moving mind, she stood repeating. Keep this is mind for what you measure - for this is all I will implore. But the fact was I kept tracking, never loafing, never slacking.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

While you should keep in mind that all of this is based on data specific to NTEN – your own results may vary – here are 14 ways we've worked to achieve that modest bump. Despite the increased volume, we've managed to increase our absolute open rate year-over-year. Looking just at our webinar messaging, we saw an open rate of roughly 22.5%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Mashable has dubbed it one of the best places to watch great minds in action. But as the Twitter has flourished, so has the number of ways to track success. Take your pick!

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

and aggregates them. The steady stream of observations ran as debate subtitles and gave a quick peek into the mind of the US voter (or at least the tech-savvy segment of the population). Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

However I wanted to record, primarily for my own sake, while fresh in my mind a recap of the social media tools we used (and other related factors) for our conference. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

The sheer amount of talent and contribution that came out of Twestival was mind blowing." 4) Set up a system for incoming donations to be aggregated quickly and easily. Amanda is thrilled with the way the even turned out, but says she would do things differently next time around: 1) Don't Spearhead A Worldwide Event Alone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe. For this purpose, social media data is a great source of real-time information.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Before we dive into the 5 reasons I believe people fail to get marketing results, I thought it might make sense to first demonstrate a few ways you can measure and track your performance. Track Your Keyword Rankings. How To Measure Your Digital Marketing Results. To do this I use a free third party software called Hotjar.

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