Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient. Why Your Nonprofit Should Streamline Social Media Social media is still relatively new. Why the number 52? Good for you! Great work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

You should periodically perform a nonprofit self-audit to see how your website, email marketing, and social media are performing. You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. How are you measuring your success? You cannot get where you need to go if you cannot measure your progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

Investing in movements or networks for social change is a strategy that some funders are using. But, how do you measure the results? “Amazing large numbers of members, staging marches, and winning campaigns – all these remain important measures of a successfully growing movement. Research and policy analysis.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. A Sampling of the Data from the Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study. Did Facebook Fundraising benefit from pandemic-driven social media use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. My goal for this presentation was to synthesize the traditional ROI process with the best thinking about social media and ROI from the gurus like David Armano and KD Paine. And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. tags: nonprofits roi ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Submitted by Rebecca Leaman, publisher of Get your sanity back , Wild Apricot's non-profit technology blog Great new presentations on social media are coming out almost daily, now that we're deep into conference season, and many are directed specifically to the needs of non-profits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

I resisted it for a year because I was concerned about having yet another social media outpost to feed and tune. I wanted to avoid automated cross-posting of social content because I think it isn't very effective. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

What is a market analysis for nonprofit organizations? Market analysis, also known as market research, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information about target markets and customers. Additionally, measure the effectiveness of the strategies implemented. Let’s get started.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. If you do, check out Nutshell Mail for reports on your various social media presences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

As well as friends and colleagues: Anne Mai Bertelsen Anne Quinn Ulseth Wendy Harman Amy Sample Ward Michael Hoffman Farra Trompeter Stephanie McAuliffe Sandy Lopacki David Krumlauf Spencer Brodsky Sandra Sutton Andrews Judith Sol-Dyess Marianne Richmond Mark Horvath Catrina Joy Roallos Korey Lee . . Thank you for donating!

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

and social media but have not thought it through in relation to my organisation. What are the key things we should think about if we are going to use social media?” To start with, remember that social media isn’t one of your projects or mission areas. 5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. Listening should be linked to real life decisions or your social media strategy objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

This came the "dashboard" for the Indianapolis Museum of Art , an ongoing effort to measure various aspects of the Museum's performance. The Web section offers a sampling of numbers only data. What it doesn't show me is any trends over time or analysis based on gathering data from several types of resources.

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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. 2 ) that discusses how to lay the groundwork for board signoff on an organization's social media in initiatives. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

By Tereza Litsa , Social Media Manager at Lightful , a simple social media management platform for nonprofits. Moreover, your objectives can also guide you in the analysis of your campaign’s performance. Images and videos make it easier to grab someone’s attention on social media. 4) Be creative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Why should we measure story in a new way? Because using story well is our great chance in public media to be the leaders of our time. To do this we have to be able to measure story in a new way. Identify Early Adopter organizations and use a sample of employees and volunteers contribute and test a variety of stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Also, building your own social network and growing and supporting a community takes work and relationship building to be successful-- whether you to do it on Facebook or your own site. Social Change Websites is an excellent directory of the best nonprofit, grassroots, and advocacy campaign websites devoted to social change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. Mashable has dubbed it one of the best places to watch great minds in action. How do you measure sucess on Twitter? Inspiration.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. Implement security measures: Implement robust security protocols to protect donor data during the migration. Set clear, measurable goals for your data cleaning efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2013

Today, Knight Foundation published a new Giving Day Playbook , which breaks down the whole process from Day One of planning to launch and post-campaign analysis. The playbook includes a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started. But they don’t have to be. Registration is here. ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools." Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post that summarized some tips, resources, and tools for using Pinterest. I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Inspirational Visual Quotes.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation. And for social media, this is an area that people, you’re either really into it or not as much but you might just do it just as a matter, of course.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

Many databases will actually look at this or there’s some Excel downloadable templates that can do this analysis. Many of them will do like a little sample screening for you so you can see what it looks before you make the investment. So I have a sample donation reply card on the Resource page. I could do more.”

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This means that the data-driven approach emerging in the social period is strengthened – we don’t just monitor and measure data, but now we let our community do so, too. This means not only do we monitor and measure data as we started doing in the social period, but we also listen to our community, and listen for action.

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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. Also free is a summary analysis of your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2012

Social Media and Nonprofit Book Recommendations (250). Social Media Best Practices (215). The heavy presence of women 25-44 on Pinterest is what distinguishes it from other new social media platforms, which are generally populated by men 18-24. Are you engaged on other social media platforms?

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