Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

” Dirk Slater , another colleague who does nonprofit technology capacity building, once shared with me that he and his team keep journals during programs they’re managing and that writing down what could improve takes some of the stress out of it as well. How do you go beyond just doing a survey or collecting metrics?

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. This way, site visitors can access your donation form from any page in just one click. Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach to direct mail. Contact Us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. With that in mind I’d like to share 4 Keys to Building a Successful Web Site based on similar tactics we’ve deployed on this blog. Then use what you learn from them to grow your site! Put these tools in place. Off we go.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success. Why This Fundraising App Made Our List OneCause’s fundraising technology made our list because it is completely built for mobile. Individual tasks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs. In addition to weekly check-ins, the organizational dashboard includes key performance metrics related to goals as well as more detailed metrics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. When possible, I get a list of attendees at workshops or conferences, and I visit their web sites and social media outposts. Example: Red Cross.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director and Founder at iMission Institute – a social sector marketing agency and technology consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofits raise more money, fire up engagement, and streamline work. This is full-funnel marketing , and to do it effectively you need some technological assistance.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

As an educational consultant, I offer nonprofits instruction on best practices around their technology. Allison : When I consider a site, I take two different approaches. A smart approach to better understanding the perspective of the user is to actually have a user volunteer to test drive your site while you monitor their behavior.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. It provides a: Breakdown of networks (Delicious, Digg, Facebook, etc) and you’re super users for these sites as well as tips on how to engage the audience. Postrank Analytics. For $9 a month, PostRank will measure how engaging your blog or web content is.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. Where do branded social networks like Ning sites fall? ROI: Very few nonprofit survey respondents are generating real revenue on commercial social networks like Facebook or branded social networks on their web sites.

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

Any giving that took place on sites that do not use the Network for Good platform or that were made offline are not included. What they do and don’t do has a big impact on donor relationships and the metrics we’ve uncovered. But raising funds online is not about technology, any more than raising funds through the mail is about paper.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

According to the web site, the goal is to seek to quantify and report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues, and patrons. What it doesn't show me is any trends over time or analysis based on gathering data from several types of resources. I would like to see some context.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

This new reality and shifting landscape have created significant opportunities to use virtual and hybrid events — and the technology that powers them — to elevate brand awareness, increase demand generation, enhance user acquisition, and ultimately accelerate growth for your company or your clients. Shorter Sales Cycle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

It helped me clarify some fuzzy thoughts about social networking, pattern analysis, and information overload. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

A Beginner’s Guide to Making Your Site More Usable. I also need to streamline the many wiki portfolios and resource collections that I've put together over the years. 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

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. Use metrics to discover what works and what doesn’t.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

A comprehensive digital marketing strategy is the single best way to successfully reach and retain wider audiences online: Your nonprofit’s overarching goals, marketing goals, budget, other constraints, and technology infrastructure will inform your digital strategy. Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. Analyze key metrics in your database.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 9, 2020

With the shift to virtual fundraising and engagement over the past several months, technology is more important than ever before for the nonprofit sector. Auction software that makes it easy to generate and customize your online catalog rather than building a new site will save time and resources right off the bat.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Chris Wolz manages this blog with the help of his colleagues at Forum One Communications, a web strategy/technology firm in the Washington DC area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

. #1: New + Tech = Resistance New + Tech + Education = Adoption Think about what the technology adoption curve. The simple fact is that “ Technology Changes, Humans Don’t." The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. This pattern is the same no matter the tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Nancy raises a few questions about whether a distributed presence for organizations - splitting the attention of members between an organization's web site and social networking profiles is a liability or an asset. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. "as part of a LASA Panel she is planning.

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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. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Need some metrics guidelines?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2016

The Partners for SDGs hosts a searchable site for partner initiative progress reports, which is a great start. And that there is also a need for universal metrics for analysis without imposing on how each country wants and needs to uniquely solve its specific challenges. We now need to see results for every initiative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. But these sites have two important limitations that give nonprofits reason to look for additional tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. But he does point out that technology is not substitute for face-to-face meetings and the chorus of comments agrees.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Need some metrics guidelines?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Need some metrics guidelines?

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

You may be facing the challenge of how to realign your digital strategy and modernize your technology while juggling many other shifting priorities in operations, advocacy, or programs. Don’t reinvent the wheel Other organizations are facing the same challenges, and there are a lot of great technology solutions for digital engagement.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Here’s how a platform like this can modernize your operations: Streamlined donor management A best-in-class DMS for faith-based organizations provides interactive dashboards that give you a comprehensive view of your organization’s performance metrics, including recurring giving campaigns, campaign effectiveness, and donation tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. It’s not possible.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Wonderful post, gentlemen, as always.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Wonderful post, gentlemen, as always.

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