Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Facebook users had uploaded more than 100 billion photos by mid-2011. • YouTube users upload 60 hours of video per minute and they triggered more than 1 trillion playbacks in 2011 – roughly 140 video views per person on earth. What will the future 2020 be like? One possible outcome is stagnation in innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2009

There is a day or two lag for it shows up in search. When you start to write in the "write something" you get options to add links, photos, videos - post things that are beyond promotion content. Doesn't control the search. Add Apps Strategically To Your Fan Page - at minimum you want video, photos, Causes, and a few others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2010

Pete Cashmore, in an article on CNN, explains that this lays the ground work for social search. Robert Scoble offers detailed meta analysis of the implications from a technical, marketing, and individual user perspective. There are some user personal privacy issues and PC Mag has a good analysis here. This has now changed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. Seeing the Forest Through The Trees: Pattern analysis and synthesis of findings. What Not To Search On Try to avoid generic terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Photo by NimagesDR. I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, a question asked by the Give and Take blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The consultant also pointed out that flickr photo I used seemed to indicate that the percentage are low. No real hard data in them though, more trend/zeitgeist-type analysis. Photo by MckaySavage. I was hoping to find a better photo of young people at the computers for future presentations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

Wildfire creates a spectrum of contest based apps, including sweepstakes & photo/video contest apps. The solution that came out of the group was to check out the Twitter search function ( [link] ), and to try using different combinations. You can search with a twitter handle or hashtag. For my field?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2012

We recently released the most comprehensive analysis of online giving trends in the nonprofit sector. Search engine optimization, paid search through Google Adwords, content marketing , social media engagement, and display advertising all come to mind as very successful ways to drive traffic to your website on an ongoing basis.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2013

You had to say something on the blog, or post a photo on Flickr, or organize a Meetup. Technorati (the first blog search engine at that time). In the end analysis, nonprofits and NGOs build communities and are sustained by communities. Citizen journalism. Google Maps. One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). Podcasting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Photo UgoTrade Blog. I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. The flickr stream - photos tagged with macfoundsl and snapzilla stream. and offered an analysis here.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Audience Analysis. And don't forget about search engine optimization. Bottom image: A collage of photos and other images ( Guide Creative ). This week, Guide Creative presented a whole series on the most important elements of web design and visual strategy. What's the bounce rate?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 22, 2006

These papers, books, photos and floppy disks contain critical information about police procedures during Guatemala's 30-year internal armed conflict that claimed an estimated 200,000 lives. But searching for the historical truth still carries risk for those involved. It is a hard thing to think about," said Juanita. "It

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2007

Here's an example of "social search" in action. A December 2006 survey has found the at 28% of internet users have tagged or categorized content online such as photos, news stories or blog posts. when we search for tagged items. This is interesting to me because of the analysis of the NPTECH tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2008

Photo by Spike 55151 I read recently that the reason for "senior moments" - you know when you can't quite recall someone's name in an instant - is because the aging brain is simply taking in more data and trying to sift through a clutter of information.     This helps make pattern analysis easier. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Photo: Jim Harrison. Here's my analysis. We basically pulled our entry together in three weeks – editing down an existing video to the required 90 seconds, drafting the content, selecting the photos, and submitting the entry. Pepsi decided to give away their Super Bowl ad budget and instead give away $1.3

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Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

Consumers scan the barcode or enter the product in the search box, and can then view a score on an easy-to-read dashboard that includes nutrition, ingredient and processing categories. Martus provides an end-to-end encryption of data to ensure that this information is secured — from data collection to analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The idea is that you need to think about your organization's web presence, one-way communication like email marketing and search engine optimization and finally the social. My own feeling is that social media is not a either/or to email or search engine optimization. There is some debate about how to order these components.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

Photo by Geodog Speed Geeking Session at Advocacy Dev - complete flickr stream here. I keep running into NpTechers posting vacation photos and blog posts. If it isn't vacations, it's photos of restaurant and a fun evening out. Beaconfire Consultants has an analysis of nonprofit apps on Facebook. for his blog. Google Aps.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

After Google.com (search traffic), we’re betting Facebook.com, Twitter.com, LinkedIn and other social sites are up there in the Top 10 Referring Sites list. Balance ease of reporting and analysis with campaign effectiveness; sometimes getting the answers all in one place merits a minor reduction in results. .

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Next, narrow your analysis down to your donation form to see how many people are visiting that specific page from a mobile device. Most websites have a lot going on: Top navigation, search tools, email opt-ins, side bar navigation, ads highlighting programs, promotions for events, and much more. Removed the search box.

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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. Flickr photo by Lenz Grimmer. Flickr Photo by Dave Cross. Needs photo of someone holding their head or screaming) So, how to deal with the complexity?

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2024

They’re a social impact digital agency that leverages data and tech with a human approach, whether that’s data analysis, digital strategy, web development, or training. From private and corporate grants to federal and state funding opportunities, you can search for grants by field or location.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

They even show up in Google searches! Post photos and videos from your organization's latest events. Sometimes, it's easier to find the app you want by doing a Google search for the service name and "Facebook Pages." Pages are also publicly accessible to everyone -- even visitors who aren't logged into Facebook.

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Socialbrite

DECEMBER 5, 2019

This means we need to do some research to see what are the trending and most searched topics or keywords — and how it may tie to your nonprofit’s mission. You can: search for a term or topic. A search on Buzzsumo for “mental health” stories. It can also help learn what people are searching for the most.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 24, 2013

Next, narrow your analysis down to your donation form to see how many people are visiting that specific page from a mobile device. Most websites have a lot going on: Top navigation, search tools, email opt-ins, side bar navigation, ads highlighting programs, promotions for events, and much more. Removed the search box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Photo from Cambodia4kids. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert. A favorite photo from Jon Stahl, but there are 496 more to browse. Google Blog Search. Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Conduct post-campaign analysis. Get Qgiv’s Campaign Analysis Worksheet! Share photos of your campaign events or volunteer opportunities to highlight the human side of your cause. Encourage supporters to use a hashtag specific to your campaign so all related posts are grouped together when searched. Use visuals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

cc licensed flickr photo shared by alumroot. Last year at Princeton, we added a Google Map for people to geotag their home location , an invitation to share photos of the number “15? (it Actually, the twitter API only returns the last 1500 (I scrolled back as far as I could from the search tool). Previously, On NMC….

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2021

It’s now one of the core online giving tools that nonprofits look for when searching for software solutions that will help them carry out their mission. . We recommend conducting this analysis directly after the campaign so that the details are still fresh in your mind. . Average amount raised per fundraiser. Social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Photo by the TruthAbout. The scores are based on analysis of the “ 5 Cs ” of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting and clicking. Hard data points: Conduct an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. I pick out all posts that score a perfect 10. It can also influence traffic.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! link] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. I shared some thoughts about using Social Network Analysis tools to analyze your Twitter network.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 4, 2015

You’ve perfected the copy, mulled over the ask and even added photos and graphics to really make sure that you crush it to get a stellar response. Your email marketing provider should be able to help you with more detailed information about what your sender reputation looks like and give a more indepth analysis of your email deliverability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Photo by Oolong. BETTER search engine rankings. See if there are published tangible payoffs from others and collect these "data nuggets" because they add credibility to your analysis. This week in WeAreMedia , we're focused on Return on Investment. The key benefits are: INCREASED website traffic overall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. If you're still with me, let me share some tidbits about that photo. What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It That's enough meta for now.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 7, 2010

There will be an inevitable collision between search and social recommendation. Just imagine what your messages, chats, photos, likes, jobs, interests, apps, games, and devices tell Facebook. Stay tuned on that aspect of things. The relationship break up trends show what you can learn from one piece of data and 500 million people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Flickr Photo by whatchamakallit. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here. I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. The Web is changing! The emphasis is on collaboration, sharing, and conversation.

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