M+R

APRIL 27, 2022

Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . All or nearly all nonprofits reported an active presence on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook. The complete data and analysis are available to explore for free at mrbenchmarks.com. Read time: 2 minutes. No other social media platform reached 10% participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2011

TweepsMap is an interesting Twitter app that will put your followers on a map of the world, literally. Despite a few glitches, you use this tool to see if your audience is local or global. What did you discover by putting your Twitter followers on the map?

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M+R

APRIL 22, 2021

Go explore the findings, charts, and analysis at mrbenchmarks.com. . Email list sizes were up by 3%, Twitter followers increased by 25%, and mobile audiences by 26%. We will also be reporting the key findings and answering the biggest questions on a special Benchmarks release webinar on April 28 from 1:00–2:30PT/4:00–5:30ET.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

You can do a whole network analysis. The map can be of social media conversations, for example these network maps of Twitter conversations. Using the analysis steps below, it can help you be more intentional with online networking, learning, and building thought leadership. Some questions to ask: What patterns do you see?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2009

The tool is quite fascinating because it combines a light weight social network analysis (see this page. to learn more about the methodology) of your twitter friends with search. Marshall's post will shows the top five people I'm having conversations with on Twitter and who respond to me: 1. What effect do they have?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Click to see the larger image. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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NTEN

MARCH 31, 2010

We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. I think the most important trend is the increased collection and analysis of the information that organization’s have at their disposal. Where can people follow you online (twitter, blog, etc.)? Speaker: Mark Becker, Cathexis Partners.

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JULY 27, 2021

Julia: There are two pieces to this question. The second piece of the question is, “How do you actually get people to take an action?” Julia: That’s a great question, and what I teach in a lot of my courses or talk about with my clients is that there are four areas of social media management that you need to tackle to be effective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Here’s a curated transcript of the chat that I pulled together. But for this post, I’d like to dig into one of the questions, ”How do you measure your network so you know if it is growing stronger?” It is also a fun way to visualize your Twitter network – and there are some great free apps to do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Joe Solomon set up a Facebook Group called Save the World With Twitter. So maybe the question should be, how many whales did you save with that Tweet ? Or rather, how do we measure the value and effectiveness of Twitter? So, this is a Facebook group for people who use or want to use Twitter for good! Twitter for Health.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive by analysis. The network on Twitter responded: If you’re overly emotional and reject quantitative data or unemotional and reject lived experience, you are less effective from Seth Godin shared by WSUCCSR. The only valid data is quantitative data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

Twitter for me is mostly a listening tool. A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. Is Twitter A Traffic Tool, Not. This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

WEF encouraged people to create a selfie video for 20 seconds asking a question that a world leader would answer. As part of our class, students composed a question and recorded a video related to their area of study and sent it off to Davos. So far, two of my students have had their questions answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2018

AI Now Institute Co-Founder, Kate Crawford, shared the top line trends as a thread on Twitter. AI for Social Good: The McKinsey company recently released its “ AI and Social Good Report ,” which includes a landscape analysis of how AI is currently being used to solve big hairy problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 10, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 24, 2014

Most nonprofit leaders have to keep up with their sector, field, or issues anyway – and openly sharing what they are reading – useful content and news with some analysis helps contributes to thought leadership – especially on social channels like Twitter where many reporters use it to source leaders for stories.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

The questions we need to ask go beyond the immediate revenue numbers. Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. The chart below is an excerpt of an analysis that we conducted for one M+R client, looking at a range of digital platforms, and the “match rate” of our donors to those platforms. What is the speed of upgrade?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

“see xx more posts by Twitter&# ) and I’m certain people don’t really click that link. Ask Questions. The research also suggests that asking questions works best for increasing engagement. Facebook gives less weight to posts made via third party apps. They also can get collapsed in the News Feed (e.g.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 15, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Vivanista Hosts Question Session « Vivanista | Living Well. Doing Good. If she can’t answer it she’ll find an expert who can!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2008

Twitter counter. On Thursday, a colleague, Rob Cottingham , asked me via Twitter. Or does Twitter do periodic sweeps for spammers and wipe 'em all at once?" " It made wonder what happened to Mr. PharmacyMan who used to follow me on Twitter and seems to no longer be amongst my followers, along with 300 others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2014

I read a lot of educational technology, training, and teaching blogs, follow those people on Twitter, curate on Scoop.It, etc to keep up. You will find answers to questions like, “Why are some learning tasks easier in the morning or afternoon?” ” Plus many more provocative questions. by Jane Bozarth, Editor.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). PDT Beth and Allison will celebrate with a virtual book party on U-Stream and Twitter (#netnon). NetSquared Local Reaches 70 Groups Worldwide!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

This is great for use in your Twitter messages but also in emails or even text messages. Your interested followers may actually be checking twitter during their lunch break, or in the evening, and not when you’re at work at posting! —– Have any other questions or tips you want to add?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Real time analysis is not useful because it is drive-by analysis. I shared this on Twitter and the conversation brought out some interesting points that I curated in “Storify,” a story telling tool. This leads to another question: How can you transform anecdotes into useful data? Only measure impact, not process.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

MAY 3, 2022

Donors might be asking questions, you might have to do a special outreach. It is a strategy used by non-profits organizations to reach out to more donors through the use of multiple communication channels. In brief, to ask more than once and in different places. donations start coming in. All kinds of things may need to happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2011

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven. If there are too many unanswered questions about the impact of the technology platform, better to wait until others have been able to deliver tangible value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links? Does sharing link with a 2-sentence commentary work better than sharing with a question?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Giller says that regardless of the topic, they are always thinking in incremental steps of engagement and start with a simple question, “How can we inspire people to take action and change – and use social media as part of this strategy?” Take for example their coverage on food that is devoured by a devoted flock of foodies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 13, 2009

I threw the urls into a google spreadsheet and started to browse the Twitter streams to get a better understanding of the content shared. (It In an earlier post , I found the following types of patterns related to content shared on Twitter. . Ask questions about the future ( Cleveland Foundation ). It wasn't useless babble !).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

We used Dave Gray’s “ Board Thing ” online tool to crowdsource questions to discuss from the audience. ” She has a wonderful Twitter stream called “ Learning Flow ” that is a continuous learning stream of short activities (15-20 minutes) a day. Then asked us to do analysis based on: Age.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 8, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The analysis is approached from a user’s perspective, and highlights the types of problems consumers frequently encounter with the service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

Ag Grantees Twitter Webinar. For this webinar, I incorporate some instant polls so we could get a quick reading on who was on the call. In addition, I wanted to explore TwitChimp, a tool for making Twitter lists, that Robin Good dubbed, “ the ultimate Twitter list curation tool.” Most Frequently Tweeted Words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

I like the way that Allison Fine reflected on this question last week. But be careful, I was asked a lot of questions about my blog's audience size and reach and only after looking over my stats (subscribers, page views, Twitter followers) was my app accepted. How does she feel about text to give? Trepidatious.

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