Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Organic social is considered free, non-paid content created, uploaded, and shared within social platforms such as Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, and YouTube. Social platforms are included in Google Analytics traffic sources. Google is indexing social videos and sharing those results with their users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

I am leading a #Nettalks Webinar on “ Leveraging Social Media to Engagement and Inspire Alumni Networks ” at 2 PM EST today. On Monday, I shared a post about some network and strategy concepts. In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Basically, they want people to return to their page again and again, whether it’s to buy their merchandise or engage their services, read the latest blog or just comment on topic-specific trends. Incrwd’s designers have shown that the program increases page views as well as time spent on a site, social shares, comments etc.

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JULY 21, 2022

Optimize your photos. When choosing your header image, pick a photo that best represents the work your organization does. Whether it’s a photo of your volunteers in action or pictures of the communities you serve, the photo you pick should demonstrate your organization’s impact to visitors to your LinkedIn page.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. On the one hand, they want their material to be shared as widely as possible, on the other hand they want to have total control. The decision matrix in below will help you decide which photos to share and how."

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Photo and Video Editing Ability. To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software. The foundation of effective photo and video editing is a creative eye and an appreciation of digital photography and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Sharing Philosophy. We can no longer think about privacy and sharing as a black and white issue. What Are You Sharing? What Are You Sharing? Professional: This content generally includes sharing trade craft, resources, and other items related to professional skill sets. Who Are Sharing With?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Accessibility: It may not be easy to share the sheet with others at your organization. And, the more people you share the spreadsheets with, the more potential security risks there are. Top feature: Users gain insight into online traffic, transaction times, website visits by device type, and conversion rates with real-time analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

I'm pleased to announce that I have completed the screencast, sponsored by NTEN , on Google Analytics! Avinash Kaushik , Analytics Evangelist, Google, really helped me understand the true meaning of Web Analytics 2.0 Several months ago, I knew zip about web analytics. High bandwidth version available here.

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JUNE 13, 2011

flickr.com/photos/mikebaird. What I do know from this Target Analytics study is that ignorance and sloth are ruinous. Mark Phillips, the founder and CEO of Bluefrog shared an in-depth analysis of the report on his blog Queer Ideas : “For me, this report offers a challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The Cute Dog Theory or more precisely the Cute Animal Theory states that including cute animals in your social media content inspires more people to share the content. If don’t believe that is true, check out this YouTube video from VW of dogs barking the theme from Star Wars as a Superbowl Teaser. And now, mobile.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Photo by Laughing Squid. That’s where I connected with Miriam Brosseau who recently shared this awesome post on Facebook profile. It was such a terrific post I invited her share it here. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both! Group chat. Monitor accordingly.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2014

Earlier this year, Adobe released a Social Intelligence report based on consumer data from Adobe Social, Adobe Media Optimizer, and Adobe Analytics. Photos and videos have increased in popularity on Facebook. Text posts, on the other hand, have declined in both shares and engagement. So to circle back around, the answer is yes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. As you know, I'm working on a screencast about Google Analytics and have been collecting real life nonprofit examples. Larry comments sent me into my blog's search keyword referrals report and also found a connection to Taxi Cabs. These are the people who came to your site but didn't engage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Conversation starters are questions, visuals, anecdotes, stories, or other snippets of content that you share on social channels to ignite engagement. This list should be with you when you are planning out your content and engagement for your social media channels. To share on Twitter? 4. Make it Buzzworthy. Be visual. “If

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Here are some questions that can help get people talking to start sharing the groups they work with. Remember – Even if you’re using google alerts and google analytics, you may not really be able to look at data over time in a critical way. External reporting: Share when there is something worth sharing.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Here are a few ideas for you: Keywords you use on your website or in your analytics. Backtype allows you to watch what’s being said in blog comments around the web. This way you can share it with others internally, access it on the go and get to it no matter what computer you’re using. Please start asking in the comments below.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

This wrap up will highlight some of the insights and resources shared during the chat, but, if you’d rather, you can review the full transcript. A blog post has, like this, one person writing it and sharing it at the end for comments. real time, and 2. co-created. Cost per action.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Assuming you’re using Google Analytics*, here are 4 steps you can take: Year-Over-Year Comparison. Setup Google Analytics to do a year-over-year comparison. In Google Analytics, go to Audience > Overview to see whether your Visits have increased or decreased. In Google Analytics, head to Traffic Sources > Overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. I thought I'd share how I look at my Facebook page data. I view it as a focus group that offers content ideas for blog posts as well as to provide another conversation channel to share insights about social media. That statement guides how I engage and what content I share. Page Views.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. In a huge agreement , Microsoft agreed to share information about Windows to the Samba project, so that it can keep up to date easily. This was to appease the European Commission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. The 30 people we expected doubled to 60, and it was a great 75 minutes of sharing, laughing and making plans to do big things with what was learned. And because sharing is caring, I thought I would share some of what we learned with you. And boy, were people interested!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to share Use an AddThis or ShareThis button on the bottom of each post. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. If you are using Twitter, share links to new blog posts (you can shorten the urls with bit.ly ). Facilitate commenting Allow commenting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Photo/video Views (optional if I’m testing as content strategy). For example, open-ended questions work, particularly those that allow people to share their knowledge or ones accompanying a good resource link. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Make sure you have someone armed with a camera to capture photos and videos of every event to show people what you’re all about. You will need website analytics set up to find out if the level of engagement on your website has increased. Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo by Dwinton. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Did you do any outreach to encourage commenting?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. Wendy documented many different stories and shared these internally. They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2015

Finding quotes, articles and photos to schedule out is fine, but it is ever so important to be real whenever possible. Ask for ideas on content, get suggestions on topics, wording and photos to post. Once the content is published, keep your team in the loop on how you are tracking on your numbers and analytics. That’s okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. A few weeks ago, I started a thread on my blog’s Facebook Page, “What are the best tips and tools for saving time managing your nonprofit’s Facebook Page?&# I summarized the tips shared in this earlier post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Every now and then I like to share these queries and see what you, dear readers, think. When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. Flickr - to host photos from events we have attended and hosted. You've got a lot going on here!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments! Odeo: Free [link] Copyright Free Music Podsafe Music Network.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. How do you share your data? ARC - gather data every morning and share with organization via email; issues that seem sensitive or are newsworthy will contact subject matter experts to follow up. Examples: Yammer for internal sharing, it’s a Twitter for groups. The right metrics. test and teweak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

Sharing Foundation Khmer Literacy Program. I launched a bloggers campaign as part of the Sharing Foundation's America Giving Challenge. Roger Carr has written a wonderful post about the Sharing Foundation's Khmer Literacy School. Roger recently shared some thoughts about why he is participating in the bloggers campaign.

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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. Danielle Brigida shared some wonderful insights about the other half of listening which is having that conversation. "I Ignore or engage?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Provide a way for people to easily share and bookmark your posts by using something like AddThis or Add to Any. Install web analytics tools like SiteMeter , StatCounter and Google Analytics.

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