Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

Last summer, we pulled together data from some of the country’s leading nonprofits to bring you the 2011 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report, laying out basic benchmarks for nonprofit pages on Facebook. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

A few months ago, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. The group included a mix of Google grantees as well as measurement professionals. Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact. Europe and Latin America. Report Out.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. Having shared and discussed this year’s Benchmarks Report with many of our partners, here’s twelve key trends that have resonated strongly within the EveryAction community. This is where EveryAction comes in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing. Measuring Work.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

By continuing to carefully communicate with their communities, they gain audience insights and trust built on empathy and an understanding of shifting needs. Benchmarking, forecasting, and determining how your organization fares with its supporters is difficult when there is a data gap. Strategy is vital.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

How will you measure the success of your paid advertising campaign? Set Your Paid Advertising Budgets When it comes to running a successful campaign, ensuring you have the right budget in place can help you get a strong return on your investment, reach your audience the right way, and achieve your goals.

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

In a couple of weeks, the 2013 Blackbaud Online Marketing Benchmark Study will be released (previously the Convio Online Marketing Benchmark Study ). The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. However, the benchmark study is a tool, and like any tool, it depends on how it’s used.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

This will help you measure whether or not your campaign has been a success and will give you a benchmark for the year following if it’s your first time getting involved. They set out to raise £750 for a new machine to measure oxygen levels in babies’ blood, but significantly exceed their original target. Know Your Audience.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Your goals could be to increase the number of donors acquired, see an improvement in your return on investment, see increased net revenue, or grow your acquisition audience. To show you how you can make acquisition goal setting a breeze, I’ll focus on three things: timing, defining, and measuring. . Timing: Set your goals early.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

The Children’s Hospital Colorado Foundation came to us with the goal of rethinking its digital ecosystem from the ground up and optimizing how they attract, engage, and grow their target audiences, including donors and supporters. The post Healthcare Ad Awards Winners Announced appeared first on Forum One.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 11, 2016

In fact, according to the annual Benchmarks report from NTEN and M+R , email fundraising revenue alone increased by a whopping 25% last year, outpacing the overall growth of other online revenue sources. Normally, fundraising teams use open rates, clicks, and conversion metrics to measure the success of email campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. It isn’t hard to see why we forget about one of the best ever social media measurement tools: surveys! Learning team. Conservators.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Your goals should be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. However, if your goal is SMART—specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound—you’ll have a clear benchmark to work toward and measure progress. Set goals for your volunteer program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

The following excerpt from it offers a brief look at how to clearly define the goals you hope to pursue through social media, and the specific audiences you’re trying to reach with them. Defining Social Media Goals and Audiences. Measurable : You should be able to quantify goals with a numeric benchmark.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Step 1: Define the audience you’re targeting. In the realm of our planned giving example, let’s say the organization has decided that their audience will be older prospects with a strong philanthropic history and displayed interest in their cause. Step 2: Identify and analyze prospects that fit your audience.

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NetWits

JUNE 19, 2012

A 2011 Gleanster survey found the most important value drivers for top corporate email programs were: Testing and measuring everything. Using different messaging for different audiences. Nonprofits are, unfortunately, often handcuffed by limited staff, budget and/or time. So what can nonprofits learn from the for profit world?

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CauseVox

APRIL 22, 2022

They’re also great if your org wants to reach new audiences and build deeper connections with existing supporters. For the Jane-A-Thon, Invest in Kids had benchmark prizes for fundraisers who hit their minimum fundraising goal. When it comes to peer-to-peer events specifically, Krista is all about incentives and prizes.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Your foundation’s website is the entry point for the majority of your audiences, and so ensuring that all parts of your digital strategy and digital ecosystem are connected to it is of utmost importance. Today’s best digital experiences are not one-size-fits-all solutions; they are customized experiences for your key target audiences.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 23, 2011

New Report: 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study | NTEN – "A high unsubscribe rate is bad, right? Not necessarily, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study, just released at the 2011 NTC by M+R and NTEN. Today, on every measure of growth and engagement, Twitter is growing at a record pace. .&#

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

We opened with a short audience survey about nonprofit data management. QUESTION: NTEN just held an online fundraising benchmark webinar, where they talked about email open rates being low, and organizations raising something like $17 for every 1000 emails sent. DEBBIE: From our experience, industry benchmarking can be tricky.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Carie Lewis mentioned the Humane Society’s KPIs – which is why they do and how they measure this sustained engagement. I asked her how do you measure relationships? The problem is that most people are already doing something before they decide to measure. Do you measure along the ladder of engagement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I introduced several methods for using measurement for transformative results, including the Maturity of Practice Model (CWRF) and how to use it as an assessment tool, principles of being data-informed , and how to apply KD Paine’s 7 Simple Steps of Measurement. What are your measurable objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

With the digital communications landscape evolving at light speed we wanted to track challenges, leadership attitudes, measurement strategies and 2014 investment plans. The survey is currently in the field but initial responses show broad adoption and rising confidence and sophisticated use of online and social tools. Management attitudes.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Share your organization’s mission, who you serve, the influence your organization has on its audience(s), and the role it plays in the larger conversation around your issue area. Which (if any) niche markets, audiences, services does our organization satisfy? allows it to stand out in the larger conversation in our issue area?

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BoardAssist

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Interactions like shares, comments, retweets, and favorites tell you that your messages are resonating with your nonprofit’s fans and followers that measurably fill the top of your in-bound marketing funnel. This is one of the more interesting graphs from HubSpot’s 2015 benchmarks report. If there room for improvement?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. Notes and Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. Thank you again for being such a great audience. Combine all this knowledge with your free copy of the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook study , and you’ll be rocking your organization’s Facebook page in no time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. The number of donations so far is smaller than the study you mention (1 in 5 of the pin volume). We predicted it might be smaller as the campaign is disruptive to the usual pinterest pattern.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 6, 2018

July 1 represents a new fiscal year for many nonprofits, a time to review programs and previous goals to be sure they’re aligned with the mission and to establish new benchmarks. These are measured in weeks or months and support the long-term goals. These are measured in years and originate in the mission statement.

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Forum One

MAY 13, 2021

Many organizations are trying to consolidate the set of technology they use to ensure they can deliver quality service to their internal and external audiences. You can’t improve what’s not being measured! You can get a free Insights Report from Siteimprove for a personalized look at the performance of your website.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. Your marketing plan allows you to connect with a wider audience and inform them of involvement opportunities. These indicators measure the prospect’s propensity to give to your organization. Offers accountability.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

These two audiences are connected to your nonprofit very differently and therefore should receive different appeals that match their level of engagement. Measure The Results There are myriad amounts of ways your nonprofit can measure the success of your online fundraising campaigns.

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Socialbrite

OCTOBER 31, 2021

So it’s no surprise that video marketing has become an efficient way to reach your target audience, whether you run campaigns for a nonprofit, cause organization or social enterprise. So, how do you measure your video marketing efforts? Measuring your video marketing. Measuring the engagement of your videos.

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