Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

We know that good practice is to establish SMART objectives for your social media strategy and identify the audience before you executive. Then at the end of the month, allocate a half hour to look at the numbers for the month in comparison to other months – and look for insights and trends. It doesn’t have to be that way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Are you seeing this with donations or perhaps a better ‘Little Bets’ question is what have you learned? 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. Please tell us if you know of one!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

But as any fundraiser worth their salt will tell you – planning is something you need to do, without question. If you start working on something in the year that doesn’t feed into this goal, then you need to question whether it’s worth doing. Creating a fundraising plan may seem daunting. How much time can they devote each week?

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

There are different ways to go about that, though, which begs this question: Should you stick it out alone or weather-the-storm alongside another organization? Understanding your own goals and your nonprofit’s impact will keep you from getting too caught up in the comparison game. How Competition is the Same Between Sectors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors. When the people, formerly known as the audience, get to participate, you always learn something. But expect how you report and measure impact with the social business sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. Generally, she uses Twitter to take the community's temperature and get rapid feedback on questions.

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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. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Using reports to answer some of the typical questions you might get from a board member. It’s no secret that storytelling in the digital age is essential for nonprofits , but the efficacy of stories depends largely on how clearly and strategically they’re communicated to each audience, or persona. Eddie Engager + Emma Event Attendee.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? Take this 6-question quiz to get a customized list of CRM vendors that will best fit your nonprofit based on your budget, size, and functionality needs. But you can use metrics and A/B testing to measure how your emails are performing.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

For nonprofits, it’s essential to have an effective website that engages your audience and drives them to take action, whether that’s donating, volunteering, raising awareness, or other forms of support. You’ll find key metrics under the Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels menu in your GA dashboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Audience Growth (content consumption ???

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

You need to create a social media plan and strategy that uses the right platforms in the right way to make the right Asks to the right audiences. You should only be on the social media platforms where your audiences are hanging out. Having said that, let’s look at some of the most common ones where you can probably find your audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

For US nonprofits, we turn to the the Pew Internet and America Life for studies and audience research about the hyper-connected. I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

And although we had some people tweeting from sessions, to me it seemed like we were missing an opportunity but not having a perhaps more organized approach to having our conference audience help “cover” or document the conference. metric tons – the equivalent to the annual emission of 43 cars. We will definitely do this again.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

Your event software should have a support portal , free resources, and chat or email support to answer any questions. Robust reporting with interactive chats, live polling, and hybrid audience Q&A capabilities. Stand-out features: All-in-one event management dashboard to view essential metrics and centralize team communications.

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