Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. Checking in at a place.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Should also note, re.

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APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Tags: Fundraising , Nonprofit Trends , nptech , Online Giving , Social Media , Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).     I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.  E-Metrics: Followers, Friends, and Fans - Expanding Your Online Community View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.   I've done it with a lot of story telling and loads of humor. 

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JANUARY 17, 2024

After all, organizations can raise up to 31% of online revenue in December , as reported by M+R Benchmarks. We used merge tags to include the date of when their last gift was given to help personalize it further,” says Heather Thompson, Chief Development Officer at Norwescap.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Much of the functionality of these new Apps is based on adding buttons that link to your Twitter profile ( the mobile version ), Facebook Page ( the mobile version ), your blog (using RSS) and links such as your website, donate now page, and e-newsletter and text alert subscribe pages. Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2007

photo of Lucy Bernholz live blogging during the Northern California Grantmakers Briefing. NpTech Tag Talk If you couldn't make to the NpTech Conference call this week, there are notes here. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us. " Web 2.0,

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks Report. Tags: Mobile Technology Text Messaging. and to keep supporters informed and engaged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. 8% of donors were “weak ties” or people that I know online only who may read my blog, follow me on Twitter or Facebook. Set A Realistic Goal Based On Benchmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

At SXSW, KD Paine shared some insights: KD Paine was asked a question about metrics for blogs. KD said that she couldn’t answer that because you’d need to have some industry or nonprofit benchmark. Tags: metrics. My initial reaction was - yuke, that's competition. Then I thought about it for a couple of months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Don't live on Twitter, your blog, Facebook, or your email.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

La Teva Alta Anoia : The main objective is to create a new web portal of Alta Anoia, through which an innovative way to serve as a benchmark for tourism promotion as a tool of identity and cohesion of a country and a brand: Alta Anoia. Tags: interview community building gov2.0 copòns.net. as a backdrop. Passes from 2.0 Passes from 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2011

I shared results from the newest eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from NTEN and M+R Strategic Services. Create context for sign-ups – include options for people to stay informed about a topic from a blog post or an action alert by including a sign up form and a source tag (on the back end) for that topic.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 23, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). Earlier this month, Advocacy Online released an eCampaign Benchmarks study looking at the online campaign practices of international organizations. Tags: community buzz NPTech nten members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at. Make a note of ROI benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. This week, I will kick off the Orchestras and Social Media Survey 2009 series on my blog. Tags: Art Sector Arts & Technology. What are the valued metrics?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! There are even a few international reports.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. But the Benchmarks Study is really meant to help you think (or rethink!) Tags: Data Newsletter NPTech NTEN steve peretz Communications. www.mrss.com.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! There are even a few international reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 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. Tags: Conferences womenwhotech. How do you put a monetary value on branding?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

Tag your news with "nten member" or "nptech" to help us find your awesome, or contact Annaliese with your updates.). implementation over on Idealware 's blog. Amy Sample Ward , who is a great resource for nptech across the pond now, gives the heads-up about an event and upcoming e-benchmarks report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

The data would certainly help fine tune nonprofit's strategy using Causes and figure out whether email announcement blasts turn people off or encourage a closer connection. Geez, it might even help us start to look figure out some benchmarks. Tags: facebook. So I asked them on Twitter. At least they are thinking about it.

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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. Tags: Conferences ROI. How do you put a monetary value on branding? Notes and Resources. 8 Principles of ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Establishing metrics for this campaign was difficult in that we didn’t have anything to use as a benchmark. You may remember that last year we ran an online campaign called “ Tag ,” where participants pledged volunteer time and then “tagged” their friends to do the same. What does success look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

One of the metrics that bloggers track is "Authority" or the number of blogs linking to a blog within the last six months. The higher the number, the greater the level of Authority a blog earns. Most bloggers use the Technorati index to benchmark authority ranking. Tags: socialmediametrics. and a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2009

Having benchmarks from other similar organizations in your space is important and valuable. Tags: ROI. Also thinking about the "life time" value of the email address or contact information. If it doesn't exist, reach out to colleagues and share that information. Celebrating with a drink afterwards, Wendy Harman got some good luck !

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Familiarize yourself with blogging lingo.

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MAY 10, 2017

The 2017 M&R Nonprofit Benchmark Study found that for every 1000 email subscribers, organizations can expect to have 39 Instagram followers, and that orgs experienced on average a 101% Instagram follower growth in 2016. Source: Instagram Stories blog post ). Then sit back and enjoy more engagement with your posts and new followers!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Don't live on Twitter, your blog, Facebook, or your email.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

A recent meeting of the donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Group reviewed online and offline giving between 2005 and 2009. His blog Connections uses no artificial sweeteners. Tags: NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Multichannel is Magic. The group was comprised of 14 very large nonprofit organizations.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

Check out the simple calculator below, and if you want more detailed explanation, read the details at the bottom of this blog post, or give us a call. The second calculator shows benchmark values from a recent study so that you can compare the performance of your names with those of other organizations working in the same field.

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2010

As I blogged previously , I've been at South by Southwest Interactive these past few days. Patient comfort and satisfaction is a huge benchmark for health care providers, and it is also often difficult to measure. Find physicians and nurses who are already blogging. For me, one of the most valuable sessions was " E.R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Integrate your blog /web site content via Blog RSS Feed Reader. According to the “ eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ” done by NTEN (shout out to Holly Ross ) email is still the “killer app” that reaches the most people. Tags: facebook guest blogging metrics nptech social media socialnetworking. Stand up 2 Cancer.

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NTEN

MAY 29, 2009

Read more posts on our blog. 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. We renew our call for an app to pipe foreign language blogs through an automagic translation service. Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. states on a topo map. (If Proof that Roombas really work !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Here’s a link to a summary and the recording over at the Care 2 Frogloop blog. Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter. Tags: Networked Nonprofit Networks Strategy Tools and Tactics. Run the impact report to help you identify influencers.

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