Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

See3, YouTube and Edelman have released a new report and guide for nonprofits about using video. The report, “I nto Focus: Benchmarks for Video and A Guide for Creators ,” is based on a survey of 500 nonprofits and interviews with experts (including me). Free webinars are being offered to share the report.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 25, 2021

But, here’s something you might not know: Nimble AMS is part of a connected network of solutions for associations from Community Brands. Some recent reports from Community Brands studies include: Association Trends 2020 Study: How a Global Crisis Has Shifted Member Expectations. Download now. Visibility. Request a demo.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 3, 2023

Make the most of board members and their networks. 1,000 – $4,999) Recognition in annual report or website Invitation to exclusive events Subscription to a donor impact newsletter Silver level (e.g., Make the most of board members and their networks. Establish specific major giving levels and benefits.

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

As you may have heard, we released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Benchmarking Report at the NTC last week. The study, done in association with Common Knowledge and Blackbaud, has a lot of great insights into how the nonprofit respondents use social networks. > Free for everyone! How many followers do nonprofits have on Twitter?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

The first “Donate Now” button was released in 1999 by a project of the Tides Foundation called Groundspring (acquired by Network for Good in 2005) and for the next two decades, nonprofit professionals have embraced the study of inspiring people to give online to good causes. Related Webinar: Online Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Donor Management: All donation platforms should provide reports and real-time tracking information for every gift, including recurring donations. Impact reporting derived from this data also allows you to show donors how their contributions make a difference over time.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

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. These goals are specific and have a clear timeline for completion, giving the nonprofit team a clear and attainable benchmark to strive for. Define your volunteer roles.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

According to tracking for 20,000 top podcasts, the listeners have tripled in monthly podcast listeners over the past 5 years to 75 million (RawVoice). Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

For the past few years whenever I doing a training or speak about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit , someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.&#. This works best if you have small network. It shows nodes on your network.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Peer-to-peer fundraising refers to the overarching premise of encouraging a supporter to approach their network to fundraise for and increase awareness of a nonprofit or individual’s mission irrespective of how the ask takes place. Can Facebook fundraising and Peer-to-Peer Platforms work together? .

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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. It appears to be an even greater hurdle to adoption than expertise (only 50% reported lack of expertise as a problem) or budget (reported at 52%).

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Depending on the solution, features may include: Reporting automation. Rather than tasking a team member with manually pulling daily, weekly, or monthly reports, your CRM will generate these documents and send them directly to the team members who need to access and analyze them. Donor management. Internal operations management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What is Earned Media? Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. In the nonprofit sector, there is no universal review mechanism to benchmark against, but Great Nonprofits is beginning to fill those shoes.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

Running periodic fundraising reports. The same is true for volunteers, whose social networks could potentially provide some serious peer-to-peer fundraising boosts to your campaign. Where are the milestones in our history that best display our track record of success and/or history of serving our community? Internal + Board.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. dang, this is a great topic, this is so timely as people are, you know, perhaps getting annual reports together. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting?

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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. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking.

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What do Convios latest benchmarks mean for your nonprofits online program?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2018

As reflected in the recently released Charitable Giving Report Spotlight: How Fundraising Performed in the Higher Education Sector in 2017 , donors have responded to the calls for support in a resounding way. Successful universities realize that #GivingTuesday is a catalyst to build other social networking and peer-to-peer areas.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Check out the full study here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

While it’s impossible to track these donations unless you poll your online donors, the more your nonprofit utilizes social media to build your online brand and your e-newsletter list, the more likely potential online donors are to discover your nonprofit—and your nonprofit’s “Donate Now” landing page. It’s true that Web 2.0

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2008

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2013

BTW, you should check out the Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report , which historically shows that the majority of nonprofits have not raised a dime on Facebook. Many nonprofits dedicate considerable resources to track supporter’s multi channel donations and activities.

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NTEN

APRIL 11, 2011

At the Nonprofit Technology Conference last month, I got the chance to sit in on the session about the 2011 Social Networking Benchmark Report. Some of the ways that Social CRM can help untangle the mess: Record and track social media interactions alongside email and member service interactions. Things got unpredictable.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 12, 2014

Great news from a new study by M+R and the Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN): Online giving is bigger than ever. The comprehensive study tracked 53 nonprofits, including UNICEF, Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, AARP, Feeding America and the Human Rights Campaign. Download the full 2014 M+R Benchmarks Study. More than 5.5

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2009

" I loved Marnie Webb 's thoughtful and personal take on why Twitter is different than other online social networks and why you should go for a dip, titled " A Skeptic's Guide to Twitter." " Convio released a report ranking the highest online-donating cities in 2008 and 2009 year-to-date.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2016

I’m excited to present 2 sessions, work the expo, network and expand my knowledge about our amazing industry (it’s the best isn’t it?). If you’re not tracking people’s interactions and behaviors on your website, then your relationship is incomplete. Don’t forget to stop by the expo for a networking happy hour from 4:30 – 6:00 pm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

It is also serving as a focus group, producing deep insights and stories for my next book on social media measurement, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , that I’m co-authoring with goddess of measurement, KD Paine. The chart above is a small example of how GRIST tracked its results on a campaign against staff investment.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

Those are some of the statistics on the new report from agency M+R, with operations in Washington, D.C., The agency collected responses from fundraisers at 216 nonprofits for its Benchmarks report. About half of 225 M+R Benchmarks participants reported working with social media influencers during 2023.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2007

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Perhaps you want to recruit more volunteers, get people to take a particular action or read a particular report, or to build your relationship with current supporters to make it more likely that they’ll continue to volunteer or attend events down the road. Keep in mind that along with clear goals, you also need benchmarks for success.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Nonprofits need to find a way to capture this information, to build a bridge from its commercial social network to something it owns to ensure against data loss. According to the 2011 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report , nine out of 10 nonprofits have a standard Facebook page.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

Many peer-to-peer fundraising solutions offer a way for the development team to track the usage of online tools by their participants. If the reporting reveals these tools are being underutilized, then it may be advantageous to reconsider how your organization is currently messaging these online tools. Sending emails?

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