Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

I watched live stream on Facebook and the real time snarky reactions coming across Google +. The screen capture also illustrates the lack of filtering in your stream when something really funny or important is shared, prompting, more than one person to request, “Please don’t stream pollute.&#. Analysis here.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

According to the 2015 Nonprofit Benchmark Study , online revenue for nonprofits grew by 19% in 2015, a seven percent increase over the previous year. It is your home base for online traffic, which, as we know from the Benchmark Study, is on the rise. In particular, monthly giving grew faster than one-time giving in 2015.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The Pew surveys point out these benchmarks: • Nearly 20 million of the 225 million Twitter users follow 60 or more Twitter accounts and nearly 2 million follow more than 500 accounts. People are using social and Internet platforms – many of which have immense amounts of unstructured and often shallow information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling. In terms of Facebook Ads cost benchmarks, here is a useful summary from Web FX based on $300 million in spending: 4) Add a “Donate” button to your page and posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

All the great features of Facebook are available - writing on the Wall, uploading photos, and joining discussion groups. Add applications to your Page and engage your users with videos ( YouTube Box ), photos ( Flickr Box ) reviews, flash content, and more. Flickr photo credit: metaweb20 by CC Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Photo by Ben Golub. Google’s 10 100 Project not only extended the contest timeline significantly — adding an entire year — but also changed the program mid stream after receiving over 100,000 submissions. Just as there are best practices and benchmarks for marketing online, via email, direct mail etc.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

They’re still leading up to their live stream event , but they’ve already raised nearly $113,000 of their $70,000 goal. Think of creating an embeddable photo gallery or a place to add videos, all of which can be easily viewed and shared. One great photo with a small amount of copy can say a lot. The photo helps, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

industry benchmarks. Fail formally - protesting Wendy’s with a photo sharing with a protest sign but only got a few people doing it, heard so much about how hard it was for people to participate, etc. but didn’t stop doing photo contests; instead they adapted. this time they got 3,000 photos and 2,500 email address.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

And if you can't join in person, you can participate in the Online NTC , with live-streaming sessions, keynotes, and more. Using content curation, social media management, and free tools available online, any organization can create collections and share their story through video, photos, and social media. Claire Sale.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. Photo by RedRaspus. Photo by Buddhassit Weaving: This goal is more conceptual and may not make sense to anyone but me. I will look at benchmarking processes and analyzing benefits and values. It's based on a blogging benchmarking process that I've been using for several years.

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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. Photo in flickr from Community Technology Foundation. They are using RSS to stream content, including resources tagged with NpTech tag in del.icio.us.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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) LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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) LinkedIn, Facebook, MySpace).

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Kindful

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

Growing your monthly giving program in particular fosters a reliable revenue stream that can carry your organization through challenging times. According to the M+R Benchmarks study , monthly giving increased by 24% in 2021 and accounted for 22% of all online revenue. What we think they did well. Source: charity: water.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

By building a base of small donors, you will create a revenue stream that is way way way more resilient than one built on a few big donors. You’re not only tapping into a new revenue stream, but you’re also building relationships with movers and shakers in your community who can introduce you to other philanthropists in their networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The Playbook can aid with planning for the financial side by helping to set goals based on benchmarks developed by similarly sized nonprofits. Before the actual Giving Day, social media can help build a steady stream of support, remind people of what’s coming and how it ties to your work.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 21, 2020

Creating an online item catalog with your auction items, photos, descriptions, starting bids, and/or buy-it-now options. This will help you pinpoint and benchmark your current retention rates by fundraising stream, and average donation information. What’s the average gift amount for your campaigns compared to events?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks. Simply repeat it.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

We’ll talk about shiny new tools, and we’ll talk about all the fun things, and there’s going to be mentions of TikTok, and Twitch, and live streaming. Live stream fundraising. And it’s the most popular live streaming platform in the world where 15 million users tune in to watch an average of 1.5

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