Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

On New Year’s Day, I heard a story on NPR about some research on instructional techniques used by many college professors – the lecture and how it is less effective in an age information abundance. But doing that extra work to figure out how to engage your students improves learning outcomes or your results.

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For example: if you know that your average donor gives you ~$70, that some of your donors give $100+, and that a large portion of your donors give at the $25 level, you can make some solid predictions about how your donors will interact with your campaign. Try using these post-donation engagement methods: . Gift range chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Click to see larger version.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2010

If a contest or program does not lead with social outcomes and if big money is thrown on the table, it encourages social innovation of another kind. For context, please see this guest post by Bonin Bough, The Global Director of Social Media for Pepsi, published earlier this month on my blog. Looking for loop holes in the contest rules.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Deborah Finn has invited me to be an instructor for a workshop on using outcome-based measurement for social media integrated strategy as part of a series of workshops on measurement and data in Boston next spring. For example, I incorporate tactical and visual techniques for participants to use to do the exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. To localize Networked Nonprofit concepts to an Arab NGO context, as appropriate, for improved project outcomes. They’ve simplified and focused on what they do best.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The event also included plenary speakers, including a provocative talk about data methods from Alexandra Samuels and cross-track sessions from traditional panels to unconference. The culmination of these two and half very intense days was an Idea Accelerator Lab. Do you have a preferred method? The Session Design and Implementation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

That's just about when I discovered Avinash Kaushik's blog, Occam's Razor and his first book on Web analytics. Through our conversation, we also touched on the metrics for blogs. This try it, fix it approach leads to incremental improvements which in turn leads to better outcomes. I've learned a lot about metrics from Avinash.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2010

During 2010, I been able to read, blurb, write reviews, do blog giveaways, or author guest posts and interviews for a lot of terrific books that would be useful to nonprofit professionals in the social media, marketing, and ICT areas. More about the book here. The book is available on Amazon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Photo by Bradlauster Note from Beth: One of the things I love about blogging is the conversation in the comments because it always leads to understanding, insights, and learning. This blog post is my response. I've been keeping a careful eye out for thoughtful comments that could turn into guest posts. Beth asked me to elaborate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2011

Last week, I was an instructor for NTEN’s Technology Leadership Academy for a session on Nonprofit Technology ROI Methods. I also used composite scenarios based on real-life nonprofits needing to apply ROI techniques to technology purchase decisions. It was delivered in two sessions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

Keeping nonprofit audiences engaged during training can improve your outcomes. There are many creative ways to engage participants at a training - both face-to-face and online. One technique is to incorporate movement – from mini-stretch breaks, to self-assessment exercises to switches in the delivery model.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

It was designed to complement existing technical assistance resources through tip sheets, examples, and links to multiple resources. Data collection may occur from time to time, but there is no formal reporting.There are no data systems in place, such as dashboards or simple collection methods. delivered). What does it look it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2009

I asked if I had permission to blog or tweet general insights? This slide show demonstrates the powerful outcomes that a social network offers and how/why relationships are important. Using visuals to document a network's outcomes - whether photos or videos - is incredibly powerful. It isn't black and white.

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JULY 18, 2018

Bonus: some helpful examples and templates to put this into action now. ). Examples include goals for implementing new fundraising channels or techniques, top prospects you hope to engage, check-in points along your timeline, and any limitations that could keep you from adjusting the plan as necessary to account for challenges that arise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

I've been blogging and tracking conversations about social media measurement and ROI over the last few months. Each case study will showcase a different outcome, metric, and tool and share some words of wisdom. Any specific examples, case studies, or useful resources to share? " I can't believe NTC is two months away.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

This blog is for volunteers, webmasters and administrators of associations, clubs, charities, communities and other groups. This blog is sponsored by Wild Apricot membership software : a set of tools for membership administration , event registration , website management , online fundraising - with friendly and knowledgeable tech support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Our increasing connectedness should be celebrated as an effective method of achieving change, not as the change itself. Similarly, the focus on rape as a weapon of war, Autesserre argues, has caused some armed groups to engage in mass rape as a technique to gain attention and a seat at the negotiating table.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. We are working very closely with V.S. Anupam Shukla and Ms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you're following. For example, a one-way connection on Twitter is someone who follows you, but you don't follow back. BTW, there's an interesting discussion about this on David Armano's blog). The paper discusses network weaving techniques to help evolve a more effective network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. There are no systems in place, no dashboards or simple collection method. They use data visualization techniques to report the data analysis but also to reflect on best practices culled from the data. The graph above is an example.). What is the difference? Start at the top.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

And, there is also a Lean Start Up Conference taking place in December that I will cover on this blog, taking the lens of how to apply to nonprofit work. The ideas and techniques in Lean Start Up movement also work for nonprofits and what some are calling “ Lean Impact.” Kyle Rush, Author and Technology Consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2013

I have an in-depth blog post about that coming up, but I wanted to touch on a theme that came up: “Fail early and often. What are some examples? ” They have a specific method for this: The Rules. For example, you might show a photo of a celebrity or sing a song lyric or reference some other (funny) comp.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

This has both positive and negative outcomes. If participatory exhibit design is going to progress as a design methodology, it has to produce outputs that are demonstrably equivalent to or better than exhibits created by traditional methods. learning to enter open, personal relationships with participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Recently, I presented a high level overview of crowdsourcing , including examples from the lens of funding and doing. And, you can use social media tools such as Twitter, Facebook, Blogs, to support engaging crowds to participate in the activity. 1) Creating collective knowledge or wisdom. 2) Crowd Creation.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Your nonprofit can use a variety of tools and techniques to track donors’ progress through the donor journey, including donor management software , surveys, and analytics. They provide long-term support that enables your nonprofit to make more significant investments and achieve more substantial outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

There is a lot of discussion on the topic on web strategy blogs and from social media strategy gurus like Owyang. There's also a lot of talk in the nonprofit blog space prompted by a recent Netsquared ThinkTank and some great thinking on the topic, particularly by Wendy Harmon of the Red Cross, mostly focused on ROI. What is the trend?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing. I do, however, think that some old fashioned direct marketing techniques might be effective in the social marketing space. 60) Search « MySpace.com: A Place for Donors?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

That said, the longer I work in the online world the more I realize how much of old-school, direct mail techniques are applicable to online marketing. I do, however, think that some old fashioned direct marketing techniques might be effective in the social marketing space. 60) Search « MySpace.com: A Place for Donors?

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

You’re Focusing On The Wrong Outcomes. How about hitting publish on what you thought was an amazing blog post, but instead it turned out to be a dud? For example, someone who visits the statistics page may be more prone to visit our digital marketing plan page over our online fundraising ideas page. Your Content Lacks Direction.

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