NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

This technique is ideal for those faced with such a task for the first time and not knowing where to start and how to set goals. For example, if you are looking for volunteers or young assistants, then you can use Instagram. For example, Instagram requires a visual trigger, while Twitter implies short but informative text messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

On June 25, 2009, I announced on my blog that I was five days away from a cross-country move and knew it would disrupt my routine, including my blogging routine. I didn't want the stress of writing posts or the stress of having a blog go dark and disappoint loyal readers. I've even lived blogged my vacations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI. My presentation use s*x metaphors to explain some of the points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

The skill, of course, is hosting a Giving Day and we are now looking at processes, techniques, and ideas for follow up and assessment. My colleague, blogger Michele Martin has this well-researched deck with many more examples of methods for doing a process evaluation and reflective practice.

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AccelEvents

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

If you’re an event planner and need to market your event, you might want to take advantage of some free marketing techniques that can really help promote your event. . Consider ‘free’ ways of promoting your event through content marketing , like writing a blog post, going on a podcast, or self-promotion on social media.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among the many techniques Briceño teaches, the book also offers four tips for helping your team continuously advance their skills, even when it feels like there’s no time to problem solve: Why most managers often misuse praise—and what you should do instead to help your team improve. a focus on what you have mastered to "we don’t know."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Let’s look at some practical examples for engaging and connecting with your Alumni Network on social media channels. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Celebrate the Accomplishments of Individuals in Your Alumni Network. Sharing memories from Seminar 2013 at the #icnola reunion!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Once you have defined your organization’s ladder, then you start to identify key metrics that will tell you whether or not someone has moved up the ladder. What I’m really enjoying is reading the blog posts that nonprofit tech colleagues have shared their thinking about the ladder of engagement and how to measure along it.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 19, 2021

For example, an online academic event might have a scholastic virtual booth exhibit where scholars could attend and connect with book publishers to get discounts on newly released books or connect with sales representatives to publish an upcoming text. Luckily, there are techniques to increase virtual exhibitor booth visits !

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

For nearly a decade, Google has been developing and maintaining two different analytics solutions: Firebase, mostly used by developers to focus on app development and analytics, and UA, mostly used by marketers for website metrics. In contrast, the event model records the actions people take, for example clicking or scrolling.

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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. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Twitter Demographics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

If you lack graphic design skills, you should sketch out your insights and main ideas. Here’s one of the best guides on the topic, chocked full of tips, examples,and how tos. Nonprofit Infographics Pinterest Board : a collection of examples of infographics used by nonprofits for different purposes. Source: Comical Concept.

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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. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

(Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). What tools, techniques, or work flows work for you?

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Social Media San Antonio Content Strategy 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

Some points and examples we shared in response to questions: Fundraisers need to be experts in transmedia storytelling techniques and exploring new possibilities for sharing stories. Transmedia storytelling it is the technique of telling a story across multiple online platforms and formats using current digital technologies.

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Learning Donor Online Fundraising 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

One of the successes was how most participants are learning to balance the strategic with the spontaneous of social media as described in this blog post. Use of counting metrics. Support national partner Facebook chats, blog carnivals, and other networked advocacy activities. Increase reach on social media channels.

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Network Build Learning Strategy 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Over two years ago, I made a screencast about Web Analytics for Nonprofits that covered the basics of using google analytics, web metrics, and some nonprofit case studies featuring Laura White and the Idealist. That's just about when I discovered Avinash Kaushik's blog, Occam's Razor and his first book on Web analytics.

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Analytics Web Screencast Metrics 94

Givinga

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Below are the major pieces of functionality and customization techniques businesses should look for to increase profits. For example, some of the most powerful CR incentive programs are paid volunteering and student loan forgiveness. 3 Capabilities Corporate Responsibility Software Needs to Increase Profits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

This post summarizes some findings from a recent research report about increasing engagement on Facebook and a couple of conversations about applying the research over on my blog Facebook page. Jo Johnson over at the London Symphony is a master of this technique. Here’s the checklist. Repeat the Proven Stuff.

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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. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Also, check out Lucy’s Digital Civil Society wiki for examples of open data used for the social good. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. SSIR Blog, January 2013. The group identified a few organizations that are using it well, but would it great to have a deeper field understanding of where we are with this technique.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I view it as a focus group that offers content ideas for blog posts as well as to provide another conversation channel to share insights about social media. and some are free) that can more easily gather up metrics into a spreadsheet than the insights tool, but you do have to talk with a sales person first. What does that mean?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

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. Measure all fundraising metrics. Gift range chart. Segment donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

I'm not sure that I have formally announced that Allison Fine and I are working on a book (here's her blog post ). We've been working on what started out as the a chapter on Metrics and ROI. We did a riff on KD Paine SobCon ROI of Relationships in Social Media that I covered on my blog earlier this month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

This is a quick roundup of some of the wonderful reviews, blog posts, photos, and videos of The Networked Nonprofit. For example, check out her “ 50 Young Nonprofit Leaders To Follow on Twitter &# list. I loved this post from Devon Smith analyzing the metrics and reaping insights from her post on The Networked nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Cognitive load management: ability to discriminate and filter information for importance, and to understand how to maximize cognitive functioning using a variety of tools and techniques. My result metric is the number of good ideas and saved time getting those ideas that I get for blog posts, curriculum development, and presentations.

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Skills Facebook Literacy Metrics 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2012

Social fundraising is when your nonprofit integrates tried and true fundraising techniques with social media to inspire your supporters to raise money from their networks on your behalf. How To Marry Social Media with Fundraising. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Community Giving Fundraising Contest 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 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. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

This blog post is a roundup of the face-to-face we had last week in Houston to share some of the amazing lessons learned and some reflections. She finds tweeting much easier than blogging and admits that she isn’t afraid to experiment. Learning and Metrics. Ashley is definitely a curator of metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. I used David Hood as an example. Take for example the SFSPCA Facebook Page, a stellar example of engaging fans that David discovered for me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

It is the synthesis, sense-making, and sharing of the abundance of stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom that is happening in real time in the form of e-books or blog posts. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution.

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Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 101

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 20, 2016

These are techniques even smaller organizations can implement every day to improve their marketing efforts, see more impressive results, and gain even more loyalty from their communities. It's also shockingly economical and far more effective than traditional marketing techniques. Use metrics, and when you can't, stay rigorous.

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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. One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following.

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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. 1. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

As someone who loves to play with analytics, visuals, maps, and other geekery, I've been wanting to explore in more depth the how-to and the techniques. To take my learning deeper on social network analysis and mapping techniques and how they can be applied them to a social media strategy, I took a workshop with Marc Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Example of A/B Testing Results. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. 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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

Here’s the different formats and some pointers on when and how to use them for reporting on your social media metrics and data. In the example above, the bars are measuring the unique number of monthly web visitors from source. I’ve created two different examples below with some notes about how to maximize each.

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