Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 10, 2010

years, I have been providing lots of little tips on how nonprofits can increase their ROI through my Twitter , Facebook , YouTube , and MySpace Best Practices, but now that the vast majority of nonprofits utilize social media and have been for awhile, I think most of us are ready some more advanced strategies. Launch a blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Social Media Roi Slidesbk. I’m doing a panel titled “Social Media ROI&# with Lauren Vargas from Radian 6 and moderated by Roz Lemieux from Fission Strategy. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. The Four I’s of ROI.

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sgEngage

APRIL 4, 2024

Instead of assigning a random percentage to your programs, ask your employees to start tracking how they spend their time so that the organization can make more accurate allocations. Analyzing your budget this way also allows you to understand the ROI of each program. Calculating indirect costs can be challenging.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. Check out our blog on overcoming your fear of dirty data. This will help increase membership and revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

E-Metrics: Followers, Friends, and Fans - Expanding Your Online Community View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. tags: blogging nptech ).   So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.     What a combination!  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.  tags: blogging nptech ).    What a combination!

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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. 

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

With these two numbers, you can identify the ROI for each channel. Instead of just asking for information, make sure everyone is aware of why you are applying for a grant, what the budget restraints are, and the process for tracking spend. Tip 1: Review how you are tracking grants and restricted funding.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

A social media content calendar will help you to stay on track by planning ahead what you need to post and when. It’s useful to have your photos and links (to your website, a blog post, a news article etc) ready in a folder or folders so that when you want to schedule new posts, it’s easy to access the content.

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AccelEvents

JULY 28, 2021

Data collection- Any online event allows event marketers and event producers to go above and beyond simple attendance metrics. With the right hybrid event platform , you can track how the virtual participants engaged with the conten t, where they went while on the platform, and their behaviors on the virtual space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. The basics include: benefits, value, metrics, and financial calculations. I think that is dangerous. Improvement in marketing efficiency. Do you agree?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

” When engaging your fans, followers, and friends on social networking sites, on your blog, and in email, it’s amazing what a “Please” and “Thank You” can do. 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities. 6) Say “Please” and “Thank You.”

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Look for virtual auction software with the following features: Item procurement tracking. As you begin the item procurement process, it’s vital that your team maintains an organized list that tracks each item’s status. Being able to accept, process, and track bids in real time is essential for success with any auction.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? No doubt, the listening also provides great content ideas for their blog.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

Better fundraising ROI. This increases ROI, helping you accomplish your goals and get that much closer to achieving your mission. . Journals and blogs. If you’re looking for an opportunity to keep up with the newest trends, you might consider subscribing to various journals or blogs for reading material in the nonprofit sector.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

Blog: hsus.typepad.com. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. In terms of ROI, social media has grown our email file and we’ve raised significant money on social networks. Organization: The Humane Society of the United States. Name: Carie Lewis. Website: HumaneSociety.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. I posted my slides and notes on my blog. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. You must be able to attain ROI.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

But before you can capitalize on the information stored in your CRM or other nonprofit software, you need to know exactly what analytics to track in the first place. Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. There are virtually unlimited metrics you can track— if you can collect the data, you can analyze it.

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EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

This guest post originally appeared on Idealist Careers blog. When I interviewed for a nonprofit position, I translated my experience working on an internal corporate newsletter into my love of blog writing. You need to be able to demonstrate whether the results of your work can be built upon and ROI grown accordingly.

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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

Social Media ROI View more presentations from Deanna Zandt. The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. When I first started thinking about metrics for social media, I wanted to start out reminding our group about some fundamentals of the sphere. Measure THIS!

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NOVEMBER 30, 2021

ROI & Efficiency: Analytics can improve ROI and increase efficiency by helping nonprofits track budgets and expenditures, plan resource allocation , and forecast future revenue. What type of information is tracked outside of your main donor database? Create your metrics: What will success look like to you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Blog: taprootfoundation.org/blog. We use Hootsuite and Sprout Social to manage our accounts and track metrics. Dupe: I love our blog – I has surprisingly become one of the strongest presence on our website. We also have an External Affairs Visita Volunteer who manages our blog space. Jumo: [link].

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TechImpact

JULY 7, 2014

Often citing their ROI is difficult to understand to deliver upon. A CRM helps you track constituent relationships , and communicate with those constituents more effectively. With your expected timeline in mind, make sure you have specific metrics defined for what success looks like.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. Study their websites and blogs. Learn Basic HTML.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Then, assess relevant metrics to see which types of content receive the most engagement. Some common metrics to track are website page views, email click-through rates, and social media engagement. . Most nonprofits have a website that they use for uploading blogs, driving donations, and hosting virtual events.

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Top Nonprofits

JULY 21, 2021

As the sector pushes more and more for higher fundraising return on investment (ROI), these trends of exclusivity according to wealth and background are reinforced. That doesn’t mean that a high ROI is a bad thing, or that these fundraising practices should be retired. Encourage Staff to Get Involved. Watch the Culture Start Shifting.

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Givinga

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Donation Tracking and Impact Reporting. Otherwise, your positive impact can’t be tracked back to profits or business improvement. How Donation Tracking and Impact Reporting Affect Profits. A custom platform will almost always include tracking and reporting tools like the ones described above.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Subscribe to social media and mobile technology blogs. Define metrics of measurement and create a social media ROI spreadsheet. Create an e-mail signature that includes your website, blog, and social networking links. Add e-newsletter subscribe functionality to your blog. 7) Blogging. 1) Website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

Last week, I did my annual Blog ROI benchmarking and I started to noodle around with the question - How can I use AideRSS as a tool to help me evaluate engagement and improve my blog? Aide RSS wrote about measuring social engagement on a blog which that looks at a number of different metrics. " You won???t

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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. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Giving Good Poke.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2010

My points were simple: 1) Measuring Cup : Identify the right results and pick the right metrics to measure it. 2) Egg Timer: Track your time because working on social media can give you ADOLA S (AD - oh look a squirrel!) 4) Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important.

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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.&#. When a nonprofit partners with a company on project that uses social media, what metrics do you use to measure success? Data Analysis.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 19, 2023

With these two numbers, you can identify the ROI for each channel. Are there reports you can schedule that would save you time by communicating key metrics to stakeholders before they ask for that information? Tip 1: Review your leases and make sure they are all accurately identified and tracked in your fund accounting system.

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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. Use a time out timer to help you track time spent and keep on track.

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