Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

I actually got a chance to meet Ben face-to-face at a recent Berkman Center Thursday Bloggers meetup. It's about why a blog behind the firewall makes sense -- part ROI business case, part introductory training. Ben and I also follow each other on Twitter (he's @minorjive ) and that's where I heard him mention this presentation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

WHY THIS CAMPAIGN People were buzzing about the issue online and obviously outraged by their comments. We could tell by all the comments and images floating around. to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? t or werent able to participate by creating a video a way to be engaged ???

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AUGUST 23, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. He's a regular blogger on the Lithosphere's Building Community blog and previously wrote in the Analytic Science blog. 'What

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

I’ll be presenting on a panel “Social Media ROI&# with Lauren Vargas from Radian 6, with Cheryl Contee as the moderator on Sept. Social Media ROI. If you’d like a chance at winning those, leave a comment below on why you want to attend. Here’s the list of panels. I’ll pick two winners at random.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 received 93,000 visits and as traffic grows consistently from month to month so does my ROI. Still, understand that the more good, high-quality content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. Share and Comment on Breaking News. Nonprofit Tech 2.0

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JULY 9, 2019

Other aspects such as shared values or responding to supportive comments in a personal way are also essential in provoking people to take action towards your course. The ROI of email marketing is 4 times higher than other marketing strategies such as social media or paid adverts. Donor engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Giving Good Poke.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2009

I tend to lose more followers, fans and friends on weekends than during the week, and my stats show that there is very little ROI [Return on Investment] in terms of traffic, e-mail newsletter and mobile subscribers, event sign ups, etc. The good news is that I have found using Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, etc. from working on the weekends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

She and I have have linked to each other’s blog posts and commented on each others posts over the past three years. When it was time for 09/09/09, I didn’t have to scramble to find RTers or bloggers; they were there. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file. 4. Widgets work. 11. Major in media.

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DECEMBER 4, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2007

In the presentation for this session, Doug Haslam used a screencapture of this blog post as an example of how a pr person can leave a comment to pitch a story on their client's behalf. (He this is an interesting way to pitch a story -- use of a screencapture from a blogger who is sitting in the audience and pitch them in front of the group.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. Now say that five times fast!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

At it’s heyday, a few hours a day sending friend requests and posting wall comments on MySpace profiles quickly resulted in large, thriving online communities. For the last two years we’ve been bombarded with articles from bloggers and the mainstream media that MySpace is dead. MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool.

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JANUARY 21, 2008

Beth Kanter , friend and blogger, is raising money for the Sharing Foundation, which supports kids in Cambodia. Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment Beth Kanter Michael, Thank you!! Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! Very much appreciate your help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

Today I got a comment on an older post, my interview with Carie Lewis about using social networking sites for campaigns. Last night when I was madly screencasting after midnight for Cambodian Bloggers Workshop, " Five Steps To Khmer 2.0 ," Nancy White pinged me about remixing the social media game.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. The best comment I got was from a long-time reader John Powers on Facebook that reading the posts was like watching me open presents at a birthday party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Return on Investment, Return on Reflection: I will integrate my work on social media ROI with general nonprofit technology ROI More about this theme is below because it will be a major focus area for me this year. Please leave a comment if you're one of the bloggers I should be reading and pointing to) .

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MAY 22, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Right after Thanksgiving, TechCrunch published a guest post called " The Secret Strategies Behind Many Viral Videos " which unleashed a record 491 comments because it described some unethical practices. There was also a follow up post here.

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DECEMBER 6, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Chris's key point is: A few good metrics in the context of social media goals and strategy are valuable to determine the ROI and continuous improvement of your social media plan. ROI and Continuous Improvement both Lead To Actions. The ROI on the other hand is about revenue - did your effort yield results? measures of success???

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MARCH 27, 2008

You must be a credible member of the community sharing useful information and thoughtful comments before anyone will respond to your asks. The first was about ROI. ROI” as the title of a session. Beth pointed out a great study on blogging ROI from Forrester. Most importantly, participate with authenticity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

is coming " Bloggers go to the SF Symphony! Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI. FrogLoop has a ROI calculator for social networking sites in a campaign. Good discussion in the comments too. Some New (to me) NpTech Bloggers - Welcome! AFP Blog picks up on some Web2.0 What language is this?

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APRIL 22, 2009

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NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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!" In most cases, you should allow for reader comments. Issues Dynamic, Inc. to 5:00 p.m.

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MARCH 27, 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!" Reader Comments (2) Great post Ali. I especially connect with #4.

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JULY 15, 2008

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FEBRUARY 7, 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!" This article was written by Grace Yi, Frogloop blogger.

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APRIL 14, 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!" This article was written by Jen Nedeau, Project Manager at New Media Strategies and blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

I'm republishing here because I think several of the principles for evaluation that Gale outlines are very important to approaching how you pilot, monitor, and improve your social media strategy over time so it has impact or ROI. Guest blogger Gale Berkowitz directs evaluation at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

We could all learn from what he's doing and I'm hoping he will provide additional comments/posts about the effort (Bob - do you have a personal blog? If not, please comment here). In the comments section, Bob answers her post. Lisa is curious and raises some excellent questions: Go Bob for blazing a trail!

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JANUARY 30, 2008

I was turned on to this blog by a friend and then given it to review as part of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange , which introduces nonprofit bloggers (like me) to other nonprofit bloggers through our work. Share and Enjoy: 3 Comments comment Shai Gluskin Wow, that Beery piece was long. Is Facebook and MySpace a trend?

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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FEBRUARY 17, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

Some bloggers will also repost dig stories as well. Slide 14: Stumbleupon allows people to thumb up your site and write comments, therefore your ROI can come in forms of thumbs and comments. our blog wasn't used to this. Slide 11: This chart further explains digg's impact.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

It was like an intellectual candy story so many topics of interest such as Beth Kolko - Emerging Markets, Troy Malone - The GTD Timebomb, and Monica Guzman - How to be a Great News Commenter. The topics covered: citizen journalist debate (bloggers versus journalist), the echo chamber, ROI of blogging, trolls, a-list , and civility.

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