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Measuring Social Media Outcomes Is Easier than Measuring Hurricane Strength

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ?

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How to Run Facebook Fundraising Ads: 5 Simple Steps

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. Return on Ad Spend (ROAS) measures ROI.

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19 Proven Fundraising Ideas from Nonprofit Experts

NetWits

npEXPERTS: Fundraising Ideas and Marketing Tips from the Pros (#npEXPERTS) is a a 46-page free e-book collaboratively written by a cross-section of npEXPERTS in fundraising, marketing and communications, social media, mobile technology, digital advertising, and more. If you’re looking for Fundraising Ideas you’ve come to the right place.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? Not just monitoring twitter or tracking who the influential reporters and bloggers are that discuss our programs or issues. The full keynote and presentation are below. How do we move away from slacktivism?

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Top Nonprofit Blogs to Bookmark Today

The Modern Nonprofit

In this blog, you’ll learn about: Social Media Marketing & Measurement, Network Building, Tech Tools for Nonprofits, Company Culture, Donor Engagement, and Data Science. In this blog, you’ll find articles about: Donor Cultivation, Workplace Dynamics, and Relationship Building through Technology. BETH’S BLOG.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take for example deploying 200 sensors throughout the Brazilian rainforest to measure and visualize the effects of climate change. “ Unleashing Technology. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew? This enables us to have impact, scale and sustainability.

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Blogger creates trouble!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course, I'm thinking that just maybe this isn't a fair way to measure the social sector. People came up with a mix of names, but Carl didn't go for many (Habitat and Teach for America he did agree to). After all, small businesses generate a whole bunch of those great jobs created by entrepreneurial energy, and they rarely scale.

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