Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 1, 2012

I humbly suggest bookmarking this page right now. How to Gather and Use Twitter Metrics. Home school your way to a more successful Twitter presence. Here’s a baker's dozen of resources that can help you wow the socks off your colleagues. Twitter in Plain English (YouTube). How to Use Twitter. 20 Tips for Nonprofits Using Twitter.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

While waiting for my plane this morning before dawn, I scanned my Twitter stream thinking that a jolt of caffeine and Twitter would wake me up while I did my morning 20 minute information grazing routine, finding good stuff, retweeting, bookmarking and sharing. And metrics geeks, how should I track this? Leave a comment!

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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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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking? Postrank Analytics. For $9 a month, PostRank will measure how engaging your blog or web content is. Greasemonkey Script.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

A sponsor who provides monetary donations or in-kind donations like services or a venue can be listed on all the marketing materials…banners…bookmarks…t-shirts and so on. Community/Fun Events are great for corporate sponsors , too. Because these events often attract the community at large, the right sponsors are usually happy to participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Classy

AUGUST 13, 2021

There are countless social media metrics to track depending on the platforms you use regularly, and your nonprofit needs to recognize which ones truly matter to gauge and improve your performance. . Two relatively recent social metrics worth monitoring are saves and shares. Download The Nonprofit’s Social Media Content Planner.

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NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

The Source Report breaks down the information summarized on the Dashboard Report, showing whether users are finding your website via Direct links (bookmarks, email and memory), Referral Links (other websites and social networks) or Search Engines (Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc). (Traffic Sources, Overview + additional sub-sections). What is it? -

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

Online mentions and Google alerts are placed into a shared excel spreadsheet, and each team member adds social media metrics to it. Each team member places relevant elder justice and elder abuse articles and online mentions from the web into NYCEAC’s private Delicious bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also doing a session at the NTC in April called " Mapping Metrics To Strategy: Using Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Efforts " with panelists Wendy Harman, Red Cross, Qui Diaz, Livingston Communications , Danielle Brigida, NWF, and Susan Granger, PDF. Listening skills and tools upgraded. What works used for future campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is? Check out a great video by Common Craft : Social Bookmarking in Plain English. Check out How to Use RSS in Sphere. Not sure what RSS is? 3) Make Your Content Easy to Share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Pinterest and Flipboard are for bookmarking and content sharing. Don’t put too much stock into vanity metrics, such as number of followers, page growth statistics, or number of impressions. Instead, try to tie social media engagement metrics to your larger goals. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media.

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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 top ranked content was on strategy including metrics, adoption, and overall strategy.

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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 takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Using Metrics for Continuous Learning.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Discussion about other services to transfer social bookmarks to sparked up immediately, and users petitioned Yahoo not to sunset the service. In my own experience, many of the useful metrics that were typically included in Postrank reporting emails simply stopped appearing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. Social Bookmarking. A terrific step-by-step guide guide called Social Bookmarking with del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. It’s not possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Update your bookmarks: [link]. Hot debates follows in another post on charity evaluation and metrics over at Tactical Philanthropy blog suggested that we forget on a metric to measure "Total Good Accomplished" and focus on real measures. This queen of typos enjoyed that post quite a bit! It's moved.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2018

Good healthcare-related options might include first-aid kits, bookmarks including first-aid information, or a portable magnifying glasses (for older donors). . Here’s what these “value-added premiums” will do: . Key metrics to explore: . Conversion rate to second gift (after a follow-up solicitation is left).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story. Social bookmarking in plain English! The "Failure is an option" particularly caught my eye.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Receive monthly updates 3 Comments | by Share Article in Marketing Research , Online Advocacy , Online Fundraising , Online Marketing , Social Networking , Trends Reader Comments (3) Im not sure about the usefulness of metrics like number of friends or number of comments. The social bookmarking sites offer this. At least not yet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The return on investment was practically nil and it was a great feeling to remove it from my bookmarks, take it off my list, and just let it go. If you have given a social network a good effort and two years of your time and the basic metric of referral traffic is very low, then it’s time to move on.

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. A common metric for reporting on the number of people who viewed a piece of content and proceeded to click on an ad or link. a metric that defines whether a marketing campaign has succeeded or failed. What you’re looking for, you’ll find here! . Click-through rate (CTR) .

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It’s different from direct traffic, where people directly type in or bookmark a website URL to access it. Analyzing Your Website’s Organic Traffic To understand how people are finding and engaging with your nonprofit website, you need to set up analytics and regularly monitor performance metrics.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Receive monthly updates 3 Comments | by Share Article in Marketing Research , Online Advocacy , Online Fundraising , Online Marketing , Social Networking , Trends Reader Comments (3) Im not sure about the usefulness of metrics like number of friends or number of comments. The social bookmarking sites offer this. At least not yet.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We need to know what metrics we need to be tracking. Sample metrics. I personally love using bookmark-type magnet postcard-type, I guess, handouts or alternative needs lists. Hopefully, that helps a little bit. And the only way to do that is to create SMART goals, or we might call them SMART goals, objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

What metrics? In terms of metrics, I like to look at measures of activity that involve more engagement than simply viewing a page or joining a group; the ones that get me all hot and bothered are when people participate in a discussion or upload a video or comment on a story. Stop: Hammer-Time! StumbleUpon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

which provides a browser bookmark tool that allows you to add geolocation machine tags to any of your flickr photos, which in turn will show up on this map : Upping the Tagging Ante to StoryMapping. metric tons – the equivalent to the annual emission of 43 cars. Another related tool we found is lo.calize.us

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Bookmarked. These companies like Bloomerang, they are listening to your feedback, and they are making modifications to make your life easier, simple, and to boost your bottom line fundraising results, retention results, all the key metrics. And I believe in the Bloomerang manual we put together I did use those standards.

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