Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. I still feel like I haven't totally wrapped my brain around all this. You've done a terrific job in identifying benefits(outcomes) and some metrics - you might want to consider paring them down even further. This is work in progress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 I have a hypertext brain. We know that. Important benchmark in your field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Social media can be filled with metrics to track results. But not all metrics are equally valuable, and choosing the measurements that matter can be complicated. It Isn’t Enough To Tell People About Best Practices: Hands-On, Brains-On. We made people go up and down the stairs three times before settling in after lunch.

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NTEN

MAY 12, 2011

In this example info-graphic from David McCandles, he was inspired by Clay Shirky's claim that the world has an enormous ‘cognitive surplus' - untapped hours that we could be using our brains, but simply are not. He also advises senior executives about technology, trends, investment planning, and execution.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

The point is that in most cases these exceptions are highly beneficial to your organization, but because they do not fit previous trends in behavior, they cannot be predicted or anticipated. Rule #1 in fundraising is to be grateful and gracious when faced with expected or unexpected generosity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

But it is always a good exercise to make your brain think in a different way. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Return on Investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Given my right brained, non-linear and visual way of presenting ideas, I thought it might be helpful to write up a few notes about the above talk. 7 Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be counted counts This is an actual quote from Einstein. I'm not saying that you shouldn't use quantitative metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009, there were more nonprofit focused panels and happily the trend continued at SXSW 2010. We’ll pick the brains of people who live this challenge daily in the nonprofit sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I've been following Marc Sirkin's blog for about a year before I met him at last year's Games for Change Conference where he taught me Brain Age and Mario. (At The click through rate, cost per click , and conversion goal are the best metrics in google AdWords. Marc is the Chief Marketing Officer at the IRC. How to figure that out?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list. Metrics How will you measure the impact and effectiveness of your content? Those six elements come together to create a content strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The most important metric is dollars raised and it is public on our September Campaign site , you can see how much money has been raised against our target and exactly how many fundraising campaigns have been launched. Identify the key metrics that matter for you and remember: the greatest analytics engine of all is the human brain!

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

But I think it’s important for you guys to recognize some of these trends that we all see and just know that you are so not alone in doing these things or hearing this advice because you guys, the amount of time I wasted over 13 years waiting for a warm introduction or sending the wrong cold email. I’m a trained executive coach.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

But I think it’s important for you guys to recognize some of these trends that we all see and just know that you are so not alone in doing these things or hearing this advice because you guys, the amount of time I wasted over 13 years waiting for a warm introduction or sending the wrong cold email. My brain just doesn’t work that way.”

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Adult brains don’t learn new things that easily. Here are the metrics. What do you think folks should do to maybe, you know, mitigate the impact of that besides those, you know, kind of downloading their people’s brains and recording things, you know, before they leave, which I think is really good advice? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2015

She shared that Bob likes to talk about nonprofit data scientists as being dot organisms. Just like your brain, you have nerves everywhere that tell you to take voluntary actions like “raise your arm.” The bottom line is member acquisition – so they know the one metric that matters. Or involuntary actions, like breathing.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Check out this post: Nonprofit Content Marketing – Benchmarks, Budgets and Trends for 2014 and don’t miss the associated Nonprofit content marketing infographic. Three Guesses , Claire Axelrad tries to make sense of the downward trend and offer up some guidance as to how nonprofits can begin responding. Tell stories.

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