Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Use of editorial calendar. ” This generated useful tips and suggestions on how to manage an editorial calendar and content strategy process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

(Having 300 people and doing a participatory style of teaching gave me an opportunity to use some of my facilitation techniques for large groups that are in my tool set – and because colleagues have asked me to share tips about it, expect that in another blog post next week.). It starts with ideas and brainstorming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. One technique I use to get insights from my social media data is to do an analytics Rorschach Test. What insights have you gained from measuring your content strategy?

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FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Scheduling is also simplified by virtual assistants because they can access your teams’ calendars to propose optimal meeting times and manage appointments. Cybersecurity AI can also help you enhance your cybersecurity measures with advanced techniques for monitoring and predicting behavior patterns to block potential cyberattacks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The session was designed a mix of strategy with a deep dive into content, measurement, Facebook, and Twitter. Practical frameworks and guidelines for effectively developing an integrated content strategy and measurement practice. This session shared techniques and tools for making that process efficient. ” .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Instead he guides you on how to focus on what matters and ignore the rest. He offers both daily techniques that help you reach longer-term goals. This past year of writing the book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” with KD Paine and editor Bill Paarlberg, I got a taste of slowing down.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2015

The first day focused on networks and strategic use of social media along with some practical skills in content creation and measurement. The next exercise introduced participants to the editorial calendar and how to facilitate a brainstorming meeting. I love how the Office in Nicaraqua created a version with emoji.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. I check my insights monthly against my editorial calendar. Here’s how I do it: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Celebratory interactions should be a consistent part of your engagement and content calendar, so set up systems to capture and share alumni personal, social, and professional news. Asking for feedback about how to improve the school experience is also a good technique, as used in the example above is from URJ Camp Kalsman.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Test your messages – use different messages and calls to action, track trends and iterate the most effective techniques. Make a calendar – outline all activities you want to share, plan activity that integrates with overall organization messaging and schedule them in advance (tip: make a calendar).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2011

The book is not only an excellent reference for many Facebook questions, but also provides tactical recommendations for an effective Facebook content, engagement, and measurement strategy. Alison will join the Zoetica Salon today and answer your nitty gritty Facebook questions. .&# I received a review copy from O’Reilly.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 30, 2013

How did your organization measure up? I do know a great research technique that you can do yourself to get some insight: User Interviews. Here are a few highlights that may be helpful: Interviewing is a qualitative research technique that offers a deep dive into the lives of customers. So, what gives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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CauseVox

JUNE 5, 2023

The key is to define clear, measurable objectives that align with your overall fundraising strategy and tailor your content to support those goals. Building Out Your Content Calendar Consistency is the bedrock of successful social media outreach, and a well-planned fundraising calendar is the key to achieving it.

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Bloomerang

MAY 30, 2022

Establishing a baseline rooted in past successes and failures allows you to set measurable, realistic goals. The best goals are SMART goals: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. The first step in making a fundraising plan isn’t thinking about the future — it’s taking stock of your past. Define goals.

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JUNE 13, 2022

M easurable: Specific criteria that measure your progress toward the goal. M = Make sure your goals are easily measured. Think through questions like ‘how much’ and ‘how many’ to make your goal quantifiable, like “acquire 100 new donors this year” which will be pretty easy to measure. Create a grant calendar.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

It’s fun with calendars and countdowns. It’s an acronym that stands for: Smart Measurable Actionable Realistic Time-Bound. A soft launch is a powerful marketing technique that just means sharing your fundraising campaign with some hand-picked supporters before you push it out to your larger networks. Well…sort of.

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 20, 2021

Here at DNL OmniMedia, our nonprofit technology consultants work with organizations every day to refine their data management strategies and update their fundraising techniques. Willingness to give refers to indicators that measure whether a particular supporter has an affinity for your cause and a personal connection to your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. 3: Have a measurement strategy on the front-end, not the back-end. Many nonprofits are not measuring their integrated social media campaigns and often push the task to the backburner. Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Techniques and Tools. I’m a one-person shop and I use an editorial calendar for this blog. Editorial calendars can also be useful beyond tracking and planning for blog posts as this useful post from Michele Linn points outs. Add the ideas of your editorial calendar. Source: Copyblogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Mozilla Week of Service Begins September 14th: Mark your calendars and sign up to offer your geek skills to your local community for a service project this week. It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. How do you measure sucess on Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The next day, I facilitated a workshop on Best Practices for Crowd Funding that blended traditional instruction with innovation lab facilitation techniques. When nonprofits marry tried-and-true fundraising techniques with social media and online networks, they are able to tap into the power of crowd funding. And everyday until….

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

There is also so much information online that it is now measured in exabytes , which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is accelerating the problem. Attention training is technique from Howard Rheingold, author of NetSmart. Image Source: PR Daily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

This post provides some tips and techniques for tech wellness. There is also so much information online that it is now measured in exabytes , which is equal to a quintillion bytes. The creation and sharing of content on social media and social networks is accelerating the problem. Why Working Online Can Be Distracting. Take a guess.

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