Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. Simply Measured. Sprout Social.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Social media is an indispensable tool for raising awareness for your nonprofit’s cause, reaching new audiences, and strengthening your relationships with donors. However, your nonprofit isn’t the only one that understands just how valuable social media can be for your fundraising efforts. After all, with 4.9

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

1) Multi-Channel Strategy Employing a multi-channel strategy helps nonprofits reach a wider audience with their year-end campaign. Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors.

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TechImpact

JUNE 5, 2014

Few things have so dramatically altered our lives the way social media has. Defining an entire generation of Americans, and altering the way nonprofits and corporations view marketing, social media’s role in contemporary society and is only going to continue expanding. 37% said they could accurately measure R.O.I.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. billion people were using social media worldwide in 2021, and that number is only expected to increase over time. Here are a few steps to help you get started on your social media journey!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 21, 2022

It lets donors determine for themselves that their donation, involvement, and passion moved the needle and made a measurable contribution to the world. 2) Give social media shoutouts. That’s why supplementing online fundraisers with follow-ups that show the impact of donations is so powerful. 3) Give something real.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

Podcasting is a unique channel in a world where it is becoming harder and harder to keep someone’s attention. If you are going to pour the amount of work necessary into creating a podcast, you will want to measure its success — but how? Ways to measure a podcast's success! Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

One of the themes that bubbled up was the role of ambient data from social media channels and I agreed to lead a discussion on: How useful is this data for foundations? The professional tools for monitoring and analyzing social media data can be expensive and pose a steep learning curve.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Top of funnel outreach includes channels like social media, newsletters, and blogs that are designed to establish credibility. Other methods of expanding your visibility include social media campaigns, events, career fairs, and using search engine optimization (SEO) to attract people to your website.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the best storytelling tips I can give you is to set yourself up for measurement success from the very beginning. It can be near impossible to measure the success of a story if you haven’t first thought about what your desired outcomes are and drivers of success. We’ll use sharing a story in social media posts as our example.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Eighty-one percent of Americans have social media accounts , and that number is expected to grow each year. Nearly all brands have a social presence, and libraries are no different. Libraries are using social platforms now more than ever before. Libraries use Facebook more than any other social platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Ask: What Area Practice Do We Want To Improve?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

At the end of the Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits is a nine-page “Nonprofit Tech Checklist” which I have copied and pasted below. That was my number one priority when writing the book… to create a comprehensive, useful social and mobile media how-to guide for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I'm working with a small group of Packard Foundation grantees on a social media lab where they are implementing different social media experiments. We know that good practice is to establish measurable objectives for your social media strategy and identify the audience before you executive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

How are you measuring your success? The good news is there is an invisible string connecting all the positive experiences above, so measuring your event’s success , reach , and therefore, growth can be a domino effect. Give a shout-out to the business and volunteers by celebrating them on social media and at your event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Rob Cottingham, Social Signal – Cartoon for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. It is not too early to start thinking about your nonprofit’s social media strategy for 2018, including how you want to capitalize on social media trends that will have maximum impact in 2018.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page. I thought it would useful to have a more in-depth conversation in the Zoetica Salon with Dan so we could delve into KPIs for social media. We saw a lot of interest and click thrus from Twitter particularly.&#

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). Where they look for information online, such as the media outlets, thought leaders, or social media accounts they follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. (Don’t Being able to have your stakeholders engage with you – through social channels or otherwise, is what can help you win their hearts and minds, and eventually their donations.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

We’ll also be sharing the important metrics you need to keep an eye on to measure your performance. This strategy will encompass tailored activities, communication channels, and personalized interactions aimed at making their members more satisfied and encouraging them to contribute to the organization’s mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Measurement Challenges.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? I know our YouTube channel started in 2007. What social media tools are you currently utilizing? We’re using all of the main social media sites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

As KD Paine and I wrote in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” measuring your social media channels, overall communications or marketing strategy is not a form of voodoo black magic; it is an art and a science. You write anything you want as long as it is about measurement and learning from your data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Title (s): Manager, External Affairs and Associate, Social Media & Recruitment. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. The art part includes all the ways nonprofits and schools can engage and connect with alumni of their programs through social channels.

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

Your marketing strategies and the marketing channels you use can drastically affect your fundraising success throughout the year. Nonprofit marketing refers to all of the different strategies your organization uses across the various channels of communication to spread awareness about your cause and gain new supporters for your mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

In this article we’ll discuss video engagement for social media, what it is and why it’s important. We’ll also look at the types of emotions that drive engagement and how you can leverage them to increase social sharing for your nonprofit’s videos. What Is Video Engagement and Why Is It Important? Political/controversial topics.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Fortunately, with data, we can better understand members’ behavior and which marketing channel is most effective to reach our members. Let’s start by identifying the best channels and tools to maximize your campaigns. According to HubSpot, most marketers consistently leverage three channels. How are you tracking success?

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

Recently, I was asked to conduct a social media marketing workshop at Planet Philanthropy (an annual conference for fundraising professionals by. After what felt like hours of agonizing over potential topics, one of my coworkers suggested the idea to discuss common social media mistakes we see our clients making all the time!

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Not all social media channels are created equal. Read on for more about what every board member needs to know about social media. 3 Things Every Board Member Should Know About Social Media. 1) Not All Social Media Channels Are Created Equal. Each social media channel (i.e.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? What social media tools are you currently utilizing? Who maintains your social media campaigns? We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Posterous: BigCatRescue.posterous.com.

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Byte Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

After all, in the increasingly online world in which cause-related organizations prosper or fail it can be difficult to understand how to allocate limited resources, especially towards a solid social media presence that translates to dollars and cents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? Measure, Test, Refine. How can we get people to talk to us? The common tip?

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 15, 2021

After completing your marketing analysis, it should be clear what your best channels are and who your current customer is. To Choose Your Channels Wisely. Your marketing and competition analysis should clearly display marketing and advertising channels that have given you the best ROI. To Confirm Who Your Customer Is.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

or on a larger scale, ”What if our organization finds itself in the center of a social media backlash ?” ” It requires more than having a social media policy in place, although that is the first step no doubt. Engage in public/private channel. Record and measure. Tag and flag.

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

Issue awareness is often a foundational step in advocacy work, and it’s important to make sure that your organization’s issue awareness work uses specific, measurable, actionable, relevant, and time-bound (SMART) goals to measure progress. GLAAD publishes studies on LGBTQ+ issues in media.

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