Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? What else would you add to the list?

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 16, 2016

Whether you’re a media-conscious blogger, marketing maven for a non-profit cause or a new or established e-tailer, having your content feed into multiple social media platforms is a vital element to increasing your visibility and grabbing the attention you want and need. Maintain Your Quality.

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Classy

JUNE 8, 2021

But as you gain more followers, you also gain access to their networks, since the content they’re engaging with will show up on their connections’ feeds. . Since LinkedIn is built around a professional audience, members are scrolling through their feed looking for professional content. Host Inspiring Events That Advance Your Goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 27, 2011

They can post more often with less risk of getting hidden or unliked, their fan base grows faster, and they often have great content to share in status updates that easily inspire comments and likes. Their fans will see your activity in their News Feeds and some will become fans of your page as well as a result.

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NCE Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Wolfram Alpha allows people to donate access to their Facebook feed so that they can study how we use technology. Let me know in our comments section. The nice folks at Wolfram Blog have created a set of charts identifying how people talk on Facebook as they age. More than one million people have done so to date. source: Wolfram Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2016

5) Conclude the results. Just because 4% of fans were shown the posts in their News Feed over the last month, that doesn’t mean they actually saw and read them. ” Engagement is defined as people who liked/reacted, commented, clicked, or shared your posts. 3,990: Average Monthly Reach for Posts.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Using these three components together in the right ways can help you see real results in your donor acquisition program. Every social media site uses algorithms to determine what content is displayed on a user’s feed. You have multiple technologies you can use to put your message in front of complete strangers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 1, 2020

As a result, social media strategies are often used to supplement in-person events. A popular medium of choice, Facebook facilitates conversations and interactions among supporters in the comments section, allowing them to feel a sense of community virtually. Leverage social information and norms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Setting a monthly goal of recommending two current or previous co-workers, partners, and funders will result in your staff receiving more recommendations in return. Over the decade that followed, most groups became overrun with spam and tech glitches, and as a result, LinkedIn Groups almost became obsolete.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2012

Facebook is crunching analyzing people post to Facebook about the games and they are broadcasting NBC’s video feeds. So if you follow NBC on Twitter or Facebook you’ll see the results of the games before the tape-delayed events are broadcast. Feel free to share in the comments section. Are you staying the same?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 5, 2006

Today I discovered Cityzenjane's blog and her i_like_to_watch tag/delicious rss feed via a comment to one of my blog posts. At first, I thought it was comment spam promoting a porno site but far from it. " Cityzenjane's goal for this feed is to provide you with content that will inspire you to make a great green future.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Then, pivot your strategy and communications accordingly once the results are in. Four —Cut Through the Noise, Meaningfully With continuous noise and incoming communications from many different organizations and parties competing for attention, your audiences’ inboxes, mailboxes, and social feeds will be filled to the brim.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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). asks Tom Webster over at BrandSavant.

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Roundtree

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

This is why you receive direct mail offers in your mailbox from meal kit providers like Hello Fresh in addition to hearing their ads during your favorite podcast, seeing their billboards while you drive, and receiving an ad while browsing your social feed. I’m ready for results. Organization Comments CAPTCHA. Name Email.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. The purpose of this post is to share the results of the Q&A, including answers to questions not addressed during the event.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

And if you can use your Core Number to share what it costs to feed that child lunch, even better! And the results speak for themselves. Facebook photo posts get 53% more likes, 104% more comments, and 84% more click-throughs on links than text-based posts (Source: Facebook 2018 stats). So, What’s Your Story?

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Care2

JUNE 19, 2012

Both “Likes” and comments on photos are a lot more popular then posts that have links, status updates, and video. A “Like” on a Facebook status is the equivalent of someone passively scrolling through a Facebook feed and giving you thumbs up on a post that caught their attention. Tell us in the comments.

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

Comment on your activity wall to personally steward donors. . You can comment on any donations, registrations, or fundraising page creations. Your comment will then be directly emailed to the supporter. . Your comment will then be directly emailed to the supporter. . Harness the power of setting campaign goals. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

So, you must have an outcome or result identified and know how each metric you pick helps you take a step towards that outcome. The goal of my Facebook page is serve as a focus group to listen to nonprofit practitioners and their ideas, concerns, and needs to use social media effectively. Analyze the Comments. ” 6.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

The results for the Team Diabetes P2P event included 56% more people signing up for the event, roughly $520,000 more in donations, and abundant leads ripe to convert to monthly giving. Improving the registration form : What had been a voluminous, overwhelming form became streamlined, user-friendly, and effective.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# If you’ve seen some other good nonprofit infographics, then leave a comment.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

However, the real outcomes or results are not yet clear. Can help you easily link to other sites, content, or individuals or republish your feeds. Click through to hear or read their comments. People responded, including a few I didn't ping! Using widgets is not yet a common practice on nonprofit blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2011

When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” To see and comment on the comprehensive set of results, visit the foundation’s wiki.) What you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts. The non-profit saw a huge difference in results, with the square video receiving 2x more views and 3x more shares than the landscape version, largely due to mobile traffic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2012

LinkedIn Profiles rank very high in search results, so make sure yours is filled to 100 percent completeness. Use your first and last names to optimize search engine results, such as linkedin.com/in/heathermansfield. Automated tweets just clutter the feed, and many people find them annoying. Resist the urge and do not automate!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 8, 2011

Unfortunately, many nonprofits upload horizontal logos to serve as their avatars, resulting in the obvious cropping of the images. People either start ignoring your updates because you’re always in their news feed, or they “hide&# you altogether. Absolutely not! I am a big believer that less is more on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2012

Commenting on the posts in other aligned partner’s Facebook pages. While there are some generic principles for getting your Facebook into people’s newsfeeds, making sense of Facebook Insights to hone your content strategy will get you the best results. Engaging photos, especially of local places and animals work well.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? There are a lot of different ways to calculate your engagement rate, the tried-and-true formula I regularly use is: Engagement Rate % = Likes + Comments + Shares / Total Followers X 100 .

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 6, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. For future quiz takers: the key has been added to the results page. As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert from our academic faculty to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

Our concern is that if in the future decision makers depend on crowdsourcing, bad decisions are likely to result -- decisions that impact lives. In the comments to our last post, Jon from Ushahidi said "If a tool's fitness cannot be absolute, then neither can it's fallibility." So, we’re speaking up.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2010

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. 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).

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

A: EdgeRank is Facebook’s algorithm for what items populate a user’s news feed. The likelihood that your page’s content will get into a user’s news feed is determined by how recently the content was created, what type of content it is, and past interactions between your page and the user. Let us know in the comments below!

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 17, 2020

To people scrolling through their feed, there is no number of likes portrayed on posts. Disabling post like visibility on Instagram can result in increased users. Users can interact with organic posts, share, and comment, acquiring more healthy data. . It doesn’t mean the public cannot like posts anymore.

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