Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Over the last 25 years I’ve been doing training, I’ve learned different and applied different methods from either being a “student” in a training facilitated by someone using a method, being trained in the method, co-designing with others, and designing and facilitating my own sessions.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

You can jog your members’ memories of their interest in your organization by answering two general questions: What did the organization do for members this year? Let’s break these questions down a bit. Remove All Barriers Have you tested your membership renewal process? What did members do for the organization this year?

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Allegiance Group

JUNE 13, 2024

Including a budget in your marketing plan should help answer this question. You or your marketing agency may conduct interviews with target audience members, share surveys, create audience personas, perform A/B tests, and more. This way, anyone reading the plan will know who to reach out to with questions or concerns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

But, I'm purchasing a copy to giveaway to the reader from a nonprofit who leaves a comment about how they might best use this book. Don't forget to fill out the comment form completely, so I can track you down if you win.) . I've summarized a couple of the tips he offers about methods for testing. (1)

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

To test the theory, I recently ran a remarketing campaign on Facebook promoting my article, “ How To Get More Online Donations With Content Marketing.” Imagine the impact of your online fundraisers if your development team could instantly answer questions or assist in the donation process. Exit-Intent Popup Windows.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

I’ve been mulling over the “Social Media ROI&# concept and how it doesn’t necessarily work for nonprofits, especially when it applied as a litmus test to see if there are financial outcomes — cost reductions or increased revenue. I’d love to hear about it in the comments. Why Use A Theory of Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

And, if you submitted a nonprofit panel - and I managed to miss it while scanning 1200 in ten minutes - please add the link and description in a comment. The audience will have ample opportunity to ask questions and respond. We will talk about the challenges, best methods, & incentives for creating your own superhero extension!

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2011

Digital activism has, for many, meant simply mirroring direct marketing and mass-mobilization methods. Campaigners are right to learn from testing, measuring and message appeals from direct marketing, and the use of petitions, pledges and letters from centuries of campaigning practice. If you ask for a Facebook page you will get one.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

As you organize your nonprofit virtual fundraising event , you’ll also want to ask yourself questions during planning, execution, and follow-up on whether your schedule is respectful of your participants’ time. Our staff was there to welcome them, do the final tech check, and answer any questions or concerns. How to Measure Success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2010

If you want a chance of winning a copy, leave a comment saying how you might apply some of the science of participation to your social media strategy. When participants collected data, they learned a great deal about data collection processes but not so much about the overall scientific method. Science has an answer.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2013

It’s an interesting question. Let’s dig in a little more with another common question we get… tell us more about how BI can be used. Therefore, many organizations choose to stick to traditional segmentation methods like RFM (recency, frequency, monetary), which are widely accepted and easily explained. Data tells a story.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

This was the question at the heart of last week''s MuseumCamp. While all the projects are fast, messy, and incomplete, each is like a small test tube of ideas and possibilities for opening up the way we do social impact research. Every active research method is an intervention. You run a program. It changes kids'' lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2013

This post is to share my deck and comments from my lighting talk about failure at Good by Global at SXSW. This leads me to a question, “Why don’t more people who work for nonprofits embrace this “learning from failure” or growth mindset – especially when using technology? What actually happened during implementation?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

They can answer questions about the wine to help diners navigate a wine list to make the best choice. The content curator does this as well, although with information. A Simple Method For Getting Started. Robin has tested hundreds of tools – from free to enterprise level. Let me know in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

You should also be thinking about what to measure and set up an efficient method for collecting that data. Photo/video Views (optional if I’m testing as content strategy). For example, open-ended questions work, particularly those that allow people to share their knowledge or ones accompanying a good resource link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Along with Kathy Reich and Stephanie McAuliffe , we got to ask many questions about their network. Over twenty years ago, they partnered with McDonalds to test new packaging materials. The method is simple - they test their ideas, if it works they build on it and if it doesn't they remix.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2010

He wanted to raise some money to help the local orchestra and test some ideas. Since this was an experiment to test social networking, I did not send an appeal to friends and family in the way people do when they raise funds for a run or walk, or want you to vote for a particular contest. I did not use any of these methods.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Achieve

JUNE 11, 2020

Understandably, many nonprofit professionals are raising the question: “Should we be fundraising right now?” Providing a variety of ways to donate allows your donors to select the method easiest for them. Test-and-learn new ideas. . To which my answer is a resounding YES! However, it is your job to: . Why It Works: .

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 14, 2013

We recruited folks and designed software that texted them five times a day for thirty days, asking one question, "Rate your mood 1 (low) to 10 (high)." A critical part of the scientific method is the development of a hypothesis, which can then be tested with well controlled research. The project blew away our expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Each type dictates a different process and therefore requires different measurement and analysis methods. Input” usually means getting others to provide information of some kind such as feedback on an initiative or ideas for new campaigns or even to get answers to questions. Measuring Input. Is different better?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2008

" I can't remember if it was pre-assigned or whether the moderator asked for a volunteer in the room - but that person monitored the back channel and moderator looped them in read out loud the comments or ask speakers questions. During the NTC social media ROI Case Study Slam I asked the audience to @kanter me with questions.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. But keep the questions coming. And the capital campaign is a sequence of events that’s methodically planned. . I think that’s a loaded question. Male: Boom.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

Consider these comments that I have heard in the last few weeks alone: “Our constituents know that we need money.”. “We But here at nonprofit consulting firm Ashley|Rountree we are encouraging our clients to stay the course.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2009

He asked the question – is organizing the same whether it is done online or offline? Real-life training Job descriptions Testing Management procedures. Test – make sure you are offering both online and offline opportunities to maximize participation and test effectiveness. Share success stories about both.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 11, 2011

We welcome your comments and feedback. Much like Robert Ashcrafts previous blog post , this is a glass "half full" or "half empty" question – for research provides evidence on both sides. In the Centers publication, Philanthropy Matters , Executive Director Dr. Patrick Rooney tested eight myths about religious giving. [1]

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NTEN

JUNE 30, 2010

To keep the three systems unified and to limit confusion, we assigned a 3-digit identifying code to each of our sessions that could be used for any of the three evaluation methods. The user's reply would trigger the next question and so on until the survey was complete (for a total of 5 sent and 5 received text messages).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

In the comments of Marnie's post, Laura Whitehead points out that FriendFeed may offer ways to widen the conversation, but some of it depends on how we get our information, manage it, and connection. Some people choose one site or method to connect with others, while others are "network weaving," jumping from one site to another.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

M+R Strategic Services recently tested an online welcome series (welcome, survey, fundraising appeal) against sending a straight fundraising appeal as the first email solicitation. So test, test and retest! The other thing we are going to begin testing this year is an ask for our monthly sustainer program--Partners.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

M+R Strategic Services recently tested an online welcome series (welcome, survey, fundraising appeal) against sending a straight fundraising appeal as the first email solicitation. So test, test and retest! The other thing we are going to begin testing this year is an ask for our monthly sustainer program--Partners.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 1, 2018

You can go down the route of spending money on advertising, which works and is far more effective than ANY other method online. Not only were we able to tap into influencer audiences, but these comments also provide additional content for the page to help with search rankings.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Questions for Geoff Livingston Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on June 2nd, 2011 I’m starting a new series of short interviews with people who are really changing what’s happening in the nonprofit sector.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 5, 2009

A Crowd-Curated Exhibition (Shelley Bernstein), the Tech Virtual Test Zone (me), along with a new participatory research project, Children of the Lodz Ghetto (David Klevan), to talk about our lessons and struggles working with the public to create "museum-quality" exhibitions and research projects.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

When choosing how to make your fundraising ask, one of the first questions you should answer is which channels you’re going to use. Split Test Subject Lines Experiment with Days and Sending Times Be Direct and Concise Make Your CTA Stand Out Keep Your List Clean Engage Before Asking Segment Your List Ask for a Small Favor 29.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to use that chat box and the question box throughout the next hour or so. Her confidence and engagement methods and authentic relationship buildings get 10 donors on the phone fast, and they all participate in the challenge. We feel really inauthentic.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to use that chat box and the question box throughout the next hour or so. Her confidence and engagement methods and authentic relationship buildings get 10 donors on the phone fast, and they all participate in the challenge. We feel really inauthentic.

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