Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

It’s free, it gives you an immediate way to build a tribe and engage people in online community. Participate and be a community like the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) is doing a great job participating and building community with their Facebook page. Facebook is also a great tool for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

(I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Basically you can categorize your Tweets so that you can analyze them as an individual as well as compared to the community at large. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. plots your professional or personal life, interests, activities, and moods on Twitter. Twitt(url)y.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? Basically you can categorize your Tweets so that you can analyze them as an individual as well as compared to the community at large. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. Twitt(url)y.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Understanding your own goals and your nonprofit’s impact will keep you from getting too caught up in the comparison game. It is imperative to help the community understand how and why the issue their organization addresses is so imperative to overcome,” Feldmann said. Cooperation isn’t smooth sailing from there, either.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Susan Tenby is the community manager at TechSoup responsible for their Second Life efforts. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site. is senior consultant for Common Knowledge and covers the sustainable food community. Johanna Bates is the nonprofit technology strategy for Community Partners in Massachusetts.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

Because the comparisons will never be exact, the most important thing to watch is your True Open Rate over time. In fact, most of the messages we send out go to the folks we know to be already active in our community, because we know they're more likely to open. We're always looking for new metrics. and take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. Other metrics we look at include: What are our sign-ups for our newsletter? 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. Generally, she uses Twitter to take the community's temperature and get rapid feedback on questions. This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

And, speaking frankly, events have become a popular means of community-building for virtually every flavor of nonprofit, corporate entity, and other institutions, and there seem to be a LOT of them these days. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

Get your staff, board members, most dedicated donors, and active members of your community involved by asking them to kick off the first peer to peer fundraisers. ” Encourage your community to run outside or on their treadmill. Have them keep track of their miles using this Activity Metric or Strava. Crowdfunding.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

This is going to be a real treat for the community. Most of our nonprofits have a human or community interest in mind, that purpose, and they exist to create impact, positive impact on the communities that we serve. And finally, you know, what do we want the community to do when they see and read this impact report?

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Sending Emma a reminder before or a follow up message after a community event? From there, craft specific messaging that speaks to those supporters, celebrates their place in your community, and encourages them to take the next step - becoming donors. Dynamic list-building can also help you target supporters like Eddie.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

By building strong relationships with donors and cultivating a sense of trust and loyalty, you will increase donor retention rates and make your organization more financially stable Ultimately, effective donor management is essential for anyone who wants to achieve their mission and have a positive impact on their communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Google Analytics , with its robust dashboard system displaying key web site metrics, is another example. Increasingly, we are seeing dashboards used in external accountability contexts: a nonprofit or local government that wants to share its real-time performance data with its donors and its community.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

This is absolutely a valuable metric, but I was curious how this data might vary if the list was based on organizations with the strongest social media presence.the ones we stand to learn the most from. For each of the six measured criteria, each organization is ranked in comparison to all other nonprofit organizations being evaluated.

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. Using virtual tools to create a sense of community for sustainers. The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2016 through FY2020. Sustainer Upgrades.

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NTEN

AUGUST 11, 2011

Early on in video games a score was awarded to a player to keep track of how well he/she had done both personally and in comparison to others. Users whom post a lot go up in level, increasing their status and community importance. MOUSE squad.org is a learning community that is the home and hub of much of MOUSE ’s program.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Analyzing Your Website’s Organic Traffic To understand how people are finding and engaging with your nonprofit website, you need to set up analytics and regularly monitor performance metrics. You’ll find key metrics under the Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels menu in your GA dashboard.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google also uses a metric called ‘Quality Score’ to measure the effectiveness of different keywords, and each of your keywords must have a minimum Quality Score of 3. Google Earth and Maps: Promote programs and resources to your community through Google Earth and Maps. Choose valuable keywords.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I was inspired by Connie Bensen , a community strategist, who shared a post celebrating the success of her blog over the past year. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. Cost (what!).

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2024

Stand-out features: All-in-one event management dashboard to view essential metrics and centralize team communications. Hopin – Best suite of event management solutions for community building Overview: Hopin ’s engagement tools are designed to help organizations build stronger supporter communities online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

The key on Pathable is that we can ask them questions that they respond to with tags to describe themselves or interest: This creates some interesting effects- you can find other people with common interests based on tags, and Pathable does a tag comparison to suggest other people you may want to get to know during the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Here’s a few examples: The UN Foundation is hosting a day long digital event on the +SocialGood community platform that will invite experts, leaders, innovators, and civil society to engage in a one-day global conversation prior to Davos on social media channels. There are many labs working on projects.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

Twitter: At 330 million users per month, Twitter feels like a fading platform in comparison to the others. Start teasing the campaign a few weeks out with branded graphics to build momentum: “ Coming May 4: Our exciting campaign that will launch our next chapter of meeting the mental health needs of veterans in our community.

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