Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. You can search by keyword and also see who else has favorited a particular tweet in order to identify like-minded contacts. Twitt(url)y.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. How are users getting to the site (search, typing in the URL or from referral sites like Facebook)? Research Questions. What content on the website is most popular?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

It's important search for the basics or what we call "ego searches." You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. To figure out your keywords, do a little brainstorming offline and then maybe use some online keyword tools. Do search at site for the first time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Which also means you can boost your search engine rankings (SEO). By understanding your activity and performance, fan response, trends and comparisons, you are better equipped to improve your presence on Facebook. Google) of Facebook. Actually, this data will likely help you improve your overall web efforts!

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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. "If you listen closely, you can pick up on trends and ideas that can really help your outreach and communication efforts." What's cool is that you grab an RSS of the search). Twitter As A Conversation Tool.

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Care2

JUNE 13, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 1, 2022

What do people search for? Google Trends, which shows the unbiased data behind searches reveals that there is a long way to go for the adoption of the new holiday. This is a good proxy for adoption because many of these searches are for general information about ”when the holiday is ” so they can mark a calendar.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Determine which platforms these conversations are happening on, research relevant hashtags or groups, and check out popular Google searches related to your mission. Once you've segmented your list by the unique classifiers you've established, look for trends that you can share with the board. Need a template for your next campaign?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organic traffic refers to visitors who find your website via unpaid search results, mainly through search engines like Google. Unlike paid traffic from ads, organic traffic comes from people organically discovering your content while searching for information online. Most people trust organic search results more than paid ads.

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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. After such a tumultuous year, with many drivers for both potential increases and declines in giving, it was no surprise to see mixed trends among sectors and organizational sizes.

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Gyrus

APRIL 12, 2018

Everywhere you look there are posts about millennials, mainly focusing on their abilities in comparison to their predecessors. Each moment from the time we first picked up a keyboard, to now, is encapsulated in a trend of growth. How to Train and Develop Millennials.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 1, 2018

The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report provides insight on the online and mobile communication tools NGOs around the world use to promote general awareness, communicate with core audiences and raise funds from donors, as well as an analysis of those online tools and comparisons of regional usage. infographic here: Tech Trends: How U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

The sector deserves comprehensive and computable data that can be openly aggregated, searched, checked, and analyzed. Image files are useful only for reading about one nonprofit organization at a time. Cities have unlocked the data on when public transit runs and to where, making bus and subways easier to catch than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." Raw numbers aren't as important as trends) Unique Visitors. What is the trend? Data is not like Martha Stewart - it is far from perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

So, here's a comparison between last year and this year and another opportunity to consider improvements. It is not useful to know how many posts you write on a monthly, weekly or daily basis or the number of the words for comparisons either. Do a quick Technorati search for all the blogs in your own ecosystem. Technorati ???Authority???

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

In fact, YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world, behind Google. Nonprofits that figure out how to capture the TikTok magic reap the rewards, especially those that piggy-back on a trend that’s already taking off on TikTok. Best to stay abreast of the latest news on this. billion people go every month to do just that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

You can search for resources by keyword, person, or popularity and see the public bookmarks, tags, and classification schemes that users have created and saved. If you want a detailed comparison of these and other social bookmarking services, you can read one at Consultant Commons. Use in combination with search. Look in the ???settings???

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

I think it’s in February every year, called the Nonprofit Trends Report. And this year’s trends report, and you can download it for free at the URL at the bottom, has some really interesting stats about the effectiveness of communications teams. And the chapter in my book about teams we actually adapted into a free ebook.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Benchmarking has provided an apples-to-apples comparison of data and helped clearly identify areas of growth and opportunity as well as highlight how past decisions had affected the current program. Data is used for trend analysis or point-in-time analysis—identifying and resolving issues. Technology allowed that to happen!

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