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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

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ROI: Can You Quantify the Untangible? You Can't Quantify Love (or can you?)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages. Do we attempt quantify them?

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. Just as the content distributed and conversations participated in are integrated into many different aspects of your organization’s work, so should the knowledge, access and responsibility to participate be integrated across your staff. Then…repeat!

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Why don’t my friends like me on Facebook?

Connection Cafe

The part that's still very tricky for most is measuring the impact of these activities. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Measuring the Value of Your Blog. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. ROI: You Can't Quantify Love or Can You?

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Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It has to do with marketing measurement and accountability.

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The Ultimate Online Fundraising: Guide + 10 Top Ideas

Bloomerang

Organizations that invest in PCI-compliant online fundraising solutions can take proper cybersecurity measures to ensure that their online donation process is secure. Then, determine the amount you’re willing to spend to hit those goals and lead to a healthy return on investment (ROI). Make secure donations.

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