Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

NetChange Week is an impressive event that explores the intersection between social technology and social change started a year ago. It takes place at The MaRS Discovery Centre in downtown Toronto (a hub for science, technology and social entrepreneurs) and there are fourteen events, each with a unique focus and target audience.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Perhaps one of the most challenging questions a nonprofit can ask is, "What should our org's commitment to the use and leverage of technology actually be?" There is little doubt that technology aligned and used properly can bring efficiency in extending and meeting goals in support of the mission.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most charities and many libraries have part time or accidental techies taking care of their technology. Is it any wonder that proper technology planning is something we have a hard time getting to? Conducting a technology assessment and inventory of current software and hardware assets. How do you currently use technology?

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JANUARY 14, 2013

Avi breaks the post down into important categories such as fundraising, staffing, and metrics. For example: Change Leadership: Creating a Culture Where Everyone is a Marketer (Nonprofit Marketing Guide - Beth Ann Spiegel): Staffing: 11 Qualities of an Effective Social Media Manager (Nonprofit Tech 2.0).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

“Big listening is taking all the conversations that are going on online and trying to find pockets; in our case, ocean issues like MPAs (marine protected areas), overfishing, sustainable seafood, whales, bluefin tuna, ocean acidification, sharks, and shark finning, “ explains Matt Fitzgerald, Upwell’s Curator & Social Metrics Manager.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? at 5:48 am Sure, I put Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology on Quantcast – I was curious to see what would happen. 2 admin 09.18.07 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

At the end of this guided exercise, you’ll be able to articulate investment impact statements like: BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SAVE $79,155 OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. BY INVESTING $9,845 IN NEW TECHNOLOGY, OUR ORG WILL SERVE $3,032,759 MORE CLIENTS OVER THE NEXT 5 YEARS. Step 1: Removing Resistance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

" And, of course, such metrics are useless. 1) Intangibles often come in the form of stories or anecdotes about the technology value and if used along with numbers can help make the case. The discussion around trying to quantify it - can lead to productive conversation about why the technology is important to mission.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

If you’re looking at your technology budget and wondering whether you’re getting your money’s worth, join Digital Strategist & Technology Coach Maureen Wallbeoff and learn exactly how to harness the power of your technology to help your organization grow. They’re just technology.” ” I love it.

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APRIL 20, 2021

Technology has played an increasingly prevalent role in delivering Zero to Three’s mission, ultimately leading the organization to pursue an enterprise-wide Salesforce solution to help scale their efforts and unify their many centers, projects, and initiatives. Through the seamless Pardot integration, it is now an easy task to accomplish.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

Try looking at a variety of meaningful metrics (not just dollars raised) to better understand the drivers for the event and provide feedback you can use for optimizing future events. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric. Technology'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 18, 2014

In a recent paper, Making the Pitch to Nonprofit Leadership: How to Convey and Sell the Need to Invest in Fundraising Technology , my colleague Danielle Johnson-Vermenton and I explored how nonprofit fundraisers can advocate for investments in online fundraising technology. Define success metrics.

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Care2

JULY 24, 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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Care2

AUGUST 7, 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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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

However there is immediate value to the partners in the form of a dashboard and metrics for applying for grants, etc. They put metrics against speed and accuracy of the data their partners were sending in. org , was such a great speaker that I forgot to take notes. org blog a lot. Fascinating. I check out the ideas42.org

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Now, CRMs for nonprofits are the technological hubs that connect disparate functions and strategies into a single, unified platform. Nonprofit CRMs sit at the core of the modern nonprofit technology stack —which means this is a pretty long and in-depth article. Nonprofit CRMs have come a long way in the past 20 years.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

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) Here are a few examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

The example I talk about in the poem covers the initial use of NWF's twitter accounts and then continues to how we actually starting using it to improve and grow one of our programs- "wildlife watch". is a great example of this. Oh my god, take a look. link] wildlife_watch. This I hope and so much more. set audience. affected people.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

A lot of people are saying this, more need for technology. It could be equipment, technology. So this is just an example that you can build off of. And this is also just an example of that go/no go is kind of like 0, 5, 10. Okay, so I’m just going to talk about some examples here. It could be personnel.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

m a product of the Great Lakes and have a degree in technical writing from Michigan Technological University. What metrics? s an example of a comment that I feel really illustrates this point. That way, we let Flickr and Yahoo worry about developing the technology while we???re Tell me a little bit about you I???m

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Pamela Grow shares a great example of how one nonprofit isn’t letting go : Loving lapsed donors back into the fold | Simple, brilliant and oh so swipe-able! Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. But what about the donors that have already left?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

Yesterday marked the second annual Women Who Tech telesummit , filled with experts and thought leaders working in technology, advocacy and nonprofits. A few key examples she gave on advocacy and nonprofit success in social networks included: MyBarackObama.com , a good example of this in action. Only 0.8 % have more than 1,000.

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