Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 20, 2007

Twitter reflections and insights have been the air. Chris Brogan's post says, " Twitter has changed my life." " I might also say that Chris's life changing experience on Twitter has had a ripple effect on two young Cambodian college students, Leng Sopharath and Champerom. re just using Twitter to scrape data?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

For instance, you might send most of your communications using email and Facebook, while posting only occasionally on your less-popular Twitter account. Your online donation form itself should be easy to fill out to facilitate ongoing donations through your website. Round up metrics such as your: Fundraising total.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Through a facilitated training, participants will work independently and in small groups to develop and share project plans for using social media to engage supporters. Topic : Strong Connections: Linking Strategy, Goals and Metrics.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

By having the option to streamline event planning and event facilitation, event planners experience less stress and are better equipped to provide services for each remote attendee as well as the event hosts. Facilitate attendee engagement. Facilitate globalized networking. Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

And, as Tech Hermit blog notes, there was quite a discussion about this on Twitter. I agree with her points: Causes facilitates the spread of your organization's message. Allison suggests that we're looking at the wrong metric - we should be measuring success using awareness not dollars. It doesn't work that way."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

As part ongoing work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I am designing, facilitating, and delivering workshops with Compasspoint. Last week, I had the great pleasure of presenting a one-day workshop with colleagues Holly Minch , JD Lasica , Janet Fouts , and Susan Tenby. Twitter compasspoint.

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

While your virtual event platform should facilitate your event hosting, visitors do not need to see the branding of the virtual platform. Ask about social media buttons, such as LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Do You Provide Any Analytics, Insight, Or Metrics?

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This runs counter to short-form trends on TikTok, Twitter, and YouTube that occupy our attention. The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth. Facilitate two-way dialogue to make supporters feel heard. However, immediate action doesn’t necessarily mean short immediate messages. This was an epiphany for Ogilvy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Grantees get better results integrating Facebook, Twitter, and other social media channels best practices and measurement. Content Curation on Twitter. Next Bruce Lesley gave a virtuoso case study of how he uses Twitter to curate news articles and resources related to children’s issues. What happened next was wonderful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Last week, I had a fun time moderating the June #4Change Twitter Chat on Online Community Building. Note on platform : During last week’s Twitter chat, not unlike previous chats, we dealt with some major issues around lag and load time. Our “job&# is to facilitate that action and make it easier for them to participate.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

API stands for Application Program Interface, and has become known for, in large part, facilitating the Web 2.0 Focus on the word “interface”, which means facilitating communication between two different applications. Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

Just like message consistency, storytelling, and interviewing skills, proficiency with social media like Facebook and Twitter increases their capacity to make change happen for children in their state. Use of counting metrics. Buddy Media: Twitter Optimization. I’m working in partnership with Spitfire Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If you missed it, you can listen to the recording here , or join us for one of two upcoming conversations on Giving Days: the #FundChat Twitter chat on the Playbook at 12 EST Wednesday Sept. If this is your first Giving Day, keep it simple and pick the right metric. (See See this for Giving Day metrics to track your goals.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

We’ll be facilitating a conversation, more than doing a formal presentation, and will focus on the power of crowdsourcing (using our own case study from conducting the Social Media for Social Good case study competition) and the application of social media in nonprofit program delivery. If you’re here in Austin, do join us!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Grit is a long-term metric, and though difficult to measure, it is a truer indicator than IQ or SAT scores and other static quantitative measures on the potential to achieve ultimate success. One-plussing” can facilitate the process of taking a good idea and improving upon it. Here’s how we can unlock our challenges!

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AccelEvents

JULY 20, 2020

While your virtual event platform should facilitate your event hosting, visitors do not need to see the branding of the virtual platform. Ask about social media buttons, such as LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter. Do You Provide Any Analytics, Insight, Or Metrics?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. Develop Ladder of Engagement Model w/Metrics for a specific campaign or event: For example, one organization is implementing a month-long campaign to encourage people not to use plastic bags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The day ended with a curated conversation on “ Data, Transparency, and Impact ” facilitated by the amazing Erica Mills and with Jane Meseck (Microsoft), Paul Shoemaker (Social Venture Partners) and Eric Stowe (Splash). 2 What is the metric to track. Advice for Nonprofits To Get Started with Measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

I've been following him on Twitter and have been following his social media/social change blog but hadn't made it to his company's blog. It's where I grabbed the above slide show that offers a conceptual framework for strategy and metrics. I've been following him on Twitter and have.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

So, when Mary K Winkler , one of the nonprofit data nerds I follow on Twitter and Senior Research Associate at Urban Institute’s Center on Nonprofits & Philanthropy specializing in performance management told me via Twitter she had just published a new guide on this topic, I had to check it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

He helped me with reaching my influencers on Twitter. I noticed dozens of these connections and facilitated a few. When I peeked at my Twitter stream and saw the happy birthday tweets, Facebook wall posts, and blogs, I nearly fell off my chair! And connected with Mark Horvath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

There are many things in my life and work that I need to streamline, and an important skill to facilitate this is learn how to say no. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. One example recently was I post I wrote about a Twitter tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Social media can be filled with metrics to track results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. We've been working on what started out as the a chapter on Metrics and ROI. I've written endlessly about the techniques of listening, metrics, reflection and reiteration. In a session at the Web 2.0

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2010

to Facebook/Twitter (which one is the more intimate medium?), The next week at the University of Washington (hosted by CHANGE , a lively cross-disciplinary group working on ICT for development), we facilitated a discussion among Seattle-based groups involved with global health data collection, management, and dissemination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Using Twitter To Research The Audience Before, During, and After. The conference had fast and reliable wifi and many had their laptops opened and were tweeting before the conference started – so I encouraged using Twitter as a back channel. It also facilitates conversation with people who are not in the room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Spectragram is a facilitation technique I learned from Allen Gunner at Aspiration. This week I did a social media training for a cluster of the foundation’s sustainable agriculture grantees. Here’s some notes on what I learned integrated social media campaigns as well as the process that prompted these insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Jonny will provide live graphic facilitation of the highly interactive and fun panel. Free agents use social-media channels like Facebook and Twitter and can create social movements in the palms of their hands. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Trust me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

Tom and Cecile shared a rich story about culture change, loosing control, building relationships, story telling, multi-channel strategies, engagement techniques, online/offline metrics, and more. Says Tom, "We don't talk about Facebook or Twitter. And, yes the whole balancing act of how you facilitate that without controlling it.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

This means companies can track their return on investment with an array of measurement tools and metrics available online, and ultimately improve their conversion rate and quality of leads over time. Social media Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Pinterest all offer paid advertising space, and with over 3.6 Learn more here.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

How people respond to a campaign or organization’s posts on its own Facebook page and Twitter channels is certainly useful information, but if you want to understand what people think—what lenses they use to look at the world, how they prioritize issues and why—you need to start by looking at what they are saying unprompted by your messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

How to facilitate "stealth adoption" without getting fired or your IT department royally pissed of at you? What are your key metrics for success? Fun with Metrics: Measuring Success and ROI. What are metrics, measurement and ROI? What are appropriate metrics for social media versus web?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. I created these for Twitter , Facebook Fan Pages , and Listening. . I did floating consults. Stay tuned for that!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

On Twitter, Kami Huyse pointed over to her reflections on this paper which lead me again to the paper itself. Combining this with the advent of socialmedia tools such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter has made an individual???s " Nonetheless, he recognizes, like me, the importance of looking at intangibles in a disciplined way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The afternoon featured six mini-workshops that drilled down in the use of the tools such as Facebook , Blogging , Storytelling , Listening , Twitter , and Social Media 101. (The Were there conversations taking place between Twitter users that extended the learning or were people mostly parallel online note taking? Some Reflections.

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