Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 8, 2012

Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. . Your Google/Gmail Account becomes the basis of your personal Google+ Profile and similar to Facebook, you must have a personal Google+ Profile before you can create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit. Now, onto setting up your personal profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

received 93,000 visits and as traffic grows consistently from month to month so does my ROI. Still, understand that the more good, high-quality content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. A first-person voice is best. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0 That said, mix it up!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

Set up your Google/Gmail Account and personal Google+ Profile. . Your Google/Gmail Account becomes the basis of your personal Google+ Profile and similar to Facebook, you must have a personal Google+ Profile before you can create a Google+ Page for your nonprofit. Now, onto setting up your personal profile.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 6, 2013

Still, understand that the content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. A first-person voice is best. offers a 90-minute webinar on blogging on WordPress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? We learned - were running a flickr contest right now that takes lessons learned from wendys and has been successful. One person to know where all the moving parts can be brought together to evaluate in the end. will be easier to track ???

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

If that is that not your personality type, then try to step out of your comfort zone. If they have well-executed social media campaigns, send executive staff links to their profiles on Facebook , Twitter , YouTube, Flickr , Foursquare, Tumblr , etc., Be insistent and firm that your nonprofit needs to embrace social and mobile media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

The truth is I think it has only just begun and that we’re on the cusp of a radical transformation in how we use the Internet in our personal and work lives as well as how we use it to foster social good. I got my start on Myspace , so personally I would love to see the community revitalized.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

received 93,000 visits and as traffic grows consistently from month to month so does my ROI. Still, understand that the more good, high-quality content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. A first-person voice is best. As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0 That said, mix it up!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Last year, I used Chris Brogan’s “ Three Words &# to set some professional/personal goals for the year. The process is simple: Think of how you want to be successful in the coming year. That means I’ll continue to build my personal networks and content sources in these areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2008

Jeremiah Owyang posted this case study about how they used YouTube and Flickr to share their media and encouraged the community to create content. The Art of Person-to-Person Networking, Community Building, and Connectedness. What are the best techniques for person-to-person networking? Some places I want to go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'll share my process and I understand that I'm probably a crazy person. Since I'm a visual person, I also use flickr as a documentation tool - I do a lot of screen shots with snagit and annotate. If you're a metrics geek and want to go deeper, visit my personal learning space for Social Media Metrics.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Flickr Photo: Vermin Inc On Wednesday, the kind folks at Russ Reid allowed me to invade a little think thank they held with some clients about social media and its applications in the nonprofit organization. We spent the last part of the day talking about the hard part of social media: the organizational challenges and obstacles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." In fact, we'd love it if you told your personal institutional story in a constructive way." Protection of personal information. There are examples (see below).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Flickr: elyob. " We hear a lot of answers, answers that involve ROI, patience, and the like. I know there are people motivated by the money, but this is a pretty big assumption to make about the person you're trying to convince -- and it sums up nicely why no platitude is ever going to solve the buy-in problem. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

In a networked nonprofit, VCs might mine their personal and professional networks for ideation, best practices, and case studies to learn how organizations are engaging volunteers effectively. And volunteers could have the opportunity to share the organization’s story through their personal networks. Opportunity Design. Orientation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

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. What's the sweet spot between personal productivity and social productivity? Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Photo by Fensterbme on Flickr. Explore Personalized Video. We have witnessed a very strong ROI from fundraising videos that utilize personalization. Personalization is a technique that uses your donor data to automatically insert the supporter’s name in the video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Flickr Photo from SteveTookIt. I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I'm just one person. Return on Reflection: This inquiry won't be all number crunching because you really miss the value of a ROI analysis.

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NTEN

AUGUST 4, 2011

Flickr: ePublicist A recent discussion thread on NTEN's main community email list really hit something home for me. But when it comes to a multi-layered 10 person paper process that could easily be digitized to cut down on paper and reduce time to execution, they just don't seem interested in even considering it.

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MARCH 12, 2008

Here’s the release: Somerville, MA (PRWEB) March 12, 2008 — Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages. Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Flickr Photo by RedRaspu Convio invited me to share my number one New Year's resolution as part of its "Now is the Time" campaign. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Are you impulse adopting tools? Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2008

social website apps, Ning seems to be the most flexible, the most affordable (regarding ROI), and easy to use. Ning also allows open API to work with other popular social networks like Flickr and Facebook. Users can import their Flickr photos from their account and promote their profile pages and widgets on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

" She was referring to sites like YouTube and Flickr, perhaps just the act of browsing content or what we might call "lurking" in online communities. Jonathan shares a story about how he discovered a Facebook group for his organization started by someone outside the organization and how he helps and supports that person.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

Presentation Slides on flickr Blog post here. As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Web Site Usability, Social Media Engagement and ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea. Tags: ROI. Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming. People don’t build relationships with each other in a vacuum.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2007

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!" Monday, August 27, 2007 at 02:12PM | by James OMalley If Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

Thousands of photos in flickr (and really good ones). A couple of personal highlights of the sessions: Photography Tips Kris Krug who is an awesome photographer who gave us great tips on improving our photos. There were two full-days packed with excellent content and fabulous speakers. Two awesome parties. got a 5 point rating ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. Flickr photo by Beth. What if they could instead put more passion and personality into the "call to action"? To monitor and reflect, you need collect both quantitative and qualitative data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

YouTube, the popular online video-sharing site, and Flickr, an online photo-sharing site, for instance, include social networking. Work with them to create a framework for measuring the ROI of your blogging efforts. "I think it's been both overhyped and underestimated," Dogster's Rheingold said.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

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!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Aaron who is the tech person at Meyer Memorial Trust tipped me off to something that I didn't know existed in powerpoint and I must explore it. Speaking with an authentic voice on behalf of your organization - where is the line between personal/professional networking and being a spokesperson for your organization on a social networking site.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Know that using third-party apps decreases ROI if not used carefully. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn has discontinued the ability to automate personal LinkedIn Updates with Twitter. Upload more photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 25, 2012

My Return on Investment (ROI) from using Pinterest to promote Nonprofit Organizations is somewhere between minimal and better-than-expected, but using the site on a regular basis has fundamentally changed how I think about social media and the people who use it. Related Links: Webinar: YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest for Nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

Know that using third-party apps decreases ROI if not used carefully. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. LinkedIn has discontinued the ability to automate personal LinkedIn Updates with Twitter. Upload more photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Know that using third-party apps decreases ROI if not used carefully. Even the tiniest of changes from posting natively can result in decreased Return on Investment (ROI). Flickr and Pinterest: 5 Hours Weekly. Chapter 2 :: Experiment with Social Media Dashboards. That said, a couple of minor tweaks are necessary.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Flickr Photo: Steve Wampler Communications professionals and chefs have a lot in common. Personal v. Personal v. One of the things that makes great cooking well, great, is personality. When a chef puts his or her personality on the plate, the meal gets a lot more enjoyable. Measuring ROI. Professional.

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