Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

This technique is the " hold a sign meme " where you ask your community to send photos to flickr of you (or your animal) holding a protest sign. The flickr pool of photos is here. Hence repetition through different channels is probably a necessary as is tracking the results of different channels and interpretation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

Create a Flickr account. Upgrade to Flickr Pro. Set up Flickr Profile. Create a Bitly account to track mobile click-throughs, if applicable. Design a custom banner, sidebar column image, and video page banner, if applicable. Create a “Thank You” video, if applicable. Add Google Checkout button, if applicable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

Flickr Photo by Brittney Bush. The first step is self-awareness and that happens through tracking and observing yourself in work situations that trigger stress. One way to do this is to build in some reflection time into your day and maintain a journal. It also helps you keep track of progress made towards goals.

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JULY 10, 2012

Once your blog is in place you could choose to spend time on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc, but why waste time on every site out there when you can optimize your time. Set it up on your website and blog so that you can track your efforts. Remember, great content is the key to successful social media. Google Analytics is free.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

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!" Tracking Earned Media Monitoring earned media has become a lot easier and faster.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2013

Flickr: waywuwei Earlier this year, we worked with Avectra to release The 2013 Nonprofit Engagement Data Study , which was based on a survey of nonprofit communications and fundraising professionals, as well as executive directors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Tweetdeck – add columns to listen and track conversations or watch mentions. Flickr and YouTube – monitor and subscribe to activity around you, not just your own. Find conversations quickly: check out Radian6, Biz360 and so on – a fairly expensive way to listen but comes with functionality to sort, track, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A social search tool that allows you to easily track mentions of your nonprofit on social networking sites, blogs, and websites. This website tracks what sites are the most popular in the world today. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Metrics Tracking. >> The tracking documents you use can be living, evolving documents. Presentation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2012

Next, the webinar highlights the need to create a video and digital photography library and demonstrates how to use Windows Live Photo Gallery and Windows Live Movie Maker to create videos and slideshows for YouTube and Flickr.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2012

All that you can really assume are the things that aren’t assumptions; give your community the chance to tell you their preferences and interests, and track what you can (from email opens and clicks, to actions taken) to be sure you are responding to the facts whenever possible. Photo credit: aflier Flickr ].

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

embedded in a powerful photo, you want an image that you can upload to send out in Facebook status updates, link to in tweets, upload to Flickr, and so on. to Track Click-Through Rates. to track click-through rates in text messages. account for mobile tracking only. Use Bit.ly It’s wise to create a separate Bit.ly

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Flickr Photo by PetitPlat - Stephanie Kilgast. Tracking for Impact and Learning. Their dashboard already did a great job at tracking impact metrics about the reach and size of their audience, but they wanted to go deeper in tracking engagement and taking action. Data Measurement'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2012

You can easily track pins that are driving traffic to your website – both those pinned by you and others – by simply replacing your website URL in the URL below: pinterest.com/source/YourWebsite.com. Related Links: Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Use YouTube, Flickr and Pinterest. Remember… you are what you pin.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. But are you aware of the extra tools available through Flickr Pro? Flickr Pro gives you unlimited photo and video uploads and storage.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2008

Getting involved in a social network, whether it be something like Facebook or Myspace, or a content-connected social network like flickr or delicious (I’m starting to get used to writing that without the dots,) is pretty easy. It’s great that I can follow all of the content (blogs, tweets, Flickr photos, etc.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

premium services (WordPress themes, Flickr Pro, Facebook custom Tab generators, etc.), 10) Track the growth and ROI of your online communities. Almost three years ago I wrote and published on this blog a simple system for tracking your Social Media ROI (Return on Investment). The era of winging it in social media is over.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs. Media outlets both online and offline. Tweets on Twitter. Links shared on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. There is an evolving category of tools (some free, some not) that can help make the tasks associated with content strategy, engagement, and tracking less onerous. Tracking for Insights and Value. Guest Post by James Young , SpredFast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2013

Flickr Photo by Flatbush Gardner. Among other things on the webinar, we discussed some best practices for developing a proposal, such as: Align with the tracks and impact areas. The Conference workshops will be categorized into both tracks and impact areas this year. View the recording of the webinar here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Flickr Photo by PCSO900. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , we devote an entire chapter to something we called "Learning Loops" which is a combination of tracking and monitoring in real time as a project unfolds, but also incorporates a process of reflection at the end of the project to the next experiment. . Easier said than done.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 30, 2009

Do you track how people find your organization? It isn’t vital that you post to Twitter AND Pownce AND Jaiku or that you upload photos to Flickr AND Picasa AND Photobucket. You can post YouTube videos to your blog posts and Flickr photos to your Upcoming.org event listings. From Idealist. Develop your voice for each tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Flickr Photo by Joel Goodman. Hopefully those days are coming soon as there’s a new movement to simplify and standardized social media measurements and better track what really matters. Well Katie calls that HITS = How Idiots Track Success.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Whether you or not you understand how to use tags, chances are you have come across them if you have ever used blogs, YouTube, Flickr, Twitter, or bookmarking sites such as Delicious. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. Tagging Tutorials - Part 1 Flickr. You're It!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Flickr Photo by Jason A. Today’s tech tools just make it easier for more of us to appreciate, track, and measure the qualities social scientists have been investigating for years. Guest post by Kate Wing. We’ve all been in a meeting where someone new to the field sits down at the table and says, “Wow – why don’t you all do it this way?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2009

You understand how to track the success of your programs, but when it comes to social media you're at a loss. Kami Griffiths will interview John Haydon and Chris Garrett to learn more about the impact we can expect to see from these tools, how it can be tracked, and how to adapt to get the most return on your investment. Pacific time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2012

Flickr Photo by S. Likewise, nonprofits need to figure out how to do a better job setting some limits with grantmakers who want to interfere too much, while proactively establishing and tracking success measures. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

While the giants (Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, Flickr and Youtube) are great for outreach and relationship-building, we’ve had surprising successes with StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, Plancast and other sites. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? We currently use a plethora of online tools to spread the word and talk to people.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2009

Flickr Photo: zadro. Tracking the first part is easy, whether you're using direct mail, TV ads, email, or your blog. We've become adept at this kind of tracking in the sector. Tracking the second part is harder, but we can create systems to at least approximate where new supporters come from. social media.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Don't forget to check out our programming calendar to see the free Member Appreciation programming we have scheduled for you this month, including today's webinar: Fast Track Your Fundraising: 5 Secrets to Accelerate Your Campaign Results , 2pm ET / 11am PT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Creative Commons Licensed Photo from Flickr by United Nations Photo. Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. Did you use any “real time” tracking of your tweets and make any adjustments along the way? In addition, we track key purchases on a weekly basis (Tuesday through Monday). What tool did you use?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. The most important question to ask yourself before you start: If measurement shows you are not on track to achieve your goals, are you willing to change course or establish new goals altogether? The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 2, 2014

Luckily for you NetSquared is here to keep you on track. Victoria, Canada: Where do all the People Live: Choosing the Right Tools to Track Your Data. Liz Kearley via Flickr. ” But following through on these plans can be difficult. We are, after all, in the second golden age of television ! Wednesday, January 15.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

You can use GiftWorks to track donors and donations, create reports for your campaign, connect with donors via social media integration, and much more. Basic 3.0 , you can organize and track donor gifts, create fundraising campaign emails, and much more. Image: Donation jar, ( Flickr ). With Telosa Exceed!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Flickr photo: lovebugstudios As an Executive Director, I especially love talking to other leaders about technology. As the leader, I have a lot of things to keep track of – from human resource to program to fundraising to, well, technology. For the ED, the ultimate win for technology comes when we get even 1% more efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

Flickr Photo BirkgetKing. Dealing with good and bad buzz - Pete Snyder, formally of New Media Stratedgies (now part of Meredith Corporation) and most recently a run for Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor talks about the need to track good & bad online buzz for clients.

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