Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

It closely follows Gartner's Technology Hype Cycle. The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. When will we see a Network for Good for text fundraising campaigns? Maybe I'm jaded. Technology Trigger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Questions of measurement, ROI, and how to set goals and define success were plaguing everyone. The key question we asked is whether digital and social media are delivering on their promise and the hype. How to analyze a moving target? As readers of this blog well know, digital and social media can be difficult to keep up with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

What are the techniques and strategies that nonprofits use to find free agents? In 2008, I designed the Nonprofit and Social Media ROI Poetry Slam and last year was a panel on crowdsourcing that modeled crowdsourcing in the design and delivery. My nonprofit has found a free agent, now what? Check out his illustration of the panel).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. Click to see the larger image. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Online fundraising has been on an upward trajectory for years. But because of pandemic-related restrictions on in-person interactions, online fundraising increased by 32% in 2020. After a year of significant growth, online fundraising grew by a more modest 3% in 2021 , and the number of gifts increased by 5%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Stephen Downes describes the difficulty of measuring ROI of E-Learning with the best quote yet, "Measuring learning is still like measuring friendship.

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MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning. Funnel: Measure the whole funnel!

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