Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." It's still too early to measure success in aggregate dollars per donor. Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. The green represents people talking about. Here’s how I do it: 1. Look for the Patterns.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 18, 2020

It is important to start by making an audit and consistently measuring your carbon footprint, so that you can ensure you’re improving and can reduce it as much as possible. Use Green Energy. Being eco-friendly is a priority here at Twenti, that’s why all of our hosting is run on 100% green energy. Green Online Marketing .

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. Other solutions worth consideration for smaller nonprofits might be Neon and Little Green Light.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

Return on Investment (ROI) was created in the 1920s as a financial measure developed by DuPont and used by Alfred Sloan to make General Motors manageable. What it also illustrates is that, originally, ROI was a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. There's an entire book devoted to the topic: Nonprofit ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

Here's the metrics they are using.    I'm particularly interested in the social capital measure. Here's the description from the site of the various metrics, but would really like to get a sense of how to use the numbers to improve Twitter presence - and what the scale/range is for some. the outside.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

It’s won awards from Treehugger.com as the “Best of Green in Food and Health” and is cited regularly in mainstream and new media as a trusted source for sustainable seafood information. How will you measure success? What metrics are you using for mobile? The Seafood Watch app has been downloaded by more than 480,000 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

An easy example is green technology. I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. Lagging indicators -.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. The top ranked content was on strategy including metrics, adoption, and overall strategy. How could I have done a better job of measuring its success?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

(Incidentally, here's a lovely set of images of several Wright homes with brilliant green foliage as a backdrop. Another session I enjoyed was a collaborative conversation about how one can possibly "measure" design. Have any other metrics to add to this list? Here is the list: Desirability: Do people enjoy the site?

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A donor database is a software solution that nonprofit professionals use to access insights into their supporters’ engagement histories, track key fundraising metrics, and measure success. Look for a solution that offers the flexibility to set success metrics that are meaningful to your community and its goals. Goal progression.

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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. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. " What do you think about measuring social media? Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Green Media Toolshed ; Founder Marty Kearns says that listening is something that is done on an individual staff level, but for it to become an organizational process leaders need to build a culture of listening. The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley. This drove traffic.

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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. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Harry: A Green Geek. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

" The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. Hot debates follows in another post on charity evaluation and metrics over at Tactical Philanthropy blog suggested that we forget on a metric to measure "Total Good Accomplished" and focus on real measures.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 8, 2023

To kickstart the planning process, define specific and measurable goals aligned with your organization’s mission. Measuring Success and Adjusting Strategies Measuring the success of your nonprofit’s annual development plan requires establishing realistic Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that align with your goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. " Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Are Web statistics a matter of transparency. I don't think that side-by-side number counts are all that useful.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

10 Top Nonprofit CRM Solutions (Updated 2023) Neon CRM Bloomerang Network for Good Blackbaud Raiser’s Edge NXT Virtuous EveryAction DonorPerfect GiveButter Little Green Light Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud The Pros and Cons of Spreadsheet CRMs Alright! Should My Nonprofit Choose Little Green Light? What is a CRM, Anyway?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. So each time we complete a major effort on these social media venues, we measure our results and report back on our progress. What metrics? but now that we???ve The case I???m Stop: Hammer-Time!

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OneCause

JANUARY 31, 2024

If you don’t have a metric for success going in, you won’t be able to measure how well you did or improve your strategies going forward. Stewarding existing donors. Engaging prospective major donors. No matter what your goals are, make sure that you have a way to quantify them.

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished. Throughout the course of history, some very brilliant minds have endeavored the obscure task of forecasting the future of technology.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

" This helped us define a list of measurable goals, and also allowed us to define exactly how those goals would be tracked. The trick is deciding which metrics will let you know if you're reaching our goals -- turning data into actual intelligence -- and refining both the goals and the metrics over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Come measure success. Once upon a non-profit theory, measurement was weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious meetings with little to account for, While I nodded, nearly napping, an idea for a strategy came a tapping, What if measurement could include social interactions and what they stand for? Oh my god, take a look.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Guest Post Written By: Victoria Greene. Guest Post: Victoria Greene is a branding consultant and freelance writer. In this template you’ll learn how to: Establish your most important metrics. Measure and track results. Reporting and measurement plans. 5 NONPROFITS WINNING AT SOCIAL MEDIA. DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

The other is that Ken joins with other watchdogs and philanthropic leaders in a call to move beyond financial ratios and search for new and better methods of measuring donation-worthiness. It’ll be more like having a rainbow garden – a row of carrots, a row of corn, a row of strawberries, a row of collard greens, and so on.

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 26, 2017

First, start by identifying your campaign goals so you can measure progress. I chose to analyze the metrics for the phrase, “nonprofit marketing,” in Ahrefs, because it’s related to the phrase I want to rank for. It’s also a clear way to measure the value of your content. Recieve 500 social shares.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

January 29, 2009 | Kate Talbot I am not so into measuring metrics. I prefer engagements that one can measure in dollars. more feasible. In the Non-profits world one of the biggest challenges is to tap into those people who are either not "onboard" or who are "onboard" but not really participating.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

And the moon’s a hunk of stinky green cheese , holds nothing back and shares some much needed advice from Alan Clayton that all nonprofits should hear. Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. Infographics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 1, 2006

We also work with some socially responsible businesses like Green Mountain Coffee Roasters; we are working with Annie's Organic right now, and so a broad mix of people who are trying to make the world a better place. We work for clients across the board from non-profits like the ACLU and Greenpeace to more political causes.

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