Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2008

I've been thinking a lot about ROI because at the end of the month, I'll be doing a session at the Legal Services Corporation's TIG Conference on ROI in the Nonprofit World. On Monday, my article, The ROI of Social Media , was published in the NTEN Newsletter and in March I'll lead a panel at the NTC on that topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. Tim Davies from the UK volunteered to be the guinea pig and test the thinking process (a logic model of sorts) for his newly launched web project that incorporates social media strategies. | View | Upload your own.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

What's the roi? I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. " Productivity would be defined in the context of some sort of evaluation of the benefits of the technology - perhaps using a logic model. And both can be difficult to measure. Are you simply wasting your time?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

I'm here in Chicago for a very brief trip on a panel about metrics and measurement for museums called "New Spaces, New Measures." I came across two more excellent resources on this evolving topic of social media metrics and wanted to quickly summarize before I add to the link list in the wiki.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

The part that's still very tricky for most is measuring the impact of these activities. If your embedded donation form isn't getting traffic, does that mean your FB page has no ROI? Metrics, metrics, metrics. Animate them. So we start with the industry-wide best practices: How many people like you on Facebook?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I start with a crawl-walk-run-walk framework for staffing models for nonprofits. If you track you time and have specific tasks, you know what you’re getting for your time investment. It’s just one step away from looking at ROI. I talk about spreadsheet aerobics and other measurement tips.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2014

I put the call out for nonprofit blog posts on the topic of measuring your nonprofit’s marketing or communication strategies. The art part is how you articulate your organization’s measure of success and formulate strategies to realize that success. The science part of the equation starts with a solid methodology and tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Social and Nonprofits ROI: Case Study Slam submitted by Beth Kanter Using a poetry slam format, each panelist will present a five-minute poem or story about how their organization has successfully implemented a social media strategy experiment and how they considered the ROI. How do I measure thee, let me count the ways, etc).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

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. In addition to the graphic facilitation, there will be other interactive learning elements. Trust me. They want to connect. They want to share in more than one medium.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

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!" We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

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!" We use a file size measurement -- video files must be under 300 MB.

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Care2

MAY 27, 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!" The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. Here are a few examples.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" Make sure its worth it for your organization by using our social networking ROI calculator.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 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!" Make sure its worth it for your organization by using our social networking ROI calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

You need metrics or measure against goals, but you also need harvest those insights. This post harvests what I learned and what I still don't know about the birthday campaign strategy and measurement as well as guest teaching a graduate school class. Measure the Whole Funnel. Setting the Right Dollar Goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Is this an advantage or disadvantage when it comes to nonprofits applying the lean start up model to their social change work? It is common for entrepreneurs to dodge accountability because being driven by the metrics suggested by the funder can get in the way of success. You build up measurement skills. Here’s the method.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

My executive director asks, maybe my board asks, you know, “Are we getting an ROI at budget time? There are some just four things actually that you do need to get tech ROI, and I want to introduce you to these four things right now. ” That doesn’t seem like it’s going to get us a good ROI. Is it worth it?”

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 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!" 60) Search « MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Which had the lowest investment per donor?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 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!" 60) Search « MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? Which had the lowest investment per donor?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

In the old model, it was expected you would and could consume all the information about your field of expertise. In the new model, we have to develop a better set of skills around FILTERING information to know WHAT we need to read. How concerned should nonprofits be with social media metrics? " The answer is that I don't.

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