Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Social media is an indispensable tool for raising awareness for your nonprofit’s cause, reaching new audiences, and strengthening your relationships with donors. However, your nonprofit isn’t the only one that understands just how valuable social media can be for your fundraising efforts. After all, with 4.9

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

But, if you don’t have a membership engagement strategy in place to engage and retain them, you’ll end up losing members just as fast as you can acquire them. Even a basic member engagement strategy can be all you need to excite your current members and entice them to renew for years to come. What is a Membership Engagement Strategy?

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TechImpact

JUNE 22, 2013

If you’re organization is like most nonprofits, you probably already use analytics to track the success of your website and your social media presence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

By Tereza Litsa , Social Media Manager at Lightful , a simple social media management platform for nonprofits. A new year brings new goals and now is the perfect time to plan your social media content calendar for 2019. Get organized : a content calendar can help you create a more consistent social presence.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A well-crafted branding strategy can help you stand out from the crowd, attract donors and volunteers, and make a lasting impact on your community. But what exactly is a nonprofit branding strategy? What is a nonprofit branding strategy? Why is a nonprofit branding strategy important? Measure and track your success.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2023

Social media is an important channel of communication for connecting with your donors and supporters. billion people were using social media worldwide in 2021, and that number is only expected to increase over time. Here are a few steps to help you get started on your social media journey! Set SMART goals.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

In part one of this series, I outlined my top six fundraising strategies for 2021: . Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. In this post, I’ll explore the fifth strategy. . Master an analytic approach to strategy and planning. Do you know what social media posts they like or share?

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Using data to help your organization thrive Here are four strategies to help data drive your decisions so your organization can thrive! Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. This is a measurable number that could be adapted if the survey needed to be given in different formats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 6, 2023

1) Multi-Channel Strategy Employing a multi-channel strategy helps nonprofits reach a wider audience with their year-end campaign. Online channels (email, social media, website, donation forms, and texting) encourage real-time interactions, personalized messaging, and taps into tech-savvy younger donors.

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The Storytelling Non-profit

JANUARY 24, 2022

One of the best storytelling tips I can give you is to set yourself up for measurement success from the very beginning. It can be near impossible to measure the success of a story if you haven’t first thought about what your desired outcomes are and drivers of success. We’ll use sharing a story in social media posts as our example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

For past couple of years, I have been blogging , speakin g, facilitating peer trainings , and writing about using measurement methods for nonprofits to measure impact and to learn from their data. I didn’t get asked ”What are the best tools to measure followers on Twitter? Books Conferences'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable. Elizabeth R.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications). 2: Measuring the Effect on Outcomes is Preferred to Measuring Outputs : Measure your results, not just numbers.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

We understand what it takes to empower teams of supporters, and using our firsthand knowledge, we’ve pulled together several volunteer engagement ideas and strategies for maximizing your team’s impact. Much like a volunteer recruitment strategy, this volunteer engagement playbook is essential to all your volunteer programs and activities.

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Media Cause

JULY 14, 2023

Measure Impact: Define the metrics that will help measure the impact of your digital campaign. Beyond website traffic, consider metrics that reflect the impact on equity, such as engagement from marginalized communities or positive social media sentiment. Follow accessibility guidelines!

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

However, unlike business employees, nonprofit professionals may not have the time to devote to a website strategy or the capacity to spend time mastering a complex CMS. With our guide, you’ll be well prepared to create a content strategy for your site, whether you’re migrating from a different CMS or starting from scratch. Events page.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Your nonprofit’s fundraising strategy encompasses more than just earning donations from supporters. Whether you’re looking to take an improved approach to your existing strategy or design a new plan from scratch, this guide will steer you through the process of building a fundraising strategy. With that, let’s get started.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2024

Your passion and drive demonstrate why donors should give to your cause, but finding new donors and keeping existing ones takes something more: a solid fundraising strategy. A thorough, thoughtful strategy takes the guess work out of the daily operations of your nonprofit. It’s the story you tell potential and current donors.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Top 5 Social Media Tactics Every School Should Implement. First off, your school should have a blog that’s the center of your social media strategy. Remember, great content is the key to successful social media. link] and measure your sharing effectiveness. 5) Monitor the Social Web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I'm working with a small group of Packard Foundation grantees on a social media lab where they are implementing different social media experiments. We know that good practice is to establish measurable objectives for your social media strategy and identify the audience before you executive.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Social media, as many have said time and again, is only part of your campaigning, part of your fundraising, and part of your communications. These 5 Steps are intended to help you create a successful social media strategy, but as you will see, they focus on your organization’s overall strategy!

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

As we discuss these methods, consider your current approach to recruitment marketing and which of these strategies would complement it well. Understand Digital Engagement Metrics Before you launch your digital recruitment marketing campaign, you need to understand how digital engagement works so you can fine-tune your strategies accordingly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure. Participants pointed to the importance of small pilots.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Ask: What Area Practice Do We Want To Improve?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Eighty-one percent of Americans have social media accounts , and that number is expected to grow each year. Nearly all brands have a social presence, and libraries are no different. Libraries are using social platforms now more than ever before. Libraries use Facebook more than any other social platform.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Known as the largest professional social networking platform, LinkedIn is the go-to resource for millions of job-seekers, professionals, and businesses to network and connect. For nonprofits, LinkedIn can be a valuable tool to add to your social media toolbox. Network and create an outreach strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

I think that is an important insight for small organizations who don’t have a team of people doing the social media and trying to do it with limited hours in the day. One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Measurement Challenges.

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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

Fundamental Strategies to Maximize your Event Marketing ROI. As a result, your nonprofit’s financial health often depends on your ability to recoup that investment through a successful marketing strategy that brings in ticket sales and donations. Social media. use social media every day. Let’s jump in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ? What does success look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis. If you are just starting out or if you haven’t identified a strategy and a good regular routine, can you really expect success? Actionable Measurement. What does that mean?

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Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Yet too many nonprofits still don’t prioritize donor retention strategies. . You may know I love applying lessons from other disciplines to nonprofit fundraising and marketing; recently an article from Merkle inspired me to consider how the social benefit sector might use commercial business insights to increase donor loyalty.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Panelists: Wendy Harmon: social media manager, philosophy is to use social media to execute mission. Can’t wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

This week's theme is social media ROI. That's what I've been thinking, speaking, and writing about and have also recruited guest posts on this topic. As KD Paine, the queen of social media measurement says, yes we can measure social media and here's how. That's the secret sauce.

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ROI Social Media Metrics Conference 78

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2010

In July, Idealware published the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide. One of the most interesting tidbits of data to me was the large gap between people who “thought&# social media of varied types either helped them reach new audiences, or helped them raise money, and those that really “knew&# this was the case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

Investing in movements or networks for social change is a strategy that some funders are using. But, how do you measure the results? The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

One of the most anticipated sessions (for me and I'm sure I'm not alone) was this session with Beth Kanter, blogger and Zoetica Media and Lauren Varga, Radian6 and moderated by Roz Lemieux of Fission Strategy. I've long admired and respected Beth, and I'm a fan of Radian6, a social media monitoring tool.

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