Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Megan: MySpace was probably our first introduction to social media, but not sure the year we created the account. Finally, we are beginning to measure how many volunteer applications come by way of our social media channels as well as using marketing sites like Klout to measure our influence online. Jumo: [link].

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

What we see as a benefit is the thought that perhaps using the Net Community, it might be a little more professional than having a group on FB or MySpace. How will you measure them? A negative, though, is that most people are currently using one or more social networking sites - will they use this one too?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. Nonprofit staff are so overwhelmed, how many groups have someone to measure social media? Sarah Granger: advise nonprofits on using social media for advocating and communicating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

We wanted something different; not just another MySpace profile. This was mostly a myspace campaign. also coordinated and integrated the content and blog postings with our hsus myspace page and rebecca???s We had taken the time to build up a strong following on our hsus myspace page ??? s online journal , without.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

re not in Bebo, MySpace, Orkut, or other network? 6) How do you measure success? Does it align with the direction your company is going? 2) Is Facebook the right network for you? Is your audience there? Do they speak and read English? Are you sure they???re Do you know the Facebook demographics? (I I do, and it???s 5) When do you stop?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

As part of Microsoft Outlook 2010, features allow people to connect with their Facebook and MySpace accounts (the service already allowed you to connect Outlook to LinkedIn). They have in common the three necessary traits I listed above, plus a deep interest in achieving measurable results from their social media campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2009

They realized quickly it was the wrong approach. " We’ve stopped cramming calls to action down people’s throats because we understand that’s not the culture of MySpace or Facebook or the way social media can be successful. For example, John Cass, in his post " Measuring Engagement in Social Media." We help guide it." Why is that?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

A couple of examples: GreenPeace didn’t have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. We are all after real world changes, so how do we measure our use of these tools on real world impact? Link to things that can be measured. Laura: What are your goals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2007

Unless your job responsibility is as a 'online community manager' you don't need spend your entire work day on MySpace." Those who work on multiple networking sites may designate a particular day to particular sites, "Wednesday is MySpace day." " Most nonprofit online networkers agree.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

This came the "dashboard" for the Indianapolis Museum of Art , an ongoing effort to measure various aspects of the Museum's performance. According to the web site, the goal is to seek to quantify and report out on areas of activity of general interest to museum studies specialists, colleagues, and patrons.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

They are used to text messaging, MySpace, Facebook, get-in, get-out, instant gratification. For them, going out and cleaning up a park — that’s not necessarily attractive to them…’” – Linton Weeks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

ve already partnered with 50 non-profits, like Care2 , Greenpeace , and Amnesty International The question it raises for nonprofits is, join an existing network like Facebook or MySpace or build your own social network or combination? I'd love to see more detail, like an overview the strategies or how they measure success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2008

When we found that MySpace was good for advocacy, Facebook for fundraising, Flickr for easy website photo slideshows, and YouTube for increasing video views, we decided to invest our time into those four. That, of course, means that you've carefully thought through what metrics and measurement you'll use to track your experiment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

s choice award Number of youtube video views of winning submission MEASUREMENT TOOLS - tangible Sourced links for new list names from marketing ??? to quantify engagement PROCESS / STRATEGY Measuring buzz -link love ??? to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ???

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

With estimates up to 200 million members globally and 12% of all internet traffic, MySpace certainly earns the title of the "top dog" of social networks. Within MySpace, we searched the names of 383 of the largest, most well-known nonprofits to see if they had created profiles. And is it even worth it ?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

conference, many people asked: “How do you measure the return on investment (ROI) for social networking campaigns.&# Justin Perkins of Care2 created a great calculator to help nonprofits estimate the cost and ROI for recruitment and fundraising efforts on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace. During the Fem 2.0

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

You can use this tool to calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. So Im really curious about how many folks in this field are measured on goals other than raising money. Need some metrics guidelines?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

You can use this tool to calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. So Im really curious about how many folks in this field are measured on goals other than raising money. Need some metrics guidelines?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

where your mini-application can extend to: MySpace, Bebo, SixApart, Orkut, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Ning, Hi5, Plaxo, Friendster, Viadeo and Oracle. It will run on MySpace. as a sole measurement of success. as a sole measurement of success. I like Christopher Penn's example: Think for a moment what this means. The web, it???s

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See3

JULY 12, 2007

comScore, for example, says they have “ 2 million participants under continuous measurement. &# And then they extrapolate. is changing behavior, thought they needed a different way to measure. All hell broke loose when their new calculation showed that AOL was on top — above MySpace and Yahoo and Google and MSN.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

In a nut shell, 1000 people may have installed it, but a lot more may be seeing it and while this is not the kind of traffic we can measure, it is interesting to think about. While I focused on Facebook for social networking examples, there are examples on MySpace. Perhaps due to their MySpace presence?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

You can use this tool to calculate an estimate of cost and return on investment for the recruitment and fundraising efforts of your staff in social networking sites like Facebook or MySpace. So Im really curious about how many folks in this field are measured on goals other than raising money. Need some metrics guidelines?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

Here is a short list of innovations that happened after online giving began in 1999: Airbnb, Android, Bitcoin, Chrome, Dropbox, Etsy, Facebook, Github, Hashtags, iPod, iPhone, iPad, jQuery, Kindle, LinkedIn, MySpace, Netflix, Oculus Rift, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, Tesla, Twitter, USB Flash Drive, Venmo, Wii, Xbox, YouTube, and the Zettabyte.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Donations will be a consequence of meaningful engagement, not a measurement of it. Today, it's becoming standard practice to communicate with supporters using tools like Flickr, MySpace , Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter. Get them started now, so that in 2012, you're not beginning at square one to develop a mobile fundraising strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if we faced up to really measuring the results of our work? It is very difficult to measure impact. Looking at Ebay process - can measure the transaction and get user reviews. They will be using Skype, Second Life, Facebook, and MySpace. What if networked better and created stronger communities of practice?

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

But, as you make your rounds to check in on how they are doing, you oversee a few logging in with their dog's name, the name of the org, the current year and make of their car, or even their birthday -- which can now be seen by millions on Facebook, MySpace, Friendster, Tribe, Twitter, and who knows what other social networking profiles out there!

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

billion minutes are spent on Facebook each day (worldwide) More than 20 million users update their statuses at least once each day More than 4 million users become fans of Pages each day A couple of examples: GreenPeace didnt have everything they needed to conduct an email campaign so they set up a Myspace profile. Laura: What are your goals?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2006

Social networking sites such as MySpace and Palo Alto's Facebook have exploded in popularity, drawing new users into the fold each day. Work with them to create a framework for measuring the ROI of your blogging efforts. If you believe the buzz, the latest incarnation of the Web is all about sharing, connecting and community.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

conference, many people asked: “How do you measure the return on investment (ROI) for social networking campaigns.” ” Justin Perkins of Care2 created a great calculator to help nonprofits estimate the cost and ROI for recruitment and fundraising efforts on social networking sites such as Facebook or MySpace.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 22, 2010

It's no secret by now that social media is hot topic with nonprofit organizations, and quickly the topic of social media measurement is becoming a common conversation thread across the community. Guest Post: Measuring Social Media with Multichannel Integration and Meaningful Metrics. Take first step and start measuring your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear that it will take staff time, there will be little return, and the return will not be as easily measurable as, say, a direct mail piece. If you're looking to engage and inspire new supporters, setting up an organizational presence on one of the larger social networks like Facebook or MySpace is an option.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 16, 2007

And importantly, the return on investment in these technologies can be measured in terms of donations, page views, and names who receive your updates. Their efforts focused around starting a MySpace page and delivering news, updates, donation requests, and invitations to events to their MySpace community.

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Forum One

APRIL 9, 2008

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2007

There's a more measured article about twitter from the MIT Technology Review that gets beyond the hype to talk about twitter's functionality. This is similar to initiatives where museums create MySpace accounts, in that you are going to “where the people are.” Is this good for anything? to their phones or on the twitter website).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

The sources include Myspace, Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. Tags: Engagement Influencers Listening Measurement. NutshellMail : About a month or so ago, Manny Hernandez mentioned this free tool as a social media time saver. It grabs all your “ bacn “ from social networks and aggregates into a single email.

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