Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Tag your post with "net2thinktank." " If your organization is using social media, perhaps you've been wondering how to measure or whether if you can even measure "embeds" (that cut and paste script for videos, badges, widgets, and the like). Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – "The 3rd Digital Media and Learning Competition, from the MacArthur Foundation, is now accepting applications. Digital Media and Learning Competition: Applications now open! " My favorite lesson? Design for People To Self Organize!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. What should Netsquared's Facebook strategy be?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Enough funds to win the small, measured victory and build towards the larger ones. It has always bothered me that nonprofits are measured in dollars and cents, and that we’re all lumped into the same pot. Help send me to the NetSquared Conference Okay, time for shameless begging and plugging… I’m really interested.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 20, 2009

Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter. Desperate times call for desperate measures. I am also a big supporter of Edurelief, NetSquared, SocialActions, ConnectingUp- organisations tthat are are showing how social action and technology converge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. I'd love to see more detail, like an overview the strategies or how they measure success. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Measuring success of social media in your work can be a tricky thing to do, especially as we all explore and experiment with the tools every day and many tools and processes are still very new. Tags: challenge community presentation beth kanter crowds crowdsourcing netsquared nten sxsw. What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I was also an early member of Netsquared Community , another one of Marnie’s brilliant ideas that rocked the field. Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. I talk about spreadsheet aerobics and other measurement tips.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I can’t speak for others working in the “innovation sector,&# but at NetSquared we can’t emphasize enough that our Community is what drives us – whether’s it’s online or offline. Tags: community issues otherblogs causes development funding guest blog ideablob innovation myspace social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2010

Some posted to community blogs like NetSquared. To recap : the methods for sharing and promoting the campaign were also designed to create easy ways of measuring participation and impact. Tags: case studies fundraising beth kanter campaign case study online campaign sharing foundation. Some people posted on their own blogs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2009

7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog on Beth's Blog Create a Listening Dashboard for your Organization on NetSquared. Tags: linklove. Bay Area folks can go to the 29 Gifts book launch party in San Francisco November 14th. 19 Free Webinars for Nonprofits - November 2009 on Wild Apricot Blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. 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. Don’t measure things for the sake of measurement. There are myriad things that “could&# be measured. WeAreMedia.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Netsquared featured project WiserEarth In Ode Magazine Social Media Resources. John Bell of the 360 Digital Influence Blog says " It's Time for Measurement of Social Media " which looks at the ROI and identifies some success metrics. What's next? Mashing and burning feeds ? Finding Inspiration in Their Work and Stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

Measurement is the major theme as the sector grows up. I haven't spent much time in this space, but when I walked through the door I ran into Sean Stannard-Stockton who at met at Netsquared several years ago and encouraged him to set up a blog. Tags: socap09. She was warning against shiny object syndrome. Don't give up.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

I originally wrote this post for the NetSquared Blog. Present your ED with the goal a blog will achieve, how you will measure its impact, who will set it up, who will write and maintain it, how much time it will take, and how much it will cost. How to Start a Nonprofit Blog) Tag your posts in del.icio.us, ma.gnolia, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I am remember something that Ethan Zuckerman said at the first Netsquared Conference, " Don't Speak, Point " He was talking about citizen journalism and advocacy in the age of read/write web. Mapping Social Media To Metrics and Measuring The Return of Technology are two sessions that I'm designing for NTEN NTC 2009.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

tags: nonprofit socialmedia ). 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. How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly".

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 28, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Kedar to learn about a new project to help users measure and manage their consumption, in effect encouraging them to control their environmental impact. It is meant to work it’s way from the conscious measurement of people’s behavior. What’s your goal for the new tool?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

This means that the data-driven approach emerging in the social period is strengthened – we don’t just monitor and measure data, but now we let our community do so, too. This means not only do we monitor and measure data as we started doing in the social period, but we also listen to our community, and listen for action.

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