Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

This week the beginner track got underway where 20 arts organizations will design and implement action learning experiments in Facebook , Listening , or Twitter to improve their social media practice. Facebook Custom Landing Tabs + Measurement = Best Practice. Why: Custom Landing Tabs. Here’s a couple of examples.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 8, 2021

Join Accelerist as we talk with the Development Team at the National 4-H Council about their journey in discovering and investing in stewardship technology tools. Topics covered will include: Corporate stewardship technology tools and best practices.

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Association Analytics

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Here are some member retention best practices to help you hold onto your members. To learn more about member engagement best practices, check out this blog. Approach retention scientifically: Identify your association’s measures of success, develop and test the strategy, document its effect, and learn from the experience.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 19, 2024

The specifics of your strategy are going to vary depending on your industry or your members’ interests or any one of a hundred other factors—but there are certain best practices that pretty much all successful nonprofit association strategies have in common. Want some help? Addressing cybersecurity and data privacy is important, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Most blogging platforms have tools and plugins to help optimize a blog post for SEO. There are also programs online that rank how your text works with SEO and programs that help you measure your site’s search traffic performance. Otherwise, you’re limiting the traffic your blog could receive.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 10, 2023

You’re already working with participants in your P2P campaigns, offering them ongoing support, and giving them the tools and resources they need to be successful. We’ll be discussing some data management best practices that can help you make the most of your current and future P2P campaigns. Measure the smaller things.

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.orgSource

JULY 25, 2023

AI tools can automate many of the SEO activities that were once outside the realm of more casual users. These are a few of its talents and tricks for putting your words at the top of the queue: AI tools can automate many SEO activities. But to seamlessly perform all the functions listed above you’ll need a suite of AI tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2023

Here are five reasons why your nonprofit’s social media presence is one of the most valuable marketing tools at your disposal: 1) It’s accessible. This free nonprofit marketing tool allows you to share your organization’s latest news and updates, promote your latest fundraising campaign, and strengthen relationships with your supporters.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite this risk, there are some best practices that you can implement that allow you to fundraise online without the constant worry of a cyberattack. Common type of cyberattacks NIST guidelines for cybersecurity Nonprofit cybersecurity best practices What is cybersecurity for nonprofits? What is cybersecurity for nonprofits?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 5, 2022

Nonprofit managers can show the board (and others) that the organization has maximized efficiencies by accurately measuring the amount (and types) of resources going to marketing and fundraising activities. Any number of excellent software solutions and nonprofit tools exist to help with this kind of analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2013

I’ve been curating resources on nonprofit measurement over on Scoop.It, with eye towards collecting useful material related to social media and social impact measurement. Despite this, when it is times to do measurement, many feel that it is a daunting task. How can we improve our measurement practice?

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

UTM Tracking Best Practices. They help to measure performance and see how far along you are in meeting campaign goals or even a secondary goal, like cultivating and engaging audiences. . UTM Tracking Best Practices. Use a UTM tracking link generator as a quality control tool. . How does UTM Tracking Work? Key Parameters.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. General guidance for fundraisers Here is general guidance on actions fundraisers can take based on fundraising trends and best practices drawn from the report. Your own careful review of the report is encouraged.

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The Modern Nonprofit

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In this thought-provoking exploration, we delve into the complexities of privacy-compliant digital fundraising, unpacking the tools and tactics necessary to thrive without compromising the sacred trust of your donors. The compliance is not just a legal necessity but also a trust-building measure with their donors and supporters.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

There are three main components to integrating impact management practices in your organization: continuous evidence building, participant-centered program management, and integrated financial management. Because traditionally, impact measurement has been performed by siloed teams, the burden on them to collect good evidence is huge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Have they been able to put the ideas into practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It has been almost exactly four years since I published Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , with co-author, Katie Paine. Back then, not many nonprofits were talking or practicing the use of measurement and data to improve nonprofit results. Refinable – adapt to rapidly changing environments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. How do you measure engagement? Engagement is the first step in building the relationship between your nonprofits’s supporters and the organization. That’s the secret!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

the tools to help you do your job. How are you measuring your success? The good news is there is an invisible string connecting all the positive experiences above, so measuring your event’s success , reach , and therefore, growth can be a domino effect. an identified need in the community you serve. people who want to help.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Whether you’re reaching out to build issue awareness, share important news, or raise money for your organization, incorporating these best practices into your email marketing campaigns can help your emails reach your target audiences and keep them engaged with your mission. . Make it Easy for Your Supporters to Get Information From You.

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

To overcome these challenges, Candid, in coalition with a growing number of partners , set out to build a demographic data-led movement to meaningfully and measurably advance equity in the social sector. For example, Dawn shared how her organization offers nonprofits practical resources and tools to help to get started.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 6, 2010

Measuring outcomes is difficult, measuring activities is easy. But, if we only measure activities, we could find ourselves being "successful" while the species we're trying to protect goes extinct or the biome we're trying to protect loses viability and diversity.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 17, 2021

During the discussion, use the following business principles to assist in your evaluation: Churn Rate: Churn rate in its broadest sense is a measure of the number of customers moving out of a collective group over a period of time. For more tools and resources about purpose-driven partnerships, please visit the Accelerist Insights page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2014

As KD Paine and I wrote in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” measuring your social media channels, overall communications or marketing strategy is not a form of voodoo black magic; it is an art and a science. So, what does it take to do the art and science of measuring your marketing or communication strategies well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

Instagram has a couple of marketing benefits. It’s a great branding tool because it can engage audiences, creative instimacy, and appeals to the emotions. This is selective list of best practice and tips blog posts ordered in a way to help you master Instagram. Best Practices and Tips for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

How do you measure your network to learn how to improve outcomes? I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013.

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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.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). The folks at Reforge say ‘attribution is the practice of understanding how you assign credit to marketing initiatives’. They are universal, so many tools track them or support adding them automatically.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

For nonprofits, LinkedIn can be a valuable tool to add to your social media toolbox. To start establishing yourself as a world-changing, impactful organization on the platform, here are a few best practices to succeed on LinkedIn. An essential tool for professionals worldwide, LinkedIn isn’t just for businesses and corporations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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sgEngage

MARCH 19, 2024

As a grantmaker, questions are your tools. They help you gather information, assess needs, measure outcomes, and build relationships with your grantees. Provide a description or best practices as a second part to the question, if needed. Use standard writing best practices, such as short sentences and active voice.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. They need intuitive tools that enable communication and that work right when they’re needed. Fundraising is more tech-powered than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2014

The Foundation recognized that a big opportunity exists between the intersection of story and technology, and launched a research project to consider the role that digital technology can play in elevating the practice of storytelling as a means to improve the well-being of the poor and vulnerable around the world. We’ve named it Hatch.

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CauseVox

APRIL 6, 2023

Peer-to-peer fundraising can be a powerful tool for small nonprofits to raise funds and increase awareness about their cause. However, with the right strategies and tools, small nonprofits can achieve exponential results. How to quickly set up a campaign on CauseVox.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment. Proxy measures and surveys can help gather this data and gain insights into the overall impact your education courses have on learners’ professional growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2011

What is it and what it means to use it as a measurement for improving Facebook engagement on your Facebook Page? This post summarizes some of the key points and resources shared. Measuring Your Edgerank Score. You could systematically test using best practices against your score.

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