Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Social Media Roi Slidesbk. I’m doing a panel titled “Social Media ROI&# with Lauren Vargas from Radian 6 and moderated by Roz Lemieux from Fission Strategy. Notes and Resources. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 10, 2017

My recent paper, Remarkably Outstanding Implementation: The Foundation for Positive ROI with Target Analytics , is now available. As I prepared and wrote this paper, several thoughts occurred to me about the importance of measuring ROI for nonprofit analytics projects that I thought I would highlight for you in this post.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Adjust your digital marketing strategy according to the responses you receive to make clients feel valued and drive better results. The higher your business ranks in Google search results, the more likely people are to visit your website and invest in your products or services. Create training resources. Analyze your CRM.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Discoveries are the “sharpening your ax” mode smart nonprofits invest in before taking a swing at technology challenges, and avoiding them can result in a big miss. It’s like that old adage from carpentry, “Measure Twice, Cut Once.”. Why is that? Here are our top 3 reasons: 1. Discoveries Lower Risk & Cost. It’s about people.

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Forum One

MARCH 12, 2024

Ask an AI tool to help make your writing more succinct or engaging and see what the results are. (It AI is an impact multiplier for mission-driven organizations since nearly all already do a lot without enough resources. Outsourcing your marketing entirely to AI will result in bad marketing and will hurt your brand. Copyediting.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Without capable resources, this could be a high-maintenance project, and a costly long-term option. Year-over-year strategic planning includes changes in operations, processes, initiatives, measurement of impact and outcomes, and the need to find new ways to connect with stakeholders.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

The end results are more efficient fundraising, more revenue, and more time for what matters. Machine learning technology uses these patterns to train predictive algorithms that will measure specific propensities and make predictions. Does an AI-driven approach result in more or less revenue than a more manual approach?

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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. Remember, measurement isn’t counting – you have to get just take numbers out of context.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

From the donor’s perspective, their “purchase” of investment in a nonprofit’s work results in the gratification of being a part of the solution to a societal problem. This will also help ensure that your nonprofit continues to get resourced. Focus on both short-term and long-term ROI.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Last week I had the pleasure of attending the Young Nonprofit Professionals Network of DC second annual Social Summit and sharing some information on social media ROI and metrics. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals. Have any tips yourself for measuring social ROI?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. What are the right tools to help measure success? What are the right tools to help measure success? Simply Measured.

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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. This week's theme is social media ROI. Tags: ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Note from Beth: I had pleasure of facilitating a panel discussion in October at the recent Grantmakers in the Arts pre-conference on technology and media with Rory MacPherson where I learned about some of the preliminary study result he discovered. The question. How to analyze a moving target? Arts organizations are not alone in this.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

How to Improve Your Conversion Rate If your organization is experiencing high engagement, yet low conversions, there are several easy ways you can improve your results. Social Media Return on Investment Measuring your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) is essential for any marketing or fundraising initiative.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

According to SureImpact’s Primer on Nonprofit Impact Measurement , impact is “the quantifiable difference an organization makes … the collective effects (intended and unintended) of a nonprofit’s work on the communities it serves.” Plan for the future and make decisions about resource allocation. Fundraising ROI.

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Givinga

DECEMBER 18, 2018

New records were set in ROI, donor advised funds (DAFs) and other areas as corporations addressed the rising importance of philanthropy in engaging employees, attracting talent, and building brands. More Companies Will Track Giving ROI. They now number 450,000, with total assets measure over $110 billion.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

These benefits include saved time, money, and resources. In VolunteerHub, reports can be generated quickly and used to evaluate volunteer trends, activity, preferences, and ROI. Return on Investment (ROI). When used strategically, your volunteer management solution should provide a return on investment (ROI).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

This will help you measure whether or not your campaign has been a success and will give you a benchmark for the year following if it’s your first time getting involved. They set out to raise £750 for a new machine to measure oxygen levels in babies’ blood, but significantly exceed their original target. Get Planning Now.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

From smaller, newer nonprofits to larger charitable organizations, measuring performance is a universally shared need, especially in the realm of fundraising. But for organizations that offer direct services to constituents, such as social services nonprofits, there’s another layer of complexity— impact measurement. Diversity Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2011

Council on Foundations ROI Panel. I participated on a panel called Face, Tweet, Link – Socia Media, Grantmaking & A True Social ROI. Slightly more mature practice for measuring business results vs social impact. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. This will be very valuable information to the field.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2011

I’ve been mulling over the “Social Media ROI&# concept and how it doesn’t necessarily work for nonprofits, especially when it applied as a litmus test to see if there are financial outcomes — cost reductions or increased revenue. Should we be using an industrial measurement model in a digitally networked age?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

To make it easier, we’ve organized the components of a nonprofit business plan into three categories based on your responsibilities: Board Support and Guidance Vision and Values Alignment Financial and Resource Planning Executive Summary: A brief overview of the nonprofit’s mission, goals, and strategies.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

There are thank you notes to write, data to input, and results to report. Your fundraising goals, or “micro-goals,” should be SMART goals – specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time bound. At CauseVox , we believe that the best way to grow your resources is to understand what has worked (and hasn’t worked) in the past.

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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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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

By bringing together all of your financial information into your data warehouse, you can more easily generate accurate financial reports and ensure you’re using your resources effectively. This data-driven decision-making can lead to more targeted fundraising efforts, better resource allocation, and improved program outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages. You cannot rely on being ???given

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In my forthcoming book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine, my favorite chapter was about the sense-making process of measurement – called “Measurement and the Aha! Has your nonprofit used infographics as part of its reporting process on results or other uses?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. What are the results? Is it worth it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. We track ROI by looking at a couple of different factors – first we see how much revenue is generated from sites like Facebook Causes, Crowdrise , Social Vibe , etc. The last thing we do is measure our market share in the social media space.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

I am full-time and paid, though, like everyone else in the non-profit world, my time/resources are limited, so I don’t get to do social media strategy/long-term planning all day long. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. Are you currently investing resources in mobile marketing i.e,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization’s past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy.

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EveryAction

MAY 23, 2016

With more to do, across multiple departments, and fewer resources to work with, many professionals looking to shake off the often-restricting structure in the corporate world may find they thrive in this sort of environment. Measuring impact has more to do with building awareness in issue areas and the larger public conversation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2017

Decision makers very often like to have clear and understandable facts and figures to help them decide where to spend their organization's resources. In the larger IT world, the tool for doing this is an ROI analysis or return on investment case. How to Make an ROI Case. The Narrative Part of an ROI Analysis.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). asks Tom Webster over at BrandSavant.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? Please summarize your ROI. The ROI for us is measured in lives saved more than just the money raised to do so. Most of the perils that big cats face are the result of exploiters banking on the fact that people are mesmerized by tigers and want to touch them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.  And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success?   Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success.    Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

What's the roi? Stephen Downes points to a post by Tony Karrer with disagreeing with some points in about the value of blogging in Thomas Davenport's book Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers. I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured.

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