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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

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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Benchmarking: Networked Nonprofits Measure Their Social Media Results In A Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Arts and Social Media. At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Photo by Dwinton. Feedburner doesn't provide those.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

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! Analytics tools.

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Supporting a Nonprofit Business Plan: A Leader’s Guide to Guiding Your Board

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Luckily, you’ve been tracking which social media platforms bring donors into your organization and you’ve been assigning them to segments based on that. As a result, you can show that most of your social media-related donations come from platforms like Facebook and Twitter, while TikTok-based contributions are negligible.

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5-Part Social Media Process

Amy Sample Ward

I’ve been thinking about these lists in terms of adopting social media tools and think that most of the lists are hitting on the same exact things. Here’s my list that I think hits at the core of all the other lists for social media strategy. 5-Part Social Media Strategy Process.

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Facebook Metrics Nonprofits Need to Know

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If you are a social media data junky, then you are in luck because M&R and NTEN recently analyzed Facebook statistics for the 40 organizations surveyed in their 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. The Wildlife/Animal Welfare sector had the highest ratio of Facebook users to email subscribers at 242 per 1000.