Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2007

I've been thinking a lot about Wendy Harmon's advice about ROI and Social Media: A project that won???t t take much time and relates to org goals. I'm working a "rubric" of different types of social media projects, from the easiest lowest risk to the more complicated and resource intensive.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

proprietary, sessions for small orgs and sessions for large orgs. Women Who Tech’s thought provoking virtual panels offer the latest resources and tools for launching a successful startup, tools and apps to build your online community, Social Media ROI, and more. ROI of Social Networking.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. Question 1: How do we define campaigning in the context of social media? annanten : social media is here to help you empower your followers with a story to create powerful activists for your cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Right before I gave my keynote, My Charity Connects shared this video about why it is important for nonprofits to embrace online fundraising (and social media). Since Networked Nonprofits are experts using social media, what does this look like in practice. saramcmillen : What do we socialize first?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Flickr Photo: Vermin Inc On Wednesday, the kind folks at Russ Reid allowed me to invade a little think thank they held with some clients about social media and its applications in the nonprofit organization. We spent the last part of the day talking about the hard part of social media: the organizational challenges and obstacles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

Some reflections from colleagues who have snagged an invite: Wendy Harman, Red Cross: “I have a pretty organic approach to this stuff and just try to make the stakeholders and potential stakeholders happy by providing the same value and utility the org offers in the real world marketplace. Dan Michel. Michele Murrain.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2023

Yes, your org will get a handful of dollars for doing basically nothing. These events can be quite powerful if they are advertised on social media since connections from all over the world can donate. Tupperware parties, garage sales, and candle fundraisers will not sustain your budget. Probably not!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2008

It's about why a blog behind the firewall makes sense -- part ROI business case, part introductory training. Ben and I also follow each other on Twitter (he's @minorjive ) and that's where I heard him mention this presentation. He kindly gave me permission to share it with all of you. We did a quick chat interview: What was the purpose?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

That was my favorite line from the panel I moderated at SXSW last March called the "Nonprofit Social Media Poetry Slam" (notes here ). KD Paine , the Queen of Social Media Measurement, said it. Some of my favorite tweets: What are the biggest hurdles in effective social media use by nonprofits?

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Care2

JUNE 10, 2010

“We have such a strong core track of speakers at Gov & Org 2.0 Social Media ROI. NW, Washington DC 20001 Time : 3:30PM to 4:30PM About : Many organizations struggle with how much they should invest in social media outreach and management as well as how to set goals and measure success.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

More in-depth, financial metric focused ROI, perhaps in a Roundtable discussion format. Communications strategy from a leadership perspective - don't leap frog strategy when it comes to social media, Strategy on Steroids! Staffing-related sessions around social media policies. Change Management. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

I started Upwell from the premise that it might be possible to do really big listening with social media. We primarily use Radian6, an enterprise-level social media platform most often used to monitor brands and products. 5 Big Listening Helps You Identify Which Angle of Your Issue Has the Best ROI.

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NTEN

MAY 15, 2009

Or, for those of you who can't be bothered to open another link -- that's how I roll, so I feel you -- here are some highlights from this year's report: Social Media is hot, but email is where it's really at. Nonprofits in the study segmented in some pretty interesting ways, increasing their ROI along the way.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Thanks for sharing your 10 Best.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Giving on social media sites. billion in 2008 to $29.8 billion in 2013.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 26, 2011

More than 50% of the $20M+ orgs are only considered Juniors (in the participant categories), just beginning their journey with integrated marketing. Percentages of funds raised online are all over the board in terms of org size. The process of proving ROI is complex. Size doesn’t really matter. Time to get current!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Daily coordination with volunteers could be done through social media to bolster membership in the online communities and encourage interactions. For those orgs, Beth and Allison advise individuals at nonprofits to go small, try simple stuff , not focus on ROI, be willing to fail, and leverage small successes.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

69% of all adults are using 1+ social media platform. That is 7 out of 10 adults that are on at least 1 social media platform. Since 2005, social media adoption has grown from 5% to 70%. These program range from small local orgs to national multi-affiliated orgs. That’s astronomical growth.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2008

Show them social media = ROI, with who, when, and why. Show them concrete examples of what is currently happening at your org (a monologue) and show them what is possible (a dialogue). Who has heard of Facebook? You'll get some people who know.).

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Its a message every org should know I just wish I could tell it to more!!

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Its a message every org should know I just wish I could tell it to more!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Today, I am moderating a panel at SXSW about Social Media Nonprofit ROI in the format of a poetry slam. A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. The panel will be in room 18BCD at 5: 00 PM.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" She can be reached at 202-465-3777 x9107 or karen@earth.care2.com.

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MAY 29, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" She can be reached at 202-465-3777 x9107 or karen@earth.care2.com.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What goals does the org. Lastly, you can shamelessly plug LWB.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" What goals does the org. Lastly, you can shamelessly plug LWB.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. Here are a few examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

I am just back from Legal Services Corporation and a keynote on ROI and Nonprofits. awesome person, mother to adopted children from Cambodia and board member for her org, The Sharing Foundation ???could Stephen Downes pointed to a post by Jay Cross called " The Income Statement It Isn't " Jay Cross is exactly right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2007

Getting the internal buy in might be hard for orgs that are still uncertain of ROI and how much time they want to spend on Facebook, but by splitting up the responsibility they can reach more people and use time effectively. Beth Kanter, BlogHer CE for Social Change and NGOS, writes Beth's Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I was (and still am) so convinced that social media and web 2.0 Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2022

Their in-person fundraiser had a 212% ROI, while their virtual fundraiser had a 1617% ROI – that’s 8x higher with the help of online peer-to-peer fundraising. 56% of social media users who donate said that a compelling story is what made them donate. Here are more tips to help you recruit peer-to-peer fundraisers.

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2022

Their in-person fundraiser had a 212% ROI, while their virtual fundraiser had a 1617% ROI – that’s 8x higher with the help of online peer-to-peer fundraising. 56% of social media users who donate said that a compelling story is what made them donate. Here are more tips to help you recruit peer-to-peer fundraisers.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Carie opened with an intro to social media. She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. This shows the viral potential of raising awareness in the social networks. On YouTube : everyone loves video.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" During election season we had CTR highs of 10% on some days.

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