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5 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Tips for Millennial Audiences

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Communicate with your audience by showing engaging photos of your work or a testimonial. Your peer-to-peer software should provide the opportunity for them to share these elements with personal photos and customized descriptions. Stick to one photo or image, and keep the text appeal short. . from a staff member or volunteer.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. For example, use Twitter lists to track alums and subscribe to their Facebook updates. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. and pop.url for tracking retweets (Check out Laura Lee Dooley’s URL shortener report!). new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. test and teweak.

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Which Fundraising Events Bring in the Most Money for Small Nonprofits?

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To hold this type of fundraising event, you’ll need a strong team of organized volunteers to register participants, track results, provide support and encouragement for the participants, and gathering sponsors. Photo shoots, concerts, markets, performances, street fairs, and movie viewings can all be great fundraising events.

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Why don’t my friends like me on Facebook?

Connection Cafe

Post photos—people like pretty things. Ask for photos – people think they are good at taking them. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Respond to comments.

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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. A slightly different approach than demonstrating impact. So, how might this work?

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Dwinton. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. .

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