Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

And they worked! I wanted to capture a couple of reflections on the process as well as content learnings by way of this post. . This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Return on Investment.

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MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. It's enough to report on and start people thinking about the issues, but the field is pretty darn new. Offline donors, on the other hand, reflect much more before they reach for their checkbook.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2024

Rolling out a well-thought-out business plan is like charting a course through treacherous yet conquerable terrains. It should be aspirational, inspiring, and reflect the positive change you seek to create in the world. Your vision statement should articulate the desired future state or ultimate impact your non-profit aims to achieve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The dramatic dip had to do with feedburner issues. One reflection exercise is to look at your posts and notice which ones attract more comments than others. You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Here's a recent analysis of the "best" posts on my blog and I need to go figure out what the numbers mean.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

This conference features exceptional speakers and a plethora of workshops that address key issues and trends affecting nonprofit human-serving organizations. RootsCamp is an annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together. 11/17/2016. RootsCamp 2016.

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MARCH 28, 2019

The two-day MAD activities started with a day full of sessions designed to unite and rally the 300+ advocates around the issues at hand. There were sessions specific to each policy issue, as well as sessions about how to frame your message. Know what you want before you go in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

The process of creating a social media policy includes discussion about the issues, reviewing policies from other organizations , and reviewing and approving the policy internally. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

For communications professionals, there are important lessons to be learned from 2020—trends that tell a (sometimes surprising) story of how different issues unfolded in the media last year, and tips for how we can advocate for our issues as effectively as possible moving forward. Ahmaud Arbery was killed in February 2020.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 3, 2012

Don’t Forget the After Story Once the news has broken, social media can help leverage the “after story” or the analysis. A great example is this podcast from Momsrising and First Focus talking about health care reform. This included ready-to-go blog posts, FB banners, tweets, etc based on that messaging.

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