Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Wordle of Words Participants Use To Define ROI Yesterday I taught the fifth and final webinar as part of NTEN/TechSoup Global Webinar Series: Social Media and Storytelling. I'll need to tweak the "Y" access because gathering insight is a continuous process and there are elements of listen, learn, and adapt in a traditional ROI process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2008

E-Metrics: Followers, Friends, and Fans - Expanding Your Online Community View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.   So, in that spirit,  I'm sharing my presentation from last week which is a case study of my blogging ROI.  tags: blogging nptech ).    What a combination!  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Cursed Thing Last year at this time, I was in Austin, TX doing a keynote workshop for Legal Services Corporation on the ROI of Nonprofit Technology. The basics include: benefits, value, metrics, and financial calculations. I think that is dangerous. However, if you want to get to the other two outcomes.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Digging into each analytics platform individually to pull your information to try to tell a cohesive story can be frustrating. No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. Not sure how to compare or connect data sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

Click to see larger image I'm very tempted to start using Results On Insights for ROI thanks to Barb Chamberlain's comment in yesterday's post " What Are The Best I-Words For Nonprofits To Think About Social Media and ROI? " But what does that really mean? The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. Facebook: With live streaming and story capabilities, Facebook is ideal for spreading the word about your upcoming fundraisers and events. Then, assess relevant metrics to see which types of content receive the most engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We also identify a monthly theme to discuss in more in depth. We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Data Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. It replicable?

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Care2

OCTOBER 19, 2010

As nonprofits and advocacy groups delve deeper into social media, the need to assess their return on investment (ROI) is critical. Given the organizational goals of advocacy groups, it should be abundantly clear that ROI encompasses far more than fundraising, and in many cases will not include fundraising at all. Engagement.

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Care2

JULY 26, 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!" Need some metrics guidelines? It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Care2

JULY 17, 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!" Need some metrics guidelines? It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

I started my talk with a story about why I liked Twitter: It allows me to connect with people in my professional field and have a great conversations or ad hoc collaborations that improve practice. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter. Connecting With New Colleagues.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This immersive, interactive webinar experience(tm) will begin with a plenary session providing an overview of social media strategy, organizational adoption issues, capacity, metrics, and strategy execution.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 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!" Need some metrics guidelines? It works sort of like an online mortgage calculator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. Questions that encourage people to share resources: “ What are the Best Social Media ROI Posts? The data you gather should help you learn. New Fans (Likes). Page Views.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Those traditional metrics are a good starting point, but often do not tell the whole story. Data can help you think more broadly to identify a valuable product based on your specific goals and success metrics. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis. What is the trend in sales over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. You've done a terrific job in identifying benefits(outcomes) and some metrics - you might want to consider paring them down even further. You want to focus on the goals and outcomes (benefits) first - not the metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Use metrics to discover what works and what doesn’t. Return on Investment (ROI) Social Network Fundraising is a presentation by Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2.com, ROI of Listening: America Red Cross Case Study (Beth Kanter). Sharing Your Story: Podcasting (Britt Bravo). Listen first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2007

And while I looking at the post about social networking sites in campaign, it gave me an opportunity to point over to FrogLoop's ROI Social Networking Campaign Calculator. Quantitatively, that's worth quite a bit as no one has been able to calculate this metric so thoroughly before. Job well done!

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Discussion: Ideas about telling the story about “what do I do as a consultant?&#. Don’t be afraid to ask for what you’re worth, and decide by market analysis. What about franchising consultancies, to make a network of ‘train the trainers.’ How to decide to do pro bono?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. Some analysis questions: What points were the participants in the room tweeting?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Fred Weiss shared an in-depth analysis on the latest trends facing higher education advancement , alumni engagement metrics, and CASE’s 2018 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) Survey. Key findings from CASE’s 2018 VSE Survey include: . The Changing Higher Ed Tech Landscape .

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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. " And, of course, such metrics are useless. 1) Intangibles often come in the form of stories or anecdotes about the technology value and if used along with numbers can help make the case.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I always try to incorporate new learnings and observations that I've discovered from the many interviews I do on my blog, resources discovered, and stories. What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). Tags as a metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. If you have a subscription to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, there is another related story called "Telling Moving Stories."

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

ROI -- or Return on Investment -- is a pre- and/or post-evaluation process and analysis of three factors: benefits, costs, and value of a specific technology purchase over time. ROI can help your organization avoid a technology purchase that is a huge mistake or avoid not investing in a technology that could return many dividends.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

They counteract this by telling the stories of people both past and present who have connections with the American Red Cross. Don’t be afraid to share people’s stories because it will make your organization feel a lot more friendly and open. Like the American Red Cross, they know how to use personal stories to promote their brand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

I connected with Sean via Twitter when I was researching tools and techniques for listening and ROI. He introduced me (virtually via Twitter) to Alistair Croll , co-author of their forthcoming book called " Watching Websites ," a deep dive into web metrics and monitoring. I asked a question on Twitter and he answered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I'm thinking about writing the description for the WeAreMedia Module 6: Considering the ROI for this week. " I think this statement still holds true, although with more people thinking about ROI and Social Media, practice is evolving. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. Too many people are still wanting to "manage" the visitors experience, and I think these two metrics speak to the ways that the Web is. via Kevin Gamble (see larger here ).

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

BAM, time to tell the story. Facebook, LinkedIn) Blogs offer a human voice, newsworthy information and experiences, and a forum for feedback -- and empower supporters to engage with and share ideas around your stories and news. It's just one step away from looking at ROI. You see something like that and ask "Hey!

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