Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. The course is about how to leverage networks and social media for learning and impact. Not every student in my class is focused on the same policy issue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. With one billion active monthly users, Instagram is a very powerful social network used by nonprofits worldwide. That’s good news for nonprofits that don’t have a lot of visual content. Post Eye-catching Photos.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Here are a few: The blog at the Nonprofit Times, called “Don’t Tell the Donor&# has a very interesting entry on the flurry of benchmarking studies that came out recently. It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study. What do you think?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2011

To jump-start your group, you will need to promote it on your website, in your e-newsletter, and in your social networking profiles. As with most other communities, the magic number when you no longer need to actively promote your group and it grows on its own hovers around the 5,000-member benchmark. Don’t Use News Feeds.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Good news for Intel: Xe graphics are the real deal. Incidentally, this is also bad news for Nvidia — with integrated graphics like this available, there’s no reason anyone needs to pay for an entry-level GPU like the MX350. That all tracks with the 1185G7’s synthetic-benchmark performance. Intel’s work was cut out for it.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It’s not all great news. Boards primarily recruit independent board members through personal networks, which might limit their ability to reach diverse profiles and voices. “To Trends 2025 builds on previous national benchmark surveys of family foundations conducted by NCFP in 2015 and 2020.

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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!" You might check out some of the online advocacy and fundraising benchmark studies.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

They have released two studies, one on the “wired wealthy&# and another which is a “nonprofit benchmark index&# study – basically providing some benchmarks for organizations to measure themselves against, traffic, email newsletter click through rates, etc. They’ve been doing some nonprofit research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2013

When studies like the Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report find that the majority of nonprofits have raised less than $10,000 through social media , this news seems like it could make a big difference. But there is even more bad, as Farra Trompeter points out: User data (donor’s name, address, etc.) ” The Ugly.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

June, the company completed a $60 million funding round led by Benchmark, with participation from Thrive Capital, Bond, Conviction, and a number of individuals, including Dylan Field, CEO of Figma. billion to $3.1 billion, and at the end of 2024, it reported full-year sales of about $10 billion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Using past campaigns as a benchmark, we set our goal at $50,000. I offered the suggestion of encouraging their closest connections to reach out to their networks, and—most importantly—included a template for our fundraisers to copy and paste. “Hi In Sub-Saharan Africa, girls account for 74% of new infections among adolescents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

As part of my work at the Packard Foundation, I have the honor of working with a cluster of grantees working on children’s healthcare coverage on a networked capacity building project called “ Friending the Finish Line.” What is the average percentage of total fans reached? Some fans may have just hidden the page.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

The 220 aircraft would fly as part of a new, co-branded airline network that would operate in Brazil. Even if a deal is reached, it would likely be subject to Lilium hitting certain performance standards and benchmarks, similar to the conditions of Archer Aviation’s $1 billion order with United Airlines.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2013

You don''t have access to every news outlet, generating millions of dollars worth of earned media, or the funds to spend millions of dollars on advertising and marketing. According to the Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report by Blackbaud, only 2% of nonprofits raised between $10K and $25K on Facebook in a 12 month time period.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Today we’ll take a look which states have the highest percentage of new donors and online donors. This data comes from the our donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking group and looks across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. That’s the power and importance of benchmarking.

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Care2

MAY 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!" Consider it like an interactive 24-hour news cycle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2015

Nonprofits are familiar with writing blog posts that provide program updates, tell success stories, comment on breaking news and current affairs, and promote calls to action. In addition, after breaking news and current affairs, it’s the articles related to daily life that are the most popular on mobile and social media.

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NTEN

APRIL 22, 2010

The Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report , our joint project with Common Knowledge and thePort, told you that 86% of nonprofits have a presence on Facebook. It's got great information on community sizes and staff time devoted to maintaining a presence, as well as some fundraising numbers.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

or "This is news to me -- has everyone else known this all along?" The cocktail of comfort and anxiety you get when you benchmark yourself against your peers is just one of the many ways a social learning experience like a book club can help keep you interested and focused. When we're in a book club, we get that social validation.

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Care2 is pleased to provide this overview of The Online Giving Study: A Call to Reinvent Donor Relationships just released by Network for Good and True Sense Marketing. The study, which you can download here , summarizes “$381 million in online giving through Network for Good’s platform, including 3.6

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Care2

AUGUST 27, 2011

Industry news on your topic – Don’t just regurgitate the news for them, they can set up a Google e-alert for that, but rather, aggregate the news in a way that is engaging by asking them what they think. Don’t just post a link to a news article, read it and ask a question about their opinion.

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Care2

JULY 2, 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!" It also will also notifying you of your new follows and unfollows on Twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 16, 2009

But in any event, it’s great that it exists, and it’s a great benchmark for CMS/CRM integration. I don’t know how much code tweaking is required to really get this going. Tagged as: CMS , CRM , plone , salesforce { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Geilhufe 03.16.09

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Taking into account the difference in storage costs in 2002, Schippers estimates that Zuckerberg was spending $3,000 per month on hosting for the first year and about $10 million per month by 2006 as the network grew exponentially in that time period. Then Google and Benchmark pumped $258 million more into it this past August.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2011

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. They categorized organizations as small, medium, or large, based on the number of fans their pages have, and also looked at groups by sector.

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Care2

APRIL 28, 2009

&# , Rob Pierson, Online Communications Director for Congressman Mike Honda and soon to be New Media Director for the House Democratic Caucus, said that sending enewsletters to your online list is the best bang for your buck when you have limited time and resources. Consider it like an interactive 24-hour news cycle.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

“As Likes and comments increase a post’s prominence in the news feed, driving more impressions and clicks, all Pages using auto-posting apps should look to switch to manual posting if possible.&#.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2011

The good news is that we can now answer most of these questions. The 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Report indicates that less than 1% of nonprofits have raised more than $100,000 using social media. One of the most common questions that I get is how much money is raised through online giving. How do you know all this stuff?

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Care2

APRIL 22, 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!" DZ: Is there more than one person that tweets for your organization?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Have they been able to put the ideas into practice?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 1, 2022

Poparazzi , the anti-Instagram social app that hit the top of the App Store last year, is today, for the first time, detailing the growth stats for its business, its future plans and its previously unconfirmed Benchmark-led Series A round. Among those was the audio social network TTYL , a sort of “ Clubhouse for friends.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and to spread generosity. The survey will be implemented regularly to benchmark adoption of AI. It is the next phase of digital transformation – from networks to artificial intelligence.

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Care2

APRIL 2, 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!" There are many ways to track success, some more sophisticated than others.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2013

As you refine your fundraising strategy and explore new ways of connecting with donors, check out Blackbaud ''s 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits to compare your organization to others and gather new ideas. Community Fundraising member news Member Round Up nptech' Sound challenging? Happy Friday!

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