Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

A benchmarking process can be as simple as finding a handful of similar nonprofit organizations and comparing your key performance metrics. Take this example comparing nonprofits performance in pinerest. Or you may use a sector wide benchmarking study such as the NTEN Social Networking Benchmarking Study.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features. Twitter is not for every nonprofit.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Offer your members virtual and in-person opportunities to network, learn, and connect to increase engagement and offer membership value. To drive success in the future, your large association should leverage an AMS with automation tools. The fact is this: if your association doesn’t offer tangible membership value, a member will leave.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

To continue to have positive results on the Big Three, your nonprofit will need to make financial investments in staff, advertising, and premium tools. 56% of emails are now opened on a mobile device ( Litmus ) and the number activity on smartphones is reading email, not gaming or social networking. 2) A Revival in Email Fundraising.

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Candid

JANUARY 4, 2023

Candid saw an opportunity to relieve this data-request burden while also providing a standardized benchmark measurement for the entire sector: enter Demographics via Candid. We look forward to expanding our network of partners working together to lessen the administrative burden on nonprofits and get back to the business of doing good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. The Facebook Insights tool lets you see trends Fan acquisition and subscription. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

population — and what attention has been paid to American Muslims’ giving has been consumed with a fear of it possibly being linked to foreign terrorist networks. American Muslim Giving Trends. Muslims make up around 1% of the total U.S. The Quran sometimes uses the word #sadaqa interchangeably with #zakat. Click to Tweet.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2018

I recently had the privilege of hosting a panel discussion with Sue Cunningham, President of Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and James Wiley, Principal Analyst for Technology at Eduventures, about 2017 charitable giving performance and trends for higher education.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences are a great opportunity for industry professionals to hone their skills, network with their peers, and learn innovative new strategies to help their organizations thrive. The first was a free general admission ticket that included access to all live keynotes, sessions, workshops, and networking events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Similar to crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising is a fundraising method that involves leveraging personal networks to proliferate the message of your mission as well as raise an impressive amount of money quickly. . Each of your recruits is going to be posting your fundraising event on their own personal networks.

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sgEngage

JUNE 30, 2023

According to our Annual Luminate Online® 2021 Benchmark Report , more than 770 social good organizations collectively raised over $1.8 The promotion of these events provides a great way to utilize peer-to-peer fundraising within your donors’ networks and provides an opportunity for them to connect and build personal relationships.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

The trend leans heavily toward a monthly gift cadence, with 94% of recurring donors preferring to give monthly. For your organization’s staff, donor data provides valuable information about trends and the life cycle of a one-time donor versus recurring donor, ultimately helping your team create strategies to mitigate donor attrition.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 9, 2022

In engaging in interviews with nonprofit agencies, there is a common trend among practitioners who have clients, volunteers, and staff who are of a primarily homogenous make-up. What does it look like to benchmark progress with intercultural and interracial outreach and collaboration? Implications for the nonprofit sector.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 20, 2021

Workshops, panels, discussions, mentoring, a thriving job board, and networking are all part of WOC, as well as a sister branch, Allies in Action , for white allies to support and learn. Increased donor diversity results in revenue goals exceeded, and team diversity creates access to new networks and better, broader perspectives among teams.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Note from Beth: We are seeing more and more nonprofits use LinkedIn for organizational goals – from its powerful board recruitment tool to setting up company pages (see Ten Must Follow Nonprofits on LinkedIn ). Page Analytics : With this feature, organizations can be more informed than ever about their network following.

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Care2

OCTOBER 30, 2013

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. Lead acquisition is necessary Tools like ActionSprout can be used to launch very simple petitions or pledges on Facebook and will capture your followers'' email addresses.

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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. The challenges include: good data; expertise; context; and better understanding the tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Nonprofits were the absolute first to utilize social networking sites. Mostly I think it’s because nonprofits think mobile technology tools are too expensive. Your TextMark functions as a Short Code and should ideally match your website and social networking profile URLs. 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2011

Book: My colleague, Micah Sifry , has written a book, “ Wikileaks and the Age of Transparency.&# The theme of transparency was an important idea in the Networked Nonprofit and I can’t wait to read Micah’s thinking about the transparency movement. Here’s a few good resources shared on the wall in the past week.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Whether we are designing a grants management system or reporting forms, creating an internal information platform, or building a learning network among grantees and partners, grants professionals can be key to maximizing knowledge investments if we remember that knowledge matters more than information.

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Care2

MARCH 26, 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!" What do Convios latest benchmarks mean for your nonprofits online program?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

The session was entitled Apps and Tools to Energize your Base. This session was an interesting look around the ever-evolving universe of online and mobile tools used to mobilize people online. It delivered on exactly what it said it would: the tools and apps. Download the e-benchmarks study for all the analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Two themes come together in an article by the Chronicle’s Peter Panepento about the “ How America Gives ” online tool: Public Data and Data Visualization. This tool allows users to dig into detailed geographic data about how much money Americans give to charity. I could compare it at the county level.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2008

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. Having specialists in-house means we’re always monitoring trends and looking for opportunities. Please tell us if you know of one! UNICEF has a history of innovation.

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2008

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." The price is lower than the recently reported $800 million figure, but still a formidable investment from the enterprise software giant, which is on a seemingly never-ending acquisition spree.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I've heard Jamie Notter (and others) decry this staple of association board meetings as a tool whose time has come and gone, but it wasn't until I read the treatment of it in Humanize that I really understood what he was talking about. One of the things we wished for as we navigated the campaign: benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Don't set up a presence on every social network in the world all at once. . Are you impulse adopting tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. Often overwhelmed.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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Care2

MAY 15, 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!" WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 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!" So, which one social network should you consider for your next campaign?

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