Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Should also note, re.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Tags: ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

As KD Paine said on our SXSW ROI Poetry Slam , "You have engagement fully measured, now calculate the resulting treasure!". Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Simplified ROI Process: It sort reads like logic model to me. Tags: metrics ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Care2

MAY 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!" Word of mouth, etc. Type in your organizations twitter handle, organization or hashtags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Chris's key point is: A few good metrics in the context of social media goals and strategy are valuable to determine the ROI and continuous improvement of your social media plan. ROI and Continuous Improvement both Lead To Actions. The ROI on the other hand is about revenue - did your effort yield results? measures of success???

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JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! One reason is that it’s ugly. Take a look. The Facebook news is big.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Holly posted a video of the Nonprofit ROI Poetry slam at SXSW. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Epicurious has one listing seasonal produce available in your area by month. (If Geek poetry. How awesome is it?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first was about ROI. ROI” as the title of a session. Beth pointed out a great study on blogging ROI from Forrester. She asked the audience how many people use formal ROI evaluations with regard to social media efforts. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Stephen Downes describes the difficulty of measuring ROI of E-Learning with the best quote yet, "Measuring learning is still like measuring friendship.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. It's just one step away from looking at ROI. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

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. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. To monitor and reflect, you need collect both quantitative and qualitative data.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 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!" How about Digg ? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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!" How about Digg ? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

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!" 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Jeremiah Owyang describes this issue, but calls it " Fondling the Hammer " It's a symptom of a larger problem - the lack of ROI thinking and it happens in the nonprofit sector too.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

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Care2

APRIL 14, 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!" RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 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!" Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 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!" If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s s OK, because our popularity on Digg drove in 50+ links from blogs, including a few elite sources like The Huffington Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Blogging Behind the Nonprofit Firewall: ROI Approach. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Giving Good Poke.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

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!" By: Simon Jackson. Campaign to Red List the Kermode Spirit Bear.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

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