Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. While this might have fueled the organic growth, they are unable to track some of the impact. -Didn’t expect the network nodes to last forever – they could come and go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Looking at Alternatives to Feedburner To Track RSS Subscribers Chris Baskind's post, " Is It Time To Let Feedburner Burn? Here's the thread.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Email, Facebook, posting to listserves, your website, direct mail—the list goes on and on. For each source you want to track to the same page, you’ll need a different URL. and then text that describes what you want to track. Match each URL to a source you want to track. So for instance, I could type idealware.org?fb

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Tracking Blog Conversations. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2007

In article about ego searching, Robin Good adds If you can track what the rest of the world is saying about you or your products and services, you have a great deal of valuable information at your disposal. Tracking Blog Conversations. Marshall Kirkpatrick's Article on Netsquared : How To Track Mentions of Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2007

Use a script: Write out your questions in advance and this keeps you on track. Speaking of good audio, I raised this question on the video bloggers listserv and David Tames (who took the photo stills in the video) offered some great tricks here. How to use more than one audio track. We discussed the pros/cons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2009

Iavor works closely with individuals responsible for social media and the web at Local United ways, right now via a listserv that serves as a just-in-time support network for social media and web. He tracks content to share about local United Ways. Iavor is primarily looking for content to tweet about. Here's an example.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2012

Ideas for content can be sourced from staff, supporters, other blogs, Twitter, Facebook, and listservs. The organization gauges what's working on their blog by tracking feedback, volunteer numbers, attendance at events, and inquiries for collaboration from potential sponsors and partners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. There are other services: CoComment. Co.Comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

to track personal fundraising campaigns. Lots of buzz on listservs and twitter about the MacArthur Foundation's $2 Million New Digital Media and Learning Competition. The Nonprofit Blog Exchange celebrates its second year anniversary and reflects on activities to date.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

They should belong to listservs, comment on community bulletin boards. I think that all organizations should track what people are saying about them, about the issues they are concerned with, about the communities they are concerned with and then they should comment on those when appropriate. Going to conferences is a part of my job.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Lately I have seen some discussion groups, listservs, and blogs on when to create a proposal in the Prospect Module of Raiser’s Edge® or for that matter in any fundraising legacy system. to track due dates for this initial prospect research, and this way you can. Identification. Assignment. Stewardship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

In addition, they have an internal listserv for support where staff share suggested tweets for new reports or new features or techniques on Twitter. Murphy served as the point of contact, answering staff questions on the fine art of tweeting. He also identified staff who were enthusiastic and proficient in using Twitter to lead training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Extension programs track blog conversations and respond. While google and yahoo have blog search features, Technorati is the considered the recognized authority on tracking blogs, It finds out who is saying what right now and is currently tracking over 75.2 Write a sentence or two on why tracking these topics would be useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. My research has been in three areas, first finding and following "official" museum Twitter accounts and tracking subscribers, followers, number of posts and other measurable data.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She is co-moderator of the popular community-led Nonprofit Salesforce Practitioners listserv and will be joining Convio’s Common Ground team as a full-time employee in January 2012. Or maybe you’ve added a whole new section for tracking data specifically related to your organization’s programs.

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Care2

JULY 11, 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!" The concepts of openness and connectedness that fuel the spread of social media helps us get back on track.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Wikis are great for documenting events with many parallel content tracks. There are several museums that use wikis on a department-wide basis internally to keep up with projects going on on multiple tracks, share files, maintain staff and volunteer contact information, and generally coordinate work. Otherwise, people won't contribute.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

My colleague Charlie Hunsaker posted the following question on the FUNDSVCS Advancement Services listserve: I have two clients who are looking for new systems and want a “cost justification” for their acquisition to share with their management. But the right database can help people with: Prospect management and tracking.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I also think if you are new to federal grants, one of the best things that you can do is connect with perhaps a partner who might have a track record of success. and trying to be consistent with how you track and how you’re managing that information, are you using a manual system? Steven: Yeah. Who’s going to do that?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And it represents the highest year of giving on record since the Giving Institute began tracking this data more than 60 years ago. So feel free to get on our mailing listserv or whatever the real phrase is called and stay in touch. And the headline was that this $471 billion was a new record for charitable giving in the United States.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

I've been following Carie Lewis's posts on the NTEN Affinity groups as well as other nonprofit tech listservs (yes, I still do read listservs) and caught up with her for an interview. t get stats from MySpace, take the time to track on your end. We can track other advos they participate in, donations they give, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

If we're thinking of Facebook groups (or listservs for that matter) as online communities, what personalities do you see in the communities you are managing? Use the track trends option and set to track "Nptech" for nptech related twitters. Unfortunately, not the best thing for global nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

Today, I got a report via the TechSoup Second Life listserv about an awareness-raising campaign for homeless children in Second Life - reported here , here and here. " He goes on to offer some advice: Get to know the community first. Educate about your cause. Mobilize: Give people something to do. And not just fundraise. Provide Hope.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Most recently, I found a research geek's guilty pleasure list: " Buzz-Monitoring and Tracking " which should prove to be a whole new sandbox to play around in. It goes into the topic of social networking analysis.huh?

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 28, 2008

Museums have built-in opportunities for reputation indices--memberships and visit tracking. Many of us use listservs to get answers to our museum-related questions and find out what others are doing. You can learn more about designing reputation indices from this post.

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