Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

This week's theme is social media ROI. That's what I've been thinking, speaking, and writing about and have also recruited guest posts on this topic. It pretty much explains why so many people perceive that social media doesn't give a return on investment in the early stages. This week's theme is social media ROI.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

Sifry , the co-founder of Personal Democracy Forum, took a closer look at ROI for Facebook apps in his piece last week Facebook Haggadah: A Case Study in Viral ROI (Is This App Different From All Other Apps?) Tags: otherblogs roi facebook metrics. for TechPresident. and 22735 kilograms of CO2 per year.&#.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 3, 2022

In this post, I’ll walk you through why that’s important and what metrics you should measure. . Goals and metrics . 11 metrics to evaluate your end-of-year fundraising campaign . When you have all of your data and are ready to start evaluating it, look at these metrics : . ROI (return on investment). Total revenue.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 8, 2022

Return on investment is a metric that measures the profitability of an investment, giving you a way to compare the yields of investments and make more effective financial decisions. ROI is usually shown as a percentage calculated by dividing the net profit or loss by the initial cost. What’s the ROI, for example, of your annual gala?

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2022

These key event metrics quantify the success of your events, and can show you how to improve them. Tracking these key event metrics can deliver critical insight into what you’re doing well, and where your events need improvement. So what are those metrics, and what data do you need to track to analyze them?

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

At the same time, marketing teams were facing an uphill battle to prove ROI as new digital marketing opportunities, like the rise of video content marketing and the shift towards mobile, led to changing tactics, and budgets came under more scrutiny. Now, a decade later, human resources teams are facing similar circumstances. The good news?

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Learn how to calculate your data team’s return with the Data ROI Pyramid. Today, maximizing and measuring data team ROI is near the top of every data leader’s agenda. Most data team ROI formulas focus on some version of the following calculation: Lift / investment = ROI. Calculating data ROI Image by author.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

Most people who work in the nonprofit sector do so out of a commitment to a cause or passion bigger than themselves or their desire for material things. This is a tough one for many people especially those in their twenties and younger. Nonprofit people are good people. Thus, for 2013, please: 1) Ask for a raise.

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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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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 22, 2021

It’s evident that when you can show a donor the tangible return on investment (ROI) of their gift, you get a higher average gift and more frequent giving. It allows you to see which fundraising activities provide the highest ROI and contribute the most to your fundraising goals. Review Important Nonprofit Metrics. Donation ROI.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

are already using social media, many have not yet taken all of the steps below to ensure that their social media campaigns are built on a solid foundation meant to produce ROI (Return on Investment). Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Just when I started to feel comfortable with understanding what metrics I might use for blogging, this comes along. A model for metrics and applications. However, the model may be applicable to s ocial media strategy and metrics. However, the model may be applicable to s ocial media strategy and metrics.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Investing in strategic email marketing can amplify your fundraising return on investment (ROI), engage supporters personally, and rally even more people to champion your mission. High ROI: Email marketing is a cost-effective way to stay in touch with supporters. Track email metrics to optimize your strategy.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley. World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks.     What a combination!

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Greater Giving

MAY 25, 2022

Fundamental Strategies to Maximize your Event Marketing ROI. This guide will look at four transformational fundraising strategies for increasing your nonprofit’s ROI from its event marketing outreach. When you spend time and money marketing to people who are unlikely to attend your event, your ROI will inevitably take a hit.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Tell an Emotional Story The Power of Narratives: People connect with stories. Instead of just stating, “Using analytics, we can boost membership by 10%,” frame it as, “Imagine a world where 10% more people actively champion the environment, all because we understood their needs better.

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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. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. Outbound links for influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. Finding the ROI. It’s no surprise that a tactic with a cost is high and unclear ROI gets minimal resources. But we have reached an inflection point.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

We use Hootsuite and Sprout Social to manage our accounts and track metrics. Our LinkedIn group for Active pro bono consultants is a great place where these people can connect based on a current interest—giving back using their current skills. Also, it really allows people to see how we as an organization, ‘think.’

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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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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Not because they’re bad and not because the people that invented them are stupid, but because they’re not appropriate to the context we actually live in today of high uncertainty.”. Ries discovered successful startups take a four-pronged approach: process, culture, people, and accountability. The accountability problem.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2010

After you access the calculator here , enter the cost per hour of your staff, and other basic web and email metrics, and you can get a realistic snapshot of how you're doing. ROI (Return on Investment) in its simplest form has has a very specific mathematical definition. It's time to bust out the calculator and have a realistic look.

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NetWits

JULY 27, 2011

There are very well established best practices, standard metrics that are tracked, widely accepted and proven statistical data to measure your effectiveness by and countless bits of information on the web to teach us how to do email marketing and communication well. Know where you’re attracting people to your list.

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Care2

MAY 27, 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!" The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. Here are a few examples.

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Gyrus

MARCH 20, 2024

Best Practices to Improve Your Training ROI Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems ROI Matters All businesses want a positive return on their investments, and training is no exception. The standard quantifiable metrics include business KPIs like Sales, Revenue, Profits, Operational Efficiency, etc.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

In many cases, it’s largely pointless trying to create your own community when the people you want to attract are already part of another one… But what do you do with your fans once you’ve got them?" "You want to develop a stronger, more passionate community. ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 15, 2008

I've been thinking a lot about ROI because at the end of the month, I'll be doing a session at the Legal Services Corporation's TIG Conference on ROI in the Nonprofit World. On Monday, my article, The ROI of Social Media , was published in the NTEN Newsletter and in March I'll lead a panel at the NTC on that topic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Earlier this month, the Ad Council hosted a webinar on the topic of social media ROI with three great social media minds to help us navigate these and other thorny online issues. According to David Almacy, the best five tools to measure social media ROI right now are: TweetDeck. Mobilize the people who already do. Sprout Social.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

By improving the visibility of your posts you are able to involve more people and thus, you’ll also have more creative ideas. There’s no need to be active on all social channels if you don’t get ROI from them. Your success metrics can focus on likes, comments, shares, clicks, and even conversion. 3) Decide on your channels.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence. . "Over … But that was then and this is now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Social Media ROI View more presentations from Deanna Zandt. The following is a talk I gave about ROI for Social Media at the 2009 Social Tech Training in Toronto, ON. The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. Not just important or famous people, either. What do people say about your expertise?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

While the area of social metrics continues to evolve and grow, there are five main tips all organizations should follow when measuring social media activity for ROI: 1. Define success metrics before starting campaigns. Keep an ongoing dashboard of metrics updated regularly. Specific and easy to assess.

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