Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

I'm working up a presentation and workshop on ROI and NpTech for Legal Services Corporation TIG Conference in a couple of weeks. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages.

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MAY 27, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Most NpTech blogs are high school level. Social Networking for Social Change According to TechCrunch , Change.org, a social networking site that links volunteers to causes and voters to politicians will launch a new white-label social network for non-profits. What reading level is your blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

NpTech Talk. NpTech Software. An interview with Allen Gunn of Social Source Commons by Britt Bravo over at Netsquared. Here's two roundups of links about social media and nonprofits. This one via NTEN and Neighborhood Networks Conference and this one via the nonprofit blog exchange. Ruby Sinreich's Advocacy 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 2, 2009

’ – Jonathan Waddingham from JustGiving has a great post up today: "The advent of Facebook fan pages has been great news for brands wanting to create communities without having to build their own social network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

The Technovist offers some 5 tips for nonprofits to get started with social networking sites. Michelle Murrain adds that she won't sign up until the content is more compelling and the social graph is open. The Nonprofit Eye walks us through how to compute the ROI of ITC for nonprofits. hard to use ?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

Marnie also introduced me to social booking and tagging way back in 2004 as the originator of the NpTech Tag. 4: Identify influencers on social media spaces and cultivate them. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter. 5: Make sure your content has a social life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Clean1982 The NpTech Tag Summary is a weekly compilation of resources tagged with "nptech" by those who follow all things nonprofits and social media. The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

My question to Beth was, “That’s great – but are they just as accommodating to their full-time staff, or is flexibility reserved for visiting nptech dignitaries?” Web filtering not only blocks pornography and spyware, but continues on to sports, entertainment, politics, and social networking. Tags: guest blogging ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Beth Dunn’s presentation covers the basics, complete with case studies, and suggests Quick start and Advanced Quick Start tactics to launch your nonprofit into social media. Social Media for Non Profits Primal Media’s sideshow is loaded with information on trends, recent statistics, and examples of social media used by nonprofits.

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NTEN

AUGUST 26, 2010

Women Who Tech’s thought provoking virtual panels offer the latest resources and tools for launching a successful startup, tools and apps to build your online community, Social Media ROI, and more. ROI of Social Networking. Tags: NPTech womenwhotech WWT IT Staff. Female Ferocity.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2010

If you want to build buzz in social networks, you have to build a community that will be engaged and dedicated enough to share your work with others. Measuring ROI. There was also a high-level of interest in the amount of time it takes to build buzz in social media. Resources: Tools for Monitoring Social Media.

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JULY 2, 2009

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APRIL 22, 2009

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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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NOVEMBER 15, 2007

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

and looks like more NPTECH folks found their way into the sandbox. I’ve managed to find about 200 other people who work with nonprofits or nonprofit technology exploring it. No one has figured it out yet , so we are learning together. Google’s social experiments haven’t gone well so far (Wave, Buzz).

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

It’s all about your return on your engagement; Return on Engagement (ROE) is the new Return on Investment (ROI). Social media is a great tool for increasing supporter engagement; a majority of nonprofits have realized this. of internet user time is spent on social media and social networking. It says that 22.7%

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

Users ages 18 to 54 have reportedly turned away from email, as well — many are instead communicating through social-networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. An increase in email use, however, was visible in the 55+ age group, who used web-email 15% more in 2010 than in 2009.

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AUGUST 12, 2007

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NTEN

MAY 23, 2011

We recently dipped our toes into the world of social media ROI to track how well some of our puchased ads were performing. Much harder: integrating social media into your overall communications strategy in such a way that you can figure out if it's actually working. Analyzing the Social Web ". >

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2009

Check out these awesome panels: Social Media ROI. Social Networks and Diversity Barriers. Tags: NPTech NTEN WWT. Comp Tix : Use this link to get comp tix for the TeleSummit: [link]. Women and Open Source. Tools Galore in Online Communications. Transparency and Government 2.0. Video Activism.

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APRIL 2, 2008

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MAY 8, 2009

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JANUARY 6, 2009

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JUNE 5, 2009

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JUNE 13, 2009

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Do you realize it's the second-biggest browser-based social-networking-centered farming game in the WORLD?" Social Media ROI: " If you're spending more time counting than you are doing, has your ROI focus run amok? Tags: NPTech NTEN Things We Like. "Farmville is so huge! No, really.

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JANUARY 15, 2009

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2005

While browsing the blogher schedule , I came across Lisa Meyers Brown's blog " The Rhetoric of Me " which is focused on: "What I think about everything.especially nonprofits and social network technology." Technorati Tag: nptech Anything you can and will share, I would love to know. Or did you just do it?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

It's time to go beyond listening and responding and get into several key areas: monitoring , running bold campaigns , adding video , and fundraising in online social networks. They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

More in-depth, financial metric focused ROI, perhaps in a Roundtable discussion format. Communications strategy from a leadership perspective - don't leap frog strategy when it comes to social media, Strategy on Steroids! If you build it, they will come, does not apply to social networking. Change Management. Fundraising.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2008

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JUNE 26, 2009

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NOVEMBER 9, 2007

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

Social media is an area the nonprofit sector has been, in many ways, leading the way! . Let's explore: First, some context: The survey was conducted in January of this year, and marketers on social networks -- it was kicked off with a Twitter invitation to the survey -- participated. A total of 880 marketers took the survey.

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