Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've had a post in draft for a couple of weeks now about some personal/professional goals or my New Year's resolutions for 2009. I read Chris Brogan's " Your 3 Goals for 2009 " and I loved his process. Think of how you want to be successful in 2009. I will explore in more depth the analytics tools. score out of 5.0).

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

60) Search « Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team | Main | Year-End Fundraising » Tuesday Jan 06 2009 Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:43PM | by James OMalley In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2010

To help them cast an analytical eye on technology decisions, NTEN and The NonProfit Times came together to create the Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending Survey. It gives us a good look at the state of nonprofit staffing, and helps us provide organizations with information to help evaluate the state of their IT spending.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 17, 2009

Target Analytics' Index of National Fundraising Performance for the first quarter of 2009 had nothing but bad news. All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

We're traveling to London and Cambridge in July 2009 as part of Innovation UK. Much Older. - "Analytics company iStrategyLabs has examined the demographics stats from Facebook (Facebook)’s Social Ads platform, and they’ve reached some very interesting conclusions. " Facebook Users Are Getting Older.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

An expert in her field, Lori has several decades of experience working with some of the largest commercial and nonprofits in the world, but prefers to use analytics for the greater good by helping social good organizations make a bigger impact in the work that they do. The economy is complex, and uncertainty is high. Follow the Leaders.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

You and your organization will be receiving a copy of Google Analytics 2.0 , by Jerri Ledford and Mary Tyler, courtesy of the good folks at Jossey-Bass/Wiley. Now, to the very important business of announcing today's randomly-selected NTEN member to receive a gift from NTEN: Cecilie Surasky , from Jewish Voice for Peace.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites. This is what I think: Convio should partner with neutral players to underwrite benchmarking studies that get data from a much wider sample of organizations than just their clients. Time will tell. {

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 9, 2009

Women Who Tech TeleSummit: April 2009. The second annual Women Who Tech TeleSummit (which will take place in April 2009) is looking for panel suggestions. Ada Lovelace Day: March 24, 2009. All you need to do is sign up to this pledge and then publish your blog post any time on Tuesday 24th March 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. I’ve got a number of ideas up my sleeve for next year for this blog, one of which is to take up the challenge that Beth mentioned , and do 100 posts on something. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2) When I started at organization in July 2009, the Facebook fan page had about 6,000 fans and now it has over 35,400 fans. We have over 70 affiliates in the U.S. Are you tracking Return on Investment (ROI), and how? I am tracking the ROI.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud studied 1,274 nonprofits to compare their online fundraising results for the first six months of 2008 to the same period of 2009. Target Analytics noted in the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Analysis study that as much as 16% of new donors and 27% of new revenue came from online sources in 2008.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

The Index shows that online giving remained positive during most of 2009 and the trends for 2010 have been very encouraging. Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company, has been looking at trends in online and offline giving for many years now. Through June 2010, online giving was up 11.7% year-over-year on a three-month rolling average. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2012

The National Bureau of Economic Research said that the recession ended in June 2009, and fundraising historically takes three years recover from a recession. These trends are based on Target Analytics’ evaluation of transactions from 77 organizations, including over 37 million donors and more than 77 million gifts totaling over $2.4

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

transaction Setup Fee: $0 Commitment: None Integration: Salesforce, MailChimp, Eventbrite, Optimizely, Google Analytics, Google Docs, HubSpot, Insightly, Stripe. Platform Fee: 3% (first $100k); 2% ($100k to $1m); 1% (greater than $1m) Transaction Fee: 2.9%

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

So you're tracking your web analytics, and your metrics are going up in all categories. To help with this, Convio has released their Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study , which shares 2009 data from over 500 of their clients. But have you ever wondered how you compare to other organizations? percent ( sign up for our newsletter here!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. 2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. He is a self-described " Internet Sociologist " and developer of NodeXL. Have some examples?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2009

Target Analytics' Index of National Fundraising Performance for the first quarter of 2009 had nothing but bad news. All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Simon Moloney, NPower Network & Conifer Analytics and Rebecca Willett, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, joined me on the panel discussion. Youth Theater. With all the new technology out there, nonprofit organizations have more ways than ever to reach donors online.

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Care2

MARCH 24, 2010

For example, a new report from Blackbaud, the Target Analytics 2009 Index of National Fundraising Performance for the Third Quarter , shows direct mail declining rapidly in effectiveness as a way to acquire new donors. In contrast, direct mail has long been the staple of the acquisition diet for nonprofits.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Google Analytics and Twitter traffic tell me that a lot of you are interested in the hotness that will be the ONTC , but apparently a few of you still need a little push to register before the last minute. Here's the bare bones version of what you'll get: A 2-day online conference, taking place September 16-17, 2009. TechSoup Global.

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NTEN

MAY 19, 2009

The Google Analytics YouTube Chanel is full of useful information, as is an extremely comprehensive resource list that came out of " The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (The Obama Stimulus Package) and Nonprofits " affinity group meeting -- thanks to Sheldon Mains. Judy Hallman did a great wrap up.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Utilizing SAP (the official campaign analytics partner) business analytics technology, the dashboards create greater transparency and awareness around population data and trends. The data, for example, shows an increasing number of older people - 700 million in 2009 and expected to rise to 2.4 billion by mid-century.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. Direct Mail typically generates a 0.5%

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Care2

APRIL 25, 2009

April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 1. April 27 , 2009 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM 3. We'll examine what can and can't be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. With so many great panels to choose from it was a challenge to come up with my top 10 panels to check out. Without further ado here are my favorites.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2009

» Tuesday Feb 17 2009 Reaching Baby Boomers: The Next Big Demographic in Nonprofit Online Fundraising Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at 03:50PM | by Allyson Kapin By: Allyson Kapin , Blogger-In-Chief Direct Mail acquisition is one of the most expensive ways to raise money these days. Direct Mail typically generates a 0.5%

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Congress and President Obama came together in a rare show of collaboration to pass the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and pump nearly $800 billion dollars into the economy to stimulate jobs and support numerous public works projects. In 2008, the US economy was languishing in the Great Recession.

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APRIL 13, 2011

So, how can we use analytics to reduce postage costs in acquisition without harming results? If so, look at your acquisition lists from 2008/2009 then calculate your average18- or 24-month long-term donor value by list. (Be This is a double-edged sword for donor acquisition. 24-month) of the newly acquired donors by list source.

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MARCH 7, 2011

80% of participants used in-person asks and 73% used email to raise funds The second study is “Understanding the Value of Team Captains&# based on research from the donorCentrics Events Benchmarking Group by Target Analytics , a Blackbaud company.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

| Main | Care2 Launches Americas Favorite Animal Shelter Contest » Monday Oct 13 2008 Using Google Analytics to Track a Nonprofit Website (Part 1) Monday, October 13, 2008 at 01:21PM | by James OMalley Nonprofits take note: Google Analytics software application has shattered previous barriers to analyzing and optimizing websites.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Then we added a twist to the experiment in Fall 2009. That single month was a huge factor in our 22% increase in blog traffic in 2009. Nothing helped us reach the boost that the social network November 2009 edition created. Submissions flowed in, including quite a few we couldn’t use.

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NTEN

JUNE 25, 2009

here's the Google Analytics interface laid out in wireframe on a single page, with links to descriptions of each report. One guy wrote a complete parody of Poe's "The Raven" to review a gallon of milk! Speaking of putting your excess free time to "good" use [Ed. note: Don't provoke me.],

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! I seriously think it’s "the" buzz word of 2009. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Alongside these data advances have arisen the development, refinement and advancement of cutting-edge analytics, including machine learning algorithms, that can produce remarkably accurate predictive and prescriptive insights. This database proliferation is resulting in the rapid growth of participant, program delivery and outcome data.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Moreover, the creation of new, increasingly advanced ways to analyze disbursement information is expected to increase the use of data analytics for detecting waste, fraud, and abuse of taxpayer funds. The yet unfulfilled promise of the DATA Act is that more transparency will ultimately lead to better decisions by a more informed public.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 6, 2013

Our analytics team looked at Convio Luminate Online email performance data from 2009-2011 to identify trends for organizations to enhance their existing year-end fundraising efforts. The session was based on an initial three-part fundraising series (see posts: #1 , #2 , #3 ) late last year in preparation for year-end giving.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

The organizations that participate in the Target Analytics online benchmarking group are prominent nonprofits covering a range of sectors, including animal welfare, the environment, health, human services, international relief, and societal benefit.

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