Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

In addition, “Even though the book is written directly to the leader, going through the Survive, Reset, Thrive loop is a team activity, not an individual one,” adds Homkes. Rebecca Homkes Today, Homkes shares these insights with us: Question: You describe SRT as a loop, not a line. Homkes: The entire loop! What is success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. His take: “It is a very shallow metric. And it does feel somewhat gratifying that I think we’ve been right all along. Photo by lecercle. Size has never mattered to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Tags: facebook metrics. I have not done this yet.

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Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 97

sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

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Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 67

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.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. Predictive Metrics: This feature can help you predict points like the number of donations you can expect in a certain period. Some questions you might ask in this process are: What traffic channels or sources lead to the best name acquisition?

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Analytics Google Fundraising Track 52

Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

It will establish rules, expectations for gift officer interactions, and coordinates activities amongst staff. Identify Your Priorities Define and Document Your Pro c edures Prepare Your Database Review Existing Portfolios or Assign New Portfolios Train Your Team Establish a Feedback Loop Track and Review Your Metrics.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

Blackbaud 48

Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 48

3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

We had a very active Q&A session after the event, and could not get to all questions before the event closed. The purpose of this post is to share the results of the Q&A, including answers to questions not addressed during the event. Donor retention by the numbers: you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. The real question for you to answer which images drive better engagement. That question can form the basis of many Facebook experiments.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

Mangers – through their strengths, their own active engagement and how they effectively work with their teams every day is critical. When discussing career development with an employee ask at least these eight questions : What are your recent successes? During those, review successes and barriers and align and reset priorities.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

The answers to those questions are simple: we can’t. We move, take new jobs, change phone plans, change email accounts, marry, divorce, raise families, change religions, develop new interests, attend new events, and get involved in new activities. Build a fundraising strategy? Combat the challenges of donor retention?

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Attention Data Donor Retention 157

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

In Part 2 covered rating choice “Level 2” and included tips on what data to start tracking in your CRM system (or spreadsheets) to create a central repository of your activity with your major and planned gift prospect pool. I also provided instruction on setting up prospect review meetings to discuss status.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Here we’ll summarize those questions and answers. For nearly a decade, Google has been developing and maintaining two different analytics solutions: Firebase, mostly used by developers to focus on app development and analytics, and UA, mostly used by marketers for website metrics. What is Google Analytics 4?

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2021

Questions about the nonprofit sector’s impact and effectiveness abound—and are inordinately hard to answer. But one source for answering these questions resides in data provided by GuideStar Platinum Seal holders. . Who shares their metrics? . What kinds of metrics are shared? . How do nonprofits measure success?

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Metrics Student Demonstration Adopt 98

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. Who is responsible for each objective and what activities they will complete to work toward the objective. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

Mangers – through their strengths, their own active engagement and how they effectively work with their teams every day is critical. When discussing career development with an employee ask at least these eight questions : What are your recent successes? During those, review successes and barriers and align and reset priorities.

Conversation 40

Conversation Interview Review Culture 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. Here are a few more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

What is a productive way to experiment and learn to the answers to these questions without wasting time? Heather Mansfield put together this list of 22 Must Circle Nonprofit Brands that are active on Google +. I was curious and started a conversation asking these questions: What is your definition of success on Google +?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The beginning of the fundraising year often leads to fundraisers asking themselves some age-old questions: What initiatives are working? Sadly, often before fundraisers can start to address these questions, they are quickly distracted by the next fundraising initiative. I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs. In addition to weekly check-ins, the organizational dashboard includes key performance metrics related to goals as well as more detailed metrics.

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Culture Data Measure Social Media 115

Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Their office included a large whiteboard that prominently displayed the question, “How can we increase active membership by 30%?” Every week, a team of 38 Degrees staff hold a brainstorm to come up with a question vital to their mission that is worth testing. Start reading Analytic Activism.

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Data Help Analytics Test 31

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Streamline the form to ensure you are only asking relevant questions like their name, email address, payment information, and whether they’d like to make the gift a recurring one.

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Fund Donor Strategy Search 52

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! Pay attention to the “change&# in weekly numbers and measure it against activities or messages you were pushing that week. After three presentations in such a short amount of time there was going to certainly be questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. There are key questions to consider before investing in a social media monitoring solution. Which profiles are you most active on? Do you need sentiment analysis? Disaster work. In which formats?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 14, 2014

In Part 2 , I covered rating choice “Level 2” and included tips on what data to start tracking in your CRM system (or spreadsheets) to create a central repository of your activity with your major and planned gift prospect pool. Below are some ideas and questions on what to measure at a deeper level within your prospect management system: 1.

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Rate System Management Module 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. So, articulated success metrics for a networked strategy is also important. Did the organization make decisions?

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Review Business Nonprofit Measure 106

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Coffman stated in their 2004 GuideStar article : “There’s no question that nonprofit organizations have an obligation to manage their finances responsibly. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. As Chuck McLean and Suzanne E. How did we get here? Tweet this. How is ROI calculated?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

a question asked by the Give and Take blog. The holy grail metrics is missing? I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Twitt(url)y.

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Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy. Understand the difference between metrics and analytics. Also, be sure to consider the operational questions about segmentation. Predict future activities. Analytics has been a recurring theme this year.

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Marketing Tips Online Analysis 55

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

This process of reflection is embedded in the organization’s working style, not a random moment of inspiration after a program evaluation is completed. Everyone on staff understands that the questions are the best teachers and in an effort to sustain learning articulate questions and seek answers to those questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline. Giller says that regardless of the topic, they are always thinking in incremental steps of engagement and start with a simple question, “How can we inspire people to take action and change – and use social media as part of this strategy?”

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Measure Policy Social Media Green 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

This year, it rolled out significant changes, allowing app developers to create custom actions using any verb and object related to the activity taking place on the app. These so-called “lightweight” activities can be defined by the app creator and pushed throughout the Facebook experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics.

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Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

For listening to become an organization wide activity and more impact, it needs to be part of the organization's culture. applications as a way to actively engage conversations between Airmen and the general public." The social media maven and metrics expert is Laura Lee Dooley. That happens when leaders model and encourage it.

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ROI Examples Results Social Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Also, the idea of faster tools like social network analysis that give us real time information and the need for someone who is embedded in the network as a real time evaluator. And, of course, what metrics to use. Activities that require quiet and doing that one task. All in all, a great discussion about networks.

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Network Authoring Social Media Ipod 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50