Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

Starting April 21, dubbed “Mobilegeddon” , Google changed the search results and will show mobile friendly sites in search results (while using your mobile phone). You can test your web site here and find out if you passed the test and if you flunked it, there is some advice on what and how to fix it.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

Today we’re excited to share that Matt Groch , Director of Solution Delivery at Mission Measurement , will offer a keynote called Moneyball for Social Impact, Or how I learned to stop worrying and embrace the implications of a discrete closed-loop factor analysis framework for social impact. How do we measure social change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

Insight: Art of Retweet Eric Peterson who created a Twitter analytics tool called Twitalyzer sent me a birthday donation (a dollar for each year) and offered advice. And you can participate in my action learning experiment and spread happy birthday on Twitter with this tweet: Happy birthday #beth53 !

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

On February 1st, two people on the team spun out to become an independent nonprofit—the Human Rights Data Analysis Group —to focus on the statistical and analytical side of our human rights work. Not only does it raise risk capital for Benetech, but we also actually want the advice!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Data Analysis. This conversation explored common pitfalls to analysis approaches and how to avoid them. Many nonprofit social media managers shared tips and advice. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links. How do you analyze your social media data? This conversation was started by.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I now spend more of my time evaluating communications and digital projects so, I read with interest Lean Analytics , the book in the Lean Start up series on measuring what matters. The principles were useful but I found it difficult to translate the case examples into concepts for the social sector.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Analytics: Learn more about your nonprofit’s operations with web analytics, data analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and reporting and visualizations. Mobile App Development: Our team can craft custom mobile apps that empower your nonprofit to use your Luminate Online instance to the fullest extent.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

In Google Analytics I'm closing looking at referrals. I wanted to see if Avinash Kaushik had written in depth about analyzing Twitter in Google Analytics - I found his reference in his blogging tips that Twitter was golden in terms of referral. This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Austin, Texas: Google Analytics for Dummies. Durham, North Carolina: Happy Hour Reception. Friday, June 3, 2016.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

This can come from an internal database analysis, wealth screening, predictive modeling project, a peer/board review, or just plain discovery of a prospective donor from a staff or volunteer member. Identification. Pre-qualification.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In a recent interview, John Hadyon reinforced this timeless piece of Facebook engagement advice. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook. More here about that metric and other Facebook metrics you can gather in the Facebook analytics program.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Facial recognition, self-driving cars, and medical image analysis use this technology. Even though Chat’s decision-making is governed by algorithms, its data set is large enough to provide advice on a myriad of topics. Manufacturing, healthcare, and logistics are just a few of the industries using robotics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Pattern Analysis . You'll also need to search on keywords or phrases that might uncover a client need or perception. Once you've started to monitor the results of keyword searches, it's important to put your pattern analysis skills to work. KD Paine has some excellent advice about how to shift through some of the listening data.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 1, 2013

The goal of this session was to provide the data but also provide analysis and insight that would help organizations take action when needed. Julia’s advice was that Groupon should only be used when you have additional capacity: particular days that are slow, seats to fill, etc. Why benchmark? Fundraising Data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

What advice would you give to someone who is developing their keyword advertising campaign with Google Ad Words? If you're using Goolge Analytics goals, you've already thought through some of this. You'll get some bonus information if you have Google Analytics goals set up. What are your tips and advice?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

That effective problem solving goes beyond some abstract analytic skill. We agreed on the analysis: the thing was too big to get through the basement without tedious relocation of all the junk we'd dragged down there since the sofa bed had its debut. Do I have any advice? I what did I learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Advice on How To Not Pitch Bloggers.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

First Step – Analytics. Take a moment to investigate the following data: Analytics : Configure and then analyze reports from your web analytics to see which page on your site is the first stop for folks referred from social networking sites. Definitely. Still not convinced.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Hands on with Google Analytics. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

So, for the purposes of an ROI analysis and reporting to decision-makers, maybe you don't emphasize those values in the report or be the only value. Note that qualitative data is important - you need both to do an ROI analysis and to communicate the results. He recommends to prioritize according.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In April at our NTC conference panel, we'll dig in and discuss some strategies, advice, and real examples from groups that have had success. At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis. Get your data out of your reports. Just get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Washington, DC: May NTEN Happy Hour: Google Grant + Google Analytics = Better Results, Nonprofit Grant for Free Advertising. Victoria, British Columbia: Social Media Surgery: Hands-on Advice and Help. Seattle, Washington: Preparing for FLSA Overtime Rule Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

A key point about how difficult it is for most non-profits to shift from message delivery to conversation and advice about being patience. Web Analytics, Statistics, and Social Networking Analysis The Net2ThinkTank: What is The Return On Investment Of The Social Web For Nonprofits? " Nonprofits and Web2.0 mean for you?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

While I don't always agree with Allan's opinions on everything he writes, I love his insightful analysis, sense of humor, and well researched articles. Quantcast, Google Analytics, HitTail are what I use but eventually I end up relying on server log stat software like AWStats. I also like to play with stupid statistics crap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students. The study was of medical school lectures. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. ” I created a variation on the shair pair squared.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

How odd is it then to teach Google Analytics to nonprofit techies but then say that site statistics had nothing to do with a nonprofit’s mission? They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics. Why bother having a web site at all? 10 Cindy Leonard 09.26.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

In undergrad I earned a BFA in photography as well as a BA in social thought and analysis. As I thought about my future, I knew I wanted to do something that would allow me to use my practical/analytical skills while still being involved in the arts and other creative pursuits. either as first career or changing careers?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Measurement tools or perhaps more accurately, social analytics tools collect that data. Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes. Neff , Lights.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2021

Read some of her tips below to get you started, and encourage you to listen to the episode to hear all of Nyleva’s advice. In addition to including analytics data, you’ll also want to note the purpose of the content and what it supports. Here are Five Tips for Creating Effective Web Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

One unique idea is in the area of donor advice, for example developing a personal assistant for donors to help them decide where to donate. The technology of text-analytics has been around for a while, for example it powers the spam filter you rely on to tame your inbox manageable. Is the next frontier mining internal emails?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2013

To measure conversion using your analytics programs, it generally requires submitting an online form. They measure conversions in Google Analytics using three techniques: traffic sources, advanced segments, and custom link tracking. Essentially any action related to your goals. Traffic Sources. Advanced Segments.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Analyzing Your Website’s Organic Traffic To understand how people are finding and engaging with your nonprofit website, you need to set up analytics and regularly monitor performance metrics. Sign up for a Google Analytics account and install the tracking code on your website to start collecting data. Offer actionable advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Also, most of the audiences I'll be talking to are not web analytics geeks either, so will need a basic and condensed overview too. Many are discovering that traditional web analytics and metrics (like page view) are not appropriate. Source: Avinash Kaushik 's "Web Analytics An Hour A Day"). The Web is changing!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. Unique Visitors, from your web analytics tool, and Feed Subscribers, from your RSS tool.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Salesforce analytics also enables organizations to better track patterns of human trafficking and identify high-risk territories. Its purpose is to provide an easy way for anyone to get help, advice, or report suspected slavery. This helps them keep track of individuals as they cross multiple borders.

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