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Statement of Activities: Common Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Their expertise can provide tailored advice and strategies for implementing new standards effectively. Skipping this analysis can lead to missed opportunities for adjustment and improvement, potentially causing long-term financial issues. This article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice.

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Best Practices for Nonprofit Financial Health, Part One: Top 3 Measures of Financial Health

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Thanks to Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, for her great advice! A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. Having said that, there are two ratios that I believe are very important for nonprofit leaders to track – and both have to do with liquidity.

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Twitter Is 2nd After Google in Referrals To My Blog, But They Stay Longer.

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It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" " He goes on to describe how the noise ratio is constructed. My ratio is 2.4, My ratio is 2.4, This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users. so I'm in the low end of conversationalist.

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If you were stuck on a desert island, and could only follow 150 people on Twitter, who would you follow and why?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Minifig If you're thinking about how to streamline using Twitter, Vladis Krebs offers excellent advice in " So Many People, So Little Time." Identifying these people or what Krebs calls "nodes" is core of social network analysis. He recommends using social network theory to design your Twitter following strategy.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. 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. or “Love it!” Images work for engagement.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Maybe I need an SEO makeover and advice from Bill Snyder and Jonathan Coleman. Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Here's a recent analysis of the "best" posts on my blog and I need to go figure out what the numbers mean. Or study bloggers SEO resources in more depth.