Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2014

I first put a fitbit, a digital pedometer that tracks steps, calories burned, food intake, and other personal analytics data, on my wrist back in October. As a data nerd, I couldn’t resist the fitbit and its ability to track my every move during this glorious science experiment. Otherwise, I would need to go on statins.

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Forj

JUNE 7, 2021

LXPs accomplish this by aggregating a variety of learning materials from different sources and providing artificial intelligence-assisted recommendations to each learner based on their past interests. Because the LXP acts as an aggregation tool, a wide variety of content is always made available for learners. Driven by the learner.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Working in major gifts means tracking relationships, points of contact, and data with multiple high-level donors. It’s a lot to keep track off and while it’s easy to get bogged down in the day to day details, major gifts is all about the long game. So, let’s start with the basics.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 24, 2013

You can track your constituents, record their gifts, keep track of which events they attended, and have insight into the upcoming activities associated with their major gift ask. In some instances, it can be a series of dashboards containing a snapshot of metrics. You have your CRM. It’s wonderful. Enter business intelligence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. plots your professional or personal life, interests, activities, and moods on Twitter. Twitt(url)y.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

With advancements in technology, hybrid and virtual event platforms have made it easier to track ROI and increase visibility into how leads travel through a sales funnel. This can be difficult to track and manage without full customer service, sales, or marketing teams at your fingertips. Data-Driven Lead Tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. is a service for tracking popular URLs people are sharing on Twitter as a way to identify trends, topics, and new and interesting tools and services. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

The CRM is the single source of truth for the organization, tracking all engagement for each donor. 1) Data Analysis and Reporting Marketing automation platforms give aggregated insights into donor behavior and campaign performance. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 9, 2012

Under the terms of the merger agreement, Blackbaud paid an aggregate purchase price of approximately $325 million. (NASDAQ: BLKB) today announced that it has completed its acquisition of Convio, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand constituent engagement solutions. “This is an exciting day for the Blackbaud and Convio teams.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. Those traditional metrics are a good starting point, but often do not tell the whole story. Data can help you think more broadly to identify a valuable product based on your specific goals and success metrics.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

There are actually quite a few – even ones that track the flow of money to politicians. Metricly aggregates your data across the Web, allowing you to compare and combine your metrics in one place, and making it easier for you to stay on top of your business. There is an API for that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. I’ve lifted this from their website. . "To

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Social networking analysis can track those interactions (replies, commenting, like, etc) and help you make decisions with your strategy. He covered social network analysis 101 and key metrics including centrality, cohesion, density, and betweeness. Seeing these relationships in aggregate helps you make decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

She would listen, aggregate, analyze, and distribute to key subject matter experts within the organization on a consistent basis. Learning “If you don’t launch, you don’t learn.” David Armano Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

I've had some posts in pipeline following up on social media metrics and the Chase Community Giving Contest second phase, but wanted to share these two stories from Haiti from on the ground and a bird's eye view. Their goal is to create the simplest way of aggregating information from the public for use in crisis response.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 3, 2022

How many of us click on that “Ask App Not to Track” pop-up? And while first-party data is essential for targeting audiences and tracking marketing behavior, there’s something even more fundamental to this emphasis on first-party data that every organization needs to focus on: We’re marketing to people. Measure metrics that matter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

For each phase, there are specific criteria and indicators that an organization will develop. We are tracking progress against a baseline. Use of counting metrics. Written social media policy. Strategic integration into children’s health advocacy. Written social media plan. Use of editorial calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

GreenPeace Whale Trail asked their online visitors for campaign ideas and they got some great ones, like the Great Whale Trail, where they tagged whales and then tracked them using GPS/Google maps. Laura's challenge is to get the right metrics to the right people on staff at the right time to reap insights. This drove traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. NutShell Mail is an software that aggregates comments and likes on your fan page and delivers it in one email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2009

Also, Hootsuite lets you track click throughs urls in total and specific urls. CoTweet has a beautiful interface, and while it lacks the metrics tracking and bookmarklet, it does offer the ability to do searches and all the features of Hootsuite. Here's an example. Co-Tweet's Twitter account is an example.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Fundraisers can see aggregated program data defined by their metrics in real time. In order to update funders and donors on the outcome of their gifts, fundraisers can select specific programs and have access to aggregated data to report back without waiting for program managers’ reports or the end of a program summary.

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Candid

JUNE 20, 2023

Visualize aggregated demographic information by race & ethnicity, gender identity, cis/transgender status, sexual orientation, and disability status. This information can also help you set benchmark KPIs and metrics that are important for your organization to track over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives.

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Neon CRM

JULY 28, 2023

Essentials is available for nonprofits with total annual revenue of $1 million and under. Donors are asked to “tip” Fundly.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 7, 2024

Whether you’re analyzing patient outcomes, tracking academic trends, or gathering insights from donor demographics, data visualization can be a valuable tool for any organization. Aggregating usable data into a comprehensive warehouse can further ensure you only present relevant and significant information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

You may also want to improve your organization's reputation as an expert by being consistently involved in discussions on topics or aggregating information that are relevant to your organization. Email will probably not become extinct - so it is important to continue to track its effectiveness. How often will you track?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

He introduced me (virtually via Twitter) to Alistair Croll , co-author of their forthcoming book called " Watching Websites ," a deep dive into web metrics and monitoring. If you're looking at measuring or improving your strategy via Twitter, you'd start with your objectives first and identify key metrics. A disclaimer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc. It used to be tough to gather rich metrics on a Twitter use. It used to be tough to gather rich metrics on a Twitter use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Audience Growth (content consumption ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

But the fact was I kept tracking, never loafing, never slacking. And anxiously anticipating metrics that assign value even more; And my hopes have all the seeming of a marketer still dreaming, That my efforts not in vain, will yield intangibles and metrics all the same. And as a kicker to have a spot for aggregated info.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Our monitoring includes: Tweetdeck for iPhone Dual office monitors -- one for work, one for Tweetdeck "As it happens" Google Alerts for name, acronym, CEO's name An iGoogle dashboard aggregating web alerts Make your commenting policy known and fair. Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Admittedly most tools are a waste of time and money, however, we’ve managed to track down a few exceptions to this rule and provide a brief overview of how nonprofits can leverage them to get results. We’ve taken the guesswork out of the equation by aggregating only the best social media marketing resources available online.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2008

I'm still a "passive consumer" in the eyes of ScratchR, but my actions are tracked every time I view a Scratch project (as are spectators'). The ScratchR team intentionally wanted to avoid a massive popularity contest, so they promote activity on the site, not aggregate growth of views, loves, or downloads. I'm one of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

It looked a little more comprehensive then just asking people to tag and then trying to aggregate (we also looked at other tools like CrowdVine which was very comparable, almost a coin flip). metric tons – the equivalent to the annual emission of 43 cars. tons, we did not put any padding in).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe. Other data sources also enable the corroboration and verification of social media data.

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