Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

When evaluating CRM software for your nonprofit, you need to look for these five key differentiators: 1) Importance of Platform. Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? 5) Outcomes and Analytics. Is the technology popular in the market?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

The challenge can be in knowing which nonprofit data to prioritize, along with how to evaluate it and use it to make improvements. These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. The idea of data analysis is to work smarter, not harder.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. As the volume of business information exploded, sales ops has evolved into a more powerful data analysis and reporting unit that can provide critical insight on the following areas: Sales Process Optimization. Performance Metrics Analyses. Evaluation of Sales Team Training Needs. Automation.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 28, 2023

Use a fundraising dashboard to visualize data analytics. If you haven’t evaluated your CRM or cleaned up your data recently, doing so can make a major difference in your capability to engage donors. Use a fundraising dashboard to visualize data analytics. Segment your email lists. Leverage social media engagement data.

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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. Evaluate past fundraising and acquisition campaigns. Evaluate your progress and course correct if some of your strategies aren’t resonating with your audience. the timing of their donation)?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Digging into each analytics platform individually to pull your information to try to tell a cohesive story can be frustrating. No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. Too many manual processes to get what you need.

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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. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making. I think if I were to sum up social media metrics for nonprofits, I would say that best examples of social media practice and measurement are when social media is used for engagement with a purpose.

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Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Evaluate telethons and phone banks – what makes people donate on the spot? The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth.

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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. This strikes me as a metric that would be easier to compute and apply for some projects or programs and a real bear for others.

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San Francisco Organization Kiva Metrics 104

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Don’t limit the evaluation of your success just to dollars raised for each program. For example, you could look at evaluating the following: How many newly identified mid-level and major gift prospects have come to the forefront? Do you need to do an analytics project to help you identify likely and capable prospects?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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Gyrus

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Establish the most important knowledge to obtain for improving your personnel and workforce as a whole and determine how those metrics would look, then implement them directly in your program. Beyond Return on Investment figures, professionals everywhere can evaluate the true reach and effectiveness of their learning programs.

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Learning Organization Statistics Cleveland 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. Why was it a success?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Google Analytics – [link]. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page!

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

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. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis. What is the trend in sales over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

2020 Web Tech Approach To Social Media Analytics View more presentations from Gaurav Mishra. 20:20 Social Media Analytics Blog; A colleague just shared a link to this blog by Guarav Mishra's company. It's where I grabbed the above slide show that offers a conceptual framework for strategy and metrics. Here's the slide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation. A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. Do you need sentiment analysis? Brand and reputation monitoring for a nonprofit or foundation.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2015

Let’s identify the type of data analytics we discussed & how they can help your organization: How to use your CRM data to analyze trends in gift history, affiliations, connections, etc. Step 1: Find the right suite of data analytics products and services! But is it just another buzzword? What does big data mean?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. First, a simple metric relating to security reports, and second, what processes are in place in the communities to deal with security. More on that in a bit.

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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. Analytics has been a recurring theme this year. Avoid being caught in simply a descriptive analysis, which describes current participant patterns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

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. Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. Does it exist?

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Forum One

MAY 31, 2022

Google sent a bit of a shockwave through our community this spring, announcing that after more than ten years, Universal Analytics (UA) will stop collecting new data on July 1, 2023.* Shifting to a whole new platform—and Google Analytics 4 is a whole new platform—can seem daunting. New key metrics focused on customer engagement. ?

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. I advise using Google Analytics to determine the browsers and devices visitors are using to view their site, make donations, or read newsletters. The metrics should follow those goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use Google Analytics (GA) to see things like how many unique visitors you’re getting, what content is being viewed the most, what keywords or phrases people are using to find you and where people are coming from when finding you. This is only a glimpse into what you can do with analytics. Put these tools in place. Off we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

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. Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. SXSW Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

These platforms serve as centralized platforms to streamline the collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to a company’s social, environmental, and ethical performance. Improved Reporting: Many CSR software platforms offer robust reporting and analytics. This can reduce the time and effort required to manage CSR initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

You need to take a reiterative approach - look at the results and evaluate and improve. If you're using Goolge Analytics goals, you've already thought through some of this. If you're already using Google Analytics, running some of the keyword reports will give you an idea of what keywords people are using to find your site.

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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? David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. database, CRM, email provider, texting provider, payment processor, and analytics tool). Invest in evaluation tools. Digital-first fundraising enables instant capture and analysis of donor data. Mastering relevant content marketing. It’s simply a tool.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. By using data and analytics to track donor behavior and preferences, you can tailor their communication and fundraising strategies to better engage and retain your donors. But you can use metrics and A/B testing to measure how your emails are performing.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Phase 4: The Analysis Stage. During The Identification Stage, the goal is to evaluate your current digital marketing strategy (if any) and discover areas for improvement. Analyze key metrics in your database. Then, use the engagement metrics and donor feedback you generate to promote the campaign to email subscribers.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Develop an analytics strategy. Develop an analytics strategy early in the process of bringing your app online. Specifically, define the metrics that are most interesting and useful for your organization. Measuring and monitoring key metrics allows you to understand your users and their usage patterns. Let’s dive in.

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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. Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. If you are measuring reach, engagement or action, you’ll need an analytics tool. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes.

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