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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Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. These goals include specific numbers and time frames to help orient your strategic planning around quantifiable metrics.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Step 5: Define your metrics. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I use the chart below, which comes from Chapter 5 of our book.

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

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.

Measure 103

Measure Learning Metrics Social Media 103

3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Use charts and diagrams to help them visualize your organization’s impact. Improving your donor retention metrics even a few percentage points can make a world of difference in your long term fundraising success … and stability. Are you using program outcomes data to tell better stories? 5 – Donor retention.

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Data Time Fundraising Retention 184

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. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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ROI Social Media Media Social 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. The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth. Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

Lesson 59

Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

At the 4 th level of 100% adoption for your prospect management system, your organization is now able to provide a deep analysis with reportings based on a sound system and full buy-in from all staff. High-level analysis questions by senior leadership and during campaign/advisory board meetings: How many active proposals are pending?

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Rate System Management Analysis 35

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. Tags: presentation webtools analysis community mapping listening notes tools webinar women womenwhotech.

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Click to See Larger Image I have been noodling around with this chart to show that insight comes before dollars, but if you measure and improve your initial pilot efforts over time, eventually the dollars do come.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Tools that incorporate a dashboard can help organizations visualize and more easily analyze their data by taking that information and turning it into charts and graphs. Even text can be measured with text analysis tools that can provide statistics on keywords and gauge sentiment.

Analytics 65

Analytics Data Analysis Chart 65

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. Get the report and read it. It points to some great momentum in online giving. Despite the fact that online-acquired donors give higher gifts both initially and over time, they renew at lower rates overall.

Attention 36

Attention Metrics Online Fundraising 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.” KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time. ” She also advised us to use manual tracking for sentiment analysis because computers do not do nuance very well.

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Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98

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.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

What charts or slides did the group focus on? They formulate a set of rough metrics and hypotheses, spend the week running small tests, and then convene at the end of the week to summarize what they have learned. It usually doesn’t though, and that’s because most nonprofits are using their data wrong.

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Data Help Analytics Test 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  He made the points that your metrics must get you to results - and the three most important results are: Increased Revenue. "    He talked about different categories of metrics for the web: 1)   Types of visitors:   You have to get inside your customer's heads and what is important to them. 

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Marketing Measure Metrics Hunger 50

Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Forum One was a sponsor, and several of my colleagues from our user experience and design team lead sessions on topics ranging from tips on quick and simple audience analysis to learning from design mistakes and making client engagement fun in a group setting. Have any other metrics to add to this list? Tell us in the comments!

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Teach Experiment Arizona Metrics 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. You've done a terrific job in identifying benefits(outcomes) and some metrics - you might want to consider paring them down even further. I'd like to see how you are going to specifically look at success/change and metrics for your blog.

Guinea 50

Guinea Measure Social Media Wikispaces 50

NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

To help relieve these demands, many organizations are turning to Business intelligence tools to retrieve, organize, and share knowledge for analysis and guided decision-making. BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics. What is Business Intelligence?

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Business North America Metrics Analysis 44

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success. Backlink analysis. Get an idea of who is linking to your site, the anchor text they use, and their domain authority with Moz’s backlink analysis. Individual tasks.

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Org Raise Tools Help 80

NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Organizational Chart ~ Look for Obstacles. The way in which mission focused technology comes to be is largely based on the organizational chart, that funny diagram made up of boxes and lines that either puts tech on the path to success or the highway to, well. What does a Strong Relationship Between Tech & Staff Look Like?

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Tech Org Chart San Diego 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. 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. She also discusses it in the video above.

Network 95

Network Authoring Social Media Ipod 95

NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

What they do and don’t do has a big impact on donor relationships and the metrics we’ve uncovered. Analysis of cumulative online giving (i.e., Some do a great job connecting with and engaging donors in many ways and through many channels, while others are doing little. lower than for donors who give via charity-branded giving pages.

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Studies Donor Online Giving 95

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Unlike business, the bottom line of a nonprofit is not necessarily money; it’s all about outcomes, which often manifest themselves as intangible results not easily measured by metrics. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. Garcia is an executive board member of the Arizona Children's Action Alliance.

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Arizona Tucson United States Nonprofit 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). My problem now is that I don't do a lot of processing with a pen or marker/flip chart anymore -- but I was standing up there, so I jotted some notes down on my moleskin. Tags as a metric.

Reflection 50

Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. ") Okay, now we're onto fondling APIs, google's to be exact.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech Tag Tools 50

Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Not only can users narrow down their search to the district level, they can then choose from various impact metrics to better understand specific factors, behaviors, outcomes, etc. It includes those who understand data well (researchers), and others who are likely less familiar with complex data analysis tools.

Policy 65

Policy Los Angeles Data California 65

Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

Establish metrics that measure reactions, engagements, and your own internal successes and challenges in executing the plan—remember that staffing, budget, and organizational change management are components of your plan as well. Growing your digital engagement capacity will likely require investments of budget or time over time.

Digital 73

Digital Strategy Chapter Map 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. KD Paine offers a great framework for matching tools with data collection and analysis tasks. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes.

Measure 115

Measure Social Media Tools Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. It is also important to think about what specific metrics are needed to measure along the way.

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Social Media Media Social Chart 129

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Our data might be the most metrically driven data you’ve seen. That’s right, we are metrics freaks. Visual Humor: Don’t just use numbers, bar charts, and graphs. Metrics the Musical: Perhaps this was just a fun answer, but reporting in song! We measure EVERYTHING, all the time. Data is plentiful.

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Measure Fun Hawaii Metrics 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

As measurement guru KD Paine says, you need the right measurement tool for the job – identify SMART objectives , pick metrics , and then your tool. Creating is more appealing then analysis to most. Here’s where I think the AMEC Valid Metrics Grids will be very useful. Less is more. .

Measure 96

Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. Pick valid metrics in the context of an integrated campaign. How many by when? Guides, not report cards.

Facebook 101

Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. Kaushik offers up some metrics for blogging: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post).

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Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50