Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

What charts or slides did the group focus on? What background research was critical to the conversation? 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’s time we had a little talk about strategic objects.

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Data Help Analytics Test 31

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. DonorSearch — Top Fundraising App for Wealth Screening DonorSearch is a prospect research and fundraising tool that can help your organization learn more about your major donors.

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Org Raise Tools Help 82

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

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 11, 2009

Madeleine is co-founder and principal of Arbor Consulting Partners , a research and consulting group led by senior social scientists. Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. And, of course, what metrics to use. We talked a lot about network practices. She also discusses it in the video above.

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Network Authoring Social Media Ipod 95

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Despite increased awareness of this intrinsic link, as well as some laudable efforts over the last couple of decades, research shows nonprofits are frustratingly far from that goal. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets. So, how can diversity help nonprofit boards better accomplish their mission?

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Arizona Tucson United States Nonprofit 40

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. AARP’s Livability Index targets a broad set of audiences including local residents, community advocates, researchers, and local policymakers.

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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.

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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. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes. What she likes best is that the tool can help them tag specific campaigns and do more fine-tuned analysis.

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Measure Social Media Tools Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Idealware looked into this question about nonprofits and Facebook as well as other questions in its recent research study, Using Facebook to Meet Your Mission: Results of a Survey , available for free download with registration and discussed at free webinar on June 16 at 1 PM PST. Creating is more appealing then analysis to most.

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Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

My Facebook page is a focus group or channel for research. 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. How Networked Nonprofits Use Facebook Smart.ly.

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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?

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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

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). You can do an analysis of your blog feed here.

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Reflection Measure Technorati ROI 50

Care2

MAY 27, 2009

I had the honor of participating on the ROI (Return on Investment) of Social Media panel at the Women Who Tech TeleSummit with Monique Eldwell of Conversify and Cheryl Contee of Fission Strategies where we laid out some key metrics and useful case studies. The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. Here are a few examples.

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Social Media ROI Media Social 59