M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. And boy, were there some outliers this year.

Fundraising 98

Fundraising Gift Rate email 98

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. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

Drupal 100

Drupal Comment Report Metrics 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. Then at the end of the month, allocate a half hour to look at the numbers for the month in comparison to other months – and look for insights and trends. Unsubscribes.

Social Media 99

Social Media Strategy Media Social 99

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

I also found an indepth analysis of user behavior on Facebook and some specific thinking about metrics. Comparison of old/new metrics. The demographics summary: The numbers : 44 million active users. Demographic drill down (34% work as professionals). Facebook users are aging. How to apply it. Segments by app usage.

Demographics 50

Demographics Facebook Comparison Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. to help build this system and has shared some analysis of these retweets. I'd use something like this to identify influencers in my network whose retweets had reach or velocity. hatip stacymonk ) He collected over 84,000 retweets.

Comparison 50

Comparison Analysis Aggregator Twitter 50

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?

Donation 50

Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Laura Quinn is the founder of Idealware, which offers a consumer reports like analysis and comparison of nonprofit software. Laura Whitehead. Laura Lee Dooley. Michelle Murrain.

Technology 75

Technology Companies Netsquared Social Media 75

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users. What's cool is that you grab an RSS of the search).

Twitter 74

Twitter Ratio Google Artist 74

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. Other metrics we look at include: What are our sign-ups for our newsletter? 6 Katrin 09.19.07

Stats 100

Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

Try looking at a variety of meaningful metrics (not just dollars raised) to better understand the drivers for the event and provide feedback you can use for optimizing future events. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric.

Volunteer 38

Volunteer Social Media Interaction Demonstration 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

Metrics 56

Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Fundraising Donor Management Software Comparison: What’s Right for Your Nonprofit? Identifying potential donors involves research and analysis that highlights individuals or entities that share the same values and interests as the organization.

Donor 52

Donor Management Guide Retention 52

sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2022

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2017 through FY2021. The data set included 20 million donors who gave 71 million gifts for a total of $2.9

Blackbaud 81

Blackbaud Analytics Retention Channel 81

The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Analyzing Your Website’s Organic Traffic To understand how people are finding and engaging with your nonprofit website, you need to set up analytics and regularly monitor performance metrics. You’ll find key metrics under the Acquisition > All Traffic > Channels menu in your GA dashboard.

Websites 59

Websites Guide Impact Metrics 59

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.

Reflection 50

Reflection Measure Technorati Metrics 50

sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2016 through FY2020. The data set included 16 million donors who gave 57 million gifts for a total of $2.4

Retention 47

Retention Gift Rate Conversation 47

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

The key on Pathable is that we can ask them questions that they respond to with tags to describe themselves or interest: This creates some interesting effects- you can find other people with common interests based on tags, and Pathable does a tag comparison to suggest other people you may want to get to know during the conference.

Social Media 81

Social Media Media Social Flickr 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

Many of the techniques required to develop new socio–economic metrics drawing on social data are being pioneered by international development agencies, with citizen–led initiatives playing a pivotal role. One recent project is a real-time analysis and data visualization of the post2015 conversation on Twitter.

Policy 103

Policy Social Media International News 103

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data—the capture, analysis, and use—can be overwhelming. Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. I began to educate and report on a new series of metrics that added depth and reason behind our results. Should I be doing more?

Analytics 33

Analytics Data Analysis Metrics 33