Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2016

It also important to think about to development skills internally regardless and the Playbook offers a good list: Being “data-minded”: Someone who currently has or can build skills for creating charts, graphs, pivot tables and Excel formulas; someone who is interested in building surveys, exploring data and helping to make meaning out of numbers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

The stats below represent 5,721 organizations from 160 countries. In addition to social media stats, the report also provides data for how organizations use web and email communications, online fundraising tools, productivity software, and emerging technology trends. Are you an expert on how NGOs in Africa use technology?

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NGO Stats Social Media Global 279

Achieve

AUGUST 10, 2014

Fortunately, more and more resources are available to help nonprofits address the growing demands of their stakeholders. RAND Corporation, known for high-quality, objective research and analysis on issues at the top of the national and international policy agendas, shares its. Standards for High-Quality Research and Analysis. ,

Research 40

Research Analysis Stats Sound 40

The Storytelling Non-profit

AUGUST 4, 2020

Are your email stats actually plunging? Recognizing the root cause of that thinking can help you pump the breaks if this starts to happen again. This will help you optimize and improve your results. Now, I know this analysis does not account for something like an economic downtown and donors deciding to give less.

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Profit Analysis Stats Question 49

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. View more presentations from womenwhotech. Watch for long-term trends, not just what is popular that week or month.

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. It might help you with: Identifying cross-collaborations with other Fan Pages. What I'd like to see is a social network analysis of active fans and their relationships with others.

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Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 97

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2013

We went into full analysis mode – we looked at everything. My goal was to provide fellow fundraisers with an intense regime to help you identify growth opportunities and hopefully solve some challenges you might have encountered along the way. This was actually and is still one of my favorite activities. See you at Boot Camp!

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Time Stats Reflection Analysis 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list.

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Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success. Percent of participants who are on teams and similar stats, team size, team retention rate, etc. Benchmarks & Stats Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising'

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Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. They’ve been applying science to major gifts fundraising to help nonprofits raise funds more effectively. Real-time analysis of every data point associated with your major gift program can be a hassle. How do we know this?

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Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I’ve constantly stretching myself to learn new techniques that help nonprofits embrace and effectively put social media strategies and tools into practice as well as address the change management issues of becoming a Networked Nonprofit. Hashtag Stats. (The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.). Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

I've been translating different audience analysis frameworks to a nonprofit context. These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening. And in a world of search results, there are those who enjoy sharing their knowledge, expertise, and help.

Social Media 95

Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

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. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader).

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

How can Google Analytics reports data help improve your Web site's performance. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. The Official FAQ: How Does Google Analytics Help Me ? Pilot's dashboard ?

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Screencast Analytics Measure Web 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I referenced Liza Sabater's Brown Bloggers meetups, but could not point to any studies or stats. No real hard data in them though, more trend/zeitgeist-type analysis. Blogs Help Drive Jena Protest. Niche Online Social Networks - stats on black planet and migente - online communities for blacks and latinos.

Web 61

Web Social Blogger Stats 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. We'll also use the Idealware stats to demo a methodology that connects metrics to business questions. Almost six months ago, I did an analysis of my blog using some metrics suggested by Avinash Kaushik.

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Analytics Web Metrics ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik. Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan!

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Site Web RSS Build 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Michelle Murrain weighs in with a thought provoking post, " What Do Web Stats Mean, Anyway? " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. Maybe open Social Graphs will help ?

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Open Source Nptech Summary Tag 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Thank you again for your help. Be Helpful.

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Analytics Google Site Folksonomy 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

My job is actually using sites like that to help spread brand awareness of our company and our product, the WHERE mobile application. The job also involves a good amount of social media strategy, content production, customer service and statistical analysis. I get to use sites like Facebook, Twitter and MySpace for a living!

Social Media 51

Social Media Media Work Social 51

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Users are more likely to download a full report after seeing a compelling stat or chart, than to wade through a long report in hopes of finding a useful statistical nugget. Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis. Make it easy to find.

Policy 36

Policy Data Content Share 36

Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

We’ve put together a list of the most up-to-date stats on how nonprofits are using social media to make a difference. Whether you need help planning a social media strategy, conducting a social media audit, or drafting reports to prove results to leadership, we’ve got you covered. Social Media Marketing Statistics.

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Social Media Resource Marketing Media 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

How do we think about virtual worlds and help us study human behavior. Partners in Learning program -- gave stats. Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. Where is an existing framework to help us understand this?

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Game Change Metrics Learning Environment 50

Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Holiday celebrations and time spent with family and friends help us reconnect to the things that matter most and prepare to start fresh for the new year ahead. No matter your donors’ reasons for giving, the stats above show that at the end of the year, they’re ready and willing to give. Conduct post-campaign analysis.

Campaign 69

Campaign Practice Giving Social Media 69

3rd Sector Labs

MAY 4, 2015

Same goes for outcome measurement – you may use outcome stats for marketing purposes, but their primary purpose is program and/or contract management. Helpful analysis might include: • Comparing donor acquisitions costs to average fundraising costs. Next, identify the exceptions to the status quo. It’s a start.

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Donor Database Analysis Activities 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

As the platform has evolved over the past few months, there are some other benefits including driving traffic and conversions and more recently how pinning helps encourage audiences to “like” the brand more. You might also want to spend some time doing a little research on site and browse some of the pinterest stat sites.

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Tools Tips Resource Stats 105

Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Taking place on November 30th, 2021, #GivingTuesday helps the nonprofit sector to build a herd mentality in the same way that online retailers built up Cyber Monday and non-chain stores created Small Business Saturday. Giving transparency can help your story when getting ‘fence-sitters’ to convert. Draft a Giving Tuesday quarterback.

Ideas 111

Ideas Giving Calendar Facebook 111

Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] SocialToo: Creates surveys and tracks social media stats. One of the down sides of Twopular is that if your issue/hashtag is not in the top 10 trends, you won’t see stats in the bar graph. Lets you filter by term and user name to manage help manage all the noise. June 30, 2009 | Laura Tube Mogul is great for video.

Social Media 70

Social Media Track Media Tools 70

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. Here are seven tips to help you start measuring social media efforts.

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Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Gear Up For Giving from the Case Foundation is a month-long series of social media tutorials, to help nonprofits and their supporters understand how to use key tools and techniques to create awareness, catalyze civic action and cultivate new supporters and donors for their causes. Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc.

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Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2011

Momsrising knows from years of message testing and research , that to change minds about an issue, wonky stats fall flat. They collected over 500 stories from 43 states about how Medicaid was helping families. We don’t go out on anything solo, we rely on partners for policy analysis and many other things.”.

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Results Facebook Metrics Measure 115

NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

While we are capturing more stats and indicators than ever before, most of us are still a little befuddled as to what to do with all these numbers. Data management will be one of the most important skills in our sector over the next decade, with implications that reach far beyond simply understanding our own organizations.

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Data Impact Statistics Storytelling 98

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Let’s take a look at five key financial management and reporting capabilities that your fund accounting solution should have in order to help keep your organization compliant and provide a complete picture of financial data for improved strategic planning and increased transparency to stakeholders. Robust Budgeting Capabilities.

Software 20

Software Grant Nonprofit Fund 20

Care2

APRIL 6, 2014

If your organization is struggling to find the right analytic tools to track your website traffic, social media presence, and how your reports, campaigns, or infographics perform across the web, check out this list of 5 helpful analytic tools. Looking for a report that combines your Google Analytics stats in a visual format?

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Analytics Track Metrics Tools 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

But the stats. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. The only way to track the real numbers of subscribers or at least people who read via bloglines is from looking at the subscriber stats in bloglines. With all that aside, I'm pleased with these stats! Only 40% of the direct. hits come through search.

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Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I believe it has also helped with increased reader numbers and possibly reader retention. So, calculating this number help me see if I've kept this promise with myself. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). Thanks to Chris Blow , a reader, who helped me figure it out). This is not foolish consistency.

Reflection 50

Reflection Measure Technorati ROI 50

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

It refers to large datasets that requires powerful software tools to capture, store, search, sharing, analysis, visualization and sense-making – or what DJ Patel calls " Data Jutjitsu." Pacific time to discuss my new book about how to use data to help your organization succeed.

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Data Teen Change San Francisco 65