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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Sharon notes that 50-year longitudinal studies from Gallop Poll, NORC’s General Social Survey, Harris Poll, and Edelman Barometer, find that trust in public institutions and their leaders has declined steadily. That last statistic should make us all take notice. Stay tuned for Sharon’s analysis of the dialogue.

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Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis. Cheap and Cheerful Audience Analysis for NGOS by Darren Barefoot. But not all kinds of audience analysis are evil. You could simply ask one question each month in a poll widget in your monthly email newsletter.

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Humane Society: Tactics for Sustained Engagement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She advises using various parts of the Grunig instrument which you can be done for free using Survey Monkey or Zoomerang or a poll on a blog. The way to do that is with statistical factor and ANOVA analysis which definitely requires an advanced level of practice and enough data.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

Whole Whale

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. Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

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Your Voice Really Does Count: Why It Is Important to Participate in Surveys

Tech Soup

Before the advent of simple survey software, which leveled the playing field, surveys were run by businesses and organizations large enough to have a statistical department or a partnership with a university. All those individual responses were tough to crunch in the “old days.”

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NpTech Tag: Roundups from and about Facebook and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From last week's Web2.04Dev Conference is a snap poll " What does Web2.0 " -- the poll was done with mp3 files and so you can hear their voices. Britt Bravo looks back on a poll from last year about recommending social networking software and points to recent spoofs about Facebook and Social Networking. mean for you?

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Simple Ways to Analyze Nonprofit Email Performance

Connection Cafe

Conducting a simple analysis of your email data requires you to understand the proper way to compare rates between two emails. Since your initial test emails are going to a smaller percentage of your list, the overall universe must be larger to allow for statistically significant results . Statistically significant? .

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