Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. I have more details which I will put on my own site soon.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top feature: Users gain insight into online traffic, transaction times, website visits by device type, and conversion rates with real-time analytics. Top feature: MailChimp’s reporting and analytics tools allow users to centralize data across platforms, such as Google Analytics and Shopify sales reporting.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. The site offers an intuitive and high-performing experience across devices, with a smooth ticketing process and user-centered design.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

The W³ Awards competition honors creative excellence on the web and recognizes the creative and marketing professionals behind award-winning sites, videos, and marketing programs. The site offers an intuitive and high-performing experience across devices, with a smooth ticketing process and user-centered design.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . This socially-sourced crowd spends upwards of 15 minutes per day, every day , on social media sites, 3 to 7 times more than on any other major web property. .

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Whole Whale

MAY 12, 2020

Remember to tag the guest and any companies mentioned to increase the potential for engagement and comments. Embedding your episodes on other relevant pages on your site is a way to capitalize on existing traffic. Make your full pod player embed available for partners to add to their sites. Personal LinkedIn.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

Furthermore, across our multiple online platforms and websites, there’s little to no design consistency, and the transitions between the sites are clunky at best. Finally, and perhaps most glaringly, none of our sites have a real responsive design, making them difficult or impossible to access on a mobile device.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics. There are lots of resources online that shed light on the different terms and tricks to diving into your web analytics.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 19, 2017

522 clicks to my site at a cost of $0.29 Even better, setting up a remarketing campaign on Facebook is extremely simple: First, you’ll need to set up a tracking code on your site. Note : Be sure to have a remarketing privacy policy visible on your site to inform visitors of how you may be using their information.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Here’s a final checklist to run through before you launch your site to make sure everything is ready for the big-time. User friendly - Have a few staff members or volunteers who weren’t involved in the design process go through the site as a "normal" user. At a minimum, test the site on iphone, ipad, and Android phone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites. Commenters on Allan’s post wonder about the fate of Convio’s IPO. Allan Benamer points out that Kintera is about to be delisted by NASDAQ. Time will tell. {

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Intro to Coding’s website features animated geometric shapes in the hero area of their site (aka the “above the fold” area), in-line with 2020 geometric shape and animation trends. Released in 2003, WordPress is open-source software and free to use and fully-customizable using WordPress themes and plug-ins.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments! We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Morrisville, North Carolina: Deep Dive into Google Analytics. Seattle, Washington: How to Grow Your WordPress Site. NOTE: this is using multi-markdown, which BBedit.app doesn't recognize, but Marked.app does.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 16, 2024

The list is far from exhaustive – please comment to add your own! They work to help you make the best use of your website, analytics, digital content, advertising, social media , email, and more. You can create custom emails, access instant analytics, manage ticket sales, and accept donations seamlessly.

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

How to set up Google Analytics. Setting up a WordPress site takes no more than 5 minutes. Ask the candidate/vendor to evaluate areas of improvement on your site. If you want your content to show up in search results, and by association increase search traffic, you need to invest in building strong backlinks to your site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Avoid Analytophilia Alexandra Samuel coined that phrase in a post on social media analytics and metrics about the greatest peril of social media: analytophilia. She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. Did you do any outreach to encourage commenting?

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

| Main | Care2 Launches Americas Favorite Animal Shelter Contest » Monday Oct 13 2008 Using Google Analytics to Track a Nonprofit Website (Part 1) Monday, October 13, 2008 at 01:21PM | by James OMalley Nonprofits take note: Google Analytics software application has shattered previous barriers to analyzing and optimizing websites.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 11, 2017

While the execution isn’t always so clear, content marketing can increase visitors to your site and help to convert them into online donors. Yes, ranking on the top page for the phrase, “ best car ,” might drive 5,000 visitors to your site. What Is Donor Intent? ” That leaves you with donor into keywords. Charity Watch.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

But creating this site affordably, and finding the right tools to build and host it, can be a challenge — especially when you are relying on in-house talent with little or no web-development expertise. Week 5: Metrics and Analytics. But which web analytics tool should you use? Week 2: HTML, CSS, and Beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I'm also having some problems with lumping all the engagement measures together, although it's good for a quick and dirty analysis. Is the number of comments the sole measure for success of a blog? Maybe I'm getting into the carpet fibers too much, but something like this: Comments for conversational. Outbound links for influence.

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

Google Analytics: Google Analytics , a free and powerful website stats software, lets you dig into your website data so you can find out all sorts of useful info such as who your audience is and what keywords they are searching for to find your website. Respond to their comments so they know someone is reading their posts.

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