Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2011

This post is the fourth in an ongoing series about Google. If you’re not yet familiar with Google Analytics, it’s a free tool from. Google that you can add to your site to give you information about how. In its default state, Google Analytics tracks all activity on your website.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. For some good how-to posts, check out my co-blogger Alissa Ruehl , perhaps starting with her Intro to Google Analytics. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process.

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Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2020

Feature Google Analytics tracking. Google Analytics allows you to view your site’s performance and understand where the traffic is coming from. Leverage a CMS that has embedded Google Analytics functionality so you can track metrics like site visits, bounce rates, and more. Event comparison.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. Average gift was nearly flat year over year for the median organization, but this metric is especially volatile and easily pulled by outliers. And boy, were there some outliers this year. On to the goods! . Giving Tuesday: December Edition.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 22, 2013

I don’t know for sure, but I can show you how to answer that question for yourself using the good ol’ scientific method and Google Analytics. Test the hypothesis by performing an experiment and collecting data – Use Google Analytics Content experiments to test your new idea. Can I track this in an experiment?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

In a recent post , I mentioned that Jeremiah Owyang pointed out that "Retweet" (sharing a link or tweet from one of your followers with your followers) is a social gesture indicating endorsement of an idea and predicts that there will be an analytics tools to measure this. I went looking for stop gaps from Brian Solis's awesome list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

In Google Analytics I'm closing looking at referrals. 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. A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Google recognizes the power of search engine marketing and shares free access to its paid marketing platform with eligible nonprofits. Through the Google Ad Grants program, Google empowers charitable organizations to tap into pay-per-click (PPC) advertising, connecting them with likely prospects online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? As Jeremiah Owyang points out that "Retweet" (sharing a link or tweet from one of your followers with your followers) is a social gesture indicating endorsement of an idea and predicts that there will be analytics tools to measure this. Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those.

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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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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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. How odd is it then to teach Google Analytics to nonprofit techies but then say that site statistics had nothing to do with a nonprofit’s mission? And, I actually hope that doesn’t change. 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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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.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Use your software’s data and analytics to understand how your donors arrive at their decisions to donate - that way, you can strategically encourage additional gifts by putting “signs” along that journey and make giving convenient. Most CRM software will allow you to run standard reports that measure typical email metrics: opens, clicks, etc.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2014

Carla: We also integrated Google Analytics more deeply to allow us to better understand the needs of our users, set better goals for our traffic , and have more control in tracking those metrics. Carla: We measured our website, especially before and after the launch, comparing the metrics with different traffic tools.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Organic traffic refers to visitors who find your website via unpaid search results, mainly through search engines like Google. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Google Analytics , with its robust dashboard system displaying key web site metrics, is another example. 5) Scenario Comparison Dashboards. These are typically designed to compare likely outcomes of a range of future scenarios across a range of key metrics.

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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). Audience Growth (content consumption ???

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 23, 2023

In fact, YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world, behind Google. Twitter: At 330 million users per month, Twitter feels like a fading platform in comparison to the others. Learn about analytics so you can track your progress. But taking a hard look at your analytics can inform your social media moving forward.

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