NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

The 2012 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report was released at 12NTC yesterday and it’s already stirring up discussions about how nonprofits are leveraging social networks as part of their fundraising and communications strategy. The Average Facebook & Twitter Communities Grow by 30% and 81%, respectively.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

Last summer, we pulled together data from some of the country’s leading nonprofits to bring you the 2011 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report, laying out basic benchmarks for nonprofit pages on Facebook. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. Picking A Social Media Measurement Pilot.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2020

Video engagement on social media is the measurable action that viewers take after watching. We studied 778 nonprofit organizations’ video posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram from January 1, 2019 – December 31, 2019 to establish benchmarks, identify trends, and uncover insights. My team at Tectonic Video wanted to find out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

While my family and their home dodged a bullet, like millions in NYC, other locations had catastrophic flooding and there was a loss of lives. We learned that it predicting the path of hurricanes is a more precise science than the measuring their destructive force. What are the key results of this campaign ? What does success look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Measuring this requires some surveys of fans as well as counting the number of insights gleaned from posts and discussions from Fans. The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size. It might help you with: Identifying cross-collaborations with other Fan Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. It isn’t hard to see why we forget about one of the best ever social media measurement tools: surveys! Exhibitions team. Conservators.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Google Analytics can be overwhelming and confusing, but setting up Goals in your Google Analytics account helps to narrow down what you need to be looking at. Overall, you want to be tracking these types of goals because it’ll help you determine the quality of your visitors and measure the effectiveness of your marketing efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Idealware created the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide to help organizations like yours determine what results and benefits you can reasonably expect from social media, and to guide you through the process of identifying the right channels for different goals. Let our Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide help you find your voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. I'm sure we'll see more particularly as Kevin Dando urged stations to get a twitter account with their name. Burr says that measuring success is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

Followers, Friends, and Fans: Expanding Your Online Community If you aren't on facebook, twitter, friendfeed, technorati, and delicious, should you be? And once you jump into social media, how do you track and measure success?     I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. Notes and Resources.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Commit to eliminating departmental silos so that everyone is on the same page and all team members contribute their unique skills to help you succeed. Your fundraising strategy will build on your past successes and opportunities to help your organization grow year after year. With that, let’s get started. Offers accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2011

If Zoos and Aquariums had a benchmarking process or what I starting to call “ bench learning &# where there is a dashboard of peer metrics to review and discuss with peers, they might discover a wealth of insights. The goal is share with peers to get a better understanding of where they are as an industry on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Any ideas/links/resources would be helpful! We are a national nonprofit that works with documentary filmmakers to help them create their outreach plans. Twitter - to announce new blog posts, breaking news related to our work, and to ask supporters (followers) questions to get to know them better. Let's start with your blog.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Pacific time at the Twitter hashtag #NPdata to get all of your data questions answered. SAP brings passion to helping nonprofits become more effective and thereby capable of creating even greater social change. SAP does this through better technology and helping nonprofits improve their data and performance. How to Participate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). So today I’m really excited to launch the Knowledge Graph, which will help you discover new information quickly and easily.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

With the digital communications landscape evolving at light speed we wanted to track challenges, leadership attitudes, measurement strategies and 2014 investment plans. Early returns show robust embrace of social media’s tried and true platforms like Facebook (used regularly by more than 92% of respondents) Twitter (@55%) and YouTube (@40%).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Use Help Applications That Streamline Social Media Tasks. Make Time for Reflection. What needs to change?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2018 to some (hint: it’s not ), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2017 has taken you. Gail Perry’s insightful blog post and scorecard will give you a realistic measurement into the organization and productivity of your programs. .

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In fact, I’d probably not get much traffic or have many people share it on Twitter or Facebook. “5 Twitter only let’s you type 140 characters. Thinking this way will help you refine your email content and message so that you are clearly pointing your readers to the action you’d like them to take. Lacking Analytics.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” But we’d love to hear from you. You can tweet us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If you have been following me on Twitter, Facebook, this blog or other social media channels, you know that my father passed away several weeks ago. I used simple measurement tools to collect data and further analyzed it in Excel spreadsheets. 80% of the goal was raised before the Online Memorial Event on July 3rd.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I started a little Twitter conversation about it, and people seemed intrigued. Be Helpful. As a funder, you can put up RFPs (at a cost), and people can apply directly online. It looks interesting, and potentially useful. I wonder how many foundations will go for it, though. It looks very promising.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 28, 2019

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2020 to some (hint: it’s not), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2019 has taken you. Gail Perry’s insightful blog post and scorecard will give you a realistic measurement into the organization and productivity of your programs.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget. Often, they had to pay a consultant to help them set up their database and teach them how to use it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2011

It was also a big day for Twitter with the #ASKOBAMA Tweet-Up Town Hall. Paying attention to measurement benchmarks will be interesting here. But it’s also like starting over – I mean, what to measure? Colleague Geoff Livingston was in the WhiteHouse and filed this report. Analysis here. What goals to set?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I discovered it because of a charity challenge they're running on Twitter to raise awareness of their book, plus raise some money to help Room To Read. And of course, if you want to help out Room to Read, send this tweet. Yes, I’m just a helpful guy). You can read a more detailed definition here.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. ” TechSoup’s Coleridge likens analytics to a roadmap that guides where an organization wants to go with benchmarks that mark the progression to a goal. Why does data matter to nonprofit organizations and what data matters?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

The goal is to encourage nonprofits to make New Year's resolutions to that help them more efficiently and effectively move people to support their organizations. I'm drilling down into the concept of " streamline " to brainstorm 52 ideas to help make your organization's social media strategy and use more effective and efficient.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Most bloggers use the Technorati index to benchmark authority ranking. Links from blogs are no longer the only measurable game in town. This leaves an issue of how do you measure authority. He does mention a couple of tools that can help you measure influence: Backtype. I've noticed this myself. Of course we do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If you missed it, you can listen to the recording here , or join us for one of two upcoming conversations on Giving Days: the #FundChat Twitter chat on the Playbook at 12 EST Wednesday Sept. How can we set an accurate, measurable goal for a Giving Day if it is our first one? ET Thursday Sept. How much staff time is involved?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

There are some easy things that can be accomplished to coach your fundraisers , therefore making sure they have the information they need to enhance their fundraising experience: Email Helpful Tips. Enhance your communication plan with helpful tips on how to use those fundraising tools you are providing them. Offer Helpful Guides.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

The report provides excellent recommendations on what can be done to reroute the current direction in which the fundraising profession is headed, including strengthening talent, sharing accountability, and creating achievable benchmarks. Here are some other helpful starting points: Build cohesiveness. She earned a B.A. Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

" She talked about the importance of measuring your social media efforts.   This was a great positive spin -- rather than measure to show me or prove the impact, it's measure so you can quantify it.     The reason to measure is to determine whether to continue or not.  

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

Keep reading for an overview or use the links below to skip to the topic where you need the most help. KPIs give your organization a way to measure the success of campaign-specific goals and your nonprofit’s long term goals. Neon CRM has helped many nonprofits transition from simple spreadsheets to a robust donor management system.

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