Nonprofits Source

MAY 15, 2024

Start by digging into your customer data to better understand who they are. Adjust your digital marketing strategy according to the responses you receive to make clients feel valued and drive better results. Collect digital marketing KPIs Key performance indicators (KPIs) are metrics used to measure your digital marketing success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2014

But it is also a quiet time of year and a good time to catch up on reading. Also, if you are looking for a last minute gift for the nonprofit networking and data nerd in your life, here’s some book recommendations. This book is how to create a data-informed culture in your organization that values outcome based measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

First I had to “ Stop Fearing the Spreadsheet ” and then started to interview nonprofit data nerds about their Excel secrets. Top 10 Secrets of Excel Data Nerds. My Nonprofit Needs a Data Nerd and How to Find Them! That’s why I’m sharing the tips, tricks, and insider advice to transform you into a data nerd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“In the past year I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition. You can achieve amazing progress if you set a clear goal and find a measure that will drive progress toward that goal—in a feedback loop. You use the measurement as feedback to make adjustments.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 1, 2023

Data analytics and technology are revolutionizing the healthcare industry. With each new advancement, trends in healthcare technology promise to improve standard care coordination and data management for increased patient satisfaction. With this in mind, let’s begin. billion by 2027.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

I just published this piece guest blog post over at MarketsforGood about how nonprofit data nerds can use data to set some new goals for 2017 to become healthier – Enjoy. The passion that many nonprofit data nerds feel for our work is a double-edged sword. I started with working on getting enough sleep each night.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Start with benchmark data. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Track your own data. Once you know the benchmarks, you can compare your data to them and evaluate how successful your efforts are. You know what they say about measurement, right?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

A logic model helps to visualize those details and highlight the connection between a program's purpose and the programs results, and it helps you make sure you're measuring the right things so you can show success! Ananda Roberts Data Leadership logic models nptech nten Communications Program'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 22, 2016

I learned about measurement from Katie Delahaye Paine, who is the leading expert in measuring communications strategies. I was honored enough to co-author a book with Katie, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” a book about measuring social media and networks. So, I know first-hand how incredibly brilliant she is!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

They can work quickly to collect and learn from data. Do we make decisions based on data and evidence? When there is a challenge to solve that involves multiple teams, is it easy to find and share data? The organization focused early in its transformation on unifying data about programming and volunteers.

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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

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

I’m very excited to participate in one of the evening events, a curated discussion on Data, Transparency, and Impact with Jane Meseck (Microsoft), Paul Shoemaker (Social Venture Partners) and Eric Stowe (Splash) and moderated by: Erica Mills, Claxon Marketing. The report ends with some reasons why there might be a disconnect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2013

This session is my first interactive keynote based on the content of my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with KD Paine. In order to scale social justice outcomes, legal services needs to embrace the process of collecting and making sense of data to improve programs and get results.

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Candid

JANUARY 29, 2024

Casey Foundation ’s 2024 Race for Results report suggests that continued efforts are needed to address persistent disparities in child well-being. The Race for Results report series tracks how children across racial and ethnic groups are faring at the state and national levels on key education, health, and economic milestones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. and provided the two possible responses of “friends&# or “data&# – I used the question style where respondents had to pick one answer or the other exclusively. And the results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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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. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 1, 2021

How does it measure its impact? It’s a vital component of effectively delivering results. When technology does more of the heavy lifting – more data analysis, more personalized communication with constituents, more automation – employees have more time to tackle the bigger challenges that require human brainpower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The technology trend that caught my eye was “Learning Analytics,” which is big data applied to the field of education. As a practitioner, what interests me most using the data to gain insights about student interaction with material and courseware and tracking results of training. Learning and Knowledge Analytics.

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sgEngage

MARCH 10, 2023

So, when it comes to communicating your impact story, many foundations need to rely on the data in their form 990 to tell their story. Depending on the context and clarity you provide in your 990-PF, the resulting narrative might not be what you or your grantees expect. The key is to be intentional.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. The result is discord among teams and a lack of progress. Donor-centric stewardship.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards. Analyze results data to double down on what inspires action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

But shouldn’t dashboards be designed by data scientists and graphic designers? By applying this approach to any program development or strategy and even your organization’s dashboard, your nonprofit can more innovative and get more impactful results. What should participants each measure for their individual campaigns?

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A data entry clerk may have just changed the location from which the data was entered and the workflow to receive it. What you could be finding is that the organizational chart stayed largely the same, but now, not everyone fits where they were before. What specific, measurable results will occur once that training is complete?

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Achieve

JUNE 1, 2023

Let’s review three strategies for analyzing your donor giving patterns to create a data-driven fundraising and marketing strategy: Identify popular times of the year for giving. Track data for your marketing campaigns during these special events to determine which messages are most effective for driving donations.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

For many non-profits, data crunching is everything. Case in point: one area of data management where many non-profits fall woefully short is in the organization of volunteer assets. Or a volunteer who reported that they spent more time coordinating a labyrinth of data than actually getting any quality, cause-related work completed.

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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. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 6, 2012

Using this data, we now have an opportunity to start some difficult but important conversations about the true state of our sector. The chart below highlights that upward trend. But this funding may have been a stopgap measure at best, and some of these programs have now run their course.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. The Results Problem. No one wants to admit that they struggle to track their results, for fear of criticism and decreased support from funders and donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. And the latter is not about gathering data – it is about making sense of it and using it to continually improve. In early July, Facebook announced that it will include mobile data.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

That means you likely won’t see the results—increased fundraising revenue, increased donor retention rate, increased average gift size—that you would likely see when using a paid solution. Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. which will make it harder to organize and sync your data.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. Data collected from Similarweb.com. Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. The best way to measure that growth is with Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Who did you prepare the chart for and why?

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