Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). Some pr professionals agree.

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Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leverage a CMS that has embedded Google Analytics functionality so you can track metrics like site visits, bounce rates, and more. Part of sustaining your association’s membership means organizing your member data. In order to keep your member database organized, your AMS should: Offer deduplication and data merge tools.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. Ideally, we’d evaluate the previous year of data to observe patterns in different giving cycles. Research Questions. What’s Next.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

(I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. There are thank you notes to write, data to input, and results to report. You want to evaluate this information to help you determine what the return on investment is for running these activities.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Nonprofit engagement metrics can help you understand your organization, but you’ve probably seen the same terms over and over again in your research. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. Lagging indicators -.

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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. It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change. And it doesn’t bother me that it’s on quantcast.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

We dove deep into data from the 2012 presidential race to provide fundraising insight you can use during the 2016 election year, including: The charitable giving habits of 400,000 political donors. billion in online giving data from 2015 and features key statistics on year-over-year charitable giving broken down by nonprofit size and sector.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

By focusing on every step of that donor journey and leveraging supporter data to build better relationships with supporters, your nonprofit can stop focusing so much on acquiring new ones and start reaping the rewards of a loyal donor base. It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Then let’s get started!

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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. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Segmenting data, what does that mean and what are some of the ways we might do that. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. We can’t go into what data systems or, you know, what fields to use until we know, “What do we want to track?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve been curating infographics summarizing social media and social network studie s of American and global audiences, but one of the best resources global social media and mobile data is We Are Social. I’ve also collected infographics that summarize global data on various platforms on a pinterest board.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 16, 2012

This is absolutely a valuable metric, but I was curious how this data might vary if the list was based on organizations with the strongest social media presence.the ones we stand to learn the most from. View the 100 top nonprofit organizations on the web (including full data table). American Red Cross. American Cancer Society.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

The key on Pathable is that we can ask them questions that they respond to with tags to describe themselves or interest: This creates some interesting effects- you can find other people with common interests based on tags, and Pathable does a tag comparison to suggest other people you may want to get to know during the conference.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

This post is all about analytics and the vital role it should play in your organization: Let Go of Your Fear – Anyone Can Be Data-Driven. Let Go of Your Fear – Anyone Can Be Data-Driven. We all use data and analytics in some measure every day to guide our strategic planning and tactical decision making. by Jann Schultz.

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