Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

When you hover over an item on ticker, you can see the full story and join the conversation as it happens. From a privacy standpoint, if you comment on a post on the ticker, be sure you notice what the original privacy settings are on the post. Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Here’s the stats I asked for and why: Average Repin Ratio : Gives a measure of engagement. SFMOMA love.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Below are some ways to use your event metrics to identify and engage specific participant types during your fundraising event. Warm Bodies.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

A word of caution if you go down this path: It may be near impossible to measure and report on progress between cross platforms. It’s one of the easiest and most direct ways to measure digital investments. Or how about measuring the impact of brand awareness? Or how about measuring the impact of brand awareness?

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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 also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

If anything, that's the most important thing about social media metrics or for any metrics. Metrics in context connected to action - whether to improve a program already underway or evaluate impact. I'm more interested right now in applying the metrics to program improvement. Step 5: Measure. I'm working on one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

As the platform has evolved over the past few months, there are some other benefits including driving traffic and conversions and more recently how pinning helps encourage audiences to “like” the brand more. You might also want to spend some time doing a little research on site and browse some of the pinterest stat sites.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. All you have to do is click drag, and drop the metrics you’re measuring. But it doesn’t have to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2011

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m facilitating several peer exchanges on the topics of measurement, social media, and networked nonprofits. It comes as no surprise that Momsrising embraces measurement and learning. Source: Social Media Propaganda Posters by Aaron Wood.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2018

Here are some key stats that recap the impact to the higher ed sector: Online giving grew 13.2% More institutions are bringing technology from being back in the operational area to the forefront and introducing more strategy around communication plans and engagement plans into the strategy conversation. in 2017 compared to 2016.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I didn’t understand it until I read the conversation on Twitter. I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. But the stats. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). are very different.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

A word of caution if you go down this path: It may be near impossible to measure and report on progress between cross platforms. It’s one of the easiest and most direct ways to measure digital investments. Or how about measuring the impact of brand awareness? Or how about measuring the impact of brand awareness?

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

social media stats you consider most important to track. We tried to get a little closer to it with that Facebook conversation. Beth Kanter had a great post a couple of weeks ago about the variety of social media metrics she puzzles over. Allyson Kapin wrote another piece you should read about measuring your impact on Twitter.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

We’ve put together a list of the most up-to-date stats on how nonprofits are using social media to make a difference. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. increase in customer service conversations on Twitter. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. View more presentations from womenwhotech.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Here Are This Week’s Nonprofit Highlights: Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. It’s important that you begin paying attention to the stats. If you’re not appropriately monitoring performance, how can you gauge success?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular. We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. How to begin to have conversations to understand it. We need metrics!

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

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.” well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? ” I know I speak fast. Is it specific?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? If we set up Goals, reviewing them post-launch is another great success metric. Methodology. Research Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

If you been following this thread, I was prompted to explore blog metrics in this post after reading what Avinash Kaushik had to day on the topic : The blog metrics he identified were: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Technorati ??? Authority???

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

Track specific metrics related to how well your story is received by supporters, such as: Open Rate: How many supporters open your email or text communications? Conversion Rates: How many supporters take the desired action, such as donating or signing up for a volunteer shift, once they read your story? Track the success of your story.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

Just as we would struggle jumping into a conversation at a party without knowing what was already said, developing engaging campaign messages is difficult, if not impossible, without knowing how people are already talking about your issue(s). They know their actions are being monitored. Why does this matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Q: How can nonprofits define and measure success with an online video? Has research been done to measure conversion rates, and, if so, what has it concluded? Good metrics are often hard to come by, but measuring success is the only way to know if your effort and investment has paid off!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. It’s important that you begin paying attention to the stats. Check out some of his blogs from the conference , where he covers benchmarking data, donor ready patrons, and conversion rates.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Is it best to create a monetary goal or one based on impact metrics? When setting your own goal, use the SMART principles approach, making sure it’s Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely. Will the money be used much further down the road? Are you funding programs or operations or both?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

One of the best projects that illustrates the basic idea of Web2.0 - listening and conversation and stakeholders creating their own experience with your organization - comes from the Brooklyn Museum of Art. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 12, 2022

Impact : Facts and stats also matter, especially if they clearly show the impact of your nonprofit’s work. Just realize that a sponsor is definitely going to want to know all about the positive impact your organization has on your community, so annual reports, client stories, and metrics like a donor’s return on investment handy.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Addressing these fundamental motivations is key, and by doing so, you’ll witness an increased conversion of donors. Measuring the Impact of Your Stories Measuring impact in nonprofit storytelling is a crucial step toward understanding the tangible outcomes of your efforts.

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