Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. And, he thinks that NTEN should be responsive to him, as a member, in asking to publish web stats.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

Here at NTEN, we find it valuable to keep track of both numbers. This is the number you can use to compare the relative robustness of your messaging program with the results reported by the " eNonprofit Benchmarks Study " (or Convio's " Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study " or MailChimp's " Email Marketing Benchmarks by Industry ", or.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. The webinar is sold out, but the folks at Convio are making the recording available if you sign up. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

is the executive director of NTEN and expert in everything nonprofit tech. is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. writes for the Convio Connection Cafe Blog. Holly Ross. Megan Keane blogs at TechSoup community site.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Online Metrics as of June 23, 2009. Convio : Convio provides marketing, fundraising, advocacy and donor database tools that helps an organization take advantage of the inherent effectiveness and efficiency of the Internet to motivate donors and other supporters. Tags: Community NPTech NTEN Fundraising. Send a box (total).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

" Complaints and Celebrations: Holly Ross at NTEN described what she listens for when she puts her listening ears on for Twitter - this includes listening to people's complaints and celebrations. She later wrote more about this in a expanded post on the NTEN blog. What's cool is that you grab an RSS of the search).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

I'm working on another screencast (sponsored by NTEN and SalesForce ) about the SalesForce/Google Ad Words Integration. The click through rate, cost per click , and conversion goal are the best metrics in google AdWords. Google adwords metrics/reports tell you about what's happening with the campaign. How to figure that out?

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Forum One

AUGUST 14, 2007

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. Oh, I so want a NTEN baseball cap !) What do you think?

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Forum One

MARCH 27, 2007

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2005

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

Also, NTEN recently published a report on the results of a survey covering CRM satisfaction. based nonprofits are faced with two extremes: on the one hand, there are large large players like Convio , Kintera , and Blackbaud and on the other hand there are smaller providers like DIA , FirstGiving , and NetworkForGood.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Tools by Jordan Viator of Convio Social media tools tend to be "bright, shiny objects" with which organizations become enamored. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 27, 2013

So Chas Offut told us back in April when he and Dennis McCarthy presented a sneak peek of the Blackbaud 2013 Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. What’s responsible for this growth in the face of other declining metrics? Sustainers and repeat gifts. That’s right!

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