Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. A smart approach to better understanding the perspective of the user is to actually have a user volunteer to test drive your site while you monitor their behavior. Allison: It depends.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

When evaluating how much effort you can realistically put into social media, you may discover that you need to scale back on how many channels you utilize. Once you’ve taken stock of all of your organizations social channels, evaluating your messaging strategy is a great next step. Exp: news articles, user generated content, etc.) .

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

Prospects and stakeholders who interact with you online have only your online communications to evaluate your organization. Keeping in touch with your metrics, for both your website and emails, is essential to providing the content your visitors actually want -- not what you guess they want. Maybe that includes yours? Are you credible?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

While migrating donor data is one of the most important steps in implementing a new CRM, it’s also the part that’s most time-consuming, mind-numbing, and prone to error. Here’s the bad news: This is not a step that can be avoided! Now for the goods news: We’re to help! Sound exciting? Well, we’re starting anyway!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

"We can't talk about transparency, accountability and honest evaluation without addressing the contentious topic of failure. Michele Martin points to a new feature in google news that can spark conversations. The "Failure is an option" particularly caught my eye. Does this resonate for you?

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

In that spirit, Convio released their comprehensive online marketing study today that looked at close to 600 nonprofit organizations’ online marketing results and compiled benchmarks for evaluating fundraising, email, advocacy, and marketing success online. Overall, the nonprofit online landscape looks good.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

We recommend using their 30-day free trial to further evaluate your return on investment on the tool. How you can use it: With Trello, you can better organize your team’s work with features like task assignment, timelines, productivity metrics, and calendars. The bad news? There’s actually no free plan.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

I assume most people start there because it is arguably the easiest part to grapple with; at least you can quantitatively evaluate and compare various solutions. To increase success, make this part of their job description and establish success metrics for your content contributors. Conduct a Pilot Launch.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

Put another way, the level of safeguards and testing should proportionally increase with the risk of harm to people. On the surface this may seem safe until it is tested with slight edge cases like the Washington Post did: Snapchat tried to make a safe AI. We think rule 1 should be doing no harm, so 0% is the threshold on this test.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

The averages we report for each metric are medians — they represent the middle nonprofit out of all those that provided data. In general our past testing has shown that day of week doesn’t impact performance much when it comes to email message performance — but the trends from a few years of weekend 12/31 timing beg to differ.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Specifically, define the metrics that are most interesting and useful for your organization. Conduct beta testing. The main goal of beta testing is to get real-world experience and insights into how well your app will perform with actual users after it’s launched. Leverage social media. Use paid ads.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 16, 2022

The program, which gives nonprofits $10k of in-kind search advertising per month, requires organizations to maintain certain performance metrics to stay eligible for the grant. Just work on getting those quality metrics where they need to be for your organization to keep the grant. Google Ad Grant Account Management. Online Course.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2013

It is a misconception that for-profits exist to make money only. In the early days of a successful lean startup, they look like untentional nonprofit organizations because they are focusing on impact metrics: How effective are they serving their stakeholders or customers? His creativity: I have a theory and I’m going to test it.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? But thats okay.

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

Evaluation In this stage, the potential donor begins to consider making a donation to your nonprofit. By sharing success stories, program updates, and other news, you can keep donors engaged and informed about the impact of their contributions. But you can use metrics and A/B testing to measure how your emails are performing.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

(Facebook, LinkedIn) Blogs offer a human voice, newsworthy information and experiences, and a forum for feedback -- and empower supporters to engage with and share ideas around your stories and news. Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important. Follow, participate, and create hashtags and memes.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. You might do this with news or press releases and radio interviews, you may be looking at the reach and the listening audience to say, “How many people did you engage?” Sample metrics.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Measurable: Choose metrics that will help you know whether you’ve met your goal or not. Here are three ways your supporters can spread the news about your end-of-year giving campaign: Provide a hashtag your supporters can use for your year-end campaign. How many new donors did we gain, and how did we recruit them?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Tis a test and nothing more!'. And anxiously anticipating metrics that assign value even more; And my hopes have all the seeming of a marketer still dreaming, That my efforts not in vain, will yield intangibles and metrics all the same. DEFINE the METRICS. Say, let’s define our metrics. set audience. picked tools.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

Test different categories of folks (recent donors, non-donors, renewed donors) and test different treatments. Consider testing a conversion series for your online leads that tests the first two or three or even six contacts a lead receives and look at the combined results. Which brought on more new donors?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 5, 2007

Test different categories of folks (recent donors, non-donors, renewed donors) and test different treatments. Consider testing a conversion series for your online leads that tests the first two or three or even six contacts a lead receives and look at the combined results. Which brought on more new donors?

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Mail Social Media Online Fundraising 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Their reach metric exceeded their most popular post by 11,000, they got the more meaningful comments and more likes/shares since they started their page. In addition, the newspaper used their toolkit content to write a feature. So, benchmark your unlike and hide percentage and if it is higher than 2%, evaluate the tone of your posts.

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