Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

To strengthen wellbeing in the workplace the book provides leaders various solutions, including a new metric to track suffering, struggling, and thriving — Gallup Net Thriving. Peers have a major influence because they can measure and compare their struggles and successes. This translates into big differences in productivity.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Sourcing guest speakers and collaborators for your podcast provides an opportunity to strengthen your relationships with other nonprofit professionals in your community, even if they don’t end up becoming a guest speaker.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Does a nonprofit’s mission statement influence its fundraising efforts? New research conducted using data from Candid suggests that understanding this relationship can boost your nonprofit’s fundraising success. from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. For our first project,?

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sgEngage

MARCH 18, 2024

This includes considering factors such as race, gender, socioeconomic status, and other intersecting identities that can influence access to resources and opportunities. Hold Yourselves Accountable: Building accountability into your grant-making process by establishing clear goals, metrics, and mechanisms for measuring progress toward equity.

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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? Influence —> take action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement. It was clear from the presentations that measurement is a critical piece of the puzzle. Measurement is a learning process that uses research and data to help make improvements, and is not just counting things up – “We have 5,000 fans!” ”).

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. Last week during the Salsa Conference, I was asked this very question, why is social media data important - by Adrianne Burke, of Salsa Labs, during our panel Measuring Your Social Media. Why is Social Media Data Important?

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Fundraisers often have a love/hate relationship with fundraising CRM reports. Why report love matters Choosing a donor database is a pivotal decision for nonprofit fundraisers, influenced mainly by reporting capabilities. Sounds ideal, right? Let’s find out how to achieve that level of reporting Zen consistently.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Cause marketing is a great way to build a relationship with a business to make your fundraising more sustainable. The relationship cause marketing helps you build offers you a previous connection you can approach for future sponsorships, collaborations, and matching gift programs. But don’t rely on a singular metric!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Measuring this requires some surveys of fans as well as counting the number of insights gleaned from posts and discussions from Fans. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. This would be useful to help identify influencers.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 16, 2022

To better analyze your campaigns, you’ll need to understand a few fundamental metrics, including ROI, cost per dollar raised (CPDR), and cost per acquisition (CPA). Metrics like these measure your digital marketing campaigns in different ways, but they all seek to answer the same question: “Are your campaigns raising or losing money?”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 19, 2021

While some nonprofits are highly evolved in this category, many organizations are struggling with the first step of identifying which metrics to collect. The pandemic forced BBBSA to quickly transform deep, in-person connections into virtual relationships. Do you know which levers to pull to influence fundraising outcomes?

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Qgiv

APRIL 22, 2024

While nonprofits may have raising more funds as part of their marketing goals, it’s usually a part of a larger campaign to build long-lasting relationships within their community, which requires different marketing strategies than for-profit marketing does.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

Updates three years ago to Apple’s data privacy policies allowing users to limit tracking of email open rates have further complicated efforts to measure audience engagement. Fundraisers have other metrics available. Any number of variables can influence these metrics. Actual revenue generated is another datapoint.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. Identify key influencers with audiences on social media, email, or via the news media and spend time cultivating the relationship with the goal of eventually seeking promotional support or a collaboration on a project.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

A survey is a good place to start, but you might also consider launching a focus group of constituents (representing different members of your community) to unpack the findings and gather feedback on how rebranding will influence your audience’s perception of your nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

It involves your efforts to recruit new supporters, engage with existing ones, and grow your organization’s influence, all with the goal of funding your mission more efficiently. Donor stewardship (also known as stewarding your donors ) is the process of developing strong relationships with supporters after they donate to your cause.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Through comments, shares, direct messages, and fun hashtag challenges, you can foster relationships that would be harder to form through more traditional channels of communication. Key metrics to measure on social media Like with any campaign, it’s important to decide on how you’re going to measure the success of your social media strategy.

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Forum One

JULY 15, 2021

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) or Association Management System (AMS) platforms allow organizations to effectively gather and maintain data on their members, donors, and/or supporters. For example, are you seeking to increase conversions or influence certain behavior changes? How will you measure success?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2021

But as the social sector matures, becomes more professional and finds meaningful ways to measure success, executive compensation is developing a new image. With the influence of engaged boards and thoughtful hiring and retention practices, nonprofits are poised to offer more competitive and attractive compensation packages than ever before.

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Neon CRM

JANUARY 23, 2024

Once you’ve identified people who have a history of supporting your organization, seem to have the capacity to make major gifts, and have a pattern of making major gifts to other organizations, you’ll be able to start intentionally cultivating relationships with them. Why Implement It? Why Implement It?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

In this era of overwhelming inundation of data and messages, an organization’s relationships help it achieve results. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost. The description: Using Social Media to Engage and Inspire Your Alumni Network. Register here.

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Comprehensive online auction software improves every aspect of the fundraising process, from sending personalized communications using your donor data to generating real-time analytics that measure engagement and fundraising progress. Look for virtual auction software with the following features: Item procurement tracking. Social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Measure THIS! When I first started thinking about metrics for social media, I wanted to start out reminding our group about some fundamentals of the sphere. It's like a giant combination of influence and karma. The tricky part is, of course, measuring it. Measure success through awareness, not dollars. What is it?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

It’s trusted by over 15,000 nonprofits for its people-centric user experience that centers the tools nonprofit professionals care about most, which put donor relationships at the center of fundraising. Send personalized emails and letters to form genuine relationships with supporters. Seamless payment processing. Mobile app.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

One of the biggest challenges for a donor relations and stewardship program, as an indirect revenue generator, is success metrics. Their influence comes from the positions they hold and the fact that they are not paid to raise money. Are your donors engaged and have they stood by you through these unprecedented times? The basics.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The session was designed a mix of strategy with a deep dive into content, measurement, Facebook, and Twitter. Practical frameworks and guidelines for effectively developing an integrated content strategy and measurement practice. Masters of relationship marketing. Measurement mini workshop. ” .

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

For many donors, your nonprofit’s website provides their first impression of your organization and subsequently influences how they’ll interact with your organization going forward. How to establish a working relationship with a consultant. What you need a consultant for . How to research consultants . How to approach consultants .

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. To do this, your organization will need to increase fundraising revenue by $10,000 by finding new outreach opportunities and strengthening relationships with existing supporters to increase donor retention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. As KD Paine said on our SXSW ROI Poetry Slam , "You have engagement fully measured, now calculate the resulting treasure!".

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

We use Hootsuite and Sprout Social to manage our accounts and track metrics. A present, all of our marketing and volunteer recruitment campaigns really rely on social media to spread the word and energize our audience and so we use tools built into the aforementioned interfaces to help us measure the effectiveness of a campaign.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. Grantees get better at communication, proactive planning, partner engagement, message discipline and social media integration and measurement. Learning and Metrics. Learning and Results: Momsrising.

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2011

Twitter Analyzer ( twitteranalyzer.com ) It is very important to think about your goals and how you’re going to measure success when diving into a new online venture, and listening is no different. There are many tools out there for measurement, but I like Twitter Analyzer, because of the breadth of statistics it provides and its ease of use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 24, 2012

The framework is a social media maturity of practice model called “Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly” Maturity of Social Media and is featured in my next book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Use of counting metrics. Key influencers take action, including media. Assessment Framework and Theory of Change. Written social media plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore. Identifies influencers. A few points about social media metrics.

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