Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Shakespearean answer : If the topic of Google Analytics and all things web tracking feels like a foreign language and you’re more of a theatre person here is a quick Shakespearean summary of what is going on. For a non-Shakespearean summary here is what is happening with the UA deprecation and how to plan. . analytics.js). .

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NetWits

APRIL 2, 2013

The annual report informs how organizations measure impact relative to their peers. Used properly, you’ll know if your email metrics are at industry levels; used poorly, you’ll only scratch the surface of email performance. To say this is a highly anticipated, monumental report would be an understatement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2013

Note from Beth: A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed two books about measurement from two different fields – start ups and nonprofit performance assessment. We make tweetable summaries for wonky reports. We measure the impact of our campaigns by counting social mentions. We write the great tweet to go with that video.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

With more than ten years of experience under our collective belts, the best practices for evaluating email marketing campaigns are well established, but nonprofits continue to underutilize ways to measure and evaluate the success of these campaigns. You can divide the key metrics into offensive and defensive variables.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

I’m really curious about how networked nonprofits can use measurement and make decisions using data to get more impact from networked approaches. I want to hear about your successes and challenges in making your networked nonprofit more effective using measurement and data to make decisions about effective use of emerging media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

I’d love to see a survey of nonprofit measurement practice that quantifies this. I’d be curious to see a benchmarking study on nonprofits on this topic that looks at how nonprofits apply measurement techniques and tools to improve their programs and demonstrate impact, including social media measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

More and more funders are asking for this kind of information, but most of them still provide nothing (money or expertise) to make it possible to manage and measure performance. So how can you build a system to measure outcome indicators and focus on your mission, if there is no funding to do so? Keystone Accountability.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips. This is a book giveaway that John Haydon did for my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. " What do you think about measuring social media? You can count friends, or you can count on friends, but not, it seems, both.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

An organization’s budget, financial statements and summary reports to Boards of Directors should all do the following: Set expectations (budget and/or prior year experience, plus acceptable variations to. The key to effectively using a dashboard is isolating the essential metrics aligned with measures of expectations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Ethan Zuckerman gives a summary of Pros/Cons of facebook Activism , a presentation by Imran Jamal and the Burma Global Action Network. Social Metrics: The Search for ROI in Social Media by Steve Latham of Spur Digital. Be sure to check out slide 13 that answers the question, What Can We Measure for Web2.0?" And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Below is a summary of answers to some questions during the webinar and related resources on the Giving Day Playbook. How can we set an accurate, measurable goal for a Giving Day if it is our first one? If this is your first Giving Day, keep it simple and pick the right metric. (See ET Thursday Sept.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Impact measurement — the process of measuring and communicating your nonprofit’s impact — can effectively convey the value and outcomes of your work to your stakeholders, which in return funds more impact. Fundraisers can see aggregated program data defined by their metrics in real time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. asks Rich Reeder. And if you???re

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Measure all fundraising metrics. No matter how extensive your software features are, the most important thing is that all of these metrics are stored in your centralized CRM system. Use the data in your CRM to measure all metrics, including donation amounts, donation frequency, donor details, and more!

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

Here's my favorite summary: Punch per post! 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. Maybe social media metrics are a little like horseshoes.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2014

Here’s the seminar’s summary: Budgets are the last phase of a longer strategic journey. Remember to align your metrics and drivers with your long-term strategic goals, rather than focusing narrowly on “cutting postage expense in Q1”, for example. If you missed it, be sure to take some time to watch the presentation!

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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. Learning “If you don’t launch, you don’t learn.” David Armano Learning is using experiments with metrics and the right questions at the right point to understand what works, what doesn’t. More on that later.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

John Bell of the 360 Digital Influence Blog says " It's Time for Measurement of Social Media " which looks at the ROI and identifies some success metrics. Fallibility adds credibility was the notable quote from David Weinberger at the WOMMA conference in New Orleans. Hat tip to Paul Hyland.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. " Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

Taking small steps – focused pilots – with a learning curve that isn’t too steep, identification of key metrics, and reflection and learning time at the end. 2. To capture summaries of the 2010 conference to show the richness of the content as a means to promote the event for 2011.

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Qgiv

APRIL 2, 2024

Executive summary: The summary is a snapshot of your proposal. You can use this summary as a baseline for creating your nonprofit voice for the proposal, as well as use it to make first impressions when networking with potential funders. Your objectives should also be something you can reasonably accomplish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. 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 answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

you can still use the summary below?to?inspire?meaningful Fred shared key findings from CASE’s 2018 Voluntary Support of Education Survey and highlights from CASE’s “Alumni Engagement Metrics” whitepaper, an industry-wide framework to measure alumni engagement. were not able to attend,?you meaningful conversations?and

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Change the conversation from vanity metrics to validated learning. In these early stages, it is more important to honor learning. But there is something else to add as well. One the points that Eric made about this was that nonprofits should change what they promise to funders when asking for funding for innovative programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2007

I know of no organization in which the benefits of blogging have been measured. And both can be difficult to measure. See Dan Mcquillan's summary over at Netsquared some pointers and good thoughts on Social Media ROI and Nonprofits. t need to measure, it???s Of course, who defines that? She points about Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Measuring the ROI by dollar amounts as the key metric needs to be balanced with using metrics like increased conversions (email list sign ups), measurable word-of-mouth, or improvements in online buzz. Some takeaways. There are intangible benefits that need to be considered and may not be quantified.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 17, 2008

Screencapture from Jonny Bentwood 's White Paper on measuring influence. And before even getting to the meat of the metrics, conceptual models, and ideas, the introduction provides a powerful case for using social media that is well articulated: For the first time in history, technology has reached a point where everyone has a voice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2008

    Crimson goes behind summarizing whether what was said was negative or positive - they do a content summary on the brand, organization, or product.  Biz 360:  They start with a baseline benchmark - and measure what they learn and adjustments the clients make. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. For next week's summary, I'm going to be using a different aggregator called index cards. " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. A few blogosphere posts offering advice about online safety and what you can do help stop cyberbullying can be found here.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 8, 2024

These capabilities show: Key Metrics in Volunteer Contribution Analysis The number of interactions based on how often volunteers showed up for work—a volunteer who helps over a period of time is more valuable than the volunteer who engages a single time. You now have 60 new reports to help you measure volunteer impact. an hour, a 6.2%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

Instead, you’re writing a two to three-sentence summary of that post focused specifically on the theme of your newsletter. Add visuals: An image or graphic next to the summary can make it more eye-catching and help it stand out in the newsletter. Track the Right Metrics With a CRM Your newsletter should be ever-evolving.

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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. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. What do you think? And if you???re

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

5) Fundraising Metrics. Data derived from key fundraising metrics is great for driving decisions at an organizational level but for the sake of simplicity here are two metrics you should include on any public-facing fundraising page: Funds Raised. The most straightforward performance metric is the dollar amount raised.

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