sgEngage

AUGUST 16, 2024

At the same time, there is often a visceral emotional reaction to the idea of not doing an annual report as it can often be one of the few times your organization celebrates what it has accomplished. On the other hand, there were some choices we might want to reconsider next time, such as including a lot of self-congratulatory numbers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a social network that requires a lot of time and content, but more importantly, a social media manager who enjoys being active on Twitter and understands Twitter’s extensive toolset. 2) Tweet or retweet 2-10 times daily from early morning to late evening. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Limited time and resources for maintaining and creating content on one hand, and a desire to get started. The secret sauce: Very focused objectives for your Fan Page and a selective strategy. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

You can download the slides here and listen to the recording here. The webinar was 90 minutes and she took us through step-by-step about how the new features work. At times it was confusing, complicated , and overwhelming, but I came away a couple of ways to think about the changes in terms of privacy. Who Are Sharing With?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

It’s obvious to anyone who spends time online that video is taking over the internet. And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. Video is cool, but it is also expensive (in time and money).

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why. If you post too often or at the wrong times, then you’ll likely lose as many followers as you gain and your social networks will stagnate. Rather than waste your time, get some good training and learn how to do it right. Other Metrics.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 28, 2024

Taking time to think through what you want to achieve and the methods you’ll use to get there are important starting points. Make sure your goals are: Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Boud. Fundraising Strategy Essentials Fail to plan and you’re planning to fail; successful fundraising begins with a clear strategy.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why. If you post too often or at the wrong times, then you’ll likely lose as many followers as you gain and your social networks will stagnate. Rather than waste your time, get some good training and learn how to do it right. Other Metrics.

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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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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Well, I’ve got some eye-opening stats that might make you reconsider where to channel your communication efforts. It’s time to shift gears and give email the attention it truly deserves. Is it time to take a step back and reevaluate your communication strategy? The numbers don’t lie! But what about reach?

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

10 quick tips to craft a stellar nonprofit branding strategy Creating a stellar nonprofit branding strategy takes time and effort but is worth it in the long run. Share stats and information that people can easily understand. Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased? What are your core values?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Ultimately, the bot helped the organization decrease the response time which is a critical metric for emergency and humanitarian work. While there are lots of stats about chabots, we don’t know exactly how many nonprofits are deploying them, but we do have some great examples.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Whether its for a board meeting or a conference, nonprofit professionals often spend hours of time trying to figure out ways to present their data in an easily understandable way. Every aspect of the process is click, drag, and drop, so even the least tech-savvy staffer on your team will have an easy time making due.

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Are enewsletters still worth your organization’s time? Out of all sectors in the nonprofit community, International groups had the highest average gift size ($117) for a one-time gift and monthly donations ($33 monthly gifts). The average one time donation across sectors was $60 and $20 for monthly giving. Why is that?

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

Once your blog is in place you could choose to spend time on Flickr, YouTube, MySpace, LinkedIn, etc, but why waste time on every site out there when you can optimize your time. That means your audience – students and their families – spend time there. You’ll even get real-time click stats!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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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. While fully customizable reports may seem exciting, but can be cumbersome, time-consuming and require a lot of know-how to build the exact report you need. But it doesn’t have to be.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

While there’s a ton of insightful data I could share, there are 5 must-know recurring giving stats I want you to know. 2) Only 14% of organizations prompt one-time donors to upgrade to a recurring gift during the donation process. This is a really scary stat to me. But don’t just take my word for it…let’s look at the data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Pages Have Access to Users’ Feeds - When Facebook users become a “fan” of your nonprofit page, they will be notified of your status updates every time you make one! Stats, stats, stats …. Facebook Pages give you stats!! You may be thinking “why do stats matter?”. Awesome, I know. What is measured you ask?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

I’m not comparing myself to the great philosophers of the 17 th & 18 th centuries, but I do think it’s time to reform our industry, challenge our fundraising best practices which are- ideas grounded in tradition and advance knowledge with data. But, I believe it’s time to rethink how we’re looking at data. Seriously… we’re not.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Whether you’ve been using social media for years, months, or days or you have yet to get started, the information and strategies in this chapter can save you a lot of time and frustration. Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. In the far left column of the spreadsheet, list the metrics that you want to monitor.

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Care2

MARCH 9, 2013

Twitter can be a great platform to engage with people though, if campaigners take the time to have back and forth discussions and not just use Twitter to promote blog posts, press releases or fact sheets. I think this is because organizations feel limited by the 145 character tweet length. Plus it can be a noisy space.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

An increasing number of organizations are turning to this software to manage their fundraising and donor engagement efforts—and if your nonprofit hasn’t yet, now is the time to invest in one! More time spent on your mission: Automation allows you to streamline administrative tasks so you can put more energy into mission-related work.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 3, 2019

“End users can buy supplementary or complementary products all in one space, saving time that could have been spent searching elsewhere” Increased sales revenue and improved customer satisfaction. Customer lifetime value (CLV) is one of the key stats likely to be tracked as part of a customer experience program.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Snapshot: Today’s Environmental Sustainability Stats. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 Earth Day is a great time to support these initiatives, in addition to the year-round work that nonprofit organizations commit their mission to achieve for us all.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2011

Nonprofit campaigners have a gazillion tools to choose from that they can use for online outreach, social media, measuring metrics, updating their website, and much more. But are most of them useful to you? Are they efficient? Do they pull the data you need to run a better campaign and engage your activists and donors?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. How do we know this?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Over time, we’ve isolated certain benchmarks that provide clues to the health of an event. Efforts that improve these metrics often lead to growth in revenue and vitality of an event or event series. How Do I Use Metrics with My Event? Common peer-to-peer benchmarks include the following: Repeat attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

Many times, nonprofits, especially smaller ones, do not have the resources to hire outside consultants to measure the impact of their programs. With over 100 tools, approaches and platforms for measuring impact, the process can be overwhelming and time consuming. Set Program Goals & Metrics. How can they get started?

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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. Can’t wait!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. It made me hopeful that we’ll soon have clarity on what we can and should be measuring from all our time on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and the like. Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Allows you to see engagement trends over time. You should be reviewing these stats at least once a month. Before we dive into specifics, it’s important to recognize that no one product will measure everything you need and they are not 100% accurate.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

Individuals who personalize their fundraising pages and use online tools raise six times more funds than those who do not. While it is advised to review event metrics after an event, it may be beneficial to review some fundraiser participation while the fundraising is actually happening.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

These platforms can be used for year-round fundraising for your annual fund or they can be used for individual fundraising campaigns hosted during certain times of the year. This allows you to track all donor interactions and reach out to donors at the right times. Give donors an easy way to show their support. Interactive dashboard.

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