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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

ASU Lodestar Center

Other evaluation forms include: process evaluation, which requires that specific program activities and procedures be reviewed in order to help explain why a program worked or did not work; and program monitoring, which uses in-process measures to track whether a program is being executed as designed. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook.

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Twitter Is 2nd After Google in Referrals To My Blog, But They Stay Longer.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008). It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" " He goes on to describe how the noise ratio is constructed. My ratio is 2.4, Twitter for me is mostly a listening tool. Did it surprise?

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Measuring the Value of Your Blog.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Twitter grader is a measure of authority and reach of a Twitter user. Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. -

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . There are other ways to measure your RSS reach. If not, why? If yes, why? If no, why?

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Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Now in part 2, we will cover how to establish which key performance indicators (KPIs) youll be using to measure success. It has to do with marketing measurement and accountability. January 12, 2009 | Altan Khendup Copyright © 2008, Care2.com This is the most important part of your web analytics. Excellent post!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

ASU Lodestar Center

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach. Keep up the good work!

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