Care2

JULY 26, 2010

But in actuality it takes months of preparation – building and stewarding an online community, inspiring donors, cultivating them, testing in advance of year-end and analyzing your metrics -- to really make the most of your year-end fundraising opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

The workshop shared a landscape analysis of what’s already out there from the various industries in order to build a clear understanding of what’s in place and what isn’t in terms of social media measurement valid metrics. Geoff Livingston has a good post about the problems with this – using influence as the metric.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. First, a simple metric relating to security reports, and second, what processes are in place in the communities to deal with security. 2 admin 04.03.09

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

In the NTEN community, the concept of "IT Staff" has been more fluid and inclusive, but we also know that many nonprofit professionals who have information technology responsibilities are either not given formal "information technology" titles, or don''t self-identify as "IT Staff" -- and often both cases are true for an individual.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

Building community and maintaining engagement is often a full time job – even if it goes unpaid! This allowed Stacey and the team to have real-time access to detailed metrics, making it possible to revise the messages & tactics on the fly. Epic Change is no different.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In my recent chapter “Managing Fundraising and Building Communities Online” in the book Internet Management for Nonprofits (Wiley, April 2010), I write in depth about one method to tackle the subject – what are organizations across the country doing? Online Metrics as of June 23, 2009. How do you appropriately implement them?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The report is troubling because the nonprofit community has been doing online fundraising for years and there are established best practices for optimizing conversions. Here are some tips that I''m re-sharing from another Frogloop blog post from 2010 that are still the gold standard.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. craigconnects – "I took a look at a few articles and studies, and according to ComScore's 2010 Digital Year in Review, email use dropped 59% among Internet users ages 12 to 17 in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

What useful nugget did you learn from analyzing your social media metrics data or your measurement process that lead to a success or improvement in your social media practice? When a nonprofit partners with a company on project that uses social media, what metrics do you use to measure success? Data Analysis. The answer is here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2010

The summit provides a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Do you know what kind of an impact social media is having on your brand, mission, or bottom line? How do you put a monetary value on branding?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

To their credit Convio asks this question on their blog : “Should organizations like Convio, and Giving USA continue to offer these sorts of insights to the nonprofit community, or is this simply self-serving marketing fluff?&# What do you think? Everyone (including them) gets better data. Time will tell. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation, I’ll be heading to the Independent Sector ’s Annual Conference “ Forging a Stronger Future Together ” in Atlanta October 20-22 with over 500 leaders from from across the nonprofit and philanthropic community. Darell Hammond, co-founder and CEO of KaBOOM!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 22, 2023

GoFundMe GoFundMe is one of the world’s largest crowdfunding websites, having helped raise over $15 billion since 2010. View reports such as campaign health metrics, recurring gift volume, and total donations. Pricing Bloomerang Standard is $119 per month. Learn more about Bloomerang’s scalable pricing.

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Websites Paypal Fundraising Nonprofit 77

NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Data reports and personal snapshots are often generated separately, then placed side-by-side with the hope that the juxtaposition of hard metrics with an emotional picture and blurb will resonate with a wide range of people. We awarded a total of $17 million in education grants in 2010. Where did those grants go?

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Case Study Story Data Studies 68

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! Community Mapping. View more presentations from womenwhotech. Facebook Insights.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

Peter Campbell writes a compelling post on the Idealware blog about the updated metrics that GuideStar, Charity Navigator, and other organizations recently announced. Georgia Center for Nonprofits press release about our collaboration for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta. Tags: community buzz nten members.

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Rhode Island NTEN Georgia Austin 59

Care2

NOVEMBER 30, 2012

Funders and board members expect to see results, so networked nonprofits need to focus on metrics that reinforce these online efforts. She is co-author of the highly acclaimed book, The Networked Nonprofit , published by Wiley in 2010, and her blog is one of the longest running nonprofit and social media blogs.

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Measure Network Empowerment United States 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

If you need a specific metric for your reports, ask outside software providers to build a tool that can give it to you. Sometimes there’s no getting around a staff increase: since 2010, the U.S. Federal Government has made digital communications a priority. Avoid long contracts with social media-related software providers.

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NTEN

JULY 29, 2010

Flickr photo: kcolwell We know that you, my fellow NTEN community members, are rock stars. You track metrics while you're on the treadmill (without falling off). The Paperless Choice Challenge submission period ends August 16th, 2010, so get your entries in today. You are fundraising email campaign ninjas!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. Webstats are, of course, important, both as an internal metric to watch, analyze, and improve, and for that matter, to put out there, in conjunction with lots of other data. 6 Katrin 09.19.07 No one disputes that.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

With your staff member’s many priorities, it is important that the program help keep you on track with measureable results, metrics and plans. There is no time for complacency when it comes to online communications. Starting now and having the right approach will set you up for success in 2010 and beyond.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2009

The press release from Chase describes the two-step process: In Round One of the Chase Community Giving program, Facebook users will vote for non-profit organizations they think should receive a portion of Chase's philanthropy funds. According to the metrics on the blog, the post got almost 7500 views and 114 retweets.

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Forum One

AUGUST 20, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

AUGUST 14, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The SXSW Interactive Festival (scheduled March 11-15, 2010 in Austin, Texas) is a mega huge social media industry event. Here’s my picks for SXSW Nonprofit Panels: A Conversation About Change Agents Through Social Media Social media is causing a revolution in how information is shared and communities are formed.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

In 2010, TechSoup's GreenTech initiative held a travel reduction campaign that we called our TeleGreen Your Work. For example, for every short-haul round trip on an airplane (for example, New York to Chicago or Frankfurt to London) you don't take, you'll save the environment around one half of a metric ton of CO2.

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Collaboration Wikispaces Online Wiki 55

Forum One

MARCH 27, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Do those numbers tell you anything you NEED to know, or are they vanity metrics (those numbers we LIKE to track because we think they make us look good)? 129 have donated again in 2010. Let's take a step back, and ask one simple question: "Why?" " Why are you tracking all those things? 16% retention rate .

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Data San Francisco Problem Gift 82

Care2

JULY 22, 2011

For most organizations, the heart and soul of communications is the email list. Email goes direct to the inbox, our online strategy metrics are led by terms like open rate and clickthroughs, and online fundraising campaigns depend on email marketing. Email reading on mobile devices rose 81% from October, 2010, to April, 2011.

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Mobile email Strategy gMail 77

Connection Cafe

JUNE 16, 2016

This is the sixth consecutive year of increases in giving, a period of growth that began in 2010. Giving by foundations, which includes grants made by independent, community, and operating foundations, grew from 15% to 16% percent of all gifts made in 2015. Since 1974, this metric has ranged from 1.7% Who is Giving.

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Giving Nepal Indiana Trend 20

Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

Also, what will happen to your page and community if Facebook goes away? of nonprofits were able to raise over $10K on Facebook in 2010, according to Frank Barry of Blackbaud. Organizations don’t truly own their data. Facebook can pull your page down any time they think you violated their TOS. Good luck getting it back up.

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Social Media Media Social Stats 78

Forum One

MAY 11, 2005

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

Starting off 2010, the monthly #4change Twitter chat focused on the topic of campaigning with social media. zerostrategist : Q6: Do the best u can to setup automated systems to capture metrics, look at the numbers, but don’t obsess over them or the ROI. There were quite a few participants and some really great conversation.

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Campaign Org Social Media Measure 108

Care2

JULY 26, 2007

Need some metrics guidelines? Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. Job well done!

Social Network 74

Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Need some metrics guidelines? Receive monthly updates Update on Friday, June 11, 2010 at 01:10PM by Justin Perkins A couple of years ago I put together this "social network" calculator as a free resource to assess the opportunity cost of recruiting email subscribers and donors online. Job well done!

Social Network 74

Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

See3

MARCH 12, 2008

Some highlights: In 2004, Natalie Portman, then a 22-year-old fresh from college, went to Capitol Hill to talk to Congress on behalf of the Foundation for International Community Assistance, or Finca, a microfinance organization for which she served as “ambassador.” Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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