Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. grist.org’s key results are: Footprint: The reach of their activities, both online and offline.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. In this blog post, we highlight a new section of the report, which offers specific, actionable takeaways for how donors can maximize their disaster-related giving. .

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Taking proactive measures. In addition, “Even though the book is written directly to the leader, going through the Survive, Reset, Thrive loop is a team activity, not an individual one,” adds Homkes. Moving quickly in response to disruptions. Reset : Resetting your strategy when the situation changes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2012

How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement to Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change – guest post by Meghan Keaney Anderson, Hubspot. The new algorithm also factors in negative feedback and penalizes posts that have been actively hidden by viewers or reported as spam. What was the call to action, if any? Were they urgent?

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Qgiv

JULY 27, 2021

This is true for businesses, it’s true for nonprofits, it’s true for entrepreneurs, it’s true for basically anyone that’s trying to get someone to take an action. One is “how do you attract and engage the type of person that’s going to take an action” and then “how can you create a message that’s going to compel them to take action?”

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fusionSpan

MARCH 29, 2023

Peter Drucker famously said, “If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it.” The cornerstone of detection is monitoring which means utilizing automated systems, often leveraging AI, to spot malicious activity. In the event malicious activity has been detected in your environment, guess what?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Analysis of grant applications from 130 funders. Data Handling, Overview, Measurement, Evaluation and Reporting (4 percent). Activating our values in 2022. Skip to the video to watch a short conversation between Chantal Forster, Candid's C. Miscellaneous (3 percent). Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent).

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. An event is any kind of action a user performs on your website, such as clicking a button, downloading a file, or submitting a form. This means you can better track actions that result in a lead acquisition or a donation.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

What goes into creating and designing a successful nonprofit website that inspires action? Audience Analysis. Define user habits, outline behavior, document social activity, note technology savvy-ness (IE, % mobile, etc.?), It should inspire action! That’s a great question. Creating a Visual Strategy.

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sgEngage

MAY 30, 2023

Understanding Community Leadership Community leadership involves actively engaging with local stakeholders, identifying shared goals, and working collaboratively towards achieving them. Historically, community leadership has been more of a concept versus an action.

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

Increasingly, organizations of all sizes have access to digital tools that provide data, but data storytelling—making facts relatable and actionable—takes additional effort to transform data into tangible stories. The online platform provides metrics on over 40 measures of health and drivers of health for over 750 cities across the U.S.

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sgEngage

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. The above is just the beginning of this 40+ page report filled with data, insights, and actionable recommendations to improve your 2021 P2P campaigns.

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Classy

JUNE 23, 2021

The State of Modern Philanthropy 2021 deep dives into the latest fundraising data and actionable takeaways based on the performance of over 4,800 nonprofits. . Advance the mission: Align all activities and supporter experiences back to the organization’s goals and mission, with a high return on investment. Recurring donation size.

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Media Cause

APRIL 22, 2022

Help them to engage with your mission more fully by making it easy for them to sign up for occasional updates like an e-newsletter or action alerts. Segment Users Based on Activity/Interest. Define Your Goal + Have a Clear Call to Action. Most email marketing providers have some level of analysis you can run on your emails.

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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. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. Write these actions down and create a timeline to complete each one.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Kick off meeting with the Impact Labs Climate Action Cohort. Meet Our Salesforce.org Impact Lab Climate Action Experts. The essential word here is ‘action’ There’s a lot of lip service paid to environmental and climate justice. Executive Fellow for Climate Action, FUSE. Why Climate Justice?

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Media Cause

JULY 22, 2021

Tracking your website’s activity with Google has just gotten easier. Developers are already preparing to use machine learning modeling to support various modes of analysis. Action reporting of the engaged viewers from your YouTube channel is available as well. Additionally, Analytics 4 has expanded codeless features.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Improve Fundraising Performance with Insightful Reporting, Measurement and Analysis. Are you ready to put analysis into action? In this session you’ll learn how to build email campaigns and create messages that get read and inspire participants to take action.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. How are you measuring your success? How are your marketing activities going to help you get there? Create SMART goals for your marketing activities so you know where you are going and what you need to measure. What’s working? What’s not working?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. The above is just the beginning of this 40+ page report filled with data, insights, and actionable recommendations to improve your 2021 P2P campaigns.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Instead of manually consolidating data from across sources, you can instead have it all stored and standardized in one place to streamline analysis and interpretation. This also makes it easier for more team members to actively use your data, improving efficiency and productivity.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Measuring the return on investment for any organizational effort is a standard of doing business. In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts. Author: Jordan Viator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Works with measurement consultants or specialists to improve skills and capacity. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. I’ve never run an ad for more fans, or done silly contests or anything else, you know? There’s a lot of confusion.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

NOTE: If you haven’t activated your Google Analytics account, you’ll want to do that before diving into this post. A goal represents a completed activity on your site, such as signing up for your organization’s newsletter or clicking ‘Donate Now.’ Three ways to go beyond page visits and bounce rates?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Three new actions were announced at the time, including: Read, Watch, Listen to help people better understand what their friends are doing online. Facebook called it the “ Open Graph ” and the pr people called “A revolution to the whole meaning of listening to music together or family T.V.”

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales operations refers to the unit, role, activities and processes within a sales organization that support, enable, and drive front line sales teams to sell better, faster, and more efficiently. Sales Activities. Lead Response Time is the time it takes before leads respond positively to a pitch or call to action. Automation.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. It will help them participate in volunteer programs, sustainability initiatives, and other CSR activities.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. We had a very active Q&A session after the event, and could not get to all questions before the event closed.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In contrast, the event model records the actions people take, for example clicking or scrolling. Moreover, GA4 is optimized for collecting lots of data, with much of the analysis taking place outside the platform. It’s important to both rethink what’s possible, and what you’re really measuring.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Here are a few activities to consider completing during this step: Performing motivation-based research. Conducting a marketing opportunity analysis. Do your direct mail appeals lead your audience to take a specific action to meet those goals? Identify potential ways to reach new supporters or grow your fundraising revenue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2015

Data science is the art of turning the massive amount of data out there into actionable information. Descriptive Insights – measuring satisfaction. Descriptive insights measure past activity and usually involve counting how many times something happened.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

As someone who loves using data for decision-making, I found the health data generated by my Fitbit was highly actionable. While these subjective measures, I discovered that my magic number of sleep hours about 7 hours and 45 minutes. I started with tracking my baseline activity level: about 2,000 steps a day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

.” David gave an overview about the difference between a nonprofit strategic plan and business plan: A strategic plan describes goals, strategy, and actions. He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. How will they measure success?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. So often I find that we are too quick to say that because a website doesn’t have our domain, a tool is downloaded to our computer, or a platform doesn’t have our developers working on it that we can’t be responsible for measuring and analyzing the way we use it.

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