Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The people that we have, we want them to be there because they care about what we have to say and take action – and measure those results with metrics that mean something to us …” Here’s the spreadsheet of small number of nonprofits who took this quick survey reporting number of likes and “People Talking About.”

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Metrics Facebook People Measure 112

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

You can discover that early in the process and redirect your team toward more impactful actions. Real-time analysis of every data point associated with your major gift program can be a hassle. Peer Benchmarking. How changes to your program overall will impact your efforts. 79% of major gift data is never entered into the CRM.

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Blackbaud Guide Management Fundraising 52

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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Blackbaud Studies Fundraising Registration 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Carie Lewis mentioned the Humane Society’s KPIs – which is why they do and how they measure this sustained engagement. “We tie our social media efforts back to three KPIs: actions taken , donations made , and customer service wins. I asked her how do you measure relationships? It was too good not to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. Notes and Resources.

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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. QUESTION: Where can I get benchmarks for retention by sector? We’ll post them on our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I introduced several methods for using measurement for transformative results, including the Maturity of Practice Model (CWRF) and how to use it as an assessment tool, principles of being data-informed , and how to apply KD Paine’s 7 Simple Steps of Measurement. What are your measurable objectives?

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2017

Read the post below about how to measure your reach, and then join our training on how to boost it: Social Media for Social Justice: How to inspire and be seen . Your fan count is the simplest way to know how many people see the messages, calls to action, photos, invitations, appeals, and news you post. 225=13.5).

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Facebook Benchmark Social Media Studies 32

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. They can also reveal “opportunities” for growth and remedial action to solidify the performance of an event.

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Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Currently, nonprofit organizations are measuring effectiveness in a variety of ways including benchmarking, organizational effectiveness evaluations, key performance indicators, and outcome based evaluation. Benchmarking. The Journal of ERW and Mine Action. References : Bridgespan Group. Daly, P.S. (2014, December).

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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. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs. Strengthened brand reputation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Then pick one idea to reduce information overload in your life from this list.

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Awareness Tips Social Media RSS 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. To understand how to identify actionable reports from the complex sea of information collected in an analytics tool. Test three times and if doesn't lead to action, you are wasting your time! Possible Working Titles: 1. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Source: A New Model for Social Media (and Traditional) Measurement. "   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog. .   since it won't have any engagement yet.

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Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Analytics: Learn more about your nonprofit’s operations with web analytics, data analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and reporting and visualizations. Developing a clear map for the future now can help you create tangible benchmarks to achieve long-term goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Putting a resolution into action with baby steps is the best way to succeed. Perhaps you're looking to make your strategy more effective, less time consuming, or see measurable results. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. Good for you! Great work.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. What are the most important website metrics to measure? It’s easy for us to measure clicks and time spent on pages, but that’s only relevant based on what an organization wants their users to do.

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Design Websites Practice Philadelphia 35

Care2

JULY 26, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) July 24, 2007 | Kira Wow - this is fantastic!

Social Network 74

Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Care2

JULY 17, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) July 24, 2007 | Kira Wow - this is fantastic!

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Social Network ROI Social Media Network 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) July 24, 2007 | Kira Wow - this is fantastic!

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ROI Social Network Social Media Advocacy 53

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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Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

Qgiv

MAY 31, 2022

Using a SWOT analysis exercise, the board can articulate the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats together. Each goal should be further defined by measurable objectives that indicate how the board will know they have achieved that goal. How will they put those strategies into action? Clarified roles.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Analysis & Strategy: The consultant conducts an analysis of your current software and formulates a strategy to align those solutions with your goals. They’ll be the foundation on which to build the rest of your nonprofit technology plan as you put it into action. Documentation: The consultant documents their recommendations.

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Template Guide Technology Consultant 98

Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. No money (or time) is changing hands yet; this step includes actions like responding to your latest Facebook post or signing up for your newsletter. Action This is the step where a potential donor decides to take the plunge and support your nonprofit.

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Donor Management Guide Retention 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way. I will look at benchmarking processes and analyzing benefits and values. It's based on a blogging benchmarking process that I've been using for several years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2007

The challenger can then link to this page from his/her blog, call readers to action, and display an hourglass tracking progress toward the goal. Is this a measure of engaged readers? Does it illustrate the problems of using the Technorati rank as any serious benchmark?

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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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Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 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.

Influence 52

Influence Social Media Internet Web 52

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . What you really need are metrics that provide you with a plan of action, or a map, to help bolster your fundraising efforts. . Fifteen years ago, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm with the motto: “you can’t move it if you don’t measure it.” Map Metrics.

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

We cross a “divide… ACTION POINT: Next time you hear colleagues pounding the table for something that is clearly yesterday’s news, find a way to tell them they need to wake up and smell the coffee.”. – Peter Drucker. Take a look at the M+R 2021 Benchmarks report and s hare some data and examples with your “powers that be.”

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Digital Marketing Fundraising Strategy 95

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks. How did you determine it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear that it will take staff time, there will be little return, and the return will not be as easily measurable as, say, a direct mail piece. The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". Especially in this economy.

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Marketing Blackboard Social Social Media 70

Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change. We are changing our analysis and shifting our practices to be fully accountable to racial justice movements. Though not justifiable, this omission has stemmed, in part, from genuine concern about what we can accurately measure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks.

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Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101