Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on whether or not it’s worth it to invest in digital analytics tools. . They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. The road to digital analytics maturity.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. Master an analytic approach to strategy and planning. That’s why you need an analytic, numbers-based perspective to strategy and planning. If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2023

At least one of the criteria for measuring a successful year is related to your financials. Donor intelligence can best be described as “accurate, comprehensive, and actionable data [about donors and prospects] to help nonprofits of all types achieve better fundraising and outreach results.” How much did you raise?

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2022

Without robust data and analytics, any organization’s strategy is just a series of guesses. While it’s easier than ever to access data—every digital action, from website clicks to member signups produces a trackable trail—knowing how to use the data is a different story. That’s where our Data and Analytics Team comes in.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 13, 2022

Attribution is what allows you to measure the success of your acquisition strategies (and get great insights for optimisation). You’re a charity fighting for action on the climate crisis, and you had two ads on Facebook. UTM s stands for Urchin Tracking Module (nothing to do with sea creatures ). What are UTM s?

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

But before you can capitalize on the information stored in your CRM or other nonprofit software, you need to know exactly what analytics to track in the first place. This includes assisting with nonprofit analytics! Definition of Data Analytics for Nonprofits. 4 Types of Data Analytics. Web Analytics.

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Like it or not, the switchover to Google Analytics 4 is coming (at some point – Google is keeping the official date a mystery to themselves as well as the rest of us mere mortals). Getting setup with a GA4 property that pulls in data has been a smooth process for us and remains as simple as it was with Universal Analytics.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 17, 2021

Sure, you can look at historical or yearly trends on a graph to identify patterns, but by drilling deeper into the analytics you can uncover insights to help put your data into action. Let’s take a look at how event data can be put into action. Predictive Analytics to focus your marketing.

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Media Cause

JULY 22, 2021

Tracking your website’s activity with Google has just gotten easier. You may have not heard, but Google has officially rolled out Google Analytics 4, a new kind of tracking property. It is different from Universal Analytics properties, which only supports websites, as it supports both websites and apps across multiple devices.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 7, 2020

Google Analytics can seem daunting, especially for the smaller marketing team or the marketer with limited digital chops. Or perhaps you’re a seasoned Google Analytics pro who just needs a little validation right now. Or perhaps you’re a seasoned Google Analytics pro who just needs a little validation right now. Duration Goals.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Case Management Tools Measure impact A unified solution to help you collect actionable program data, develop comprehensive reports, and share how you’re impacting your community. Collect direct participant feedback through secure web forms for actionable insights to improve programming and individual care plans.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

This post describes actions you can take to implement the findings of Bloomerang’s 2023 Fundraising Planning and Climate Report. Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. All modern donor databases feature donor analytics and report generation that you can use.

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Nimble AMS

MARCH 8, 2023

Look for software that is user-friendly allowing staff to automate processes with point-and-click actions , rather than code. Leveraging dashboards lets you measure key performance indicators (KPIs,) helping your association track its progress and take control of its future. Artificial intelligence. E-commerce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 28, 2013

I’ve been curating resources on nonprofit measurement over on Scoop.It, with eye towards collecting useful material related to social media and social impact measurement. Despite this, when it is times to do measurement, many feel that it is a daunting task. How can we improve our measurement practice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin.

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Candid

MAY 10, 2023

Next, define your goals by considering how you’ll track, measure, and evaluate its performance. Be sure to make your campaign’s goals specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time-bound ( SMART goals ). Finally, conduct weekly, monthly, or quarterly touchpoints with your team members to ensure things stay on track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking.

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Association Analytics

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Paired with your experience and judgment, your decisions can be data informed or data guided using less specific data measurements. For instance, you may want to track your membership trends over time, in which case, it makes sense to save data on how many members you had ten years ago. Be specific about what data you keep and why.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

We’ve written previously about the release of Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and the impending retirement of Universal Analytics (UA) on July 1, 2023. GA4’s focus on user “events” as data is a major switch away from more straightforward, or simple actions. The change from UA to GA4 is not a simple upgrade, however.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 24, 2021

This prompt essentially asks users to opt-in and “allow” apps and websites to track their activity. If a user opts into tracking, nothing really changes. Currently, every app impacted by Apple’s update is going to have to come up with their own solution to these new data privacy measures. How will iOS14.5 8-event Limit.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

In October 2022, Google announced they would replace their Universal Analytics (UA) with their next-generation measurement solution Google Analytics 4 (GA4) , on July 1st, 2023. By default, GA4 will track Page view, Scroll, Outbound link clicks, Site search, Video Engagements, File Downloads, and Form Tracking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2013

I spent a year co-writing on a book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” with measurement guru KD Paine because I felt strongly focusing on vanity metrics such as follower counts or Facebook likes was a waste of time. I didn’t get asked ”What are the best tools to measure followers on Twitter?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Google Analytics can be overwhelming and confusing, but setting up Goals in your Google Analytics account helps to narrow down what you need to be looking at. Setting Goals in Google Analytics is an easy way to track these conversion metrics on your supporters. You want to drive traffic that actually converts into action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Note from Beth: “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” is getting a lot of good feedback as people read and apply the ideas in the book. Analytics tools like the ones described below are good for measuring actions and engagement. Then check out Simply Measured. 2 – Make Your Website Shine.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition to the conversations with participants in three separate tracks, #14LCS includes a stellar lineup of keynote speakers who will spark new conversations and nudge existing conversations to introduce new questions. How do we measure social change? Matt will show us how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Social Media Measurement is this month’s theme on the Zoetica Salon hosted on my blog Facebook page. “ For example, during Hunger Action Month in September, Feeding America created a tab on their Facebook page where people could share a different action every day.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

To strengthen wellbeing in the workplace the book provides leaders various solutions, including a new metric to track suffering, struggling, and thriving — Gallup Net Thriving. Peers have a major influence because they can measure and compare their struggles and successes. This translates into big differences in productivity.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

Research The first step is finding as much information as you can from your existing analytics. For instance: Customer Relationship Management systems (CRMs): help us track donor interactions and giving histories. Website analytics: help us track donation page interactions and web traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Source Codes: The Most Useful Measurement Strategy You May Not Be Using – Guest Post by Laura Quinn. How do you know what story—across every channel—is doing the best job of driving people to take action? Here’s how to use source codes, in five easy steps: Drive people to take action on a website page. Enter source codes.

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Media Cause

MAY 31, 2023

On the surface, it makes sense that privacy and tracking would be at the bottom of a marketer’s task list. But if you engage in targeted advertising or use Google Analytics to track website visitors, privacy-first marketing should be a priority for your organization. The Importance of First-Party Data What’s the Big Deal?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 30, 2024

These solutions leverage predictive analytics to help anticipate future donor actions. According to BWF’s AI for nonprofits guide , the process of using these predictive AI fundraising tools looks like this: Your nonprofit gathers data using sources like your online donation form, donor feedback surveys, and website analytics.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

With quality web content and focused calls to action, you can use the grant to increase your web traffic, then convert that traffic into donations. In the language of Google Ads, donations are one of the most valuable conversions an organization can measure. A conversion is any measurable action that a visitor takes on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 6, 2011

This week the beginner track got underway where 20 arts organizations will design and implement action learning experiments in Facebook , Listening , or Twitter to improve their social media practice. Facebook Custom Landing Tabs + Measurement = Best Practice. Why: Custom Landing Tabs. There is a more inviting welcome mat.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In today’s increasingly digital world, marketers rely on online platforms to plan, implement, build, execute, and measure their campaigns. Email Marketing Platforms: An email marketing platform builds, sends, and measures email efforts. Simply put, MarTech is marketing! This can be part of a CRM or a stand-alone platform.

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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. Take for example their coverage on food that is devoured by a devoted flock of foodies.

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

Understanding the ebbs and flows of donor relations by tracking your organization’s interactions with donors and prospects is necessary to support long-term growth. Measurable Growth Donor management helps cultivate prolonged success and growth by steering organizational leaders toward a donor-centric action plan.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Convey the mission as urgently needed and highly solvable to inspire hope and action.

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