Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. To know that your email works you have to be sending email regularly – and developing clear metrics for what success looks like. Digital Sherpa ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

She suggested encouraging more share with a specific call to action on the post itself. Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About. Last night Facebook announced some changes to Insights , the analytics program that we use for tracking Facebook pages, that includes a new metric, “People Talking About.”

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

While nonprofits often deliver highly relevant content in direct mail appeals – based on giving history, interests and past actions – that approach isn’t always carried over to their email appeals. Analyze the stats of previous emails. The same is true with your holiday email appeals. Capture more info during event registrations.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Each year, individuals worldwide take the opportunity to do better for our planet with actions such as planting trees, cleaning local communities, and raising awareness for environmental causes through peer-to-peer fundraising pages. The actions we take today will support and protect the well-being of future generations. .

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Well, I’ve got some eye-opening stats that might make you reconsider where to channel your communication efforts. Well, here’s another mind-blowing stat: Radicati Group reports that there are over 4 billion email users worldwide, and that number is projected to reach 4.6 The numbers don’t lie! But what about reach?

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Do you know the average click-through and open rates on action alerts and fundraising appeals across the nonprofit sector? Nonprofits need to pay special attention to this stat. Are enewsletters still worth your organization’s time? Are nonprofits experimenting with mobile more? Why is that?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

While there’s a ton of insightful data I could share, there are 5 must-know recurring giving stats I want you to know. So, we asked, “What do organizations use as the call-to-action to give on their homepage?”. The answer… 71% of organizations have a call-to-action that simply says, “Donate.” This is a really scary stat to me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Stats, stats, stats …. Facebook Pages give you stats!! You may be thinking “why do stats matter?”. As I discussed in a recent post (see 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site ) stats are key to helping you improve your web site or in this case your Facebook page. Awesome, I know.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. How do we know this?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. In the far left column of the spreadsheet, list the metrics that you want to monitor. Finally, pick a day of the month to begin and enter the baseline metrics for the first month, then enter your progress for that month on the same day of every month thereafter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Points of Light Institute’s primary mission is to inspire, equip and mobilize people to take action that changes the world. We believe that civic engagement is a vital part of a healthy democracy and therefore promote and support volunteerism in the broadest sense. A breakdown of the engagement and site visit stats are below.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

It's a series of emails automatically sent in response to a certain action. But these stats show how receptive people are to email after they've take an action. Mostly you decide what content to deliver for each action, coordinate them with other emails and review metrics periodically.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

What actions do you want people to take? Create a content calendar for the month including the target publish date, channel (Website, Facebook, Twitter, etc) topic or related initiative, call-to-action, and the staff person responsible for producing each piece of content for the month. Call to Action. Send 2-3 emails each month.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Customize your dashboard to show the fundraising metrics most important to your nonprofit’s mission and campaign success. Pull reports with the most important metrics for your nonprofit’s success. Get updates about your supporters’ information, allowing you to take any required action right away. Interactive dashboard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

While some appeals favor stories while others lean toward stats, the pitch is fundamentally the same: help us make the world a better place by supporting our work. Your appeal needs to stand out and inspire people to take action. Year-end appeals are a perfect case in point. It needs to be pitch-erific.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Additionally, you can increase the traction and conversion rates of specific actions you want people to take by using Facebook to provide simple proof. Metricly aggregates your data across the Web, allowing you to compare and combine your metrics in one place, and making it easier for you to stay on top of your business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular. We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2018

Deena Shakir from Google Ventures shared the following stat: smartphones are one million times more powerful than NASA’s computing power when we went to the moon in 1969. A-B ties their bonuses to sustainability metrics. Imagine the possibilities today! What’s more? Incorporate different perspectives.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! There are stats built into the tool for the number of clicks and so on, but if you are measuring site traffic already it shouldn’t be new that regard. Action: The action or connection that ties it together.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. Hashtag Stats. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. To understand how to identify actionable reports from the complex sea of information collected in an analytics tool. All the metrics you collect, ask the So What? Learning Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Michelle Murrain weighs in with a thought provoking post, " What Do Web Stats Mean, Anyway? " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. He suggests starting with the context here and then read his article.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Is it best to create a monetary goal or one based on impact metrics? Create a featured banner with an image, graphic, and a short amount of text with the name of the campaign and the call to action. For many nonprofits, especially small ones, email continues to be a main driver for action, especially fundraising. Campaign Page.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

They know their actions are being monitored. For example, they know they are taking a survey or they know you are checking the engagement stats on your Facebook page. Consider a campaign that uses the engagement metrics on its Facebook posts to assess what voters think about an issue. Why does this matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

What content is producing the desired action of registering, donating or taking action? Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! What content is being viewed for the longest time? How can you optimize, modify and adapt? by Avinash Kaushik.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

If anything, that's the most important thing about social media metrics or for any metrics. Metrics in context connected to action - whether to improve a program already underway or evaluate impact. I'm more interested right now in applying the metrics to program improvement. I'm working on one. Up or Down?"

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

These days, you don’t have to be tech-savvy to have a professional-looking campaign but you want to be sure that it makes a lasting impression and is effective at getting people to take action. It allows you to win over your audience on an emotional level, which inspires them to take meaningful action. 5) Fundraising Metrics.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Metrics matter because they give your nonprofit insights on decision-making and provide evidence for what kind of content to share. However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. Be laser-focused on what action you want people to take. Conversion Rate.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Case studies of nonprofits winning at social media is an opportunity to see the strategies in action. We’ve put together a list of the most up-to-date stats on how nonprofits are using social media to make a difference. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 2007

Good metrics are often hard to come by, but measuring success is the only way to know if your effort and investment has paid off! Performance measures include stats from a webcasting provider or content delivery network on how many unique users tuned in, for how long on average, etc. The future is live.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

Last month I wrote about how the Taking Action for Animals conference essentially created their own socially enabled conference and online community of sorts. Last month, The HSUS held their annual "Taking Action for Animals" Conference (TAFA) which brings together animal advocates all over the country. Author: Jordan Viator.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

For more interesting industry metrics, check out these 50 fascinating philanthropy stats —Danielle . Where do they take action? In the latter case, your mass communications should showcase examples of your impact in the community and a clear call to action. What are the 5 W’s for a fundraising appeal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2011

Instead, they identify key organizational results areas and associated metrics to define successes and failures. Momsrising knows from years of message testing and research , that to change minds about an issue, wonky stats fall flat. And, they do not count “likes” on Facebook as victory. getting policies passed. increasing capacity.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

They have the power to inspire, engage, and ignite action in ways that data and statistics alone cannot. Create clear action steps and easy to navigate donation pages to ensure no donor gets lost in the process. Inspiring Action Personal stories often serve as a call to action.

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