Care2

JANUARY 14, 2013

One of my favorite parts about starting a new year is reviewing all of the top 10 (or in some cases the top 133) lists and trends. I find them useful to bookmark, especially when you need to get your hands on an important article that has good data or strategic advice that you want to share with senior leadership to get their buy in.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Our amazing panelists, some of New York’s most prominent nonprofit and corporate board members, had lots of practical and actionable advice for those of us who want to truly #bethechange. The best board trustees help their nonprofit understand what metrics outside constituents care most about and then help craft them.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

Development officers, executive directors, event planners, consultants, and emerging leaders came together to discuss fundraising trends, donor retention, DEI (diverse, equitable, and inclusive workplace) strategies, and so much more. Implement procedures to asess metrics. Following this trend, Meta has introduced Meta Verified.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2010

I identified a trend forming with social networking, and set up our very first profile. We track amount raised, number of donors, and number of action takers from social media, as well as some other social media-esque metrics like fan base growth over time, sentiment, and user engagement (number of comments, number of likes, etc).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

That’s why it’s important to follow advice like the Pareto principle, which advises putting 80% of your resources into cultivating the top 20% of prospective donors who are likely to give you 80% of your funding. Look at each supporter’s giving history and identify trends. You should also see specific trends in these numbers over time.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

If you’re looking for an opportunity to keep up with the newest trends, you might consider subscribing to various journals or blogs for reading material in the nonprofit sector. When you embark on a training relationship with someone else at your organization, it’s important to find a metric for tracking your progress moving forward.

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Care2

AUGUST 9, 2013

The study looked at giving habits and trends across four generations of donors – Matures (68+), Boomers (49-67), Gen X (33-48) and Gen Y (18-32). This trend is not expected to change anytime in the near future, said the survey. It will be interesting to see if this trend changes as Gen X and Gen Y age. Even though the U.S.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Access to Research and Data Access to research reports, market trends, and extensive research libraries is another perk that your organization should seriously consider making available for members. Webinars are fairly easy to put on and can be viewed by your members no matter where they are.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 23, 2017

The campaign provides advice on how to self-examine and help detect signs and symptoms. I also discussed the importance of laying out the supporter journey and having metrics to understand and improve conversion rates. Engagement with a purpose and knowing your audience. Transparency.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Keep an eye on trends in employer information. Fundraising advice from phonathon experts. Tracking and incentivizing fundraising results also gives you a positive metric for tracking caller proficiency and efficiency. Keep an eye on trends in employer information. Fundraising advice from phonathon experts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 14, 2013

In the next few weeks I’ll be making recommendations of which tools and trends in technology nonprofits should prioritize in 2013, but for this year’s post on New Year’s resolutions I wanted to get back to basics. 6) Say “Please” and “Thank You.” 10 Tips for Managing Social Media Burnout.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Registrants: Classy aims to increase the total number of registrants for the Collaborative year over year, so Alexa’s team reviews this metric first. The Classy team focuses on engagement metrics during the virtual event to encourage continued participation and see how invested the virtual audience is. Spend Time in Pre-Production.

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Care2

JANUARY 28, 2013

Sometime we can’t help ourselves and feel compelled to measure some of our successes through vanity metrics such as FB Likes or Twitter followers. ” And here was my advice to them and every organization that is looking to be more influential across multiple channels. Another client said “Our Klout score is terrible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. In a recent interview, John Hadyon reinforced this timeless piece of Facebook engagement advice. More here about that metric and other Facebook metrics you can gather in the Facebook analytics program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If this is your first Giving Day, keep it simple and pick the right metric. (See See this for Giving Day metrics to track your goals.). You’ll note there are some creative incentives, such as for the donor who lives the furthest away and a trend setter prize for the organization that gets the most tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

Colleagues Zan McColloch-Lussier and Peter Drury managing the back channel, the Twitter was rich with almost 1,000 tweets and the hashtag #kantersea trended locally. I pulled together a curated collection of the best tweets on storify , but here are a few tweets that resonated. Advice for Nonprofits To Get Started with Measurement.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

Fundraising Programs: Four Metrics to Measure the Success of Your Major Gift Program : It’s not enough to simply measure dollars raised by major gifts. This post in Guidestar’s blog goes over some other metrics that you should also be measuring to ensure true success of your major gift program. Want some quick donor retention advice?

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2016

We also had him share insights on the metrics you should measure. CausePlanet : Would you talk about how the metrics you have developed (lifetime value, etc.) Craver : There are some fundamental metrics that serve as a sort of fundraiser’s GPS—retention rates and lifetime value. Fail to answer them, and it’s more of the same.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

So, I imagine this effort is an “experiment” – a good one I might add because you have specific goal, audience, and metric to measure success. What is it about your organization that will allow for experiments with emerging technology? What are your 2-3 tips or advice for ngos about using pinterest?

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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. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Washington, DC: Web Trends: Wordpress & Beyond. Vancouver, Canada: Social Media Surgery: Hands on social media advice & help. Discover the Metrics that Matter with Vancouver ’s latest event video. Adelaide, Australia: Mixing online with offline - building communities that take action. Wednesday, September 18.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 20, 2010

We use Hootsuite and Sprout Social to manage our accounts and track metrics. What the best piece of advice you could offer nonprofits about social media, and online communications in general? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Dupe: Have a team to support you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. Think about what is most effective for your organization's goals, mission, and capacity.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 21, 2016

Interested to hear from these speakers on the trends they see and how to do more with email. Let’s Get Tactical: Understanding Digital Metrics and What They Mean. Looking fwd to hearing from others, what they recommend and how they use the metrics to adjust and improve results. I love this session! 1:30 pm.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Look for a solution that supports essential event tasks from beginning to end and tracks important event metrics, all in one system. A consultant can provide expert advice and tips, allowing your team to keep its focus on other crucial fundraising tasks. Don’t neglect your ongoing fundraising activities. Annual campaigns or events.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

But lately, I've noticed an interesting trend: I post something on Facebook that I think is fascinating, hilarious, or some deep revelation into the mysterious world of Miriam Kagan, and my social sphere reacts in.dead silence. Advice abounds about tricks and tips for engaging the social sphere. Metrics, metrics, metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I've gotten a lot of great advice about how to get started and I will share it as I plan to blog what I learn about taking this blog to the next level. I will also continue to write case studies, step-by-steps instructional pieces, and trend pieces. I want to improve my writing. I will explore in more depth the analytics tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2010

Getting to Know and Cultivating Free Agents: Here’s my best advice on this. No matter the approach, it is useful to have a structured approach and track trends over time. It comes down to do a little bit everyday and treating people like people. Listening in Practice. Think of it as another channel of research for campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

If you've been thinking of launching or expanding your organization in social media, Slideshare is a good starting point for information and advice. Social Media for Non Profits Primal Media’s sideshow is loaded with information on trends, recent statistics, and examples of social media used by nonprofits. Listen first.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

Thanks to Alice Antonelli, Director for Advisory Services at NFF, for her great advice! A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. In any event, months of LUNA may be the metric to follow as it is the more conservative measure of the two. Steps to Calculate LUNA and months of liquidity.

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Care2

JULY 10, 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) Philip King: ROI or cost of funds raised.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Let’s continue the trend of YoY Giving Tuesday growth ! Determine what success looks like across every channel—clicks, impressions, engagement, donations, shares—and ensure that all team members understand which metric they’re responsible for. million in online donations processed. People are motivated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

"If you listen closely, you can pick up on trends and ideas that can really help your outreach and communication efforts." This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. It includes advice for both a twitter presence for traffic or for listening or conversation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2007

What advice would you give to someone who is developing their keyword advertising campaign with Google Ad Words? The click through rate, cost per click , and conversion goal are the best metrics in google AdWords. Google adwords metrics/reports tell you about what's happening with the campaign. What are your tips and advice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2007

I gave the Social Media Metrics session. Website grader - useful tool to search trends. Gogle trends - use it to determine what people are searching on. I was torn, I wanted to attend John Federico's session on downloadable metrics, but ended up at another session. I love her writing about social media trends.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 10, 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) Avoid motion, like panning, fades and zooms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t quite understand why you won’t give the same advice to Holly. It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. We here at NTEN have pretty extensive metrics that we track every week in a dashboard that most nonprofits can only dream about.

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