Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. Your aggregate-level data will still be saved, but event-level data, such as file downloads, will only be kept for 14 months. Some questions you might ask in this process are: What traffic channels or sources lead to the best name acquisition?

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. You need to look behind the scenes to get the real answer to the question “What products are most valuable?”. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. But, here are a few comments: Kudos to you for setting clear goals and starting off with measurement from the beginning. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? | View | Upload your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

What is a productive way to experiment and learn to the answers to these questions without wasting time? But, if you want more suggestions, see 22 Must Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Nonprofits on Google + that Heather Mansfield aggregated. How are you measuring that? Measurement and Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

On Saturday, I had the honor of presenting at Craigslist Foundation Boot Camp and one of the burning questions was about efficiency. What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. Now, I know that not all value is measured in conversions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

a question asked by the Give and Take blog. I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Photo by NimagesDR. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. The 3 Most Frequently Asked Google Analytics Questions. Possible Working Titles: 1. Analytics This!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

Someone said to me during a workshop a few weeks back – it really sucks to log into Facebook and see a two-star post quality ranking. This prompted me to post a question on my wall: How many of you Facebook Page admins notice your post quality ranking every time you visit? Is there an App for that?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

Well, total aggregate unrelated business income has grown in the sector over the last few decades, but so has the number of nonprofit organizations. In an effort to be fair, Child looks at a couple different measures. I appreciate your analysis of the claims that the sector is becoming more commercialized. Good post Mark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. The nonprofit doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact. Still, I'd love to know the answers to these questions: How do you explain to your executive director?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Why should we measure story in a new way? To do this we have to be able to measure story in a new way. If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. Nancy White answers a question posed by Laura Whitehead " Getting the most from social media for nonprofits: what would you recommend? KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools.

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Learn more Improve data collection and demonstrate impact Unified case management and impact measurement Capture and manage your data in a single system so your team can spend less time on caseload monitoring a and more time improving programs and boosting outcomes. Request a demo Frequently asked questions What is case management software?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

I asked a question on Twitter and he answered. I've been thinking about how you measure what your organization does on Twitter. Given Sean's and Alistair's knowledge in this area, we engaged in a couple of really useful "micro" chats on Twitter about different measurement tools. What can they measure w/Twitter?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

So the question arises: how can we use technology to help social entrepreneurs collect and use their data more effectively and securely? These are all relatively simple data collection problems that require strong security, a relatively simple user interface, and a back end that allows for robust data analysis.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

The goal is to understand which solutions you’re currently using and how well they perform with the following questions in mind: What works well? Analysis & Strategy: The consultant conducts an analysis of your current software and formulates a strategy to align those solutions with your goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. When the exhibition opens in June, visitors will see the photos ordered by aggregate score, but you will also be able to look at the scores by art knowledge (and geography) on the web and on interactive kiosks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. This was a question raised by a recent Stanford Study and debated over on Brian Solis's PR2.0 How do you measure sucess on Twitter? But that would be a lot of content!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Now, restate your objective so it is “SMART” – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based? Make your objectives "SMART" (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound). Jeremiah Owyang, Social Network Sites Use Analysis - Compilation of Research Facts. The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

(Examples: Twitter, Identi.ca, Plurk) Communities present safe areas for select groups, can be private or open, have options for in-depth discussions or sensitive information, outlets for question/answer format and support around delicate topics. Retweet followers, answer questions, and comment back. Funnel: Measure the whole funnel!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While the questions vary between the version for private foundations or small nonprofits, the 990 collects details on the financial, governance and organizational structure of America’s universities, hospitals, foundations, and charities to the end of ensuring that they are deserving of tax exempt status.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’m teaching a graduate class at the Monterey Institute of International Studies based on my books, The Networked Nonprofit and Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. One recent project is a real-time analysis and data visualization of the post2015 conversation on Twitter. There are many labs working on projects.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Starting with the new(ish) generation of interactive websites and blogs, we can observe how mainstream and alternative organizations serve up news, critical analysis, community building and civic engagement. and aggregates them. Twemes also aggregates Twitter posts (you direct it with a pound sign: #votereport). Washington Post.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Also essential to the day were 12 coaches, whose areas of expertise ranged from digital media to business analysis, and three judges: James Rooney, Microsoft; Deena Pierott, iUrbanTeen; and Sonya Watson, Tides Foundation. Questions/conversation prompts are sent via text. The goal: greater open rates.

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