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Creating Healthy Nonprofits in Silicon Valley

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These are some of the questions that Alexa Cortes Culwell and I set out to answer in our new report, The Giving Code: Silicon Valley Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, it reflects a year of research and analysis, including conversations with 300+ community stakeholders.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. Do posts with more questions in the title and questions in the end generate more comments? Did you do any outreach to encourage commenting?

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Experts Weigh-In on Nonprofit Website Design Best Practices

Connection Cafe

I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. Here are 6 questions and answers from the experts on nonprofit website design best practices: 1. Devices like Alexa have changed the way people shop.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The question I want to ask is, what do web stats really mean, anyway? I think that metrics to answer specific questions related to outcomes or improvement are useful. You can “withhold&# web site stats but Compete, Alexa, GetClicky and a host of other sites will not let you do so. But then again, demagoguery always is.&#

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