Forum One

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As you get started on sifting through your data reports and action items completed this year, carefully consider how you are packaging your data in the most impactful way. How to glean insights : Having the data is one thing, but knowing what insights to pull with confidence that it is the right picture is quite another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You. Here’s the description: Social media analytics can help you understand the active members of your social media audience, but what about the people who aren’t posting? This session presents a new form of social media analysis that combines social and survey data.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

As organizations look for more efficient ways to make, keep and grow relationships, bring in more money, measure outcomes and demonstrate impact, analytics become a key enabler. What is “Analytics”? . While this sounds like a clear “no brainer”, organizations often struggle to implement these types of data-driven decisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

One of the key messages in the book is that nonprofits should not start with the tools and data, but start to clearly define success and their audience. By doing so, they will understand the few data points and the tools needed to collect that data to figure out if they have been successful!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks. Who are the influencers? Family members.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 15, 2022

Understand your target audience : Social media is full of data that can help you better understand who your target audience is and what they care about. Twitter’s API made it really easy for developers to build listening and analysis tools with their data. Great for finding influencers in your network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise. p/QTToUNlZjr/.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 18, 2017

But we also know that there is a science to donor segmentation and the use of analytics. The use of analytics helps to remove a lot of guesswork around which donors have the most affinity for your cause—analytics can help you determine which donors are more likely to give to your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

To achieve this, Forum One conducted a comprehensive landscape analysis and full audits of their technical ecosystem, communications, and analytics as well as stakeholder interviews. 2022 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three) Bronze – Annual Report Zero to Three works to ensure all babies and toddlers have a strong start in life.

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Allegiance Group

MAY 18, 2023

Developing a digital donor acquisition strategy takes a similar approach as direct mail, starting with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift, retention rates, average gift, and if you have done previous online fundraising campaigns, cost per acquired donor. Instagram integrates well with Facebook campaigns.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Instead of repeating those numbers, we’ll focus on the practical “in the weeds” analysis that can support you in making data-driven decisions that go well beyond this time of year. With that in mind, it’s important to base strategic fundraising and communication decisions on real data, not anecdotal evidence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The next step in surviving these changes is to conduct a SWOT analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. This analysis should help you prioritize the tasks that need to be done so you can embrace the opportunities to further your mission through grant funding. Step Three: How will you thrive?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S. 2 — Make Your Website Shine.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

That’s where data can come into play to help you make better decisions (Netflix data knows exactly what you’re watching!) Data analytics helps you to uncover insights that are otherwise hard to see or understand. Let’s break down several scenarios to show how data analytics can help improve the member experience.

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Comprehensive online auction software improves every aspect of the fundraising process, from sending personalized communications using your donor data to generating real-time analytics that measure engagement and fundraising progress. After your virtual auction , study your engagement data and revenue totals. Social media.

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Forum One

JULY 27, 2021

Don’t rely on your own assumptions or analytics data alone. Visual storytelling, influencer engagement, and marketing automations are just a few effective strategies to increase donor engagement. Consider whether you are able to export data for analysis in other systems and move the data to other platforms as needed.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2011

If you’re not yet familiar with Google Analytics, it’s a free tool from. Read the first post for an overview of the Dashboard or go to my profile to see all of my posts on Google Analytics. If you’ve been following these Google Analytics posts, you’ve probably come to see website analysis as a sort of sleuthing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

I don’t bother with click rates or influence leader board scores. Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? It will search hashtags or keywords and dump the data in a google spreadsheet. It is a Twitter analytics tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Google Analytics – [link]. Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page! These analytics are part of having a Facebook Page.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This global ecosystem includes the digital brand and voice of your organization, the main source of knowledge and data about the programs and issues you work on, as well as detailed information about the audience you are reaching. Are the various tools speaking to one another to share data and inform your decision-making?

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Google Analytics — Top Fundraising App for Nonprofit Websites Where’s the first place your supporters go to learn more about your organization, its mission, and your upcoming opportunities for involvement? Qgiv’s app automates that process and saves your nonprofit time.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 24, 2021

Event marketers have more influence over lead generation and the buying cycle than ever before. . Data-Driven Lead Tracking. One of the truly beautiful things about virtual events is the wealth of data they can provide. Some of the data you should track includes: . Explore the Data. Total number of attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

Data Analysis. What useful nugget did you learn from analyzing your social media metrics data or your measurement process that lead to a success or improvement in your social media practice? How do you analyze your social media data? How do you measure the your organization’s influence in social channels ?

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2019

To do that, let’s examine some key findings from the most recent Alumni Annual Giving report, a comprehensive analysis produced each year by Blackbaud Target Analytics. The FY2018 analysis features median metrics from the over 200 institutions that participate in the annual donorCentrics Collaborative Benchmarking service. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2015

That’s what I learned by using a new social analytics tool called SocialRank. You need some analysis tools. Understanding your followers to find influencers or people you want to connect with to help you reach a goal isn’t a difficult task. What can you do with this data? And for now, it is free.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

And analyzing this data for meaningful takeaways is something many organizations haven’t even considered at this point. Be realistic in what you want to track - don’t get lost in the data! Have you ever found yourself overwhelmed in Google Analytics? Measure actionable items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

One of the members of my Fan Page, Marc Van Bree , shared an interesting link to a new and free analytics tool called Fan Page Analytics created by Pete Warden who also created the Twitter social network analysis tool Mailana. Is this a meaningless set of data or useful?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Photo by Dwinton.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2018

Sharing consumer data can help both marketing and foundation teams learn more about key consumers, and enables both teams to develop cohesive strategies for patient and donor acquisition, using prescriptive and predictive analytics. Traditionally, we’ve done data audits or analysis that are handed over to our staff.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. Determine your key fundraising and marketing strategies You may consider doing a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis of your past fundraising to better understand what areas you’re already strong in and what could be improved.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI processes information and makes decisions using algorithms and data. Humans are influenced by biases and emotions, while AI systems are objective. AI is only as objective as its programmers and its data. AI can only use the available data. But don’t take chances with your data. It calculates.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Starting over may not be an option, but in the absence of that, here are ten things event fundraisers and marketers should be considering to reinvent their plans for 2011: Become more data driven. The culling, organizing, and assessment of your event data is where the real work happens, and where the real insights emerge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Managing your organization’s Facebook page, particularly tracking, content, and engagement can be a time suck, particularly as your network grows. For example, we know that identifying and engaging with super fans/influencers on our Facebook presence is important. To prove I’m doing that, I need data.

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2011

Every quarter, our data analyst, Mathew Grimm, emails out a report of every list source and how they're performing. At our last analysis, our Facebook recruits had donated a total of $3,793 in the last 12 months, with an average gift of $79. Everyone who comes into our file is sourced. (If Our Facebook presence helps us do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

Louis Gray He’s on the Google + team and shares items about new features, analytics, and other stuff. Google + has an analytics tool that is very basic, called Ripples. It offers a quasi social network analysis to see how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. Is your nonprofit on Google +?

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