M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Participation primarily involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will combine (anonymously!) with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. And we provide analysis that helps put all of that into context and guide decision-making.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

And please reach out to benchmarks@mrss.com with any questions. Participation primarily involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will combine (anonymously!) with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. Read time: 2 minutes.

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Benchmark Analysis Aggregator Advocacy 87

M+R

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Our data analytics team will combine (anonymously!) your responses with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. And of course, let us know if you have any questions at all. Our time will be billed just like other hours in our contract. This sounds like a lot of work (and it is!

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Benchmark Studies Europe Info 52

Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Useful analytics come from a comprehensive data set, typically from a donor management software, that can be manipulated into an intuitive report that anyone can digest. What do we mean by “data?”. Who is ready to give?

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Data Metrics Nonprofit Analysis 69

M+R

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Mostly, that involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will stir together (anonymously!) with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a pot of averages, trends, and key metrics. And reach out to benchmarks@mrss.com if you have any questions! All-caps bold important.

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Benchmark Studies Analysis Trend 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Tags: facebook metrics. I have not done this yet.

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Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 97

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. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Family members.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. However, as Katanick observed during the tweet chat, “analytics matter to nonprofits because they provide a tangible way to demonstrate that an organization is delivering on its mission and goals.”

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Digging into each analytics platform individually to pull your information to try to tell a cohesive story can be frustrating. No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. Too many manual processes to get what you need.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present. We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. Here we’ll summarize those questions and answers. What is Google Analytics 4?

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

We had a very active Q&A session after the event, and could not get to all questions before the event closed. The purpose of this post is to share the results of the Q&A, including answers to questions not addressed during the event. Donor retention by the numbers: you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

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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. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 28, 2023

Use a fundraising dashboard to visualize data analytics. Meyer Partners’ nonprofit data analytics guide suggests getting an audit from professionals who can help you identify gaps in your data entry processes and implement data hygiene best practices. Use a fundraising dashboard to visualize data analytics.

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Platform Donor Online Social Media 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Laura Quinn at Idealware has been offering Webinars and I will be joining her " Introduction to Website Analytics " on Thursday, September 27th 1:00 - 2:30 EST. You can register here. We'll talk through the tools and strategies you can use to get the answers to these questions. And the fact that Metrics alone are meaningless.

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Analytics Web Metrics ROI 50

NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

In addition to the conversations with participants in three separate tracks, #14LCS includes a stellar lineup of keynote speakers who will spark new conversations and nudge existing conversations to introduce new questions. To get a jump-start on conversations for LCS, we asked Matt a few questions, shared below.

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DipJar

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Fortunately, using nonprofit data analytics and a powerful wealth screening tool can help your team quickly identify trends and useful insights that can inform your strategy. In the context of wealth screening, this data can highlight metrics beyond typical wealth data like discretionary income (or the money donors have on hand to spend).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. Two (yes, just two) questions out of many relate to security. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! p/QTToUNlZjr/. Beth Kanter (@kanter) October 3, 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

I now spend more of my time evaluating communications and digital projects so, I read with interest Lean Analytics , the book in the Lean Start up series on measuring what matters. This strikes me as a metric that would be easier to compute and apply for some projects or programs and a real bear for others.

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San Francisco Organization Kiva Metrics 104

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. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement. The real question for you to answer which images drive better engagement. That question can form the basis of many Facebook experiments.

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Practice Tips Social Meme 107

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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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

At the 4 th level of 100% adoption for your prospect management system, your organization is now able to provide a deep analysis with reportings based on a sound system and full buy-in from all staff. High-level analysis questions by senior leadership and during campaign/advisory board meetings: How many active proposals are pending?

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Rate System Management Analysis 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution. There are specific metrics for specific platforms.

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Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 101

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Data Analysis. This conversation explored common pitfalls to analysis approaches and how to avoid them. What’s your “sexy&# social media metric?

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Summary Social Media Measure Media 94

Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. Streamline the form to ensure you are only asking relevant questions like their name, email address, payment information, and whether they’d like to make the gift a recurring one.

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Fund Donor Strategy Search 52

Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

Data and analytics can play a big role in improving nonprofit strategy. Among nonprofit advocacy groups, I often witness a huge gap between the people with access to data and analytics and the people actually empowered to make strategic decisions. Data analytics could be fresh garlic.* Analytics reports don’t replace meetings.

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Data Help Analytics Test 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. It's called double-loop learning. Why was it a success?

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Analysis Reflection Experiment Time 50

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? Louis Gray He’s on the Google + team and shares items about new features, analytics, and other stuff. I was curious and started a conversation asking these questions: What is your definition of success on Google +?

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Google Time Nonprofit Metrics 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

One of the big questions I often get asked by nonprofit campaigners is “how do I know if our blog and social media are succeeding and resonating with people?&# Great question. That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Postrank Analytics. Allows you to see engagement trends over time.

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Social Media Measure Tools Media 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. For example, open-ended questions work, particularly those that allow people to share their knowledge or ones accompanying a good resource link. New Fans (Likes). Page Views.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 99

M+R

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Mostly, that involves collecting and coding a big stack of data, which our analytics team will stir together (anonymously!) with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a pot of averages, trends, and key metrics. And reach out to benchmarks@mrss.com if you have any questions! All-caps bold important.

Benchmark 18

Benchmark Studies Analysis Metrics 18

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2007

a good question about the tools for measuring social networks. But then what does that do to web analytics? I am more curious about the metrics and how you use that information. Chris Brogan wants to turn friends or social network analysis data into actionable information. Marnie Webb asks. What tools are available?

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ROI Analytics Google Social Network 50

Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

We’ll explore: Types of fundraising software to consider 7 essential fundraising software features to look for 5 steps to buy fundraising software 5 questions to ask when buying fundraising software It’s worth taking the time to research potential solutions, discuss options with your team, and deliberate before coming to a final decision.

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Software Guide Fundraising Platform 88

Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Those traditional metrics are a good starting point, but often do not tell the whole story. You need to look behind the scenes to get the real answer to the question “What products are most valuable?”. Data can help you think more broadly to identify a valuable product based on your specific goals and success metrics.

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Product Associations Measure Analysis 282

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2018

This concept is rooted in one of our core fundamental purposes for using analytics: finding the common threads in data so that we are best able to predict future behavior. I believe that at any given point you should maintain a running analysis of fundraising metrics for a minimum of three, but ideally five consecutive years.

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Giving Analysis Gift Analytics 21