Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. Taking proactive measures. Moving quickly in response to disruptions.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

For instance, you should conduct a backlink profile analysis to find negative mentions of your brand and spammy websites that are linking to you. You should then take appropriate measures to remove those mentions and links. . Use web tracking software to track mentions of your brand on various social media platforms. .

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 10, 2023

Track specific pieces of supporter data so you can personalize your outreach to them (more on this later!). Track how you’re interacting with supporters to ensure you maintain an active relationship with them. Use predictive analysis. Measure the smaller things. Enhance your events. Was there enough parking?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Author: Jordan Viator. Measuring the return on investment for any organizational effort is a standard of doing business. In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to tracking and analyzing data, a lot can be learned by looking at other industries. Enable Demographics and Interest Reporting, set goals and turn on Enhanced Ecommerce Tracking. Setting goals that align with your nonprofit’s digital strategy allows you to measure effectiveness and adapt tactics to improve conversions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2016

In my new book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , co-authored with Aliza Sherman, we lay out the symptoms and causes of burnout and the remedies through deliberate self-care. While there are a variety of different gadgets that you can use to track your sleep, I use the Fitbit Charge 2.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Kathy Reich, Packard Foundation and Author David La Piana. He said that strategic plan is more wishful thinking compared to a business plan that chocked with analysis. Business plans are not difficult to measure and the process is a discipline process of asking questions. How will they measure success?

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

What is a market analysis for nonprofit organizations? Market analysis, also known as market research, is the process of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting information about target markets and customers. With clearly defined objectives, you’ll have guideposts to refer back to throughout the process and keep your team on track.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The task manager allows you to assign, manage, and track the progress of action items. The member directory helps you keep track of every board, committee, and staff member so that you can nurture relationships. Plus, their app makes it easy to track your funding, whether incoming or outgoing, from anywhere.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

This guest post was authored by Ritu Sharma, Social Media for Nonprofits co-founder and executive director. In line with its focus on turning data into knowledge through powerful, insightful measurement and analysis of social media efforts, we wanted to share three simple tips and resources that nonprofits can put to work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

” That was the first I heard of the video and immediately tracked it down to watch the 30 minute video. Evan Bailyn, an author who writes about what makes content go viral, said: “I read the critical responses and found no convincing reasons to disregard the campaign. I immediately asked him how do you know that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2012

” I created a list of grantee’s Twitter Profiles and shared back the analysis of most tweeted words and hashtags. Also, because Danielle has been a great measurement maven, she discovered through analyzing her data that the optimum amount of posting is twice day. Most Frequently Tweeted Words. Peer Case Studies.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 6, 2022

As you move forward with your chosen fundraiser and the tips above, ongoing data collection and analysis are crucial for success. Track your fundraising metrics, including outreach response rate, donations received, and supporter retention. About the Author Hi, I’m Casey Dorman!

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

An eLearning consultant can help you evaluate the types of content that will best engage your association’s members, manage subject matter experts to ensure that content is well-informed, and author those courses after doing so. Measuring the efficacy of your eLearning programming. Course authoring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Source: A New Model for Social Media (and Traditional) Measurement.     A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   Hopefully that explains the fundamentals of how the analysis works. Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

There is an evolving category of tools (some free, some not) that can help make the tasks associated with content strategy, engagement, and tracking less onerous. If you know of other tools (or tips) that make you more efficient managing content, engagement, and tracking on social media, please share them in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. If you have a group blog, are there differences between authors? If not, why?

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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. Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. Possible Working Titles: 1.

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sgEngage

MAY 23, 2024

Risk Analysis – what could threaten the project or the organization? Program Analysis – what will happen to the program to accommodate the growth? Program Analysis – what will happen to the program to accommodate the growth? Capacity and/or Partnership – what can the organization handle internally? What needs are missing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Use of metrics to measure your results. Return on Investment.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Author: Jill Ward. Bottom line: the tracking, mining, and analysis of data should be central to your 2011 event fundraising strategy. Event fundraisers are talking about not just measuring more and better, but also predicting donor and participant behaviors. This is basic segmentation developed from descriptive analysis.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

Our mighty army of volunteers hosted over 500 free nonprofit technology trainings last year, and we're on track to reach even more organizers this year. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Chicago, Illinois: Getting Started Measuring Your Impact When There's No Way You'll Do an RCT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. You need to grab the month’s worth of measures and look at them against your content. Holly Ross simply ignores it and track the number of comments and likes on individual posts. Four Proven Steps to Facebook Page Success.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

This study raises basic questions about the ability of many boards to truly represent and respond to the diversity of the public they serve,” said the research author Francie Ostrower. There may not be a worse way to begin,” said Jan Masaoka, author of the Blue Avocado magazine web series on nonprofit board diversity. “By

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

I started the keynote by reading a poem by Deanna Zandt, a friend and the author of Share This! What do you measure every day, week, month, year? Not just monitoring twitter or tracking who the influential reporters and bloggers are that discuss our programs or issues. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

In his book Natural Capitalism , author Paul Hawken writes that when you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. RCI), for example, has been tracking the price of refurbished computers since 2005. TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

In his book Natural Capitalism , author Paul Hawken writes that when you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. TechSoup’s Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI), for example, has been tracking the price of refurbished computers since 2005.

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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. The organization can track holistic progress . It enables organization to show their constituents that the organization is engaged – the organization measures its impact based upon the content of stories.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

For example, simply saying “we prioritize major gifts” or “we focus on donor retention” isn’t helpful without understanding specifically how you’re doing so and then tracking and measuring your results so you can improve. . The best way to ensure you’re being smart about your investment of time and money is to measure your results.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

ROI -- or Return on Investment -- is a pre- and/or post-evaluation process and analysis of three factors: benefits, costs, and value of a specific technology purchase over time. If you approach ROI as a financial analysis only, you're missing the point. Metrics are a unit of measure. Focus On Value. Look at Work Processes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

He introduced me (virtually via Twitter) to Alistair Croll , co-author of their forthcoming book called " Watching Websites ," a deep dive into web metrics and monitoring. I've been thinking about how you measure what your organization does on Twitter. What can they measure w/Twitter? Alistair suggested a taxonomy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Measuring outcomes for social media tools and strategy is as Avinash Kaushik notes in his recent post on the topic , "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. Authority??? Technorati ???Authority???

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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. Authority???

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Whatever the size of an organisation, managing information and keeping track of inputs and outputs is crucial to ensure that the programs and services you design reach the users who need them. About the Author. Salesforce, when used for program management, helps move away from siloed data and duplication of work. Reporting on Impact.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

It also uses the NPSP as its CRM (constituent relationship management system) tracking interactions with donors, contractors, grantmakers, advisors, board members, volunteers, customers, and students. This helps them keep track of individuals as they cross multiple borders.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And I also think if you are new to federal grants, one of the best things that you can do is connect with perhaps a partner who might have a track record of success. And the SOAR analysis, I think, is a great brainstorming tool because this can really incorporate feedback from all different folks. I love this logic model.

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