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Year-End Reporting: Data-Driven Ways to Tell Your Story

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Regularly monitoring performance metrics or KPIs throughout the year allows you to know what you need. The goal with your analysis is to have actionable data. Often, this is a high-level report, focused on strategic, organization-wide metrics of success. This is where telling a story with your data is really valuable.

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Turning Nonprofit Data into Decisions

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These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Making the most of metrics means helping your organization’s leadership understand and apply the data purposefully. The idea of data analysis is to work smarter, not harder. Where should we focus our attention?

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PepsiFresh Contest: Real Tracking and Social Impact Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jeremiah Owyang has shared his initial analysis of Pepsi's Contest, summarizing the opportunity, risks, strengths, weaknesses, metrics, and impact. Celebrity Interaction and Endorsements: Pepsi has gleaned the support from NFL players, and made it a competition to see which cause will get the most votes, see NFL.com.

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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Celebrate the Accomplishments of Individuals in Your Alumni Network. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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How Can Nonprofits Switch to a Data-Driven Culture?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs. In addition to weekly check-ins, the organizational dashboard includes key performance metrics related to goals as well as more detailed metrics.

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Fundraising Lessons from the Father of Advertising | Ogilvy on Fundraising

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Surveys, interviews, and data analysis can reveal the equivalent of that Rolls-Royce insight – the key emotional triggers, values, and desires of your existing and potential supporters. Share enthusiastic endorsements from recognizable opinion leaders, celebrities, or experts. Those insights should drive messaging and campaigns.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! While the majority of our members are U.S.

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