M+R

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Finding your audience part 1: file analysis. So far, we have seen our new prospect groups generating 7x the conversions of the wealth-scored donors, and we are continuing to refine our approach based on which segments of this expanded pool made qualifying gifts throughout the first year of the program. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.” from MIT in rocket science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There may be someone in another department who is a data nerd with expert excel or data analysis skills. Ask around. Get Free Help with Your Google Analytics: The Analysis Exchange has a goal to “dramatically increase the number of people on Earth doing web analytics the right way.”

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. Tools that incorporate a dashboard can help organizations visualize and more easily analyze their data by taking that information and turning it into charts and graphs. Five Reports Every Nonprofit Should Know. Additional Resources.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

They can give directly from their seats without disrupting conversation with one another. Hootsuite allows for a set-it-and-forget-it approach that frees up more time during your fundraising campaign for more face-to-face conversations with supporters and less time watching your computer screen. Compliant reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. The conversation thread made me think of this excellent blog post by my two favorite nonprofit data geeks from DoSomething. Know What Success Is.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

What charts or slides did the group focus on? What background research was critical to the conversation? Data and analytics have led 38 Degrees to think more clearly about what questions the organization should ask, and to arrange strategy sessions around better objects of analysis. Analytics reports don’t replace meetings.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

While this letter is a positive step, both a panel at this year's Stronger Together Conference and follow-up interviews with the participants demonstrates that more than open letters will be needed to change the conversation around costs, impact, overhead, and mission. First Steps: Accounting for Program Costs. For example, Ms.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Get your data out of your reports.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2012

Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example. For professional projects, like an electronic annual report, you can combine several types of files (video included) as a PDF Portfolio.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2012

Convert to Word, Excel, and PowerPoint: Conversely, you may get PDFs from partners and allies where there's information that can be used, like for a grant report for example. For professional projects, like an electronic annual report, you can combine several types of files (video included) as a PDF Portfolio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Return on Investment.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Over the dozen or so years we have been doing event fundraising online, results analysis has revealed statistics that correlate to fundraising success. Number of emails / social media posts per fundraiser, email / social media conversion rate. Number of participants. But what about more subtle metrics that can really make a difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

This takes a lot of time because I'm not just browsing, but I'm doing a pattern analysis for best practices that I can incorporate into a presentation about social media principles and nonprofits. I have people line up from "very comfortable" to "not so comfortable" and facilitate a conversation.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Even simple tools like Google Docs means your organization can report real time data, online, anytime. You can see the administration gets that -- from the jobs map and the chart of how money is being spent. You need to build conversation into everything you can. You can do it, too! In our work, we need to apply the same lesson.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 30, 2009

Each Monday morning we counted up the votes cast during the previous week and on Wednesday, the museum released a new Top 40 chart. A fairly large label with this week’s chart position was placed next to each artwork. The following week it shot up the chart from number 40 to number 14! Projects participatory museum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

During the morning and early afternoon session, I felt that some tables were having difficult conversations. The report out was amazing. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. The other brilliant idea was to use twitter and have kids report "What are you eating?"

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

You need a detailed analysis to make an actionable plan to improve your fundraising efforts. Luckily, you can achieve a thorough analysis with these 10 key data points from either your CRM or accounting software. Conversely, should your cost go above $1, you are losing money. I believe the same is true with fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” It was always a terrific conversation starter with nonprofit techies because knowing the right tool for the job is important. As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. (One place to look).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Also, the reporting by using visual humor. When I asked folks on Twitter, many responded by like Erica Mills – gamify it. That made me think of Nicole Lazzaro’s serious fun framework and how to use it to design reports. Humanize the Reporting: Don’t just report numbers, include the stories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

If don’t synthesize the ongoing stream, it gives me vertigo. I set aside an hour or two a month to review my valid metrics , but also to do a meta synthesis of the conversation to curate the best points and resources. Guides, not report cards. Become an expert at starting conversations. How many by when?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics. Audience Growth (content consumption ???

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

Our conversation began with Lisa talking about why she and co-author Lisa Chen wrote The She Spot: Why Women are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them. Just don't have it be some organization online where you see graphics of bar charts and research reports, but not real human beings.

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M+R

AUGUST 25, 2021

In 2020, in the midst of a pandemic and a presidential election, the national conversation shifted dramatically. . In years past, we’ve looked at big, year-long trends in our annual Mediamarks report. Our methodology for how we go about all this data collection and analysis is at the bottom of this post.).

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