Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

i While the survey focuses on salary rather than total compensation (which is a more holistic way to look at the full take-home differences), it provides a helpful metric to use as a baseline. Analysis set of grantmakers’ full-time CEO salaries Min 25th percentile Median Mean 75th percentile Max No.

Ratio 105

Ratio Survey Sample Report 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

Results 97

Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

Metrics 42

Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis.

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Examples Guide Model Nonprofit 117

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

ROI 103

ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. The metrics showed the ads were not effectively driving growth. Growing your community of supporters is the only measure that matters.

Lesson 59

Lesson Fundraising Digital Test 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. But, here are a few comments: Kudos to you for setting clear goals and starting off with measurement from the beginning. I'd like to see how you are going to specifically look at success/change and metrics for your blog.

Guinea 50

Guinea Measure Social Media Wikispaces 50

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics!

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. Some interesting questions that popped up looking at this chart: Does this mean that in the beginning we get insight but not $, and in the end we get $$ but not insight? You must be able to attain ROI.

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

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?

Rate 35

Rate System Management Analysis 35

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Although it can be tempting to measure everything, it is best to focus on those key indicators relevant to an organization’s goal or areas where improvement is needed and not get bogged down by too much information. Even text can be measured with text analysis tools that can provide statistics on keywords and gauge sentiment.

Analytics 65

Analytics Data Analysis Chart 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

ROI 50

ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. While these basic figures can be informative from a year-over-year trend perspective, they do a poor job answering questions like: Why did these metrics change?

Metrics 87

Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

I'm speaking at the eMetrics the premiere conference for Web measurement geeks.    His engaging and funny presentation was called "Tough Times call for Tough Measures. .    His engaging and funny presentation was called "Tough Times call for Tough Measures."   

Marketing 50

Marketing Measure Metrics Hunger 50

NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

Attention 36

Attention Metrics Online Fundraising 36

Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Forum One was a sponsor, and several of my colleagues from our user experience and design team lead sessions on topics ranging from tips on quick and simple audience analysis to learning from design mistakes and making client engagement fun in a group setting. Have any other metrics to add to this list? Tell us in the comments!

Teach 44

Teach Experiment Arizona Metrics 44

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This helps you monitor your progress with various campaigns, your donor retention rate, and other metrics that are important to your fundraising success. Backlink analysis. Get an idea of who is linking to your site, the anchor text they use, and their domain authority with Moz’s backlink analysis. Individual tasks.

Org 80

Org Raise Tools Help 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

Later, I found the chart in Net Gains. We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. And, of course, what metrics to use. She also discusses it in the video above.

Network 95

Network Authoring Social Media Ipod 95

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 3, 2016

Unlike business, the bottom line of a nonprofit is not necessarily money; it’s all about outcomes, which often manifest themselves as intangible results not easily measured by metrics. People are hard to chart, while numbers are perfect for spreadsheets.

Arizona 40

Arizona Tucson United States Nonprofit 40

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 ?”

Measure 115

Measure Social Media Tools Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What's the key metric? How might you measure it? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). One group look at the metrics in terms of the ladder of engagement - both short term and long term effects. Tags as a metric. What's the outcome?

Reflection 50

Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Last week I wrote about nonprofit “ measurement malaise &# that keeps some nonprofits putting a measurement strategy for their integrated communications campaigns into practice. In the comments, I asked how can we make measurement fun ? Our data might be the most metrically driven data you’ve seen.

Measure 97

Measure Fun Hawaii Metrics 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

Measure 96

Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Via NTEN blog Google moves one step closer to making desktop applications obsolete with the release of the Google Chart API. asks Rich Reeder.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech Tag Tools 50

Forum One

MAY 31, 2023

Establish metrics that measure reactions, engagements, and your own internal successes and challenges in executing the plan—remember that staffing, budget, and organizational change management are components of your plan as well. Growing your digital engagement capacity will likely require investments of budget or time over time.

Digital 73

Digital Strategy Chapter Map 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help.

Social Media 129

Social Media Media Social Chart 129

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. Kaushik offers up some metrics for blogging: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post).

Measure 50

Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

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.

Reflection 50

Reflection Measure Technorati Metrics 50

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. SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives.

Facebook 101

Facebook Network Metrics Nonprofit 101

Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Care2

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. This chart shows the percentage of nonprofits using each feature. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left?

Social Media 28

Social Media Place Myspace Advocacy 28

Care2

MAY 27, 2009

The trouble with social media thus far has been that it’s been difficult for practitioners to measure its efficacy. Some Basic 101 Resources and Metrics ROI = What you spent divided by what you got out of your investment. The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. Here are a few examples.

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Social Media ROI Media Social 59