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. Your reports should allow your organization to clearly see the trouble areas that are causing your goals to be at risk.

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Rate System Management Analysis 35

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! If you do, check out Nutshell Mail for reports on your various social media presences. Then, for each group, create a chart with 4 columns and identify: Their goal: why do they engage with you. Facebook Insights.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

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. The output of a dashboard can in turn be used to generate reports that document an organization’s progress. Five Reports Every Nonprofit Should Know.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. Get the report and read it. Well, this report has some pretty telling data. It's enough to report on and start people thinking about the issues, but the field is pretty darn new.

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Attention Metrics Online Fundraising 36

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. Click to See Larger Image I have been noodling around with this chart to show that insight comes before dollars, but if you measure and improve your initial pilot efforts over time, eventually the dollars do come.

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.” KD says don’t use pie charts, plot your data over time. ” She also advised us to use manual tracking for sentiment analysis because computers do not do nuance very well. Know What Success Is.

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Measure Data Facilitation Teen 98

NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

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? I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics.

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Metrics Fundraising Retention ROI 87

Connection Cafe

APRIL 2, 2018

What charts or slides did the group focus on? They formulate a set of rough metrics and hypotheses, spend the week running small tests, and then convene at the end of the week to summarize what they have learned. Analytics reports don’t replace meetings. It’s time we had a little talk about strategic objects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time.

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

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. Compliant reporting. Automate your reporting to save your organization time and energy. Backlink analysis. Individual tasks. Bank synchronization. Keyword research.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Key staff members enter, manage, and report on this data, but it can be difficult to pull together snapshots of progress quickly in order to make real-time course corrections. BI can improve the speed and quality of decision-making by providing real-time information about key performance metrics. What is Business Intelligence?

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Business North America Metrics Analysis 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  He made the points that your metrics must get you to results - and the three most important results are: Increased Revenue. "    He talked about different categories of metrics for the web: 1)   Types of visitors:   You have to get inside your customer's heads and what is important to them. 

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Marketing Measure Metrics Hunger 50

NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2011

What they do and don’t do has a big impact on donor relationships and the metrics we’ve uncovered. Analysis of cumulative online giving (i.e., Some do a great job connecting with and engaging donors in many ways and through many channels, while others are doing little. lower than for donors who give via charity-branded giving pages.

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Studies Donor Online Giving 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. Garcia is an executive board member of the Arizona Children's Action Alliance.

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Arizona Tucson United States Nonprofit 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

What's the key metric? My NTC panel on social media metrics, measurement, and roi will include a case study slam - so stay tuned). The report out was amazing. After each group reported out, I asked some high level questions and gave some observations. Tags as a metric. What's the outcome? How might you measure it?

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Reflection Slides Metrics PowerPoint 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. KD Paine offers a great framework for matching tools with data collection and analysis tasks. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes.

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Measure Social Media Tools Media 115

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 21, 2011

Our data might be the most metrically driven data you’ve seen. That’s right, we are metrics freaks. Also, the reporting by using visual humor. When I asked folks on Twitter, many responded by like Erica Mills – gamify it. Humanize the Reporting: Don’t just report numbers, include the stories.

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Measure Fun Hawaii Metrics 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

The survey looked at nonprofit’s self-reported results, goals, time investment, and measurement approaches for Facebook, although I wonder if you can really answer the big picture question without looking at how nonprofits use Facebook in the context of an integrated strategy and good measurement practice benchmarking study.

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Measure Organization Metrics Analytics 96

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. Pick valid metrics in the context of an integrated campaign.

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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?

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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

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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Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). You can do an analysis of your blog feed here.

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Reflection Measure Technorati Metrics 50

Care2

MAY 27, 2009

While we’ve seen explosive growth in use of social networks ( NYT reported last week that time spent on social networks has exceeded that of emai l ) many organizations are asking how do you effectively deploy a social media strategy and what is the return on investment (ROI)? The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied.

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Social Media ROI Media Social 59