NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

Over the last few years, NTEN has been working with nonprofits to understand how to better wrangle all the data they’re creating and what’s available to them into improved results: more mission impact. In 2010, we organized an online workshop we affectionately titled “Taming the Data Monster.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”. Does data collection from time-to-time, but not formal reporting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

Though peer-to-peer fundraising faced declines last year, there are many bright spots and insights we can pull from our collective experiences and the data contained in this report. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 11, 2016

According to Louise Craft, digital marketing executive at Metric Mogul, Analytics “ensures marketers can make data led decisions to streamline their marketing efforts, increase their conversion rates and ultimately achieve their business goals.” Here is a sampling of some advanced features and set-up tips that Craft recommends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Here’s a small list of articles and blog posts that help frame this topic, including how the term “Data-Informed” was using in my recent book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Not Data Driven.”

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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. It was a great opportunity to test out some ways to talk about performance assessment and outcomes-based approaches as David Hunter and Mario Morino.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before we get into specifics, some business about how we looked at this data: because Giving Tuesday jumps around, we can’t just look at December revenue year over year and keep things apples to apples. Aggregate data is tricky here—we don’t have enough data points to pull out medians without exposing individual organizations.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

You see, marketing is a cycle of execution, analysis, and tweaking. What can you do to improve the metrics that matter? Put all your goals on paper and include every metric you need to measure to meet the goals in your fundraising plan. Check your metrics, focusing on overall numbers and growth. What’s working?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2015

“Big data” has been a “big topic” for quite some time now. What does big data mean? Let’s identify the type of data analytics we discussed & how they can help your organization: How to use your CRM data to analyze trends in gift history, affiliations, connections, etc.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

And analyzing this data for meaningful takeaways is something many organizations haven’t even considered at this point. While the area of social metrics continues to evolve and grow, there are five main tips all organizations should follow when measuring social media activity for ROI: 1. Specific and easy to assess.

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NTEN

MAY 19, 2010

" That's where the Analysis Exchange comes in. Time strapped nonprofits can sign up to receive free web site analysis. You provide access to your data and a few hours of time, and a student-mentor team will analyze aspects of your site's performance in just a few weeks. > Learn more and join the Analysis Exchange today!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Conducting some total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis on projected new acquisitions. The self-assessment poses basic questions about the important aspects of your IT like your data back-up capability, your tech support, how you manage critical data, the state of your website, and your tech budget.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud's analysis of online giving in 2008 found that December accounted for about 21% of the year's transaction volume, but 48% of the total dollars raised. for Blackbaud customers in the entire analysis. Blackbaud analyzed the Giving USA data, along with other important metrics, and estimates that more than $15.42

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media. As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. Where do you look for standard metrics? I've done this.

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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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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Getting all of your old donor data cleaned and ready so that you can move it into the new system? While migrating donor data is one of the most important steps in implementing a new CRM, it’s also the part that’s most time-consuming, mind-numbing, and prone to error. Signing up for a new donor management platform is exciting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The Web section offers a sampling of numbers only data. What is interesting is how the web metrics include a mix of traditional web analytics and social media metrics, in this case number of friends on myspace (454) and views (see above) on its youtube channel.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Eduventures, and Fred Weiss, chief research and data officer at Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). . A sample of 404 institutions reported on receipts from DAFs. This year, we were proud to feature perspective s from many leading higher ed experts including James Wiley, principal analyst at?Eduventures,

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! Google Analytics – [link]. Facebook Insights.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Look first at your organizational metrics. You can read her poem, Untitled, here.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The caveat is that the data can’t be exported. It has more search filters and returns more data. The caveat is you need to do a little programming to get the data, there are still limitations to bulk export, and the accuracy and completeness of the data is still questionable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Photo from LolNPtech.org (Registration is here ) Mashups, Meatballs, and New Orleans Do you look at all of the data available online, and imagine ways to combine and connect it to increase awareness about an issue? KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge !

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

While the Causes idea smartly takes advantage of an existing platform with a huge audience, a deeper dive into the data is revealing. The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? We took a sampling from all of the Causes to get a sense of what the potential is.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

While the Causes idea smartly takes advantage of an existing platform with a huge audience, a deeper dive into the data is revealing. The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? We took a sampling from all of the Causes to get a sense of what the potential is.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

This data includes a mix of organizations that work on topics ranging from international relief to health to environmental issues. For our overall analysis, we included only one-time gifts — ongoing monthly revenue is not included in those numbers, and all gifts are in the months of November and December in order to include Giving Tuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

The important thing is to pick the right tool for the job — and that job is collecting data to measure progress towards a goal or objective. Social media measurement tools give you data. The problem is that data everywhere! Almost every click we take, it leaves a data trail of data that can be captured.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

Rolling your own social network wrapped with your organization's branding, data, and integrated into an organizational site will provide more control. First, neither site has all the custom features, branding, or data integration that many organizations want. It still requires a lot of attention, staff time, management and promotion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. Analog Strategies. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. Registration here. There's also a paper that Steve co-authored about a methodology for social network analysis. What was most sexy?

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation. And the SOAR analysis, I think, is a great brainstorming tool because this can really incorporate feedback from all different folks.

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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). I just sampled one month.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There is no simple metric to understand how to consider efficiency and effectiveness in intellectual work. I performed an analysis of my organization’s attendance at programs for the last five years, I created the decorations for our new music series, and I worked on labels for an exhibition in our interpretation laboratory.

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