Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Well, from the planning and analysis side, that is. We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). DIY Community Engagement Metrics. Metrics Tracking. >>

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

Note: See all the Best Nonprofits To Work For stories in the 4/1 digital edition … [link] ** There are some surprises in the data from 2023 for this year’s The NonProfit Times ’ “Best Nonprofits To Work For.” There is a curiosity when looking at historical data — a period covering the calendar years 2019-2023.

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EveryAction

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Pathfinder International’s annual report combines thoughtful web design, powerful graphics, individual stories, and gorgeous portraits to vividly showcase their beneficiaries. For instance, the WNET group’s “Year In Review” series uses viewer interaction to create a dynamic story beyond attractive web design. Pathfinder International.

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3rd Sector Labs

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Have you completed your fundraising data checklist? What are we talking about – a fundraising DATA checklist? Because data is boring. Certainly fundraising data management isn’t as interesting as writing good copy, telling stories about your nonprofit’s successes, or chasing new potential donors.

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Classy

JUNE 30, 2021

From stats on conversion and acquisition to retention and supporter experience, check out the infographic below to get a peek at the data from the 2021 report. Download the full report for a more detailed analysis and findings. . Achieve Success Backed by Timely Fundraising Data. Insights for Future-Proof Fundraising Success.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

Artificial intelligence works through machine learning, which involves the discovery and analysis of deep patterns in datasets. These algorithms are continually refined over time as more data is generated for analysis. The most user-friendly AI tools will provide these insights in the form of predictive scores and rank metrics.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

Understanding data is critically important to success in any business. Unfortunately, data can be boring, even confusing. Many nonprofits don’t know their donor data. If we don’t know our donor data, how can we effectively plan a fundraising appeal? Data degrades. But your organization only knows data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report addresses metrics for success for investing in broad field social movements or networked approaches to social change. The report lays out some new metrics for movement building – that are paths to the more easily counted tangible results and where the unit of analysis is the movement or network, not an organization.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Quantitative and qualitative data are often positioned as opposing or complementary means of documenting impact. Data reports and personal snapshots are often generated separately, then placed side-by-side with the hope that the juxtaposition of hard metrics with an emotional picture and blurb will resonate with a wide range of people.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Impact management is an ongoing, disciplined approach to using data and evidence across an organization’s programming and operations. Impact management helps nonprofit teams collect and use impact data to make informed decisions about their programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

I’m in Boston with Katie Paine as part of our book tour for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” where we jointly delivered a keynote at the e-metrics conference yesterday. The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! p/QTToUNlZjr/.

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Data Change Boston Literacy 100

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

JUNE 18, 2010

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. As you can see there are many different ways to apply social networking analysis to understanding networks. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. That is they make decisions based on meaningful data, rather than solely by gut. The Evolutionary Stages of A Data-Driven Culture. Social media data is not linked to higher level organizational results or mission-driven goals across programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

2009 - Connected Action - Marc Smith - Social Media Network Analysis View more presentations from Marc Smith. In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. 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.”.

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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. Your story library: These are the stories that get people hooked on your mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

I’m really curious about how networked nonprofits can use measurement and make decisions using data to get more impact from networked approaches. I want to hear about your successes and challenges in making your networked nonprofit more effective using measurement and data to make decisions about effective use of emerging media.

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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.” The conversation thread made me think of this excellent blog post by my two favorite nonprofit data geeks from DoSomething. They shared the story of one of their YouTube videos getting 1.5 How do we turn data into Insights?

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Relate stories of the impact of legacy giving and provide illuminating data on the nonprofit’s mission and importance. Donor management software consolidates several time-consuming tasks to simplify the process of managing contributions while also providing access to valuable donor metrics.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Failing to clean up your data. There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. Facebook: With live streaming and story capabilities, Facebook is ideal for spreading the word about your upcoming fundraisers and events. Operating without a clear marketing strategy.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Repeat what works – Keep using effective stories, calls to action, and emotional appeals. 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. Passionate explaining of impact?

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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.

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NTEN

JULY 16, 2010

But how can you collect the data you need to tell your organization's stories -- and then make them compelling enough to cut through the noise? That's a question we'll help you answer at our upcoming workshop, " Taming the Data Monster " You can register for this online workshop right here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Storytelling or rather story sharing isn’t just for presentations , it can help build your nonprofit’s capacity. Have each member of the team share a story. There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. 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. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. To monitor and reflect, you need collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Avoid data collection for the sake of data collection or you will pollute your reflection.

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EveryAction

APRIL 6, 2017

Marketing automation for nonprofits takes communications ingredients like the right audience segment, the best ask, compelling stories, and powerful calls-to-action and combines them to cook up smart, fruitful campaigns while you work on everything else. TCW: "How do you harness the power of social media with marketing automation?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

We also identify a monthly theme to discuss in more in depth. We want to distinguish the salon from the informal knowledge sharing that happens daily on the web or behind pay walls by offering a regular synthesis of the stories, knowledge, tips, resources, and wisdom shared in real time in the salon. Data Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

When I coach nonprofits on tactics and talk about measurement, their facial expressions change happy to annoyed. Collecting data is often viewed as an onerous task. You should also be thinking about what to measure and set up an efficient method for collecting that data. The data you gather should help you learn.

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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. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. I said, somewhat jokingly, that you shouldn't be spending more time doing the ROI analysis than the actual project. I've done this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

In other organizations, those that are lucky enough to have M&E staff, there is a disconnect between measurement practices for programs and communications. It is important to think of measurement integrated into everything the organization does – I’ve called it being data-informed.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Compelling stories highlighting the campaign’s purpose can significantly motivate donations. Comprehensive Reporting and Analytics In addition, Flipcause provides advanced tracking, performance metrics and data analysis tools to help you understand your campaign’s progress and success.

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Game Fundraising Campaign Generation 59

Candid

AUGUST 30, 2021

But one source for answering these questions resides in data provided by GuideStar Platinum Seal holders. . Organizations have shared more than 43,000 metrics, which demonstrate how nonprofits measure the difference they make in the world. . Who shares their metrics? . What kinds of metrics are shared? .

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Those traditional metrics are a good starting point, but often do not tell the whole story. As we discussed in our recent blog post about retention, data isn’t one dimensional. Data can help you think more broadly to identify a valuable product based on your specific goals and success metrics.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 5, 2017

That is why social media content analysis is important to any campaign. Obtrusive and Unobtrusive Analysis. Instead, we learned how to better control for the effect in our analysis. Consider a campaign that uses the engagement metrics on its Facebook posts to assess what voters think about an issue. Why does this matter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

grist.org is a data-informed organization that uses a ladder of engagement not only to guide its content and social media integration strategy, but uses measurement at each rung of the ladder to ensure that they are getting results. The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. Source: grist.

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