Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

That core consists of working through and with other people to create value while using financial concepts and metrics to maximize the value created for all company stakeholders. Question : How does spending 12 weeks using the book compare to the length of time to earn an MBA degree? Model cooperative behavior.

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Candid

AUGUST 23, 2023

Among the most important questions to ask to avoid this strategic planning pitfall are: What resources—financial, human, and/or organizational—will we need to pursue our strategic priorities? Rather, leaders will likely find themselves revisiting those questions and asking related ones down the road.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

Here we share four key insights from our recent analysis of Candid’s nonprofit demographic data and what they mean for the nonprofit sector today. Analysis is limited to 501(c)(3) public charities that filed at least one Form 900 or Form 990-EZ between 2017-2021 and had at least $50,000 in annual expenses. Source: Candid, 2023.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

For many organizations, different departments have different data storage requirements and they end up with their data stuck in different platforms. Many of the tools organizations work closely with were built by different teams with different business models. Does this sound familiar?

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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. Someone on your mailing list or rolodex. Family members.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. I have not done this yet.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

We’ll walk you through what GA4 is, how it differs from previous versions, and how you can get set up. GA4 has much of the same functionality but with some key differences. Predictive Metrics: This feature can help you predict points like the number of donations you can expect in a certain period. What Is Google Analytics 4?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . You identify key metrics by which you’ll determine if your programs are successful. Metrics for a mid-level donor program might include: Number of donors talked to personally. Let’s say you’re a food bank.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

ChatGPT is an advanced AI language model that processes vast amounts of information to generate responses to questions and statements entered by the user. It works by responding to prompts–in the form of questions or statements–input by the user. It can also provide high-quality analysis for a range of purposes. What is ChatGPT?

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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. of grantmakers 0.2

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Data Analytics for Nonprofits: 13 Key Nonprofit Metrics. We offer a number of analytics-related services including web analysis, strategic planning, digital measurement and testing, and data reporting and visualizations, so we can certainly assist your team. However, not all metrics will be useful for your organization’s strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind.

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Pamela Grow

MAY 2, 2024

However, the wide range of revenue sources and expenses your nonprofit may have can quickly complicate your data collection and analysis. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to nonprofit accounting, so the answer to this question is it depends. future growth. Should My Nonprofit Use Cash Accounting or Accrual Accounting?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Leaders should also work to avoid SRT Leadership Traps – traps such as, getting in your own way, succumbing to paralysis by analysis, allowing your Board to be your customer and rushing the Reset. Rebecca Homkes Today, Homkes shares these insights with us: Question: You describe SRT as a loop, not a line. Homkes: The entire loop!

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M+R

JUNE 22, 2021

This year’s annual M+R Benchmarks Study includes front-page news, long-form analysis, mild-mannered reporting, and even a crossword puzzle all about the newest news and topical trends affecting nonprofit digital marketing, advocacy, and fundraising. . Questions like: how did COVID affect online revenue? And so much more.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

We had a very active Q&A session after the event, and could not get to all questions before the event closed. The purpose of this post is to share the results of the Q&A, including answers to questions not addressed during the event. Donor retention by the numbers: you’ve got questions, we’ve got answers.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Typically, planned giving is a legal process coordinated between a lawyer and a nonprofit, as these gifts are taxed differently than a standard donation. This person should be fully briefed on planned giving processes and terms to answer any questions donors may have.To

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. You might think that comparing four different open source packages that, in essence, do pretty the same thing (in a broad sense) would be a cakc walk.

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DNL OmniMedia

JUNE 28, 2023

If you haven’t evaluated your CRM or cleaned up your data recently, doing so can make a major difference in your capability to engage donors. Now that you have multiple data collection and analysis tools in place, it’s time to use that data to improve your outreach through segmentation. Segment your email lists.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

When discussing career development with an employee ask at least these eight questions : What are your recent successes? How does your role make a difference? How would you like to make a bigger difference? Clifton and Harter answered these questions for me : Question: What was your most surprising research finding?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

We’ll explore: Types of fundraising software to consider 7 essential fundraising software features to look for 5 steps to buy fundraising software 5 questions to ask when buying fundraising software It’s worth taking the time to research potential solutions, discuss options with your team, and deliberate before coming to a final decision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. This example from Teach for America is a photograph of handwritten thank you note from a student to an TFA alumni thanking them for making a difference. That question can form the basis of many Facebook experiments.

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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. 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? This is such a good question.

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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. Step 5: Define your metrics. The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. Flickr Photo by HorrorTaxi. Step 4: Define your benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2011

Ask Questions. The research also suggests that asking questions works best for increasing engagement. John Haydon did a pattern analysis of different Facebook Wall posts that were questions “ 16 Ways To Get More Comments on Facebook “ that illustrate different examples of questions.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Here we’ll summarize those questions and answers. For nearly a decade, Google has been developing and maintaining two different analytics solutions: Firebase, mostly used by developers to focus on app development and analytics, and UA, mostly used by marketers for website metrics. What are the differences between UA and GA4?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. The nonprofit doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You may begin with a SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) analysis. Types of nonprofit strategic plans Different circumstances and goals will require different types of nonprofit strategic plans. When it does become unstable, that means it’s time to switch to a different model.

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Forj

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Assessment Authoring and Analysis. When choosing an LMS for your association, be sure both assessment authoring and analysis are possible. Ask for options that will let your team upload existing questions to their LMS or write new ones directly in the program, build a question bank and tag questions with different qualifiers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2013

The Networked Nonprofit wasn’t only about making smart use of social media and metrics. They can help people with different knowledge, skills, and points of view to tackle a shared problem, see old things in new ways, or challenge the status quo. How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook. By Noah Rimland Flower.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

What is the difference? Testing and Coordinating: At this stage, the organization is regularly collecting data but in a bunch of different spreadsheets and collected by different people or departments. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Example of A/B Testing Results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

There is also an opportunity to weave in analysis of your data from surveys and incorporate storytelling with your data. How do you go beyond just doing a survey or collecting metrics? This can avoid repeating mistakes of the past. In other words, how to scale reflective practice in age of connectedness?

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

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DipJar

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In the context of wealth screening, this data can highlight metrics beyond typical wealth data like discretionary income (or the money donors have on hand to spend). When you combine these data sources, you can answer questions like: Who is new to your file that hasn’t made a gift yet?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

When discussing career development with an employee ask at least these eight questions : What are your recent successes? How does your role make a difference? How would you like to make a bigger difference? Clifton and Harter recently answered these questions for me : Question: What was your most surprising research finding?

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

It starts with a detailed analysis of your donor base, including average gift size, retention rates, and cost per acquired donor. What is the difference between donor acquisition and retention? While different, these concepts are related. The steps in this process will look different from nonprofit to nonprofit.

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