Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2013

I think sometimes there is a disconnect between measurement and the actual practice. In some organizations, measurement is this thing done at the end to justify or validate social media. These are the practice indicators for measurement – for three different areas – analysis, tools, and sense-making.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Integration : The best dashboards can be easily integrated with other software applications your nonprofit uses, such as your CRM or email marketing platform. No official nonprofit pricing as of Q4 2022.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Just as you’ve finally settled into the shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and started to get a handle on its new metrics, Google has yet another deadline for organizations to meet. By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Often, nonprofits react to funders’ requirements regarding what to measure, though it can be difficult to obtain funding for impact measurement. Here’s how we think about impact management at Salesforce: Impact management combines elements of: Impact measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Photo by lecercle. Size has never mattered to us.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Board We, the ENA Board of Directors, will seek at all times to demonstrate: Excellence through collaboration, engagement, and accountability​​ Integrity through respect, compassion, and mindfulness A culture of inquiry while being inclusive, strategic, and visionary.​​ Stay tuned for Sharon’s analysis of the dialogue.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 21, 2021

These same metrics are important to track during crises to effectively determine which indicators can signal alarm. Reports generated around donor engagement can measure campaign involvement, giving history, and other trends that can help guide your strategic processes. The idea of data analysis is to work smarter, not harder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Yesterday, I had the pleasure of hearing Chip Giller from grist.org give a talk at the Packard Foundation about their social media strategy and how they used measurement. The talk was so insightful that I’m sharing what I learned. Once we’ve hooked them, we engage with our community until they own the idea and run with it.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Across industries, organizations have been investing heavily to integrate analytics throughout every aspect of their company to capture a portion of the $9.5 On-Demand Webinar: Measure Your Impact with Salesforce Tableau . trillion to $15.4 trillion value that the McKinsey Global Institute estimates advanced analytics can enable.

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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. Partner with a nonprofit consultant with expertise in data analysis.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. Predictive Metrics: This feature can help you predict points like the number of donations you can expect in a certain period. We can identify the key metrics that you should be monitoring. leads) it’s bringing in.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. As the volume of business information exploded, sales ops has evolved into a more powerful data analysis and reporting unit that can provide critical insight on the following areas: Sales Process Optimization. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

The system should have anti-fraud measures in place and be PCI-compliant. Save your most-used reports as templates to reuse in future data analysis. Website analytics tools enable you to track metrics such as time on page, bounce rates, and conversion rates for different pages. Customized donor reports. A matching gift platform.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Not integrating your software. There are multiple facets to this process, which involves analysis, preparation, and research. As the first step to developing a strategy, set clear, measurable goals. Then, assess relevant metrics to see which types of content receive the most engagement. Not integrating your software.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

Improve Fundraising Performance with Insightful Reporting, Measurement and Analysis. Are you ready to put analysis into action? In this session, we’ll talk about how to create an effective event fundraising website, how to raise more funds online, and how to integrate online and offline efforts. Download session slides.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 4, 2024

Modern CRM reporting is crucial for several reasons, namely because the right reports will help you: Evaluate performance: Get a bird’s-eye view of your organization’s fundraising efficacy by analyzing key metrics like donation amounts, donor engagement, and campaign success.

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sgEngage

MAY 12, 2023

Comprehensive online auction software improves every aspect of the fundraising process, from sending personalized communications using your donor data to generating real-time analytics that measure engagement and fundraising progress. Look for virtual auction software with the following features: Item procurement tracking.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 12, 2024

Rather than seeing it as an obstacle to overcome, integrate it into your strategic approach to invigorate your high-growth potential and outperform competition under any market condition,” explains Rebecca Homkes , author of the new book, Survive, Reset, Thrive. Taking proactive measures. “Uncertainty is here to stay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. Flickr Photo by Kevlar.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

Measuring the return on investment for any organizational effort is a standard of doing business. In a rapidly changing media landscape it can be overwhelming for organizations to know how to properly measure the various types of impact being made, especially when it comes to social media efforts. Author: Jordan Viator.

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The Modern Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2023

It’s because rallying widespread support around a smaller issue that is relatable and measurable is easier than communicating your entire organizational mission or raising support for ongoing general needs. Best Practices for Crowdfunding Success Successful crowdfunding campaigns zero in on a precise project or cause.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. Close examination of major gift metrics allows you to discover: Any obstacles that are holding individuals or your entire team back.

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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. QuickBooks offers features to ease the burden of accounting such as: Integrations with donation apps. Backlink analysis. Individual tasks. Bank synchronization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

1: Social media must be integrated with internet communications or program strategy. Organizations must begin with listening, but an integrated listening channel that includes social media and traditional marketing channels. Example: Northern California ACLU social network analysis of their followers on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But if you Google + seems like the right next step in your integrated social media strategy, here’s how to get started. How are you measuring that? Measurement and Learning. It offers a quasi social network analysis to see how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom. How much time are you investing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2012

Here are the highlights, and how the actions affect Timeline : The Open Graph integrates with the News Feed, Ticker and Timeline , making the app a key part of users’ and their friends’ Facebook experiences. 2. How has Causes integrated the Open Graph on Facebook? Definitive best practices are still emerging.

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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?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  It included two excellent case studies and social media metrics- one on ASPCA and the other Georgia Tech. " She talked about the importance of measuring your social media efforts.   This was a great positive spin -- rather than measure to show me or prove the impact, it's measure so you can quantify it. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

A community foundation that was doing a landscape analysis of issues in its community to guide funding strategy development. Do you need sentiment analysis? Do you need share of voice metrics requiring vast amounts of competitive data from across the web? ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Disaster work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

I shared a couple of resources and tips that you can use to have a brief strategy discussion with your team. After you have identified how you will integrate your branding strategy, revise your editorial/content strategy, and administrative work flow, you’re ready to get into some nitty gritty. Take the Tour.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

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. Measurable: Quantifiable. This is great insight and enables you to switch up your strategy to be as successful as possible.

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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. 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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Having an excellent memory enables you to measure progress, identify new objectives, and demonstrate results to prospective donors. There are dozens of database management tools that offer smarter platforms and smoother integration than stand-alone locally installed software. Think of your database as your “institutional memory.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. All the metrics you collect, ask the So What? Possible Working Titles: 1. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

Marketing automation tools integrate with CRM systems, ensuring that donor data is up to date and synchronized across platforms. 1) Data Analysis and Reporting Marketing automation platforms give aggregated insights into donor behavior and campaign performance. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with? Test both!

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