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. Who should I spend my time responding to and cultivating?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

What is the way out of this problem? Limited time and resources for maintaining and creating content on one hand, and a desire to get started. The secret sauce: Very focused objectives for your Fan Page and a selective strategy. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

One of the biggest problems nonprofits face is improving their low donor retention rate. The same is true for ongoing vs. first-time donors. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . How much food do you need to feed them, and within what time period? .

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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. Photo by Dwinton.

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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. The event is scheduled for this coming March, so you open registration in December to give participants plenty of time to sign up and collect pledges through their peer-to-peer fundraising pages.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Not having the time. No matter your biggest challenge, the ticket to solving those issues is figuring out how to break down these silos and make your data analysis easier. Enable self-service reporting and analysis Your next step is making your data accessible for the folks at your organization looking to make data-informed decisions.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 30, 2014

While that’s understandable, it is also a big problem. For starters, ALL data degrades over time. Next problem, the fundraising advice. Hmm … while our data is degrading, we are putting way more time into writing better fundraising letters and emails than learning about the individuals whom we are contacting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

Not all nonprofits are born with the spreadsheet gene. And it isn’t simply a technical problem that can be solved through training or purchasing analytics software. Does data collection may occur from time-to-time, but not formal reporting. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

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. Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. Use time-limited offers to create urgency.

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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. Is it the right time?). How to make convenings count: a new hands-on guidebook.

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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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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. Prioritizing donor stewardship efforts will help you retain more donors so your time, effort, and money spent acquiring donors isn’t wasted. the timing of their donation)? Craft a conversion journey.

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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. Oh, I feel so confused right now!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 14, 2020

Fascinating, timely, critically useful and immensely relevant is how I describe the book, It’s the Manager. A strong metric and reporting system are basic requirements. He has led more than 1,000 studies of workplace effectiveness, including the largest ongoing meta-analysis of human potential and business unit performance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

A key finding: Nearly 60 percent of respondents listed “ measurement, analysis, and learning &# as their top information technology bottleneck. How many take the time on the front-end to set up a simple system to collect the essential metrics to figure out what is working or what isn’t? Or to document results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Explores the ecosystem of data for social problem solving and the role philanthropy can play. Argues for engaging in adaptive strategy given the data rich and rapidly changing environment for solving complex social problems. The American Red Cross can’t be everywhere at the same time. Do you need sentiment analysis?

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

I hope you can spend some time in the next few weeks to take a break and carry out some much-deserved self-care. Take time to appreciate your team members who contributed to your organization’s fundraising success. . You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

For the past few years whenever I doing a training or speak about nonprofits and social media and more recently when we’ve presented about the book, The Networked Nonprofit , someone always raises this concern: “Social media is a time suck.&#. Think before you follow, use your time and ties wisely!

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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. First, a simple metric relating to security reports, and second, what processes are in place in the communities to deal with security. More on that in a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

The purpose is to call attention to the problem of Information Overload, how it impacts both individuals and organizations, and what can be done to lessen its impact. Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Make Time for Reflection.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 15, 2019

If it is truly a trend over time you want to show, you should choose a line chart. There’s a greater risk of misleading the readers when you start the axis at a random point — the whole point of the bar is that its height or length encodes the metric. b) a circle is divided into “slices” to encode different metrics.

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NTEN

JULY 16, 2010

We'll talk through what metrics are possible to gather from commonly used types of software and discuss a framework to help you analyze what's likely to be useful to you. When: Thursday, July 29th, 10:00 am Pacific Time / 1:00 Eastern Time Cost : $50 for NTEN Members, $100 for non-members 3.6 Presented by Laura Quinn, Idealware.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2019

Fascinating, timely, critically useful and immensely relevant is how I describe the new book released in May by Gallup. A strong metric and reporting system are basic requirements. He has led more than 1,000 studies of workplace effectiveness, including the largest ongoing meta-analysis of human potential and business unit performance.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

Jobs to be Done Theory is about understanding what problems the website is solving for and the its responsibilities to end users and the organization, and then deciding how well is it performing those tasks. What are the most important website metrics to measure? The metrics should follow those goals. Allison: It depends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” We analyze the content that users spend the most time, referral traffic, and other key metrics over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  His engaging and funny presentation was called "Tough Times call for Tough Measures."      He made the points that your metrics must get you to results - and the three most important results are: Increased Revenue.    Problem with tools you keep doing one thing. 

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

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. But, alone, the organization can’t make the change. Have people heard of 350.org org before?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Throughout bbcon, we heard time and again from customers how they ’ re finding new ways to drive giving. Define the problem and the “why”. Conduct an impact analysis and use it! Recent data shows that total commitments and donor retention are both down in 2020. So how do we combat this?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Forum One was a sponsor, and several of my colleagues from our user experience and design team lead sessions on topics ranging from tips on quick and simple audience analysis to learning from design mistakes and making client engagement fun in a group setting. Flexibility: Will we be able to improve it over time?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is the explanation behind many organizations’ resistance to data collection and management, which is seen as an investment of time and resources that yields little or no return. These platforms are both automated and centralized, offering solutions to the most common problems associated with outdated data management tools.

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Most charities and many libraries have part time or accidental techies taking care of their technology. Is it any wonder that proper technology planning is something we have a hard time getting to? The problem is that it takes some tech planning to come up with a budget for the New Year. This process takes months to do it well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. We need metrics! Not only those that apply metrics but need to rethink them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2008

He said the "social cloud" is about getting the problems out of the way so people can connect. Notes from DigitalPodcast and analysis/notes from Jeremiah Owyang. Take some time to flip through it and think about it. Let's you see in real time photos tagged with the same tag. View | Upload your own.

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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. Board recruiting is hard,” said Tivoni Devor, author of “The face of nonprofit boards: a network problem,” published in Nonprofit Quarterly on March 4, 2015.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

Once the hallmark of marketing professionals and financial analysts, data analysis has now infiltrated almost all aspects of our life from fitness trackers (got to make sure you get those steps in!) To get started, let’s go over some of the types of metrics your nonprofits can track: Types of Data Analytics for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Not only do organizations need data collection systems, but also systems for observation, learning, reflection, and action or as the report describes “ systems that help us identify and solve problems proactively instead of always reacting.”

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