Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. To better understand the shortcomings of for-profit metrics as a true measure of nonprofit success , let’s take a look at how return on investment (ROI) is calculated. How is ROI calculated?

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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. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook. or “Love it!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" " He goes on to describe how the noise ratio is constructed. My ratio is 2.4, Twitter As A Conversation Tool. Did it surprise?

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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

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. This analysis took all of five minutes. Using Metrics for Continuous Learning.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do some math Use our Magical Nonprofit Financial Ratio Matrix to assess your organization’s financial health. Information is data that requires analysis. And, through analysis, your organization can generate insight and inform strategic budget decisions. Remember: information is NOT insight.

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Create Ratio Analysis Review 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. It’s not possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach. But thats okay.

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Teach Ratio Student Classes 90

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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Benchmark Photography Ratio Stats 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

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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). Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. Kaushik offers up some metrics for blogging: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post).

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 8, 2017

One key to making informed, strategic decisions is financial ratio analysis. It’s the same type of analysis that bankers perform when you apply for a loan and that Charity Navigator uses to determine part of your score. Current ratio. The more your current ratio exceeds one, the stronger your organization.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Data—the capture, analysis, and use—can be overwhelming. Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. I began to educate and report on a new series of metrics that added depth and reason behind our results. Should I be doing more?

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