Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020. Data represents both overall metrics, as well as metrics in one of five fundraising categories: Walks/5Ks with a registration fee. More than 9.4

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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. Check your metrics, focusing on overall numbers and growth. What’s working?

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

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. Here are a few sample questions you might consider adding to your list: How fast are we growing? Too many manual processes to get what you need. What are our largest sources of growth?

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Byte Technology

MARCH 11, 2016

According to Louise Craft, digital marketing executive at Metric Mogul, Analytics “ensures marketers can make data led decisions to streamline their marketing efforts, increase their conversion rates and ultimately achieve their business goals.” Here is a sampling of some advanced features and set-up tips that Craft recommends.

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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. At e-metrics, I shared a story about DoSomething.Org’s recent “Text Pregnancy Campaign ” for teens and how they used measurement.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

In 2012, NTEN was able to survey a sample of US nonprofits to find out how they were doing when it comes to being data-driven: were they collecting data and tracking metrics? How do we determine which data matters in the first place, and how that data will impact the direction of our work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. Does a lot of &# drive by&# analysis, but no monthly review of trends. In addition to weekly check-ins, the dashboard includes key performance metrics related to goals as well as more detailed metrics. Often overwhelmed.

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Of the 25 M+R clients who provided data for our Giving Tuesday analysis, 74% saw an increase in overall revenue, 60% reported an increase in gifts, and 44% reported an increase in average gift. Average gift was nearly flat year over year for the median organization, but this metric is especially volatile and easily pulled by outliers.

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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. Amy Sample, Director of Web Analytics at PBS Interactive, says: "What I love about the Analysis Exchange is the learning is reciprocal. > Learn more and join the Analysis Exchange today!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Conducting some total cost of ownership (TCO) analysis on projected new acquisitions. DIY technology planning resources has good simple templates: Sample Technology Inventory , a Sample Budget for Technology Investments , and a Sample Technology Action Plan. Finalize the technology plan with benefits and outcomes.

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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? How long do you need to archive the data? In which formats?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. It was a great opportunity to test out some ways to talk about performance assessment and outcomes-based approaches as David Hunter and Mario Morino.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media. 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. Where do you look for standard metrics? I've done this.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

While the area of social metrics continues to evolve and grow, there are five main tips all organizations should follow when measuring social media activity for ROI: 1. Define success metrics before starting campaigns. Keep an ongoing dashboard of metrics updated regularly. Specific and easy to assess. Measure actionable items.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud's analysis of online giving in 2008 found that December accounted for about 21% of the year's transaction volume, but 48% of the total dollars raised. for Blackbaud customers in the entire analysis. Blackbaud analyzed the Giving USA data, along with other important metrics, and estimates that more than $15.42

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

The Web section offers a sampling of numbers only data. What is interesting is how the web metrics include a mix of traditional web analytics and social media metrics, in this case number of friends on myspace (454) and views (see above) on its youtube channel.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2015

(The last thing you want to do is leave your organization in a state of “analysis paralysis”, imposing unrealistic expectations on you and other staff!) They both combined internal trend analysis (gift history, visitation rates, membership loyalty, event attendance, etc.) Of course, Jill and Tracie had some great tips too!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This immersive, interactive webinar experience(tm) will begin with a plenary session providing an overview of social media strategy, organizational adoption issues, capacity, metrics, and strategy execution.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! Tags: presentation webtools analysis community mapping listening notes tools webinar women womenwhotech. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page! Facebook Insights. URL Shorteners – [link].

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Look first at your organizational metrics. Those metrics and accompanying goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaigns and even daily communications. Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Use metrics to discover what works and what doesn’t. com, featuring research on Social Network Fundraising and use of new media for nonprofit marketing — and an excellent analysis of the ROI for nonprofit social networking campaigns. Twitter.org: What, why, who and how for Nonprofit Organizations using Twitter (Amy Sample Ward).

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Fred Weiss shared an in-depth analysis on the latest trends facing higher education advancement , alumni engagement metrics, and CASE’s 2018 Voluntary Support of Education (VSE) Survey. Key findings from CASE’s 2018 VSE Survey include: . A sample of 404 institutions reported on receipts from DAFs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2009

Amy Sample Ward writes a blog about nonprofit technology and social media and is the community builder for Netsquared. is an online engagement strategist for World Resources Institutes and in her spare time writes a blog about using metrics for nonprofit web advocacy. Rachel Weidinger. Laura Whitehead. Laura Lee Dooley. Jordan Viator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Her selection criteria.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Note that due to the export restrictions, you will only be able to analyze a small set of ads and the spend amount will be hidden, so this method works best for ad copy analysis of top performing ads or analysis of competitor ad copy. We will then import the data into ChatGPT for analysis. This means, 1.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

We took a sampling from all of the Causes to get a sense of what the potential is. There are currently about 8,000 Causes, and we sampled about 10% of them. Lots of zero dollar donations in that sample (555 out of the 774 we sampled). Great analysis of causes! Is it a random sample? Thank you very much.

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

We took a sampling from all of the Causes to get a sense of what the potential is. There are currently about 8,000 Causes, and we sampled about 10% of them. Lots of zero dollar donations in that sample (555 out of the 774 we sampled). Great analysis of causes! Is it a random sample? Thank you very much.

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Causes Facebook Social Media Advocacy 48

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. Define specific metrics and outcomes you expect from the migration to guide your strategy. Those are all tests that you should run post-migration as well!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Moreover, your objectives can also guide you in the analysis of your campaign’s performance. It’s a good idea to be strategic, with the use of a content plan to schedule the content of your #GivingTuesday campaign in advance and what metrics you’ll be measuring to determine whether your campaign was successful. 3) Plan your content.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

For our overall analysis, we included only one-time gifts — ongoing monthly revenue is not included in those numbers, and all gifts are in the months of November and December in order to include Giving Tuesday. The averages we report for each metric are medians — they represent the middle nonprofit out of all those that provided data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. Content Analysis Tools: Radian 6 and Netvibes. One place to look).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Amy Sample Ward has an interesting take on adoption issues as related to micro-media tools. What do you think?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

And because you probably can't eat that much - unless, of course, you're Joey Chestnut - you put many small samples on your plate instead. So, here's a few samplings from my digital buffet. Registration here. There's also a paper that Steve co-authored about a methodology for social network analysis. What was most sexy?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Analog Strategies. The Evolution of NPTech.

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