Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

One of the big questions I often get asked by nonprofit campaigners is “how do I know if our blog and social media are succeeding and resonating with people?&# Great question. Analysis of each individual post while giving it an engagement number based on social shares and page views. AddThis or ShareThis.

Social Media 65

Social Media Measure Tools Media 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

a question asked by the Give and Take blog. Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list.

Donation 50

Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

I've been translating different audience analysis frameworks to a nonprofit context. These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening. But questions disappear if they are not captured and paid attention to. So it’s naturally contagious.

Social Media 95

Social Media Remix Research Audience 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The dashboard shows rough sentiment analysis, # of mentions and links. It’s curation of real-time learning. Ymca of Metro Chicago Facebook Case Study. The Importance of Benchmarking.

Measure 101

Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 101

Connection Cafe

APRIL 11, 2014

The stats and analysis give us some interesting insights into different types of fundraising events. or similar question on the registration form), previous fundraisers and current, active fundraisers. Benchmarks & Stats Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Traditional Events' Register today!

Raise 37

Raise Money Stats Benchmark 37

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

My design question: What is the best way to use this approach for a full-day workshop for 300 people? Hashtag Stats. The best thing about having a transcript like this it allowed me to do a pattern analysis and learning assessment of the tweets. This will help improve the networked learning design for next time.

Reflection 103

Reflection People Network Colorado 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

My colleague Amy Gahran, a mobile expert, has an analysis here. For years, I have been monitoring my mobile traffic numbers, asking myself that dreaded question – is it time to include mobile in my next site upgrade. My blog passed the test! I queried a few colleagues for advice.

Mobile 50

Mobile Test Advice Nonprofit 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

It was a fantastic opportunity to learn what types of questions are raised about social media in the context of strategic planning with nonprofits. I got hit with a question that I could not answer on the spot - a very good question. The question I was asked had to do with the demographics of social media.

Web 61

Web Social Blogger Stats 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. It can also influence traffic.

Metrics 81

Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We'll talk through the tools and strategies you can use to get the answers to these questions. Laura asked me to join her to demo Google Analytics and answers questions and it is great to collaborate with colleagues, you always learn something. How many people visit your Web site every day? What are visitors doing when they get there?

Analytics 50

Analytics Web Metrics ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. Several reported difficulty in getting Google to show up-to-date stats, while others noted a very occasional loss in historic stats for an entire site.

Screencast 50

Screencast Analytics Measure Web 50

NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

At the heart of most issue-focused policy and research is data analysis. Users are more likely to download a full report after seeing a compelling stat or chart, than to wade through a long report in hopes of finding a useful statistical nugget. Connect the dots from raw source to visualization to analysis. Make it easy to find.

Policy 36

Policy Data Content Share 36

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2009

The job also involves a good amount of social media strategy, content production, customer service and statistical analysis. Mmm.that's a great question how do I stay sane. It's my job as a social marketer to use the stats to figure out what is working and what is not. It's fascinating and exciting and I love it all.

Social Media 51

Social Media Media Work Social 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik. Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! You get more statistics for analysis! Have questions? How Thick is Your Head and How Long is Your Tail?

Site 50

Site Web RSS Build 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Partners in Learning program -- gave stats. Some questions: What have you seen in terms of partnerships for people seeking funds for games? Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. This is a time pressure question!

Game 50

Game Change Metrics Learning Environment 50

3rd Sector Labs

MAY 4, 2015

Same goes for outcome measurement – you may use outcome stats for marketing purposes, but their primary purpose is program and/or contract management. But it begs a really important question – how do you know where your donor came from? Next, identify the exceptions to the status quo. What does it cost? Simple enough.

Donor 100

Donor Database Analysis Activities 100

Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

No matter your donors’ reasons for giving, the stats above show that at the end of the year, they’re ready and willing to give. Conduct post-campaign analysis. Here are some questions your team can ask to help you reflect on last year’s results: What was our goal last year, and did we meet it?

Campaign 69

Campaign Practice Giving Social Media 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. I've been advocating this approach for a long time and offer you a set of data points and questions. Do posts with more questions in the title and questions in the end generate more comments?

Measure 95

Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2013

The jury is still out, and there is much more analysis to be done, especially as we head into the fall and a busier season for e-mail. What the data tells us … Below are some stats from five random organizations, looking at their monthly newsletter (in one case, bi-monthly) that was sent right before and right after July 22.

gMail 40

gMail Org Stats Mail 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

If you’re just starting to think about adding Pinterest to your content strategy or if you jumped in before you had a strategy, you can do this type of questioning on the front end, perhaps coming up with a small experiment that supports an overall goal and a measurement strategy. How is your organization using pinterest strategically?

Tools 105

Tools Tips Resource Stats 105

Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

This year, Whole Whale predicts that $605 Million will be raised on the day, read more about the stats and predictions for GivingTuesday 2020. Have an internal point person executing the plan and creating a wrap up analysis with learnings for next year (this doesn’t have to be your classic fundraising person either).

Ideas 111

Ideas Giving Calendar Facebook 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

This was a question raised by a recent Stanford Study and debated over on Brian Solis's PR2.0 It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. There's also a paper that Steve co-authored about a methodology for social network analysis. blog here and here.

Nptech 91

Nptech Social Media Ning Media 91

NTEN

MAY 2, 2011

While we are capturing more stats and indicators than ever before, most of us are still a little befuddled as to what to do with all these numbers. For many of us, this scene is followed by the questions "Why?" Here's a common scenario: a program staffer strides into the ED's office full of nervous energy. "We We're down 3%!"

Data 98

Data Impact Statistics Storytelling 98

Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2021

So send in your questions and comments along the way. If you use the Q&A box, it might be a little bit easier, a little higher chance that we get to that question as insider tip for you, but we won’t discriminate. Pretty please with sugar on top, any questions that you have, just pop them in that Q&A box.

Video 77

Video Fundraising Guide Test 77

Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Most importantly, I know a lot of you have already done this, but please feel free to chat in your questions and comments. And we are going to do our best to leave as much time as possible for questions because we really want this to be as specific as we can to you. There’s a chat box and a Q&A box. Don’t be shy.

Donor 60

Donor Disaster Gift Puerto Rico 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, the networking was good, but the best part was the opportunity to ask Jeremiah a few clarifying questions to his face! We're not going to debate: Google Reader Stats Are Bullshit - but if you want some tips on how to do that, see Avinash Kaushik's Convert Data Skeptics). " Question: Why does a Star Fish Have Five Rays?

Metrics 56

Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. With all that aside, I'm pleased with these stats! You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Authority???

Reflection 50

Reflection Measure Technorati ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

But the stats. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. With all that aside, I'm pleased with these stats! Only 40% of the direct. hits come through search.

Measure 50

Measure Social Media Tools Technorati 50

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Smörgåsbord of Stats Here are just a sample of some of the statistics in the report worth noting: 98.2% Wealthy households also gave a substantial amount, on average, to education ($12,759 in 2009). High net worth households gave, on average, between 8% and 16.5% of their income to charity in 2009.

Studies 75

Studies Philanthropy Trend Attitude 75