Whole Whale

JANUARY 28, 2023

According to tracking for 20,000 top podcasts, the listeners have tripled in monthly podcast listeners over the past 5 years to 75 million (RawVoice). Once this file is downloaded by a user’s device, your ability to track what they do with that file falls off of a cliff. Trying to track podcasts is pretty similar.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Donor Management: All donation platforms should provide reports and real-time tracking information for every gift, including recurring donations. Impact reporting derived from this data also allows you to show donors how their contributions make a difference over time.

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M+R

DECEMBER 13, 2022

But for nonprofit fundraisers like me, it’s a day for the time-honored traditions of repeatedly refreshing Google Analytics, double-checking that all of the 12/31 emails launched, and applying final optimizations to make sure our fundraising ads shine. Tune up your tracking in advance of key moments. those KPIs.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2019

You ascertain averages, browse benchmarks , and create charts. Sometimes we all get so caught up in reporting that it’s easy to forget about the people behind those numbers. Make data analytics work for your organization – download the Blackbaud Institute’s free Analytics Toolkit.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. According to a National Council of Nonprofits report , the vast majority of nonprofits operate at the grassroots level, and 88% have budgets less than $500,000.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a new year and that means a new, comprehensive benchmark report on the performance of nonprofits using Luminate Online. Just between us, I’ve grown to love analytics. Data showcases impact and lets us know how far off/on track we are. The ultimate benchmark, the one that really matters, is YOUR performance.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

CSR software is a technology solution designed to help businesses manage, measure, and report on their CSR and sustainability initiatives. These platforms serve as centralized platforms to streamline the collection, analysis, and reporting of data related to a company’s social, environmental, and ethical performance.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2011

If you’re not yet familiar with Google Analytics, it’s a free tool from. Read the first post for an overview of the Dashboard and the second and third posts for a tour through some of the most useful reports around visitors & even more exciting reports about visitors. That is a dynamic IP.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

It can sit on top of any CRM solution, Blackbaud or otherwise, and is focused on helping your team identify, set, and monitor goals and benchmark performance against internal and industry peers. But, that’s significantly more difficult when gift officers aren’t interested in logging and tracking that data. Peer Benchmarking.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. For some good how-to posts, check out my co-blogger Alissa Ruehl , perhaps starting with her Intro to Google Analytics. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. Methodology.

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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Depending on the solution, features may include: Reporting automation. Rather than tasking a team member with manually pulling daily, weekly, or monthly reports, your CRM will generate these documents and send them directly to the team members who need to access and analyze them. Donor management. Internal operations management.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 29, 2011

This post is the first in a monthly series about Google Analytics. If you’re not yet familiar with Google Analytics, it’s a free tool from Google that you can add to your site to give you information about how people are coming to your website and how they behave when they get there. What is a good benchmark?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

The 2017 Luminate Online Benchmark Report , just released by Blackbaud, shows donation and email trends based on online fundraising and email campaigns by 707 Luminate Online customers. Check out these resources: 2017 Luminate Online Benchmark Report. Want to learn more? Collectively these organizations raised over $1.7

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" This is the most important part of your web analytics.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

At DNL OmniMedia, we work with nonprofits just like yours to position their nonprofit tech solutions for effective fundraising data tracking. Using that knowledge, we’ve created this guide to help your team understand major gift KPIs, the metrics you should be tracking, and the top tips to do so successfully.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. In the nonprofit sector, there is no universal review mechanism to benchmark against, but Great Nonprofits is beginning to fill those shoes.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 23, 2023

Account management and reporting: A properly-structured Google Grant account will run 3-5 campaigns at once to drive conversions. Using Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager, they’ll keep you in the loop on performance by creating live dashboards and reports that you can reference at any time. Comprehensive reporting.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Blackbaud’s just-released Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits found nonprofit website traffic was down 14 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. The study reported traffic decreased across 18 of 19 nonprofit verticals , with Canadian organizations being the exception. (It Setup Google Analytics to do a year-over-year comparison.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The model was also used for advanced practitioners as a benchmarking framework at Social Media Week in DC last week. It’s still scary to set quantifiable goals for a project and report on whether we reached them. And it’s still hard to carve out time for tracking. I started with this basic tracking worksheet.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

So you work at Nonprofit XYZ and increasingly you hear about other organizations' success in utilizing Google Analytics to increase impact. You spend a ton of time crafting a plan for the organization so that you can begin and gathering baseline numbers, while also setting up tracking systems. So, what next? So, what next?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Lacking Analytics. As I looked over a few email campaigns I noticed something very surprising – even thought each of the non-profits had the ability to track basic things like open rates, clicks, actions taken, donations given and registrations they didn’t take advantage of it. Third , get into the habit of reviewing the metrics.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2012

Last month I pointed out a few of the ways you can use Google analytics , or other web analytics tools, to gain a better understanding of your audience. The next step is to keep track of changes to audience and audience behavior. Monthly reporting is sufficient for most organizations, although some prefer weekly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. Running periodic fundraising reports. Where are the milestones in our history that best display our track record of success and/or history of serving our community?

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Once again, it’s time for annual reporting! Are you ready to level up your annual report to highlight the true value of your association? Learn how to refine your annual report to reflect your staff’s hard work and your organization’s accomplishments. A call to action. For example, did membership increase this year?

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

So you're tracking your web analytics, and your metrics are going up in all categories. To help with this, Convio has released their Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study , which shares 2009 data from over 500 of their clients. Their report will include data from organizations that use tools besides Convio.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

bbcon 2020 is just around the corner, and I’m excited to be presenting on the critical role of benchmarking and analytics in shaping your fundraising strategy. At times we might not know where to start and what reports are needed. Benchmarking helps to identify shifts in the nonprofit industry.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. But what do we actually do with our data once we pull that report? Timeframe: Pull this report about three months before your campaign deadline (or event day).

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2010

Since the release of the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , we know many of you have been hard at work looking at how your programs measure up against industry benchmarks. But the Benchmarks Study is really meant to help you think (or rethink!) Let's say you want to track your email fundraising open rate. Not too shabby.

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Metrics Benchmark Rate Newsletter 55

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

Charity Dynamics just released a report that takes a deep dive into the registration form flow itself. Their 2015 Walk Registration Benchmark Study evaluated seven organizations, 6,000 local walk events, and 700,000 potential participants over the summer of 2015. After all, benchmarks are great, but your own data is even better!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2016

1:30 PM – Google Analytics to Make Your Organization a Fundraising Powerhouse. If you’re not tracking people’s interactions and behaviors on your website, then your relationship is incomplete. To give you an idea of just HOW big this report is, organizations raised over $1.76 Friday, Oct 28. It’s that big.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2010

Twitalyzer is a terrific analytics tool that gives you some good benchmarking metrics for Twitter. Run the impact report to help you identify influencers. Klout lets you track the “influence&# of specific Twitter users, including the growth of their network, who they influence, and who they are influenced by.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Dear Beth: I want to compile a report for my Executive Director about the impact of our online organizing strategies. When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. You need to set up a benchmarking process. Which one of these is sending you traffic.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

A whopping 86% of nonprofits say they have a presence on Facebook or another social media site according to the 2010 Nonprofit Social Networking Benchmark Report. . First Step – Analytics. Use bit.ly to create short urls, because it supports source code tracking. Jeff Patrick, Common Knowledge. Definitely.

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.orgSource

JUNE 12, 2023

Are reports easy to produce and access? But even if your IT systems are crushing their benchmarks, there are additional significant reasons to evaluate your digital status. But even if your IT systems are crushing their benchmarks, there are additional significant reasons to evaluate your digital status. Are systems secure?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Strange News. Accessibility. Social Media.

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