Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

According to a guideline published by M+R, a useful quick test for your own messaging is to simply answer the question: If the subject of this story were to read it, how would they feel? John is active in the direct marketing industry and is a frequent lecturer and blogger.

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

What I do know from this Target Analytics study is that ignorance and sloth are ruinous. The data clearly shows that integrated direct marketing is essential for maximizing the long-term value of online-acquired donors. But why aren’t more organization’s doing it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

What is a productive way to experiment and learn to the answers to these questions without wasting time? Debra Askanase Blogger and trainer who share useful tips about Google + (and other platforms too!). John Haydon : Blogger and Facebook Guy also shares tips on Google + along with tips about other platforms.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 13, 2015

Thanks to Google Analytics, its easy for us identify which ones resonated most with our followers. As the advice our guest bloggers offered in 2014 is certainly just as timely as we start 2015, we thought it would be a great idea to thank our guest bloggers again for their wisdom and republish their great advice with you now!

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3rd Sector Labs

JULY 22, 2014

What we do know is that we are using more fundraising technology – software, databases, third party systems, analytics tools – than ever before. ” If you find any answers resembling your question, please let us know. And we don’t know because, as an industry, we don’t pay enough attention to data quality.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 11, 2015

This week’s guest blogger, nonprofit consultant Stephanie Spindell argues that a clear analytical process should be followed before jumping into any new business venture. A clear ANALYTICAL PROCESS should be followed BEFORE jumping into any new business venture. This is a question which is often bypassed.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Last week during the Salsa Conference, I was asked this very question, why is social media data important - by Adrianne Burke, of Salsa Labs, during our panel Measuring Your Social Media. The human brain is the best analytics tool. That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Between the internet strategy teleseminar for the San Francisco Writing Conference I did on Monday, the blogging presentation I did for the Oakland branch of Ladies Who Launch on Tuesday, and the consults I had with individual bloggers on Wednesday and Thursday, I've been asked several times this week: "How do I increase my blog traffic?"

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

If you have questions about npENGAGE or your Connection Café subscription, please ask in the comments below or by email. Finally, thank you so very much for being a part of Connection Café Your feedback, passion and sense of mission inspired our bloggers to contribute every week. npENGAGE’s blogs are. Fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. These typically translate into leadership, passion and culture, and analytical capacity and systems. Do we know what we want to learn?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2015

My question, what is the first step you can take towards building this continuous improvement process in your organization? It is designed for one-person bloggers and small teams, so it is ideal for nonprofits that don’t have a specialized social media manager on staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Do posts with more questions in the title and questions in the end generate more comments? What do you do to facilitate it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Listening and engaging with the long tail - they may not be celebrities or influential bloggers - but when a crisis hits or need people to spread the world - they become activated like an army of volunteers. For the breakout sessions, we had a few technical glitches, but kept rolling with the punches!

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

If after asking yourself the 10 Questions to Get You Started Using Social Media for Your Nonprofit or Do-Good Project, you've decided that a blog is good tool for you, consider incorporating the following 10 elements of an effective nonprofit, or do-good blog into your blogging strategy: 1. Provide a link to a page with bios for bloggers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

It is a great opportunity to ponder the question: How to design and deliver learning experiences for nonprofits that connect, inspire, and engage? What are the best practices? The questions were keyed to when the content was explained. The last question asks students to tell Mazur what confused them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

The Zoetica Salon is a free online space for informal peer learning about nonprofits and social media. It is a place to share resources and ask and answer questions. Schenekenberg. This conversation was started by. blog posts from Geoff Livingston and Valeria Maltoni about one popular influence measuring tool. Many answers here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Many of the same questions are being asked. I recently had a chance to discuss social media strategies with members of our Target Analytics Customer Advisory Board. Ask questions about the total relationship with the supporter now. Déjà Vu All Over Again Web 2.0 in 2009 reminds me of Web 1.0 Lots of talk. Lots of uncertainty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Here's but one example from a blogger: “I took an American Red Cross class I thought was less than satisfactory. […] Someone found my blog post and told the local chapter director. They spend time reading other posts by the blogger to help make this decision. The important piece is to ask questions, not just look at numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

Many blogs, like the Razoo blog , went red on Thursday as part of Free Burma: International Bloggers Day. The best question to come through the "Ask Your Friends" application on Facebook thjs week is "Have you used Mechanical Turk?" Finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Here's a terrific article from the Nonprofit Communications blog called " 10 Ways Communicators Can Stay Productive" and from the Blog Bash event here's some tips specifically for bloggers on productivity. The big question, what about that other 41% ? The Non-Profit Tech Blog interviews Scott Crowder, Kintera CTO. (If

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2012

Author: Guest Blogger. The question of “where to begin?” A quick check of Google Analytics will reveal how many of your current site visitors are coming from a mobile device. Learn about CRMs in general.). Know your plan. This will enable you to do targeted outreach (via email, etc.) to obtain mobile opt-in.

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DNL OmniMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

However, you might have a few questions about the best ways to put your new app to work. If you have any questions as you begin developing a marketing and launch strategy for your app, don’t hesitate to contact us for support. Develop an analytics strategy. We’ve got you covered. Let’s dive in. Stage 1: Pre-Launch.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

The question I want to ask is, what do web stats really mean, anyway? How odd is it then to teach Google Analytics to nonprofit techies but then say that site statistics had nothing to do with a nonprofit’s mission? They can be used for a nonprofit’s mission and that is why nonprofits should exercise transparency on web site analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Random Thoughts on Life and Work blog shares some planning questions about " Project SharePoint or how the organization will use Microsoft's SharePoint for internal collaboration and communication. She offers a three-step questioning process to help think through how to cut through the clutter. What's your guess?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

As I thought about my future, I knew I wanted to do something that would allow me to use my practical/analytical skills while still being involved in the arts and other creative pursuits. We have five main bloggers for the site : myself, CAMT???s This also reminds me of your earlier question about our work at CAMT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2006

This particular Carnival raises the question of how to decide which online social media tools to use and ramp up your skills using it. Identify 2-3 questions you want to answer from your experiment. This is the bonus question and please do not take offense. There's lots of examples in this blog. Look at your data for answers.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

2016 Analytics with Purpose Conference. 2016 Analytics with Purpose Conference. Get ready to learn from some of the best analytics minds out there. On Wednesday, April 27- Friday, April 29, 2016, attend the leading conference on data, research, and analytics for social sector professionals. Fundraising. Apr 27 - 29.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. The timeframe also meant that most blog coverage only hit on July 1st (and thanks to all the bloggers who covered us!). Here‘s what worked: We built analytics into the process. How it worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Here's the ah ha insightful quote: To illustrate that point for all our measurement and metric geeks out there, what you are trying to do is assign multiple choice scoring to an essay question. Some education technology bloggers, like Tony Karrer. Is there a formula or set of sharper reflection questions? It’s not possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites. Unique Visitors, from your web analytics tool, and Feed Subscribers, from your RSS tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" " The question awoke my inner research geek (a long time ago I worked as a research analyst and focus group moderator). Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

" 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. Kaushik makes a distinction between "on-site" visitors or unique visits as calculated by your analytics program and "off-site" visitors.

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Whole Whale

DECEMBER 9, 2023

The key with all of these ideas is to be human, and to look at your analytics to see what is working. Be a curator Make a Twitter list (hidden or not) of influencers like bloggers, journalists, news sites, and partner organizations who may share information that’s useful to your audience. Wait, why don’t I just use ChatGPT?

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 5, 2018

Of course, the question then becomes: How do you know if the actions you’re taking are moving the needle in the right direction? Google Analytics is one of the most important tools in your arsenal as the platform feeds real-time data from your website into a user-friendly dashboard. Track Your Keyword Rankings.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

It would be a stretch to prove a link between the post and exceeding donation goals without tracking analytics. This will attract reader’s attention by making them question the steps you took to get those results. Surprisingly, only a small minority of bloggers (15%) use a formal editorial process.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

In this blog series by Nancy Schwartz - Connect First- Your Marketing Magic Bullet (Part One) and Content, THEN Channels, Follows Connections (Part Two) – she answers the question she hears most often: what is the marketing magic bullet? Connections. When you truly understand your people, you’re apt to make better marketing decisions.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2021

You need to get a handle around current constituent engagement tools such as Google analytics or whatever your nonprofit CRM or email provider offer. When I worked at the San Francisco Food Bank, we noticed our audience followed food and Mommy bloggers, so we reached out to these folks for endorsements. Ask via survey.

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