Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. We spent a fair amount of time framing and reframing the problem and ended up with a question that focused on data collection. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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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. Research Questions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Some reflections questions I used to understand the data: What content/links are of interest to the people who are engaging with me? It is a Twitter analytics tool. Crowdbooster is another Twitter analytics tool that gives you a lot of interesting charts and graphs and data. Who is regularly retweeting me?

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

A good strategic plan ensures you have charted the necessary pathways to meet (and hopefully exceed) your organization’s goals. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Measurable: Quantifiable. Ask yourself some of the following questions.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Great question! Doing so can be as simple as sharing a chart with these metrics from the past year: Total dollars raised: overall dollars acquired through fundraising initiatives. This will help you measure improvement year-over-year and hold your team accountable for meeting various goals. Predictive analytics.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Google Analytics – [link]. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

Then I build out the content and discussion questions. In reviewing the data and themes from the audience input, some terrific questions about engagement popped out: How can we become better at using social media so that our channels experience more engagement and convert people to get involved? How can we get people to talk to us?

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Nonprofit leaders often have an all-or-nothing response to the question of using artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Chart Your Course webinars available on demand To get started, it helps to have in mind a problem you think might be solved by AI. Either they’re all in from the start—“What if AI solves all our problems?”—or

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Invest in data analytics : Leverage data analytics to better understand donor patterns and preferences. All modern donor databases feature donor analytics and report generation that you can use. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

While these questions aren’t always easy to answer, you can chunk it down: What is one of your organization’s goals? Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Intangible Measurements : Identity how, and most importantly why , people behave the way they do when they engage with your brand.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Support: There’s no one readily available to help answer your questions or fix something if you have an issue with the program. Top feature: Users gain insight into online traffic, transaction times, website visits by device type, and conversion rates with real-time analytics.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

Follow along, email us your questions , and let us know what you’d like to hear about! Now you can obviously take your numbers and create charts and graphs on your own. All you have to do is click drag, and drop the metrics you’re measuring. If you have any questions or are interested in getting a demo, click here !

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

Maybe it’s an article about AI-powered predictive analytics, creative tool, text generator or perhaps it’s a new tool that promises to completely automate your donor management process. Start by asking questions. Your first thought might be, “Great, one more thing on my plate.” What does this tool do?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

Eric Peterson calls out a discussion on “What the C-suite should know about analytics” from Kishore Swaminathan, Accenture’s chief scientist: “Data is a double-edged sword. I like the phrase “curiosity-driven.&# That an organization knows the questions to right ask, how to collect the right data to answer those questions.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

With customizable analytics dashboards , nonprofits can build beautiful charts and graphs of their digital, fundraising, advocacy, and organizing data to paint a better picture of their work. #9. 95% of phone calls to our support line are answered by the fifth ring by an EveryAction Specialist who can answer your question.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Create a gift range chart. A gift range chart helps determine how many gifts you’ll need to acquire at each giving level to meet your campaign or annual giving goals. Allow supporters to get to know your team members and ask questions about your mission. Use your CRM to develop a report template to measure your program’s impact.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2014

There are a myriad of questions that should be discussed during these meetings, and your reports should easily provide answers to these questions so that your development team can take the necessary actions required for a successful outcome. This will provide insights necessary for future campaigns and program initiatives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Rob Stuart, who passed away recently and who was instrumental in the creation of the nonprofit technology movement always had a favorite question, “What tools are in your tool box?” The important thing is to pick the right tool for the job — and that job is collecting data to measure progress towards a goal or objective.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 18, 2021

Understanding the Different Type of Reporting Options Your data has a story to tell, and the types of reporting tools you use can help identify the questions your data answers. The information is then displayed back to users as rows of data, which can be grouped and summarized by rows or columns and presented as a visual chart.

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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. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). But the stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

StoryBrand Framework There are two major ways you can think about crafting stories, and you can test this through donor research and data analytics to see which is more successful for you. Consider asking questions like, “What would you want the world to know?” or “what does our program mean to you?”

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

He attributes Water for People’s success to their relentless focus on (and measurement of) outcomes. We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. Also, Strive Partnership measured the partners!

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Participants will network and learn about other areas of practice, discuss a range of opportunities and challenges faced by different sectors, and work collaboratively to improve impact measurement. General / #IMPCON16 / @SocialValueInt. 10/24/2016. AASP Summit 2016. AASP Summit 2016. Oct 26 - 28. Jan 18 - 20. Myers, FL / $1,320.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. Why reason alone doesn’t work in fundraising suggests that appealing to your supporters’ analytical nature isn’t enough to inspire a gift. Infographics. Connections. Tell stories. Evoke emotion.

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