Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

" 5 Web Reports Every Nonprofit Should Know – Google Analytics | NetWitsThinkTank.com – "Those who follow me on Twitter, or for whom I’ve helped implement NetCommunity websites, won’t be surprised to find me write about Google Analytics.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Google Analytics – [link]. Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page! These analytics are part of having a Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

One of the more chilling innovations in marketing over the past few years is called “predictive analytics” It’s this blend of statistical analysis, data mining and psychology which enabled Target to conclude that a teenage girl was pregnant before her father did. After all, people love to read about themselves.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

By charting out the problems, strategies, benefits, and values first, we give ourselves a better picture to pull out metrics. Whether it’s a Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, or whatever, you have access to built-in web analytics or the option to use Google Analytics. So now, finally, we get to the metrics.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 6, 2022

Draw it out into an organizational chart so you can see who will report to who. Don’t expect someone to be a whiz at photography, video editing, design software, analytics, email marketing, and event planning all at the same time. The National Council of Nonprofits offers this sample employee handbook. Work station.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

I’m just back from the SXSW Interactive Festival where I was on a panel called “ What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You ” moderated by Alexandra Samuel of Vision Critical , Jeremiah Owyang , Crowd Companies, and Colby Flint, Discovery Channel. Our sample was combined US and Canada populations).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Measurement tools or perhaps more accurately, social analytics tools collect that data. Quantitative is counting or the numbers — all those pretty charts and graphics. Measurement should not, ideally, be driven by a tool. If you are measuring reach, engagement or action, you’ll need an analytics tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

I just sampled one month. " 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. Again, I have not consistently written down and charted my technorati rating, but I do know that trend has been to more or less go up.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Happy new year!

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Why reason alone doesn’t work in fundraising suggests that appealing to your supporters’ analytical nature isn’t enough to inspire a gift. Beth Kanter’s guest star, Ann Emory, offers up the Top Ten Chart Secrets from a Nonprofit Data Nerd. John Haydon simplifies the science of giving. Tell stories. Evoke emotion.

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