Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Yesterday, KD Paine and I delivered an NTEN Webinar on measurement based on the ideas in our new book ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World.” ” Well, here is are some ways to find some data nerds to help you with your measurement and analysis: 1. The skills are out there.

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NTEN

APRIL 1, 2013

That's only one of the reasons NTEN is excited to announce a new position and open applications for a Content Manager. NTEN seeks a creative writer with a love for technology, data, and the nonprofit technology community to join NTEN’s team. Applications will be reviewed upon submission. Desired start date is May 6th.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2012

When all of our supporter data was on 3x5 cards or in a couple of spreadsheets, a lot of the fundraising work we did involved educated guesswork, by necessity. With the data available to us now, we can segment, slice, dice, even predict future donor behavior, all without a statistics degree.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 30, 2014

What is Wave Analytics, and why are The Beach Boys singing about it? A few weeks ago at the 2014 Dreamforce Conference, Salesforce announced a new analytics tool called Wave. Data salesforce IT Staff' Senior Manager, Online Fundraising.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

There is a fundraising software that will help your staff manage fundraising campaigns and donor data efficiently and engage and grow your donor base. Goals can include: Gain insight into donor data through reporting and data analytics. Enhance online fundraising by offering monthly giving and crowdfunding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Note from Beth: On December 3rd at 9 am PST, I’m going to celebrate NTEN on GivingTuesday by hosting a chat on my LinkedIn influencer blog. You can make donation to NTEN and help them build and strengthen the field of nonprofit techies. And anyone who gives $500 or more will receive one free pass to Do Good Data 2014.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Session: Data Data Everywhere: Drowning in a sea of Analytics. Analytics integration and interpretation. To measure success, you need to see big picture data from every corner of the Internet, and know how to interpret all these numbers, even if they seem all over the map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

I saw an interesting post from Eric Petersen called “ The Myth of Data-Driven Business &# by way of KD Paine’s blog. It caught my eye because we’ve working on a chapter about how nonprofits can make the shift to a “data-driven culture. &#. He suggests a new term, “data informed.&#.

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2010

Session: Data Data Everywhere: Drowning in a sea of Analytics. How to approach analytics smartly and thoughtfully to benefit your job and your colleagues. Tags: 10NTC dan michel Data NPTech Communications. We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. Integration.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2014

Last week I met some rock stars of the data visualization world (yes, it’s true, there is such a world) at the Data Visualization Knowledge Summit hosted by Periscopic in Portland. These folks call it “data exploration.” And no matter how much experience you have, the data will almost always yield something you didn’t expect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Note from Beth: I was thrilled to be interviewed by Steve along with many other nonprofit data nerds, for his new book, Data Driven Nonprofits. He was kind enough to send me an advanced copy and it is definitely a must read. Culture Eats Big Data for Lunch – Guest Post by Steve MacLaughlin. Predictive Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2012

One of the messages in the book is “Collect less data, think more about it.” ” Kevin Conroy, the “data scientist” at Global Giving, answered, “Set up goals and tracking URLs in Google Analytics.” We will be covering these in an upcoming NTEN Webinar on November 28th.

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2010

Brett Meyer, NTEN. You may already know you can use Google Analytics to track your Google AdWords campaigns. In the screen above, "comm_mem_act" refers to Communications staff who are Members of NTEN and active in our community. Find the Data in Google Analytics . Now there's some potentially useful data!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Just like many of the nonprofits and other loyal readers of Beth’s Blog out there, we at Social Media for Nonprofits were excited for the recent release of Beth’s new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data for Social Change.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 19, 2011

Last week’s NTEN webinar on Google Analytics reached capacity FAST. Great for NTEN (they really know what the hot topics are huh) but a bummer for the people who didn’t get to register. The first thing to know is that the updates made to Google Analytics aren’t in its function. Author: Cheryl Black.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2015

What are your Analytics numbers actually saying to you, and what does this have to do with the future of your website? analytics Data Web Sites websites Communications' Yesenia Sotelo. SmartCause Digital. Stop spinning your wheels trying to improve your nonprofit’s website!

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NTEN

MAY 19, 2010

You provide access to your data and a few hours of time, and a student-mentor team will analyze aspects of your site's performance in just a few weeks. Amy Sample, Director of Web Analytics at PBS Interactive, says: "What I love about the Analysis Exchange is the learning is reciprocal. And you should. It's a great model.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2011

You probably already know that we love Google Analytics around here. As you may have heard, they've just introduced a major upgrade – and we've already got analytics expert Michael Harrison to run you through the new features. That's probably why I'm not NTEN's Program Director. Who's with me?

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2012

The new version of Google Analytics is more than just a new interface: there are a slew of new features (large and small) that will make your inner data geek clap its hands and cheer. Google Analytics is a jungle. Even if you know where you want to go, it's easy to get lost in all that data. Food & Water Watch.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

If you're in charge of your organization's web analytics, you undoubtedly know about bounce rate -- the measure of visitors who enter your site, say "Enh" (or something ruder), and immediately leave, without viewing any more of your carefully crafted pages. Yeah, those people annoy me, too. Let's dive in. Happy filtering!

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2012

Anyone who knows me knows I’m a data nerd. And the organization I work for recently passed our four-year mark using Google Analytics. So I decided to pull the data on how our website visitors’ choice of web browsers, operating systems, and screen resolution has changed over the past four years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. vs Web 2.0 – I wanted to talk about Google Analytics. Google Analytics is also free.

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NTEN

JULY 16, 2010

But how can you collect the data you need to tell your organization's stories -- and then make them compelling enough to cut through the noise? That's a question we'll help you answer at our upcoming workshop, " Taming the Data Monster " You can register for this online workshop right here.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2010

Well, you have clues to their behavior already, in the data you've been collecting -- perhaps even inadvertantly -- as they read your messages and navigate your web site. If you feel like all that data's dragging you under, join us for " Understanding Behavior: Getting Engaged or Stranded at the Inbox? Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

One of the challenges I was trying to overcome was how to make better use of our web analytics. We had a lot of data, but for the most part, we weren’t looking beyond page visits and unique visitors. Other metrics, like goals and conversions, were not being tracked. read more'

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

On the recent NTEN community call someone asked the panel to name 5 vendors (other than Blackbaud and Convio) to whom we’d send a CRM system RFP for a $100 million nonprofit. Provide strong reporting and analytic tools. Supports streamlined, high-volume data entry tools. Provide data integrity tools to keep the data clean.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Semphonic Web Analytics Consulting: The X Change Non-Profit Analytics Challenge – "The Non-Profit Analytics Challenge is a rare opportunity for the brightest analysts in the digital measurement field to collaborate & assist non-profit organizations to optimize their websites.

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NTEN

JANUARY 10, 2014

Data gathering and analysis can go a long way to making sure you understand why people are visiting your blog, and if you're meeting your goals for your blog. Data gathering and analysis can go a long way to making sure you understand why people are visiting your blog, and if you''re meeting your goals for your blog.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Director of Insights and Analytics. Bear Analytics. Organizational data siloes may be the culprit. Data data culture donor cultivation Fundraising' Marissa Maybee. Imagine this scenario: A supporter clicks the “donate” link in one of your emails and gives to your organization through the website.

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NTEN

AUGUST 27, 2012

Your best bet at understanding your data was having a staffer with pivot table skills. Holly Ross. Executive Director. The message is clear. Selecting a new CRM has to be driven by your strategy: how you do the work of meeting your mission. Constituent Relationship Management, or CRM, has changed dramatically in the last decade.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

This September 3-6, NTEN will debut the Leading Change Summit. Matt is a research and information technology executive with key competencies in measurement and analytics, business process engineering and optimization, product development, and organizational management. Data lcs Leadership leading change summit matt groch Strategy'

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

The data clearly shows that integrated direct marketing is essential for maximizing the long-term value of online-acquired donors. What I do know from this Target Analytics study is that ignorance and sloth are ruinous. The writing is on the wall, it’s in the data and, frankly, it’s staring us in the face. Where to go from here.

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JUNE 23, 2014

After thinking and talking about it for a long time, this year we at NTEN are finally beginning a website overhaul and re-launch in earnest. In our first installment, NTEN’s IT Director, Karl Hedstrom, and Operations Director, Jessica Holliday, answer a few questions about what we’re setting out to do, and how, and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You I’m thrilled to be on a panel organized by Alexandra Samuel, Vision Critical , along with Jeremiah Owyang and Colby Flint. The session will share the results and insights from research studies that combining social media analytics with survey data. SXSW: March 7, 2014.

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APRIL 2, 2012

NTEN members are even using The Hunger Games buzz to educate about real world food and water issues. Last year, Semphonic completed the first Nonprofit Analytics Challenge. Semphonic then packaged up all of the “how to” knowledge accumulated during the challenge and created a free guide to using Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2007

As part of some research for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN, I gave a shout out to folks asking for examples. BTW, if you are looking to learn more about how to use Google Analytics, I highly recommend the Webinar that NTEN is offering next Wednesday with Avinash Kaushik.).

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Every year NTEN uses a community-driven process to develop the agenda. In this session, we’ll talk about: Effective stakeholder engagement How to think omnichannel in a siloed organization The importance of an audience-centric approach Data, data, data Building a solid foundation when leaders are eager for results.

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