Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

Note from Beth: As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m running several peer learning groups based on the ideas in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” and Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly Maturity of Practice model. Because what gets measured gets better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. Pictured is: Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director).

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Media Cause

JULY 11, 2023

Data-Driven Decisions Email automation tools often come with analytics. Look for features like list segmentation, automation, analytics, and the ability to integrate seamlessly with your CRM or donor management system. Email Marketing Strategy for Nonprofits: Understanding Automated Email Marketing Why Automated Email Marketing?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

These questions and more were answered in a recent Twitter conversation on data and analytics. However, as Katanick observed during the tweet chat, “analytics matter to nonprofits because they provide a tangible way to demonstrate that an organization is delivering on its mission and goals.” A Few Good Web Analytics Tools.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Data Analytics. Today, sales teams harness the power of big data analytics, artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve performance and future proof profitability. Data Analytics Software.

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sgEngage

JUNE 9, 2023

Pre-Award Stage Generating Grant Guidelines Developing grant guidelines requires creating a comprehensive outline of the grant’s objectives, eligibility requirements, application procedure, and evaluation metrics. This evaluation measures the program’s efficacy and the grantee’s ability to achieve the proposed objectives.

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sgEngage

JULY 15, 2023

Measurable Growth Donor management helps cultivate prolonged success and growth by steering organizational leaders toward a donor-centric action plan. It’s impossible to improve something that can’t be measured. Donor management software consolidates these factors to help organizations better utilize donor metrics.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

The underlying analytics were impressive. Updates three years ago to Apple’s data privacy policies allowing users to limit tracking of email open rates have further complicated efforts to measure audience engagement. Fundraisers have other metrics available. Any number of variables can influence these metrics.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Your major giving efforts may be supported by these team members: Executive director. Your executive director leads your nonprofit from the highest level, ensuring all of your fundraising efforts are aligned with your mission and values. Development director. Generally, it’s best to limit the number of attendees.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 23, 2020

Have you found yourself asking how to better use analytics to help drive your direct marketing strategy and measure results? Listen in to hear what John has to say about deciding which marketing ideas to test out, choosing which metrics to follow, and getting others in the organization on board with your ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

The list created by Sean Kosofsky of Mind the Gap Consulting can be used by an executive director, board chair, or any individual board member to consider their contribution to your organization’s financial health. Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Source: A New Model for Social Media (and Traditional) Measurement.     A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "     Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting).   Do you need it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Along with measuring against impact results, it is important to look at how much time has been invested. What are the right tools to help measure success? Larry Swiader, Senior Director of Digital Media at The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy. Measure program success, not just analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2011

I’ve been reflecting on why some nonprofits do a better job of measurement and learning, while others do not. The nonprofits that embrace measurement have a data-driven culture. Data is focused on the metrics that are specific to social media channel. Example of A/B Testing Results. What is the difference?

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 3, 2016

He is the founder and CEO of Metric Insights. He founded the company in 2010 to transform the way business intelligence is performed so organizations of any size can quickly and easily deploy powerful analytics. For businesses and nonprofits, big data is generally composed of measuring, monitoring and tracking performance.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. All you have to do is click drag, and drop the metrics you’re measuring. But it doesn’t have to be. EveryAction features data visualization tools to help your reports come to life.

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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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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

Ideally, every three to five years, your board and staff directors will meet to realign regarding goals and begin the strategic planning process. You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Measurable: Quantifiable. Retain 70% of donors from last year.

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NTEN

MAY 17, 2011

By Brett Meyer, Communications Director, NTEN As part of our effort to build the subscriber base for NTEN:Change , our quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders , we purchased advertising space – on Facebook, LinkedIn, and in GrantStation 's weekly newsletter. The Hyperlink. Let's use Facebook as the example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The vertical is used to label and measure different items. The six steps: Step 1: Which Chart is Best?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Robust CSR software helps alleviate the struggles of managing your company’s philanthropic initiatives and measuring impact, so you can focus on driving employee participation and making bigger waves with your efforts. They track employee participation and measure the impact of these programs.

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2011

By Carie Lewis, Director of Emerging Media, Online Communications, Humane Society of the United States Listening is the first step in social media. There are many tools out there for measurement, but I like Twitter Analyzer, because of the breadth of statistics it provides and its ease of use. The graphs are pretty, too.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 12, 2012

Director of Professional Services. You probably have some metrics in place, but the next step in effective engagement is using data to push your audience up the ladder of engagement. Betsy Ensley. ThinkShout, Inc. If your organization is like most, you have a communications team pushing content through multiple channels.

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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. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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Bloomerang

MAY 10, 2022

Your donor retention rate measures how many donors continue to give to your organization over time. Your Director of Donor Relations will lead the team in carrying out your stewardship efforts, overseeing your strategy at the highest level, and offering support to other team members. . How does donor stewardship impact donor retention?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. First, a simple metric relating to security reports, and second, what processes are in place in the communities to deal with security. More on that in a bit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

I'm also using this for the upcoming WeAreMedia Workshop in San Francisco which has a section on experiments and measurement. 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. More on that later.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

I n almost all cases, leaders that focused their b usiness intelligence and analytics efforts to answer strategic questions achieved better results and were better positioned for future success. . Implementing digital transformation . Fred Weiss and Tim Hill discussed emerging trends in the higher education sector. Missed out on?bbcon?this

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2010

Then Own Charters the Executive Director of CanadaHelps introduced me. Here are a few main points of the second half of the presentation that resonated on the backchannel: anilkanji : Social influence: should orgs measure reach or affinity? deependzen : RT @saramcmillen : Don’t spend more time measuring SM than doing it!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. 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? And the mission of the organization matters too.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2013

Today’s featured guest is Jay Nathan, Director of Platform Product Management at Blackbaud. CRM Emerging Trends Metrics & Measurement Planning Selection Analytics business intelligence fundraising strategy' Signing off for the CRM Expert Series for now… until next time!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. You need to grab the month’s worth of measures and look at them against your content. There is a way to link google analytics to FB insights. This is a fairly small staff, with limited resources. A Couple of Good Facebook Links.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2021

For example, simply saying “we prioritize major gifts” or “we focus on donor retention” isn’t helpful without understanding specifically how you’re doing so and then tracking and measuring your results so you can improve. . Mastering an analytic approach to strategy and planning. Mastering relevant content marketing.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Step 7: Measure the success of your nonprofit digital strategy. Analyze key metrics in your database. Your director, board, and high-level staff members who will be directly involved in executing your new digital strategy should be fielded for feedback and impressions. Step 5: Craft your nonprofit communications plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. Twittered - for velocity.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

Nonprofit CEOs and Executive Directors are faced with changes in the landscape of their work so frequently that the ability to be agile and pivot quickly should be a standard job requirement. Interview Question: Tell us about the top three KPIs you used in your last role to measure success.

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