Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are more tools available to nonprofits today that can be used for measuring their donor data than ever before. Whether it be a CRM , GoogleAnalytics , or a social media analytic tool like SproutSocial , measuring and understanding data is an essential part of contemporary business. Where do you fall in these stats?

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

link] and measure your sharing effectiveness. You’ll even get real-time click stats! 4) Measure and Analyze - Google Analytics. Google Analytics is free. Once you’ve got the basic setup done look into using Google Analytics to track campaigns. First, set up a bit.ly

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APRIL 18, 2011

The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. Before we dive into specifics, it’s important to recognize that no one product will measure everything you need and they are not 100% accurate. Postrank Analytics. Do you know who they are?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Similarly, the results or value of efforts we make in our fundraising can accurately be measured in numbers. Fortunately for those new to peer-to-peer performance analytics, a readily available body of work has been developed on this topic. Too often we equate effort with value. Doing things with progress. Percentage of self-donations.

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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. Methodology.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

But are these stats meaningful? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. The human brain is the best analytics tool. Where are people coming from?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Laura Quinn at Idealware has been offering Webinars and I will be joining her " Introduction to Website Analytics " on Thursday, September 27th 1:00 - 2:30 EST. You can register here. Through demos of free tools such as AWStats and Google Analytics, we'll look at what these tools can tell you about your site. NEW SEMINAR!

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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. Your Goal isn’t Maintaining Anachronistic Work In the US, nonprofits represent 10% of the labor force , while generating 5% of the measured GDP.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. But sometimes, those stats don't really tell us anything. For each of the social media tools you are using, you might want to set up your google analytics so you can track referral traffic.

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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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Care2

OCTOBER 31, 2011

traffic it’s social networks networks like Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter that dominate, according to Quantcast, one of the biggest analytics companies for measuring websites. Check out the stats below! Out of the top five websites ranked by U.S. Women dominate on social networks like Facebook and Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2012

It was one of a few good free options in the early days of blogging. Shortly after Feedburner was acquired by Google in 207, there started to be complaints about the way it was managing the transition and handling subscriber stats. Thank you so much Phil!

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 8, 2009

Much Older. - "Analytics company iStrategyLabs has examined the demographics stats from Facebook (Facebook)’s Social Ads platform, and they’ve reached some very interesting conclusions. We like to report on innovative technologies through blogs, video, podcasts and social networks."

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JANUARY 4, 2010

Check out the stats below. *28% 28% of sites have Google Analytics. *5% Danny Sullivan, a search engine expert analyzed another chart by Factual that showed additional stats but without exact percentages. 5% of sites link to their Twitter or Facebook profile. *2% 2% of sites display both a Twitter and Facebook link.

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APRIL 26, 2011

Check out these stats where both companies used in-house analytics tools to measure results. According to Mashable, Twitter received about 0.38 clicks per tweet, while Facebook received 3.31 clicks per engagement. In other words, Facebook “likes&# gets almost 8.7x more clicks than a tweet.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I'm going to blow your mind by sharing some stats and our May events. Toronto, ON: Measuring & Engaging Your Email List. Boston, MA: Beth Kanter Webinar - Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Charity & Nonprofit Analytics Meetup: Email. Here’s your monthly update from the world of NetSquared Local.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

There are more tools available to nonprofits today that can be used for measuring their donor data than ever before. Whether it be a CRM, GoogleAnalytics, or a social media analytic tool like SproutSocial, measuring and understanding data is an essential part of contemporary business. Where do you fall in these stats?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Measuring this requires some surveys of fans as well as counting the number of insights gleaned from posts and discussions from Fans. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. I have not done this yet.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Percent of participants who are on teams and similar stats, team size, team retention rate, etc. Peer to Peer Fundraising: How Do You Measure Up?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. It’s pre-loaded with the data from 170+ organizations and 50 million+ constituents, allowing officers to benchmark their success against peers in the field and benefit from predictive analytics powered by that data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list. Photo by NimagesDR. Can Twitter help your cause raise money?,

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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. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

That’s just a taste to whet your appetite - we’ve got lots more stats you can use to measure your organization’s Facebook page in the full report, plus key recommendations to help you craft a cutting-edge social media program! To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Last night Facebook announced some changes to Insights , the analytics program that we use for tracking Facebook pages, that includes a new metric, “People Talking About.” More new stats include, “Friends of Fans” and “Total Reach.” Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). measuring your impact on the world!). So if you are doing analytics it means that the butler makes a little note of everything that goes out the door (including the address of who asked for it, and exactly what they asked for). Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Measure Your Traffic. Yep, google analytics is great. You also might to check out some widgets that combine social networking with stats like mybloglog.com. Take your rank with a grain of salt. Don't forget to use some other ways to track conversations like co-comment and icerocket. Tap the Blogs.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 12, 2015

Reality: Across all of the nonprofits we measured, an average 9.5% When measuring the top quarter of organizations with the highest mobile-to-desktop gift ratio, the average climbed to 17.8%. Now here’s an impressive stat. Crack open Google Analytics. Get ready… Myth #1: No one really donates on mobile.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. what things need to be measured. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. Sarah - share by email because we are an online organization, can have a spreadsheet with stats and how they are growing, organization wide as well as campaigns, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use Google Analytics (GA) to see things like how many unique visitors you’re getting, what content is being viewed the most, what keywords or phrases people are using to find you and where people are coming from when finding you. This is only a glimpse into what you can do with analytics. Put these tools in place. Off we go.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising anlyzing event data engagement strategies event data and action plans Non-profit benchmarking report p2p metrics Peer to Peer Fundraising'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Avoid Analytophilia Alexandra Samuel coined that phrase in a post on social media analytics and metrics about the greatest peril of social media: analytophilia. She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. Readership growth This means content consumption.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. Measuring Engagements on Social Media. Why and How to Measure the Engagement Rate. Measuring your organization’s engagement rate is a more accurate reflection of your content’s relevance to the audience.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

We’ve put together a list of the most up-to-date stats on how nonprofits are using social media to make a difference. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS. Social Media Marketing Statistics.

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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. But the stats. 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).

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