Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

She says that Google Analytics will give you a crystal clear picture of how many visitors are using mobile phones. “You can see how many of those people leave the site quickly. Second, he suggests looking at your analytics and understanding how mobile visitors are using your site and adapt sections gradually if you are on a budget.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Target Analytics noted in the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Analysis study that as much as 16% of new donors and 27% of new revenue came from online sources in 2008. Start by checking a sample of your own data. Research by Target Analytics looked into donors and the channel flipping that they do.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

" Care2 Impact Prize | NTEN – A group of inspiring, talented people! Any member of the NTEN community is welcome to vote, but only one vote per person, per IP address will be counted." Please help us select a winner for the Care2 Impact Prize! "We The deadline to vote is noon (Pacific Time) on Monday, April 2nd.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Last year at this time, I was writing the chapter on ROI in the soon to be published book from NTEN called " Managing Your Mission." Google Analytics. In researching the ROI Chapter of the NTEN book, I intervewed some staff members from Legal Services community. Feedburner. Compare the total costs with the benefits/value.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2013

3 Ways to Use Social Media in Your Next Campaign by Amy Sample Ward, Author of Social Change Anytime Everywhere and Membership Director at NTEN. Improving Direct Marketing Response with Online Advertising by Richard Becker, President of Target Analytics. Grab your free copy of the npEXPERTS Fundraising Ideas e-book.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Here are a few ideas for you: Keywords you use on your website or in your analytics. See a sample Listening Dashboard here ]. We Are Media Tactical Module 1: Listening by NTEN and Beth Kanter. Here are some steps to get you started listening … 30 minutes or less, I promise. Step One: Determine what you should be listening for.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2012

You can still register for the Online NTC , the next best way to learn about the nonprofit issues you care about and connect with other NTC attendees.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

On a smaller scale, NTEN's own web analytics show that, by and large, our carefully considered, better written, longer blog posts yield much longer time-on-page, particularly during the first few days they're up, than our regular, written-for-the-web fare. Tags: NPTech NTEN Communications. Did you read all the way through?

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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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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Eric Peterson, Web Analytics Demystified. The Analysis Exchange is a first-of-its-kind effort to freely provide analytical insights to nonprofits and non-governmental organizations. Not only is the student learning about analytics and giving back to the organization, but the organization is learning from the student as well.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

This is what I think: Convio should partner with neutral players to underwrite benchmarking studies that get data from a much wider sample of organizations than just their clients. Speaking of metrics, Drew Bernard has an awesome post about how to use web analytics based on the functions of specific pages or sites.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

From the forthcoming NTEN book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. Measures: eCRM analytics, donations. He’s got a whole chapter dedicated to this subject in NTEN’s new book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission ! Takeaways: 1. Area: constituents. Initiatives: start montly newsletter.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

Why reason alone doesn’t work in fundraising suggests that appealing to your supporters’ analytical nature isn’t enough to inspire a gift. In her post, The Fundraiser’s Kiss of Death: Talking Too Much , communicators everywhere are confronted with the ugly truth: the talk is boring. Tell stories. Evoke emotion.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Use Google Analytics Mobile Performance Report. Mobile Impact 201: Digital Content Strategies for Mobile – Join NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward on June 5 th at 11 AM (Pacific Daylight Time) to find out how to engage donors, volunteers, and other constituents after you have developed a mobile presence. Space out hyperlinks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. She is also the Membership Director at NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

The panelists include Holly Ross, NTEN ; David Neff , American Cancer Society; Kari Dunn Saratovsky ; Case Foundation; Amy Sample Ward , Netsquared; and Joe Solomon. Submitted by Amy Sample Ward. Data, Data, Everywhere: Drowning in a Sea of Analytics . What are these new competitions about—are they working?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. Analytics tools. Below is the live blog or the archive of the live blog. Can’t wait! The internet connection here is such that I don’t think a live blog portal will sustain itself.

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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. If you are measuring reach, engagement or action, you’ll need an analytics tool. Analytics Tools: Google Analytics, Facebook Insights, Twitter Tools (Socialbro, Hootsuite, Bit.ly, Twitalyzer). Neff , Lights.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 28, 2017

Last week I had the privilege of networking with over 2000 nonprofit experts and professionals at NTEN ‘s Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). – Amy Sample Ward , CEO, NTEN. – Steve MacLaughlin , Vice President of Data and Analytics at Blackbaud and author of Data Driven Nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2015

Amy Sample Ward, CEO, NTEN. It’s a single platform that provides a common user experience and incorporates the latest capabilities in CRM, online, mobile, analytics, and integrated payments. I think whenever something like that hits the news the conversation is more about that being an anomaly.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

On the NTEN blog, Lauren Giardin says it’s time to Take Charge of Your Editorial Process as Air Traffic Control. This post highlights the success of NTEN’s campaign to re-engage the 24,000 subscribers who had not opened an email from them in the past year. To differentiate rather than compete, begin by surveying the field.

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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. Marnie Webb.

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