Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Share stats and information that people can easily understand. Measure and track your success. Tracking over a full 12 months is a good timeframe since certain periods of the year have increased or decreased fundraising (org-specific annual events, the summer slowdown, Giving Season, etc.). Tell your impact story. Be flexible.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

In the 2018 Charitable Giving Stats from NP Source , 77% believe everyone can make a difference by supporting causes. 3) Tracking the Donor Journey or Donor Funnel. Clearly, understand prior to the implementation their track record – are they on time, on budget, stayed within the project scope? 5) Outcomes and Analytics.

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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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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

You’ll even get real-time click stats! 4) Measure and Analyze - Google Analytics. Google Analytics is free. Set it up on your website and blog so that you can track your efforts. 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2014

Always include a short caption, and like other social networks, inspirational quotes and powerful stats significantly increase engagement. It’s also worth noting that images embedded with quotes and stats are very popular on Instagram. Share Screenshots of Photos a.k.a. Add Hashtags to Captions, and Like the Photos of Others.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 20, 2014

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. There’s a lot of data out there that can be measured and tracked. Where do you fall in these stats? But, they don’t call it “Big Data” for nothing.

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NetWits

JUNE 1, 2011

If the pictures (below – and looks closely) don’t convince you, Cisco’s latest stats on mobile growth certainly will. Blackbaud tracked online gifts made from mobile browsers and non mobile browsers and compared key statistics. Register for our Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Newsletter and get a monthly dose of quality content.

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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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The Fundraising Authority

MAY 8, 2021

Then you’ll need to apply (you can do this by answering a few questions and uploading a few basic stats). Do you have Google Analytics Installed? Track Your Ads’ Performance At this point, you have a Google Ads account. You have a Google Analytics account. Track as many as you can. Visit your site.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard.

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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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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? The human brain is the best analytics tool. Track these conversations each week and put them in a spreadsheet; this will allow you to track your growth over time.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

have unlimited texting and 97% of US adults text ( Pew Research, 2015 SMS stats, and 2018 stats ). This is the tool we used to build our SMS data tool for Google Analytics. These are super flexible ways to channel people to opt-in to messaging, track unique campaigns, organize multiple conversations on a shared short-code.

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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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Care2

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

Facebook has launched some great new features and analytics that are impacting nonprofits. To help nonprofits navigate these opportunities on Facebook, Care2 held a terrific webinar this week entitled Keeping up with Facebook’s Changes (and “Liking” it!)

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

As it turns out, it's easy to make a compelling case for integrating social media into your website: That's the actual data from our Google Analytics account since we implemented the "Social Tracking" feature in July. I left out a key stat: number of visits. > Learn more and register today ! How about you?

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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. ." Facebook Users Are Getting Older. Facebook’s userbase, as a whole, is getting much older very fast."

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Postrank Analytics. You should be reviewing these stats at least once a month. Great question. Greasemonkey Script.

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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. But, that’s significantly more difficult when gift officers aren’t interested in logging and tracking that data. When they begin tracking their efforts, they’ll experience more success with major gifts fundraising.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

These dashboards make data easy to understand and are intuitive to use, even for people who may not have a data or analytics background. When it comes to fund accounting software, many organizations begin by simply tracking balances within individual funds and maintaining the separation of restricted monies for compliance purposes.

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Care2

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. 1% of sites have Quantcast tracking code. 1% of sites have Quantcast tracking code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

I was so excited that I got the sharing features to work properly that I didn’t even think about tracking. I was able to scrounge some stats by using Tweetmeme and bit.ly We didn’t have a unique URL for Facebook, and we didn’t have Google Analytics tracking codes set up on the web version of the email. Don’t forget that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. As Judith Sol-Dyess , from the Chicago YMCA , notes, “We struggled for a long time with how to launch ANY social media efforts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. How do you track and measure your Facebook Fan Page against your objectives? I have not done this yet. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links?

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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. Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list.

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Care2

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Burn your feeds – You’ll want to make setup your RSS feeds properly in Feedburner so that you can track subscriber numbers and click-throughs from RSS readers. Get Tracking – Install your Google Analytics tracking code so you can keep tabs on traffic, how people get to your site, and lots of other web stats.

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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. On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. Hard Data Points: You can get this from Google Analytics. Here's the thread.

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

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. There’s a lot of data out there that can be measured and tracked. Where do you fall in these stats? But, they don’t call it “Big Data” for nothing.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

This is especially true on social media because there are so many data points you can track. Across platforms, you should be tracking social media engagement rates and conversion rates. Pushing two or more calls to action can get cumbersome and confusing, and can also muddle the waters for your tracking purposes.

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Social Media Track Conversation Media 122

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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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

This allows you to track all donor interactions and reach out to donors at the right times. These features include donor portals where fundraisers can view their stats, such as how much they’ve raised so far and who is giving to their pages. Use the dashboard to track your revenue that comes in from matching gifts.

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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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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

Instagram stories have taken the fast track to fame this year. From there, take a look at your analytics and see what works for you. Helpful tools: Twitter analytics. Taking a look at your analytics can provide some insight into what is and isn’t working. When the time comes, it’ll send you a notification to post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

I discovered that I had problem figuring out how many total feed subscribers and the trends over time because I had four feeds (three built into the typepad blogging platform) and another one in feedburner which offers the stats tracking feature. or gives them a polite apology and a 404 message).

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Use confirmation pages to confirm, thank, track, and move people to further action. And even if you don’t want to continue engagement, confirmation pages make it easier to track in Google Analytics through goals which allows you see which traffic sources and people are signing up. And be clearer when doing it.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

If you spell the donor’s name wrong or lose track of their address, do a better job with file hygiene. With proper data quality, you will have a solid foundation to build out advanced analytics and optimize your fundraising program this year, and for years to come. Richard Becker, President, Target Analytics, Blackbaud.

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