Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Sometimes benchmarking studies can be more rigorous and survey an entire field. Devon summarized the data in the above presentation. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Photo by lecercle. Size has never mattered to us.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

3 Data from our 2021 Industry Review shows that over $2.8 Q: One of the tips from Harvard Business Review 2 on how to set up programs for success is to set goals, collect data and examine change overtime. Last October we launched Blackbaud’s first Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging survey.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nonprofit professionals are constantly being challenged to be more “data-driven” in their work. Being able to benchmark performance against what other nonprofits are doing is an important starting point to understanding your own data. But they often find it difficult to know where to begin.

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. Key Benchmarks: How Did Your Nonprofit Measure Up ? Are enewsletters still worth your organization’s time? Online Fundraising.

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Everyaction

MAY 24, 2018

The annual M+R Benchmarks Report has arrived again, shining a light on trends that are shaping nonprofits’ digital programs. Having shared and discussed this year’s Benchmarks Report with many of our partners, here’s twelve key trends that have resonated strongly within the EveryAction community. Mobile list size grew by 35% in 2017.

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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. Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. Obvious event metrics to follow are the basics, like these: Total amount raised.

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M+R

MAY 31, 2022

We saw some of the impacts of these changes in this year’s Benchmarks. Sure, you’d get the occasional bot open or someone with images blocked, so it wasn’t a perfect data point, but it was a fairly stable, useful number. Make strategic adjustments? Burn down email and move into a bunker?). Now, let’s dig deeper. Need a quick refresher?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

A new Digital Adoption Survey explores how organizations keep staff connected, from offices to virtual teams, as well as how the Internet factors into program or service delivery. Throughout this digital adoption survey, we define digital divide as any barrier that prevents people from being able to access technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

It is from the recent workshop that NTEN and NPower in Charlotte, NC to help participants understand the power of data to drive decision-making for nonprofits. It’s a topic that NTEN’s executive director, Holly Ross, has covered with this must-read post: “ Four Ways Nonprofits Can Increase Their Impact With Data.”.

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3rd Sector Labs

JUNE 17, 2014

The topic – “Donor Retention by the Numbers: Demystifying the Leaky Bucket” – focused on how to properly measure donor retention and then use that data to drive improved fundraising results. As always, if you have questions about your nonprofit data, please don’t hesitate to contact us. .

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2011

If you are a social media data junky, then you are in luck because M&R and NTEN recently analyzed Facebook statistics for the 40 organizations surveyed in their 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. The Wildlife/Animal Welfare sector had the highest ratio of Facebook users to email subscribers at 242 per 1000.

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NTEN

APRIL 21, 2013

Key findings from this year’s survey: On average, our respondents have 3.4 Key findings from this year’s survey: On average, our respondents have 3.4 The median technology budget as a percentage of the organization’s total operating budget across all organization sizes in our survey ranges from 1% to 2.2%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

.    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). We also check for metrics for existing posts for a set length of time. (We've

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

in 2020 , according to nonprofit organizations surveyed by the Association for Fundraising Professionals. We recommend you start with these 7 Key Database Metrics. These are the types of metrics you can share to help make the case for the much-needed investment in acquisition. year over year. in 2016 to 19.3%

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research. In our latest survey, we decided to ask about technology staffing levels differently. FTE tech staff for your team is keeping up.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. To understand how visitors interact with the site. Methodology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

She went to say that she thinks too many folks are focused on the Facebook Like as the social media success metric. “Who cares? She advises using various parts of the Grunig instrument which you can be done for free using Survey Monkey or Zoomerang or a poll on a blog.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2015

You soldier on and set up Google Analytics, hoping that the data can start a conversation with everyone, despite the initial reluctance. Integrating data and analytics into your organizational culture can be a huge hurdle to overcome. What if you brought in lunch for the office if you were able to hit key benchmark goals?

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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. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. industry benchmarks.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Nonprofit engagement metrics can help you understand your organization, but you’ve probably seen the same terms over and over again in your research. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

While we have articulated our main goal and identified our stakeholders, we are still actively exploring what kind of investment we can make and what various benchmarks mean to us and more importantly what we should do with the numbers we collect. If you have a large team/organization, you could ask this on a survey and share back the data.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Helps data integrity (verify mailing address; find out interests). #3 MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, 2011 MarketingSherpa Email Marketing Benchmark Survey.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

This is the number you can use to compare the relative robustness of your messaging program with the results reported by the " eNonprofit Benchmarks Study " (or Convio's " Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study " or MailChimp's " Email Marketing Benchmarks by Industry ", or.). We're always looking for new metrics.

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Care2

MAY 14, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) What does all of this data mean for nonprofits?

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Care2

OCTOBER 17, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Thanks so much for your participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  It included two excellent case studies and social media metrics- one on ASPCA and the other Georgia Tech.   It is about how to analyze the data.     Someone in the audience asked if there was a tool to automate the gathering and analysis of this data.  KD Paine's presentation rocked! 

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Here are some interesting data points from our most recent State of Grantseeking™ Report : Organizational Age Median Annual Budget Over 25 Staff Members Applied for Grants Received an Award. Here's another metric, which I think may prove useful to the grantseekers for younger organizations. I'm glad you asked!

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

Blackbaud analyzed the Giving USA data, along with other important metrics, and estimates that more than $15.42 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. Your own results may vary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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 uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 10, 2015

Forget about “big data”—pay attention to your small data. Big data is great, and holds a lot of promise — but chances are, your nonprofit isn’t able to harness the true power of it yet. Instead, focus on the metrics that affect revenue. Want to increase fundraising results?

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Neon CRM

MAY 31, 2023

By focusing on every step of that donor journey and leveraging supporter data to build better relationships with supporters, your nonprofit can stop focusing so much on acquiring new ones and start reaping the rewards of a loyal donor base. It also involves careful analysis and upkeep of your donors’ data. Then let’s get started!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

It wasn’t meant as a statement about what I think about whether or not web stats are a useful metric of much. Webstats are, of course, important, both as an internal metric to watch, analyze, and improve, and for that matter, to put out there, in conjunction with lots of other data. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

We’ll draw from recent experiences in setting up an active advisory group made up of NGO partners from all corners of the globe; our network-wide campaign to survey NGO technology trends in 24 languages; and, our own technology solution to communicating with these partners to deliver services in 37 countries. 3:30 p.m.

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NTEN

APRIL 9, 2014

Our response: what does the data say? Published today, M+R and NTEN’s 2014 Nonprofit Benchmarks Study returns for the eighth year. Here are 8 big trends that emerged from the nonprofits we surveyed: The average one-time online donation amount to a nonprofit was $68 in 2013. Online donations were higher than ever before.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 30, 2019

However, there’s one thing they (like most of my kids) find much harder to share: their data. The Opportunity of Collaborative Benchmarking whitepaper from the Blackbaud Institute for Philanthropic Impact explores just that concept: How do we as a sector improve by collaboratively sharing our data? My ask is simple.

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sgEngage

MAY 17, 2021

The following Q&A is excerpted from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report Spotlight: Using 2020 Data to Transform Your Higher Education Institution’s Strategy. The CASE Voluntary Support of Education Survey (CASE VSE) indicates that the majority of restricted giving to endowments is given for student financial aid (39.7%

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