NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

Read the complete article in NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] By Andrea Berry, Idealware Social media has provided nonprofits with a whole new toolbox for marketing themselves and engaging constituents. Measuring is how you decide which is which. Working for what?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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Media Cause

MAY 8, 2023

Advertising can be an effective way to help grow your nonprofit’ s digital footprint, complement your current organic marketing efforts, and be an essential, part of your integrated marketing strategy. Here are our top advertising tips to help your nonprofit supercharge your paid media strategy: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion. 67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. That’s just the start—nonprofit software tools come in many varieties, offering support for marketing, event planning, form building, and much more.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 22, 2022

UA has been a reliable benchmarking tool for more than a decade, and many organizations have comfortably adopted strategies and reports that deliver data to inform their broader digital strategy. Ideally, your site is more than a brochure, but is something you put to work in service of your mission.

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

To help with this, Convio has released their Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study , which shares 2009 data from over 500 of their clients. Site Traffic: In the past, I have advised clients that they should aim for web traffic to increase by at least 5 percent each year, excluding years during redesigns or for a site's first year.

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

As you conduct daily operations at your nonprofit, you’ll find that getting your nonprofit’s development strategy right is one of the most important pieces of the nonprofit management process. After all, nonprofits need gifts and donations to sustain them, no matter what their mission or goals might be.

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CauseVox

JUNE 9, 2021

Online virtual fundraising is one of the most popular ways for nonprofits to raise money. According to the latest M+R Benchmarks study , online giving increased 10% in 2019 and has been steadily on the rise, while monthly online giving has increased by 22%. Maybe your nonprofit hasn’t yet developed an online fundraising plan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 27, 2011

Idealware created the Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide to help organizations like yours determine what results and benefits you can reasonably expect from social media, and to guide you through the process of identifying the right channels for different goals. Let our Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide help you find your voice.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Dunham and Company released an Online Fundraising Scorecard that looked at 151 nonprofits online fundraising activities. The report either gave a big "F" or a mediocre rating to most of the nonprofits in the report. Out of 151 nonprofits, only 24 of them scored 76% or above. How welcoming! Create Killer Landing Pages.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

As a nonprofit fundraising professional, you know that raising major gifts is one of the most strategic efforts your organization will complete. Major gifts are not only a highly-strategic effort, but also a high-stakes one— for many nonprofits, over 80% of their total fundraising dollars come from major contributions alone.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2022

As virtual fundraisers have grown in importance and popularity over the past couple years, peer to peer fundraisers have emerged as a necessary tool for nonprofits looking to raise more with less effort. Consider using a tiered approach, by encouraging donors to meet certain fundraising benchmarks to qualify for incentives and prizes.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In today’s world, nonprofits rely on their technology to help bring them closer to their goals. Nonprofits looking to reassess or develop a new technical strategy should consider partnering with a nonprofit technology consulting firm. Your nonprofit is unique, so your solutions and strategies should be too.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

All of this work ultimately informed the redesign of the Support Children’s Colorado Foundation site which now helps the organization to understand the organization better and see the value of digital philanthropy. The post Healthcare Ad Awards Winners Announced appeared first on Forum One.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And while some cannot wait to catch the best deals at the end of the month, many nonprofit organizations are getting ready for the counter-movement of heavy consumerism: Giving Tuesday, the Day of Giving. November is here — the month of autumn leaves, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. What’s Your Goal? Most definitely.

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NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

Let's create a Ning site! No budget for a web site redesign? If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. Remember those halcyon days of yore when the phrase "social networking" was suffused with golden light? New fundraising campaing? Try Causes!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Then comes the difficult part – identifying what “associated” metrics from social, email, and your web site that you need to collect. What follows is a reflection from several workshops for nonprofits on how to do this. I’ve even used the framework to measure trainings I have delivered!

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2018 to some (hint: it’s not ), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2017 has taken you. Gail Perry’s insightful blog post and scorecard will give you a realistic measurement into the organization and productivity of your programs. .

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 25, 2017

As an educational consultant, I offer nonprofits instruction on best practices around their technology. I often get asked questions about how a nonprofit’s website should look and behave and what benchmarking or evaluation tips I might have. What steps should an organization take to audit their nonprofit website performance?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Note: This is the second in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. To understand how visitors interact with the site. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Methodology.

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Care2

MARCH 28, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Check out the full study here.

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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. We are a national nonprofit that works with documentary filmmakers to help them create their outreach plans. You need to set up a benchmarking process. What are some things that I should be looking for?

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Care2

APRIL 15, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Check out the full study here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

I’m now on the prowl for examples from the nonprofit world of “Little Bets” and was excited to read about how Unicef created a fictional profile for a 13-year-old girl named Ami Musa, from the poor, war torn African country of Sierra Leone. Is your nonprofit placing a little bet on pinterest?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director and Founder at iMission Institute – a social sector marketing agency and technology consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofits raise more money, fire up engagement, and streamline work. million nonprofits in the U.S. , According to The Urban Institute, there are roughly 1.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook is also a great tool for nonprofits. More people can find out about your Nonprofit because your Facebook Page gets indexed and is searchable inside and outside (i.e. No limit on the number of people who can express their support for your nonprofit by becoming your fan. People can find you via Google. Stand up 2 Cancer.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades. Every business, whether it be for-profit or nonprofit business, is usually created for purpose.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Are you a nonprofit or library with questions about data? Then you won't want to miss the upcoming TechSoup tweetchat on nonprofit data. Today many nonprofits are challenged when faced with data and performance. SAP does this through better technology and helping nonprofits improve their data and performance.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

Take her ROI and Measurement list. I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. What I found most valuable was the tip about getting a baseline measurement before you begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 16, 2013

If I have learned anything from co-writing a book about measurement , that it is not only important to collect your data, but leave space for reflection at the end of a campaign to harvest insights for the next campaign. I try to do this with any project I work on, whether it is a social media campaign as well as a training workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice.

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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. "   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog. So trackbacks and comments get more weight than clicks and views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success. If you are not reading blogs and web sites in an RSS Reader , make that your New Year's resolution. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

I blurbed this book with, “If you are looking for a recipe book for tips and tactics to integrate mobile and social media to round out your nonprofit’s marketing plan, look no further than this book.” Everyone should participate — an idea that embodies the spirit of networked nonprofits! Internet Director.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2009

Read More » More Nonprofit Benchmarks Kyle Keller in Influence 4 May 2010 A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post on how organizations can use Convio’s Online Nonprofit Benchmarks Study to determine how well they are doing online compared to others.

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