Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 22, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you’re achieving that key outcome for impact. By Julie Macalik, with Greenlights for Nonprofit Success.

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Measure Issue Impact Method 143

NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2011

And though we are making huge strides as a sector to understand the most effective techniques and approaches to using these tools, we still have a lot to learn about one of the most important areas of social media: measurement. Measuring your activities is as important as what you’re posting, or how many times a day you post.

Social Media 88

Social Media Measure Media Social 88

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

This book is the result of what we have learned teaching leadership and business acumen classes to rising and senior leaders at Fortune 500 companies for twenty years,” share authors Nathan Kracklauer and Bjorn Billhardt. Question : How does spending 12 weeks using the book compare to the length of time to earn an MBA degree?

Skills 92

Skills Learning Knowledge Leadership 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The process of linking results to key performance indicators and associated metrics it is like hooking up a big TV. I really like the 7 steps of measurement for their simple elegance and how they can be used to measure social media or anything for that matter. What are your measurable objectives?

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Results Metrics Measure Associations 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What questions did you ask?

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Measure Social Media Media Social 96

NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

We're asking them all to share their answers to five very important questions. Session: Online Fundraising Benchmarks and Metrics. Measuring your results instead of just counting clicks, opens, and tweets. If you can’t measure it, then you can’t manage it. It all starts with measuring your own performance.

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Benchmark Metrics Question Online 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

We’ve been chatting about how to measure the impact of the crowd and she offered to write this guest post on the topic. Measuring Your Crowdsourcing Efforts by Aliza Sherman. In order to know how to measure crowdsourcing results, you first need to understand what kind of crowdsourcing you’re implementing.

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Measure Aggregator Platform Consultant 104

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Among grantmakers, there tends to be a lot of focus on impact and outcomes, as well as metrics to measure impact. But is this the right question? Here, we explore for whom change is desired and who is defining and measuring that change. Who decides what is measured? Consider: Who defines objectives and “success”?

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Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant 82

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?

Measure 98

Measure Social Media Media Social 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I remember thinking to myself at the time, well if one networked nonprofit can do this, couldn’t a network of networked nonprofits use real-time collaborative benchmarking data sharing for learning? I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics).

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Benchmark Network Learning API 95

NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

Last summer, we pulled together data from some of the country’s leading nonprofits to bring you the 2011 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report, laying out basic benchmarks for nonprofit pages on Facebook. To download the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook, simply “like” M+R's page on Facebook. Hope to see you then!

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Benchmark Facebook Report NTEN 60

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Julia Boorstin Earlier this year, Boorstin shared these additional insights with us: Question: How did you decide which leaders to feature in your book? Question: What do you believe it will take for the business industry to fully embrace the value and benefits of women leaders? Question: This book isn’t just for women.

Leadership 67

Leadership Benchmark Story Structure 67

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

I Love Social Media Measurement. I tested out the five phases of falling in love with measurement. Given the topic was measurement, I couldn’t help but go a little meta and play with incorporating learning analytics into the instruction. This blog post shares some insights about those two somewhat disconnected ideas.

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Social Media Measure Analytics Learning 96

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Blackbaud’s annual Online Benchmark report was released earlier this month at #bbcon and the results speak largely to a positive outlook for nonprofit fundraising. . What is surprising, however, are the results seen around email: There was a 60% increase in the total volume of emails delivered. . Usable email file size is up 8%.

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Benchmark Metrics Report Online 55

NTEN

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The first step in starting to measure your impact is to identify the major outcomes that you want to examine. For each outcome, specify what observable measures, or indicators, will suggest that you're achieving that key outcome for impact. Databases - Nonprofits can use these tools to track data in real time and report on results.

Measure 81

Measure Issue Impact Method 81

Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Julia Boorstin Recently, Boorstin shared these additional insights with us: Question: How did you decide which leaders to feature in your book? Question: What do you believe it will take for the business industry to fully embrace the value and benefits of women leaders? Question: This book isn’t just for women.

Learning 52

Learning Leadership Benchmark Story 52

NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Over 450 people joined us for the 2012 Benchmarks Extra: Facebook webinar we co-hosted with NTEN and the Ad Council last week. So many people asked interesting and thoughtful questions during the webinar that we wanted to make sure everyone gets a chance to see them and participate in the discussion! Q: I missed the webinar.

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Metrics Facebook Question Benchmark 64

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. We had a very active Q&A session after the event, and could not get to all questions before the event closed.

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Retention Donor Data Advice 148

Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While not a representative sample of institutional funders, it’s one of best avenues for detailed exploration and benchmarking of salaries. Next, we divided the CEO salary by the median salary of all other reported full-time staff to calculate individual CEO-to-worker ratios for each organization, and then we compiled the results.

Ratio 106

Ratio Survey Sample Report 106

3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 23, 2014

The purpose of this post is to share the results of an interesting survey from the beginning of the event, as well as the great attendee follow-up Q&A. As always, if you have questions about your nonprofit data management plan, please don’t hesitate to contact us. Within the past 6 months = 30%. Not sure = 40%. DEBBIE: Yes.

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Data Management Rate Benchmark 133

Bloomerang

MARCH 30, 2023

Your goals should be SMART: specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound. However, if your goal is SMART—specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-bound—you’ll have a clear benchmark to work toward and measure progress. Set goals for your volunteer program. Invest in the right software.

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Volunteer Program Roles Training 87

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

The next action was an uncontrollable desire to compare my “People Talking About” with my peers, realizing that benchmarking of meaningless data is well, meaningless. ” You can see that smaller fan bases had higher percentages – but of course that is meaningless. There’s a lot of confusion.

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Metrics Facebook People Measure 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. If we are setting SMART objectives or trying to measure them, we may need to do a little audience research first. Exhibitions team.

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Social Media Analytics Tools Media 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2011

What if organizations focused these simple questions on their social media strategy using common sense measurement as my colleague Kami Huyse describes it in Geoff Livingston ’s, forthcoming book Welcome to the Fifth Estate. What is your organization aiming to accomplish? What are your strategies for making this happen?

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Chart Social Media Impact Media 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

In the comments on my post, &# Likes on Facebook Are Not A Victory: Results Are ,&# Carie Lewis shared her killer deck on PREZI offers some advice for engaging your network after they click the “like&# button. I asked her how do you measure relationships? Do you measure along the ladder of engagement?

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Measure Social Media Survey Relationship 100

Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Multiple, practical action steps are presented below to advance your fundraising based on the survey results. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results. Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report.

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Action Report Practice Fundraising 73

DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Because of this, it’s important to carefully measure major gifts key performance indicators (KPIs) to understand the success of your program as a whole and specific strategies individually. What are the major gift metrics that matter when measuring success? Why is it important to track fundraising benchmarks?

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Metrics Gift Track Tech 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Wall Street views it as the only legitimate means of measuring business performance. What are the results?

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ROI Social Media Media Social 103

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Even if you don’t reach it this year, you’ll have set an important benchmark you can use to inform next year’s goals. The answer to all of these questions will help you set fundraising goals and inform the story you tell during your campaign. Do you need a new cooler for your food pantry? The possibilities are endless!

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Campaign Fundraising Retention Template 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

One of the study’s authors, Mary Trudel, wrote a guest post back in 2011 summarizing the results. They are in the process of updating the study and have some preliminary results to share. This is the question we’re asking arts groups across the country this month, refreshing our national landmark survey of 2011.

Social Media 106

Social Media Arts Social Attitude 106

Connection Cafe

JULY 15, 2015

This year we’ll be producing the third edition of the annual report — Nonprofit Content Marketing: 2015 Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends ! It’s roughly 25 questions related to content marketing usage (or non usage) at your nonprofit. A Few Sample Content Marketing Research Questions. What we Need From You.

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Benchmark Survey Content Marketing 20

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. So, how did these various question formats impact responses/results? This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

Ratio 85

Ratio Report Technology Roles 85

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Twitter - to announce new blog posts, breaking news related to our work, and to ask supporters (followers) questions to get to know them better. My first question is out of all the stuff you're doing here, what is most effective? Do you have the staff/capacity to give all the time that is required to get results?

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Social Media Advice Measure Strategy 50

NTEN

MAY 10, 2010

If your organization isn't measuring the results of its social media initiatives, you may be wasting time and effort. You just don't know it yet!) Your input in the discussion would be most welcome. You should register for this (free!) webinar here.

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Social Network Network Ning Social 67

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Report Measure Impact Process 78

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Are you seeing this with donations or perhaps a better ‘Little Bets’ question is what have you learned? Results on awareness so far are favourable when you consider there was no cost involved and little resource investment too. The number of donations so far is smaller than the study you mention (1 in 5 of the pin volume).

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Sierra Leone Case Study Benchmark Comparison 126

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

" 4 Results from Crowdsource Experiment at #12NTC: Nerd, Geek and Gear Herding « Sage Words – "At the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference (#12NTC) in San Francisco, California, we led a session called Nerd, Geek, and Gear Herding 2.0. ." What does social media success look like, anyway?

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