NTEN

MARCH 19, 2011

Not necessarily, according to the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , just released at the 2011 NTC by M+R and NTEN. That's just one of the fascinating drops of knowledge in the " 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ". For every 1000 e-mail subscribers, orgs had 110 Facebook fans, 19 followers on Twitter, and 19 mobile users.

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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.

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Benchmark Facebook Report NTEN 60

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Attendees will gain insight by learning benchmarks for success based on NGOs active online across six continents. Which social networks are used most often by NGOs as well as performance and engagement benchmarks based on the NGO’s size and location. For specific technical questions, please visit GoToWebinar Customer Support.

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Care2

JULY 22, 2010

One of the biggest questions nonprofits have been asking for the past couple of years, is what benchmarks should they be using for social media? The 2010 Nonprofit Benchmarks Report released by NTEN has some great data that nonprofits can use for guidance. Nonprofit Social Media Benchmark Data You Need to Know.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

According to Blackbaud’s 2014 M+R Benchmark Study , a nonprofit’s social media audience on Facebook and Twitter grew by 37 and 46 percent respectively in 2013. It adds validity, substance, to your nonprofit’s Twitter feed. ?. Ask your community a question. Here are a few sample question you can start asking today.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. My experiments were quite granular: What gets more interactions - sharing video or photos or links? Does sharing link with a 2-sentence commentary work better than sharing with a question?

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2012

The real question is if your organization should continue to rely so heavily on the giving season and tax write-offs to drive online fundraising success? Even though December is a universally-accepted annual benchmark that signifies conclusion, certain sectors have their own benchmarks that they count on for donation surges.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

We engaged, asked questions, held competitions, discovered advertising and had a great time teaching the world about our cause and how to keep kids safe. I’ve observed this phenomenon on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Myspace, and Foursquare. We worked so hard to get to 5,000 and then we took off! And today we hit 100,000 likes/fans.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If you missed it, you can listen to the recording here , or join us for one of two upcoming conversations on Giving Days: the #FundChat Twitter chat on the Playbook at 12 EST Wednesday Sept. Below is a summary of answers to some questions during the webinar and related resources on the Giving Day Playbook. ET Thursday Sept.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 11, 2017

It’s a new year and that means a new, comprehensive benchmark report on the performance of nonprofits using Luminate Online. The new Luminate Online Benchmark Report is a powerful asset that studies over 500 organizations and their online marketing and fundraising efforts. Just between us, I’ve grown to love analytics.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 21, 2014

This year we’ll be producing the second edition of the annual report – Nonprofit Content Marketing: 2014 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.

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Survey Content Benchmark Marketing 46

EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Sidenote: if you weren't able to join us for this month's webinar, make sure to follow EveryAction on Twitter + keep up with our virtual and in-person events to join us next time! To help boost engagement rates, Amy suggests using rich media like graphics and video, asking questions, and creating content that's just begging to be shared.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 24, 2014

This year we’ll be producing the second edition of the annual report – Nonprofit Content Marketing: 2014 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. Nonprofit Marketing'

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Survey Benchmark Content Marketing 39

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2008

She also mentioned how they were beginning to experiment with Twitter. They are setting up twitter accounts linked to programmatic areas and affinity groups. The questions from the audience, mostly general managers or programming producers - "What was your budget?" For example, here's the arts programming account.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2011

If Zoos and Aquariums had a benchmarking process or what I starting to call “ bench learning &# where there is a dashboard of peer metrics to review and discuss with peers, they might discover a wealth of insights. The goal is share with peers to get a better understanding of where they are as an industry on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. One question that bubbled up was about specific techniques to measure or benchmark your nonprofits social media strategy and execution. NTEN – E-Nonprofit Benchmark Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

Surveys can help get data to form a baseline, benchmark, or inform strategy. Some nonprofits have surveyed their audiences on Facebook or Twitter in less structured ways to get feedback on content and engagement ideas. Surveys can also provide useful data to track progress along the way. Exhibitions team. Learning team.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

The 2011 Nonprofit Social Network Benchmark Report provides some incredible data on how 11K+ nonprofits are using social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and others. The study also answers the biggest question on everyone's mind. Facebook usage levels are at 89% with nonprofits versus only 57% usage of Twitter.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 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!" Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter? What inspired you to join?

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NTEN

APRIL 10, 2012

As you may have heard, we released the 2012 Nonprofit Social Benchmarking Report at the NTC last week. Even better, you can hear directly from the authors this week at a free webinar – and ask them your questions. > How many followers do nonprofits have on Twitter? > Free for everyone! > > Free for everyone!

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Social Network Network Social NTC 65

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Luckily, the Pew Research Center launched a Data Sets section that provides raw survey responses and the questions in a variety of easy-to-use data formats."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Are you a nonprofit or library with questions about data? Pacific time at the Twitter hashtag #NPdata to get all of your data questions answered. They will be joining to answer these questions and more. Participate in the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #npdata. Pacific time to learn more.

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Analytics Data Library Wiki 68

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Set your own benchmarks: Guidelines, benchmark reports, and best practices are helpful to know, but ultimately its important to know your audience. To learn more about the 2014 MFOM Conference visit the conference website , and check out the conference hashtag on Twitter: #MFOM14.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Here are a few: The blog at the Nonprofit Times, called “Don’t Tell the Donor&# has a very interesting entry on the flurry of benchmarking studies that came out recently. It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&# It takes aim at Convio’s recent benchmarking study. What do you think?

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study A visual version of the 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study by M+R Strategic Services and NTEN. Based on 2006 data, the chart features the 10 major sources of revenue for U.S. Get the latest data on email open rates, social media usage, email churn, and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Note from Beth: One question that I get asked at almost every workshop is about budget. While there have been different surveys on nonprofit adoption, for example, these two recent studies I profiled last month, I wish there was a benchmarking study. I mentioned this on Twitter. Find him on Twitter @mcmvanbree.

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Social Media Survey Media Social 92

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? We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. Please tell us if you know of one! What does it look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2013

This is the question we’re asking arts groups across the country this month, refreshing our national landmark survey of 2011. Early returns show robust embrace of social media’s tried and true platforms like Facebook (used regularly by more than 92% of respondents) Twitter (@55%) and YouTube (@40%). How Strong Is Your Social Net?

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Each case study includes background information about the issue and the campaign, key learnings, benchmark numbers, and outcomes.

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Web Iraq Case Study Bookmarking 108

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Look at your score and ask yourself the following reflection questions. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Don't live on Twitter, your blog, Facebook, or your email. Make Time for Reflection. Slow Down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 18, 2010

Some examples: A follower on Twitter or someone you’re following. wiki that gives you a good set of questions to ask after you’ve created a descriptive drawing. There are some free tools that can help you visualize your Twitter network or do quasi social network analysis on Twitter. Family members.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 6, 2009

In preparation for my involvement at the seminar I’m participating in the NCVO’s “Ask the Expert&# – an opportunity for NCVO members to pose questions and get answers prior to the main event. 2009 eNonprofit Benchmark Study. “I Key questions to ask include: who is your audience? put on by the NCVO.

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Social Media Interaction Government Case Study 105

Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

For each major marketing initiative answer the following questions. Set benchmarks and specific goals for traffic, engagement, and online giving for the year. Share compelling content on Facebook (1-2 times a day), Twitter (at least once a day), and other social media channels. Who are the target audiences?

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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. What questions did you ask? What prep did you do? What was easy about defining success?

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Care2

DECEMBER 8, 2010

Until you master fundraising on your own site, you SHOULD NOT spend loads of time fundraising on Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter. This begs an important question, how do you get more folks to visit and donate via your site? Your website is still your home base online. or 64.1%) comes via nonprofit websites.&#

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