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How do grantmaker CEO salaries compare with other staff? 

Candid

One of the more helpful ways to explore top executive pay is to examine the ratio of their compensation compared to that of the “median worker” (i.e., For example, in The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism , John Bogle estimated a nationwide ratio to be approximately 280:1 in 2004 (up from 42:1 in 1980). The median ratio was 2.7:1

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11 Outstanding Nonprofit Reports You Should Read

Care2

This great workbook from Idealware and Darim Online provides insightful questions, exercises, and a sample policy template that community managers can use as a starting point in creating an organization’s official social media policy. Debra Askanase has a great review of the workbook that I’d recommend you check out as well.

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3 Key Pieces in an Engaging Email Campaign

Connection Cafe

MarketingSherpa’s gigantic 2011 Email Marketing Benchmark Survey found that, in the corporate world, the most effective email elements to test are: Target audience. Landing page. Subject line. Call-to-action link. Unless you’re getting 1,000+ click-throughs to a landing page, the sample size is likely too small.

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Pinterest Nonprofit Benchmarking with Pinerly

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was curious about what I could learn if I did an informal benchmark study of a few nonprofit Pinterest users. Here’s the stats I asked for and why: Average Repin Ratio : Gives a measure of engagement. The board topics with the most followers from this sample of seven early adopters include: Photography. Technology.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

industry benchmarks. assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

About a year ago, I decided to benchmark my blog using some tips suggested by Avinash Kaushik. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Calculating benchmarks should not take you more time than it is worth. I just sampled one month.