Media Cause

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There’s no replacement for reading through these guidelines so before you read the rest of this blog—make sure you take the time to review them (if you haven’t already)! . This tool by WebAIM checks the contrast between your foreground and background by providing ratios based on hex codes. . Important Resources for Following WCAG.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

When I heard about Guidestar’s plans to measure high performance at scale, I invited Jacob Harold, CEO and fellow ambassador to share a guest post about it on my blog. So here are four principles we used in designing GuideStar Platinum : Nonprofits should choose metrics that make sense for them. Social change is hard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

A place to quickly get a range of responses to questions, rapid research for blog posts, and social presence. A side benefit is that brings people over to my blog. This past month, for the first time, Twitter is now the #2 referral of visits to my blog, but only 1/3 of those referrals are from my own tweets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

However, if these engagement metrics are chronically low, your nonprofit may need more than routine maintenance—you may need an overhaul. For instance, large text should have at least a 3:1 contrast ratio. We also have an ever-expanding blog full of valuable information to help your not-for-profit org reach its potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) You can learn more about the redesign by reading our VP of Products’ blog post and dive into the complete list of new features by following this link.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Giving Good Poke.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

The folks at the Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) have written a terrific 3 part series discussing the same, which we share in this week’s blog post. Ideally, you want to focus on liquid unrestricted net assets – these are the resources that are immediately available if needed (more on that further in this blog).

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

“At the extremes the overhead ratio can offer insight: it can be a valid data point for rooting out fraud and poor financial management," the letter stated. Marketing Research Metrics Nonprofit Trends nptech' Reviewing this data can be helpful at times in ensuring charity accountability.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

I have a guest post up on John Haydon’s blog ! You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. If you only have an hour a week to post to a blog, then it is unreasonable to expect a lively conversation and community emerging from it, at least not very quickly. The post is republished below.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

As ASU Professor Mark Hager discussed in his blog post , this led to the popularization of one particular metric – the overhead vs. program costs ratio – as a way of judging the effectiveness and donation-worthiness of a nonprofit organization. Blog post ASU Lodestar Center [link]. Can you teach a watchdog new tricks?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. The PTAT metric includes all the following activities that happen on your page over a one-week rolling period: Liking a page.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. Which metrics will help you achieve it?

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. Which metrics will help you achieve it? Cost per visitor.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Despite these behaviors, a lot of digital marketing looks something like this: Let’s take a look at why this approach doesn’t work: First, it’s easy for content to get lost in the 2 million blog posts published every day. Tangible measurements are easy to calculate and can fall into any number of ratios and equations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I posted my slides and notes on my blog. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. The data collection should be not be a burden and that's why it is useful to carefully pick and choose what metrics you'll track. The final report or analysis can be a memo or simple report, doesn't need to be elaborate.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

If you only have an hour a week to post to a blog, then it is unreasonable to expect a lively conversation and community emerging from it, at least not very quickly. There are lots of blogs , directories , and lists available online to help you get started picking tools that match your goals.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Disclaimer Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

With content marketing, you and your supporters can create and upload content (blog posts, photos, testimonials, etc.) 5) Fundraising Metrics. The most straightforward performance metric is the dollar amount raised. This metric should reflect both online and offline donations, ideally, as close to real-time as possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The success of your blog, or any social media effort, depends on your willingness to solicit feedback and take corrective action when necessary. If you want to have a successful blog that supports your organization’s goals and adds value, improvement should be continuous. Visitors are people who occasionally visit your blog.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog. Some days are more on one end than others, but overall that is our goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Review your website’s blog posts, educational guides, and other resources to determine what’s worth keeping and what should be eliminated or adapted. . Assign relevant metrics to each goal. Check in on these metrics regularly as you carry out your strategy. . Then, you can use those visuals in your event recap blog posts. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. He did and gave me permission to blog! Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ??? Technorati ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

My blog is worth $314,448.78. How much is your blog worth? I was inspired by Connie Bensen , a community strategist, who shared a post celebrating the success of her blog over the past year. About a year ago, I decided to benchmark my blog using some tips suggested by Avinash Kaushik. Okay, I'm procrastinating.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

Flashy graphics, blogs, highlight reels and the like are great for most people, but the really cautious (or curious) will want to read an annual report, read about board members, and learn more about the nuts and bolts of your organization. Why Does Financial Transparency Matter for Nonprofits? Charity Ratings.

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Cloud 4 Good

APRIL 20, 2021

Zero to Three engaged with Cloud for Good to build a custom platform that could host the organization’s many different programs, create a single source of truth, track performance across programs, and track key fidelity metrics all the while. “Our Blog: What Can Salesforce Do For Nonprofits? Written by Blake Becker.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

However there is immediate value to the partners in the form of a dashboard and metrics for applying for grants, etc. They put metrics against speed and accuracy of the data their partners were sending in. org blog a lot. Everybody on staff is tracking and using metrics in their work. I check out the ideas42.org

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Posting blog articles with updates about the campaign. . If you’re looking for additional information about maximizing fundraising, following up, and communication best practices, the Giving Tuesday Blog offers a wealth of insight! You may look at metrics such as: . Posting frequently on social media. . Analyze Campaign Data.

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BoardAssist

AUGUST 8, 2017

As guest blogger Paul Konigstein has discussed in our blog in the past – one of the best ways that board members help their nonprofits is by shepherding them through the difficult financial decisions that are critical to any nonprofit’s existence. One key to making informed, strategic decisions is financial ratio analysis.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

Every Tuesday in June, this blog is featuring a guest post examining some aspect of the book. You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. This is the fifth installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. A museum is good only in so far as it is of use.”.

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