Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Evaluate your goals and objectives, as an organization. Hildy Gottlieb’s Pollyanna Principles are a great place to start if you want to learn more about how you can evaluate and identify your organizational goals (and larger view) in a way to successfully design projects, programs and even partnerships for real impact.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

None of us like the fact that the percentage of income we spend on "overhead" is the primary measure of our effectiveness. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. We need a culture change.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

None of us like the fact that the percentage of income we spend on "overhead" is the primary measure of our effectiveness. The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle aptly summarized the problem with the overhead measure this summer. We're all for a change in the way that effectiveness is accounted for. We need a culture change.

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Roles Question Ratio API 57

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

By evaluating what resources you already have on hand in the organization, you are much more prepared to fully examine your options. This is really helpful in order to evaluate the appropriate tools for your work. So, your definition of success has to be flexible to the changing times and the changing needs of your audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. everything before lays the foundation, everything during and after helps you improve and change your strategy. obama reach vs local reach.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 5, 2021

But what’s important to understand is that when this feature becomes available to users, your open rates will change. A high open rate to click-thru rate (CTR) ratio helps you determine the efficacy of your content. You can send the same email but use two different subject lines to measure which one received a higher open rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . If not, why? If yes, why?

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

Even with a 5:1 identification-to-gift success ratio (or 200 gifts) annual revenue from this major gift prospect pool could reasonably be set at $5,000,000! Embracing Change. Benchmarking studies, analytic assessments and capacity indicators all mean one thing: change. The information we garner is powerful.

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Gift Strategy Benchmark Arts 35

NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Starting in the mid-1990s, telecenters provided a relatively quick and measurable way (# computers bought, # people trained) to show change in access (digital divide) and capacity building (Microsoft UP). Luckily, we, like all successful groups in the field, excelled at anecdotal evaluation. Matt Berg, Millenium Villages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Here are seven tips to help you start measuring social media efforts. Understand how Google Analytics calculates unique visitors and how Feedburner calculates subscribers , but please don’t get so hung up on the geeky part of measurement that you don’t have enough time to gather insights and apply them. If not, why? If yes, why?

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

It can be hard to determine what’s essential with so many different rating systems out there—so what charity rating platforms are most important for building credibility and how do they measure efficacy? Charity Navigator is the world’s largest independent charity evaluator and rater. Charity Ratings. Please go to [link] to learn more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

We're trying to make some changes in our web site based on user behavior. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). measuring your impact on the world!). My blogging platform, Typepad , does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Many nonprofits have experienced drastic changes in the digital fundraising landscape. Monitor the ad performance to gain benchmarks against which to measure future performance. This will help you determine when you need to change the creative, the offer… or both! So, what can you do?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I’ve emerged from this week’s frenzy of buzzwords like “blogging,&# “open API,&# “e-advocacy,&# “municipal wireless&# and “social networking&# not surprised at how much things have changed, really, but how much they have stayed exactly the same. Mitchell 04.08.07 We have to do better than this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. Owyang ).

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

What do you think the ratio is of you talking versus the donor talking? Steven: And I would call that evaluation, right, that’s us checking to see if we’re doing our work well, right. . After a year, because of staff changes he’s like, “What’s going on?” So people get it. . Andy: Old. .

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

But, times have changed and Google is increasingly rewarding sites that provide relevant and useful answers to user searches. . Armed with this information, you can evaluate keywords that present an area of opportunity. The higher this ratio is the lower cost per engagement your ad will be. P enalize spammy low-value posts.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We all use data and analytics in some measure every day to guide our strategic planning and tactical decision making. While this may sound hyperbolic, take a moment to think about how our business landscape has changed over just the last five years. Lifetime value measurements. Let Go of Your Fear – Anyone Can Be Data-Driven.

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