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Social Media Analytics: The Basics

NonProfit Hub

Engagement rate is the ratio of total impressions versus total engagements. All it takes is a close look at a few main factors to evaluate your overall social media performance. On Twitter, you can find this chart on the right side of your profile (not your analytics page) when in desktop view. Engagement.

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Help Your Helpers! Top Tips for Managing Volunteers

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Whether you’re a brand-new nonprofit looking to recruit your very first volunteers or are a seasoned pro, it’s important to first evaluate and assess your volunteer needs and to do so frequently. Take the opportunity to of course thank your volunteer for their suggestion and work through the steps. Now, discuss the reality.

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Guest Post by Steve Waddell: Systems Mapping for Non-Profits - Part 1

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The production system maps aid an organization to understand how work actually gets done, in comparison to formal org charts. These are points that, when focused upon, have a large ratio of amount-of-effort to desired-change. Key is a participatory development process.

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The Overhead Solution: A New Nonprofit Pride Movement

Tech Soup

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Charity Raters Part 1: Charting the Bad and the Bad.

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Digital Marketing Plan For Nonprofits: The Definitive Guide (2017)

Nonprofits Source

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. Tangible measurements are easy to calculate and can fall into any number of ratios and equations. Creating a digital plan does that by aligning strategies to support your marketing goals.

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Report Back from the Do Good Data Conference 2015

NTEN

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. Behold the Cost-to-Benefit Ratio—Robin Hood Foundation It’s not popular to admit this in the non-profit sector: I have a finance degree. It’s a big idea, that’s for sure, and very compelling.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I can't easily measure this metric unless I set up some sort of Ruby Goldberg contraption like cut and pasting a month's worth of posts and cut paste into word, count the number of posts, and then chart in excel. I agree, but is a ratio the best number? For April, I had 52 posts and 29,332 words. which is very hard to so.

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