Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! There are stats built into the tool for the number of clicks and so on, but if you are measuring site traffic already it shouldn’t be new that regard. URL Shorteners – [link]. Nutshell Mail – [link].

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The annual report has an empty page with the heading “Full-Year Financials.” While perhaps not as demanding as your other reporting duties, the annual report can be a chance to focus on telling an engaging financial impact story. What’s an Annual Report even for? Except for one last thing. That Variance column?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

Too often I hear nonprofit communicators and techies bemoan the stats that their Executive Directors and boards want them to track – mostly follower counts and ‘Likes’. And those Facebook fans that your board is asking you to count and report on? Well Katie equated those to a Match.com date.

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Social Media Measure Media Social 97

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2012

scholar, student, or professional to highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day. In both 2009 and 2010, nonprofit leaders told us that they were "engaging more closely with the board" by increasing the number of annual meetings, sharing new types of reports, or in other ways.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Percent of participants who are on teams and similar stats, team size, team retention rate, etc. The more advanced online peer-to-peer fundraising software will let you pull the reports you need to calculate your performance against the benchmarks. Benchmarks & Stats Emerging Events Event Fundraising Peer-to-Peer Fundraising'

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

I’m happy to report that I’ve a shift here. Below is a chart which shows percent of participants with one or more online gifts over the last 5 years. I know it’s tough to read the numbers and my chart is a little more dramatic than it should be because of double numbers in the vertical axis. Seriously… we’re not.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 3, 2011

The visitors overview page doesn’t give you much useful information that’s not on the dashboard, but many of the reports below that contain vital information about who your visitors are and what they need for a good experience on your website. 22% of your visitors are on IE and the IE chart shows 17% on version 6.0,

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

13NTC tweets during the conference: 3000 from 806 unique tweeters from over 128 locations (thanks, Chris Tuttle for these cool visual charts). Social Media Fundraising: 90 Minutes of Nonstop Stats & Strategies at 13NTC , Filiberto Gonzalez. Report From 13NTC , Norman Reiss. Session Notes. Collaborative Notes (add yours!)

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data).

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

In the past, rows and rows of data would die a quick death in thick policy reports or inscrutable spreadsheets. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Get your data out of your reports.

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NTEN

MAY 7, 2013

13NTC tweets during the conference: 3000 from 806 unique tweeters from over 128 locations (thanks, Chris Tuttle for these cool visual charts). Social Media Fundraising: 90 Minutes of Nonstop Stats & Strategies at 13NTC , Filiberto Gonzalez. Report From 13NTC , Norman Reiss. Session Notes. Collaborative Notes (add yours!)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2009

I'll look forward to hearing a report. Get More Twitter Tabs, Columns and Stats [100 FREE Invites] [link] #twtrcon @ davemcclure yo @ hootsuite not really that cool to be incentivizing followers to spam the #twtrcon hash tag with product spam. I noticed this during the launch of the Charity Smackdown at SXSW.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

I don’t know what the formal stat is on this, but I know that I’m much more likely to get a fast response if I text someone rather than call them or email them. Find their report here. It generates pie charts and bar graphs that provide managers with a statistical look at how teleworkers are spending their time.

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

Despite some debate in the nonprofit tech community about whether email appeals and email newsletters were effectively reaching and engaging online members, Convio’s report says email open rates remain strong and above 20% in 2008. What do Convios latest benchmarks mean for your nonprofits online program?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

If you have lots of events to report on, you’re doing too many events! Lots of stats and facts. Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. Endless updates about past events. Plus, if people didn’t attend your car wash, they don’t really care that you raised $225. Good images.

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NTEN

JULY 7, 2011

This will be the basis of your reporting and the raw numbers of leads, downloads, donations, shares, clicks, views, etc will all be data in your algorithms based solely on what your GOALS where in first place. Since while all these fun new platforms come with their own super fun analytics and reporting pieces (i.e

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Social Media Integration Media Social 75

Care2

JULY 2, 2009

Think of it like eye-witness reports of breaking news, photos and videos from big events, and links to the hottest memes of the day. link] SocialToo: Creates surveys and tracks social media stats. One of the down sides of Twopular is that if your issue/hashtag is not in the top 10 trends, you won’t see stats in the bar graph.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

Inspiring photos and videos of your impactful work in action is crucial, but so are the stats. In fact, 33% of donors say clear visuals like charts and images would increase their likelihood to donate. This infographic powerfully exhibits the unreported cases of sexual violence vs the reported through the size of the circles.

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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. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Bloomerang

JULY 23, 2021

Let’s finance the whole thing, and let’s do it every year because when stats show that over 91% of nonprofits never reached $5 million, that’s a bonkers stat to me because who did we need most these last 18 months, right? You saw the bar chart. How did we report to them? Tell me about the relationship?”

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It’s incredibly important- Saying Thank You Like You Mean It - and it’s reported to be indicative of a donor’s willingness to give again. According to the 2014 Content Marketing Report, 92% of the nonprofits surveyed are using content marketing. Curious about what other findings are reported in the study?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics. With all that aside, I'm pleased with these stats! So I'm not spending time to generate god's spreadsheet of monthly number of posts and words per post.

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