Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

Post your comments in the form of a question. Respond to comments. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Conversions? You should use certain key words. Pin things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. That's the term she gave JOTS in her response after reading my response to her answer to my initial question in the comments of this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? What did you learn from the conversation? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. What's the tone, formal or informal?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Lately, the crap to good stuff ratio has been a little skewed toward crap when it comes to trackbacks and somewhat with comments. I've always placed a high value on trackbacks and comments and the ability to get into a conversation - I get the best information and links from them.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. Just as the content distributed and conversations participated in are integrated into many different aspects of your organization’s work, so should the knowledge, access and responsibility to participate be integrated across your staff. What do you think?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

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. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly. test and teweak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

If you want learn the fine art of having a conversation on Twitter, follow and observe the masters. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog. There is also a generic organization one - but a lot of NTEN conversations happen through Holly and other staff. It doesn't work. Here's how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Some basic KPIs that would be useful to most nonprofit websites: Visitor-to-donor conversion ratio Unique visitors per day/week/month Cost per visitor Bounce rate Abandonment rate Average time on site For a more complete listing of KPIs, broken down by type of website, check out this post by analytics guru Bryan Eisenberg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. Leave a comment. Join the cross-blog conversation!

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

People already know how to leave voice and text messages and don't have to grapple with a comment system to do so. This may improve quality as well as quantity of comments; if visitors can comment directly on individual artifacts, there may be fewer generic "this exhibition was great!" comment rate. Second, granularity.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2022

Fundraising communications is meant to be a conversation – not a one-way street. Have you ever had a conversation with your television? It’s part of following the 3-to-1 Ratio and it helps donors feel valued, not over asked. If good donor communication is a conversation, how are you doing with that?

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

If I were to put a ratio on it, I wouldnt want to exceed 30% self-promotional content to about 70% links to other things. Receive monthly updates 1 Comment | by Share Article in Social Networking , Web 2.0 Some days are more on one end than others, but overall that is our goal. DZ: What do you feel youre getting out of it?

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Whether your content is original (you’ve created it yourself) or shared from someone else, the goal is always to get your followers to interact and have a conversation with you. If you share things that interest her, she’ll engage with you, liking your posts, commenting, and sharing. What’s Your Audience Interested in?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

In many museums, comment cards are currently the most "participatory" part of the visitor experience. that the signal-to-noise ratio is low. In most institutions, the suggestions on comment cards don't get to the people in power. In other words, comment cards aren't effectively organized for use. Enter the internet.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

A/B testing is the process of designing two different versions of your giving form, then using website analytics to determine which page had a higher conversion rate. Businesses usually match at a 1:1 ratio, but some match at a 2:1 or even 3:1 basis. Maximizing online donations. Offer suggested giving amounts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments section? What did you learn from the conversation your readers started? Conversation rate: This is the amount of commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

These gifts can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, and even 3:1 ratio. Donation page conversion rate How do you know that your donation page is effective? You can track this by measuring the page’s conversion rate. You can also track social media conversion rates.

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

These gifts can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, and even 3:1 ratio. Fundraise Up Fundraise Up is an online donation platform that provides donation page software that your organization can use to increase conversions from your website. Donation page conversion rate How do you know that your donation page is effective?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. And, as stubborn as it sounds Mr. CEO, you don’t get money out of a conversation. Outbound links for influence.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you read along and have something to add, please share your comments. Q: Is there a good ratio of times to communicate with a donor and asking for donations? Keep it conversational – write like you talk. SO, I thought I’d answer them here so that everyone could benefit. Building a donor base.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

I was looking for the big conversation – why are we doing this anyway? I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. { at 5:18 am { 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J. Looking forward to more comments and posts in this vein. .&#

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

The efficiency ratio , also known as the revenue to cost ratio. The best part of the efficiency ratio is that it doesn’t involve any complex math. Use the efficiency ratio to calculate the ROI of your marketing activities. Let us know in the comments below. How else is leadership suppose to react to that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. The current conversation is about the need for new metrics and methods for objective measurement. I'm going to give a very brief overview (15-20 minutes at most) that will serve as a conversation starter for small group work.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). I want people who find me via a google search to want to stick around and join the conversation, not click away. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Conversation habits in the comments in the blogs - it's what makes them a social media.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. . And I appreciate the chance to even have this conversation and be included in it. So don’t be shy. There’s a chat box and a Q&A box.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. And I appreciate the chance to even have this conversation and be included in it. But most importantly, we’d love for these sessions to be interactive.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

You can join the conversation in the blog comments and add your own voice to the debate. Eric: LAMs are attracted to the welcoming and open world supported by his idea of conversation, though for us it’s more the conversation about something(s). In the end, we are about our content. Suzanne: We want relationships, too!

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