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The Importance of Data Analytics for Fundraising Events

Achieve

Here are some metrics to watch for that can be tracked through most professional email delivery services: Open Rate The open rate is the percentage of emails opened out of the total number of emails sent. These can include surveys, one-on-one conversations, or anonymous comment cards.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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7 Practical Tips for Engagement with a Higher Purpose On Social

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can also invite Alums to share what they’re up to as part of your engagement strategy on social channels, either as a dedicated post or part of the conversation in the comments. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. pic.twitter.com/PXdIUl0IIQ.

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Benchmarking: Networked Nonprofits Measure Their Social Media Results In A Context

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith. By the end of 2011, we will increase the number of people who “Like&# us on Facebook to the median Facebook network or x%. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Guest Post: Introducing the New GuideStar Nonprofit Profile

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Tell us what you think by leaving a comment below! Our new profiles emphasize answers to key questions about nonprofit programs and performance. Turning snapshots into stories .

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Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

Connection Cafe

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. To better understand the shortcomings of for-profit metrics as a true measure of nonprofit success , let’s take a look at how return on investment (ROI) is calculated. How is ROI calculated?

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.