Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

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. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other. 5. Images, Questions, and Comments Inspire Facebook Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 6, 2007

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07 What do those guidelines look like?

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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. Advice abounds about tricks and tips for engaging the social sphere.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. I’d love to hear your thoughts on standard ROI and the concept of ROM in the comment section below. As a nonprofit organization, which factor do you believe best showcases the success of your mission?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A commenter pointed out that there must be an error in the data, as it is highly unlikely that Turner produced more than 40,000 works in his lifetime. Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks.

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Forum One

JULY 1, 2010

This is only a problem if (1) community sponsors expect levels of active participation radically different from these ratios and (2) more passive forms of participation are disregarded or undervalued.

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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. How are you handling comments and trackbacks?

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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? 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. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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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. With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Facebook decides what content you see, what ads you see, and your personal ratio of puppies to snow warnings. give people different materials for visitor comments and see whether the materials change the substance of their feedback? cull visitor comments to emphasize a particular perspective (or suite of perspectives)?

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Match ratios. We always encourage callers to excel while teaching methods to overcome negative comments. This type of tool allows users to conduct a quick search of an employer name and receive detailed guideline information in seconds. Types of qualifying nonprofits. Match minimums and maximums. Forms and guidelines. Rob Schlitts.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

If you are using a forum, then measuring the number of replies to post (or, if your forum allows voting, then the positive feedback on posts) could be appropriate, as well as the ratio of people signed up vs posting vs replying, etc. It’s incredibly important for the success of your work to evaluate how things are going throughout.

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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. pick the right metrics.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2015

Are the ratios changing? We may get a clue in a throwaway comment, or in a formal report presented by a colleague. recognizing the small comments that can lead to great quotes (think of them as strings that can be pulled to unwind the story further). Absolutely. Will online keep growing while direct mail keeps shrinking?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Provide quick human answers to your followers, ask questions, direct people to great resources (not your own 1:20 ratio - point to one of your resources for every twenty resources), stay in touch without being intrusive, no when to direct message, be funny, etc. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog.

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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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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2015

Fundraisers should also analyze how much idealized potential exists for a proposed campaign by calculating the low, middle, and high end of capacity ranges, thus weighting “hit rates” or yield ratios. I am interested in hearing your comments and questions, so please feel free to email me at carol.belair@blackbaud.com.

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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. How are you using the NpTech Tag?

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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. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

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. You described JOTS urls-to-tags ratio as impressive (2:1). Follow the links backward from the period in that last sentence.). other than a "pretty face. She ends invoking the PHP gods.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. of a small, but very productive non profit, the ratios always look bad.

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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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2012

In fact, a study released in the fall of 2011 revealed that auto-posting to Facebook decreases likes and comments by up to 70% which can have a detrimental impact on a nonprofit’s EdgeRank score on Facebook. Chapter 4 :: Follow on a 1:1 Ratio on Twitter. Change to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

In fact, a study released in the fall of 2011 revealed that auto-posting to Facebook decreases likes and comments by up to 70% which can have a detrimental impact on a nonprofit’s EdgeRank score on Facebook. Chapter 4 :: Follow on a 1:1 Ratio on Twitter. Change to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often.”

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 21, 2022

It’s part of following the 3-to-1 Ratio and it helps donors feel valued, not over asked. Show them that you’re hearing them by including their ideas and comments in your correspondence. Add a handwritten note to a than-you letter relating to their question or comment. There’s a big difference.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 18, 2013

In fact, a study released in the fall of 2011 revealed that auto-posting to Facebook decreases likes and comments by up to 70% which can have a detrimental impact on a nonprofit’s EdgeRank score on Facebook. Chapter 4 :: Follow on a 1:1 Ratio on Twitter. Change to “Follow on a 1:1 ratio or at least follow more often.”

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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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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you share things that interest her, she’ll engage with you, liking your posts, commenting, and sharing. For every Ask you publish, you should follow the 3:1 Ratio and post at least 3-4 informational and/or warm fuzzy pieces. Think of the typical person following you on social media and think about what SHE is interested in.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

Businesses usually match at a 1:1 ratio, but some match at a 2:1 or even 3:1 basis. They’ll be able to review the program’s guidelines, such as the minimum and maximum donation amounts, the match ratio, and employee eligibility rules.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 25, 2007

People are browsing the website by theme rather then through the A -Z directory at a ratio of 10 - 1, so these seems to be a much more engaging way to tell people about what museums have to offer. The goal is for i like.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2021

Every donation made by an eligible donor can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, or even 3:1 ratio. Once they’ve started posting, be sure to interact with them by liking or commenting on their post. Encourage your supporters to participate in their employers’ matching gift programs! But how do you make it happen?

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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? Conversation rate: This is the amount of commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard data points: You can get a list of the most commented on posts from PostRank. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio.

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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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