Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A well-crafted branding strategy can help you stand out from the crowd, attract donors and volunteers, and make a lasting impact on your community. Increase your impact on the community. Share stats and information that people can easily understand. Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why. The brutal truth is that if your nonprofit posts boring content that does not inspire activity on social networks i.e., likes, shares, retweets, repins, and +1s, then your communities will grow very slowly. Other Metrics. It’s that simple.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why. The brutal truth is that if your nonprofit posts boring content that does not inspire activity on social networks i.e., likes, shares, retweets, repins, and +1s, then your communities will grow very slowly. Other Metrics. It’s that simple.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2011

Nonprofit campaigners have a gazillion tools to choose from that they can use for online outreach, social media, measuring metrics, updating their website, and much more. But are most of them useful to you? Are they efficient? Do they pull the data you need to run a better campaign and engage your activists and donors?

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Out of all sectors in the nonprofit community, International groups had the highest average gift size ($117) for a one-time gift and monthly donations ($33 monthly gifts). Nonprofits need to pay special attention to this stat. The average one time donation across sectors was $60 and $20 for monthly giving. Why is that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

In the Networked Nonprofit “ Learning Loops , we illustrated how networked nonprofits do a real-time, lighter assessment process as they engage their community and make improvements and adjustments along the way. Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

We’re acknowledging eight nonprofits leading the charge with dedicated fundraising campaigns as communities unite to support a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable planet. Snapshot: Today’s Environmental Sustainability Stats. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

It’s free, it gives you an immediate way to build a tribe and engage people in online community. Participate and be a community like the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) is doing a great job participating and building community with their Facebook page. Stats, stats, stats ….

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. In the far left column of the spreadsheet, list the metrics that you want to monitor. Finally, pick a day of the month to begin and enter the baseline metrics for the first month, then enter your progress for that month on the same day of every month thereafter.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 3, 2019

Customer lifetime value (CLV) is one of the key stats likely to be tracked as part of a customer experience program. This metric helps you understand a reasonable cost per acquisition for each customer. Nimble AMS is part of Community Brands, the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for associations. Learn more.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 9, 2013

Efforts that improve these metrics often lead to growth in revenue and vitality of an event or event series. Refer to Analyze This: A Nonprofit’s Guide to Event Fundraising Analytics by Convio and Event 360 for an excellent discussion of these key peer-to-peer fundraising metrics and more. How Do I Use Metrics with My Event?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

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. Sarah Granger: advise nonprofits on using social media for advocating and communicating. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. Community Mapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2005

Ethan Zuckerman has been analyzing Global s stats since the site's redesign last month. It would be interesting to compare the results of this analysis with using an open community algorithm , if such a tool were available. In another post, Ethan writes about the Blogpulse tools he used to do the analysis here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Establishing metrics for this campaign was difficult in that we didn’t have anything to use as a benchmark. Our digital engagement success is evolving based on our experience and it is difficult to outline what metrics of success might look like. A breakdown of the engagement and site visit stats are below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. Michelle Murrain weighs in with a thought provoking post, " What Do Web Stats Mean, Anyway? " I think web stats are useful when we are using them measure our outcomes. He suggests starting with the context here and then read his article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. The holy grail metrics is missing? In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list. Twitt(url)y.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

But these stats show how receptive people are to email after they've take an action. Community signup welcome series – Introduce community features at different intervals. Mostly you decide what content to deliver for each action, coordinate them with other emails and review metrics periodically.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Customize your dashboard to show the fundraising metrics most important to your nonprofit’s mission and campaign success. Pull reports with the most important metrics for your nonprofit’s success. Interactive dashboard. You can use it to keep an eye on your donor retention rate, campaign progress, and more. Customized reports.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

The nonprofit community calls this type of data mining “prospecting.” To be able to dynamically create text message based on a couple of lines of code unleashes enormous potential for nonprofits in respect to community organizing, volunteering, and quite possibly more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular. We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Produce a monthly website and online engagement report of key metrics. Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Monitor your organizations social media channels daily to see what is resonating with your community. Constantly.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

As you read that stat, you’re probably saying to yourself "wow, that’s impressive. And while it maybe true that your organization needs a better Facebook strategy, it’s also important that you dig a little deeper into social media stats. Also, what will happen to your page and community if Facebook goes away?

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NetWits

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Are you measuring the right social media metrics or do you have your head in the sand? So what type of metrics are non-profits tracking to determine if they are achieving their objectives? One metric I track on our Blog is RSS or eMail subscribers. Only 28% measure this metric!! Does community matter?

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2018

Here are some key stats that recap the impact to the higher ed sector: Online giving grew 13.2% James Wiley: We have seen a rise in the use of social media tools, such as alumni networking, to help build online communities alongside a CRM and other areas of technology. in 2017 compared to 2016.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

What is a realistic goal for the timeline and your community? Is it best to create a monetary goal or one based on impact metrics? Fiver casts a wide net with a “mix of their Fiver community” consisting of their young professionals’ committee, mid-career advocates, program alumni, and board members.

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CauseVox

JUNE 15, 2021

Parkinson’s Nebraska used the walk concept to inspire their Walk the State fundraiser, which asked participants to communally walk the distance it would take to cross the state of Nebraska. The stats back it up too: typically peer-to-peer fundraisers bring in 2x as much compared to other digital fundraising campaigns.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Do those numbers tell you anything you NEED to know, or are they vanity metrics (those numbers we LIKE to track because we think they make us look good)? Funders are going to eat those stats up! Let's take a step back, and ask one simple question: "Why?" " Why are you tracking all those things?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! I know you have some great tips to share with the community here so please take a minute and help us out. Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik. by Avinash Kaushik.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Shonali Burke, who we interviewed in “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , let me know about an exciting project she is working on with the Center for Community Change that is hosting the 8th Annual Change Champion Awards (in DC) today (Sept. What exactly are the right metrics for measuring this transformation?

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A Tough Lesson By following our own data-driven advice, and re-examining the traffic and conversion stats for our 2022 report microsite, we reached a difficult conclusion: the answer to our questions was predominantly ‘no.’ 3 Work with your data team to identify which stats from the past year will be the most impactful to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

The exhibition will coincide with programs about art theory, online communities, and crowd theory, providing a forum for public evaluation and discussion about the process. Nina observes that the following makes this project really special: It is 100% community-based. The internal team is led by a non-curator. Another theme of web2.o

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

“Its reassuring that despite the economic downturn most of the metrics they looked at, including average gift size, were flat or up compared to 2007,” said Robert Weiner, who provides technology consulting to nonprofit organizations. While donors continued to donate money, the average gift was smaller.

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

It’s easy to get bogged down by stats so make it relatable by designating an individual as the focal point and adding a personal, heartfelt narrative. 5) Fundraising Metrics. The most straightforward performance metric is the dollar amount raised. The second metric is the impact created by donors as part of the campaign.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

We’ve put together a list of the most up-to-date stats on how nonprofits are using social media to make a difference. They’re cleaning up the world’s drinking water, providing solutions for countless communities in order to help them get access to hygienic drinking water. VIEW MORE SOCIAL MEDIA STATS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

If anything, that's the most important thing about social media metrics or for any metrics. Metrics in context connected to action - whether to improve a program already underway or evaluate impact. I'm more interested right now in applying the metrics to program improvement. " (I think he even trademarked the term).

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