Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." You typed in a URL and a file with text and links (and later pictures and video) would be delivered. Life was good. Audience: Who is coming? What is the trend?

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2015

I think the reason there is a spike [in online giving] is because that is when non-profits feel it is OK to mail/email the heck out of their files. The comparison to events like the ACS Relay for Life may not be an apples to apples comparison. Higher Quality + Campaign Frequency Motivates Giving. see: Giving Tuesday).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The focus shifted to a new set of key performance indicators (KPIs), including: File size and donor file coverage ratios. Benchmarking has provided an apples-to-apples comparison of data and helped clearly identify areas of growth and opportunity as well as highlight how past decisions had affected the current program.

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