Whole Whale

MAY 11, 2022

Events have up to 25 parameters and are reusable All of the GA4 metrics are tracked and named slightly differently than UA GA4 has some new features that aren’t available in Universal Analytics, such as the ability to track user engagement across devices and platforms, and use AI to generate insights. Why UA Metrics won’t Match GA4.

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Analytics University Difference Metrics 59

Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

Just as you’ve finally settled into the shift from Universal Analytics (UA) to Google Analytics 4 (GA4) and started to get a handle on its new metrics, Google has yet another deadline for organizations to meet. By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis.

Analytics 45

Analytics University Data API 45

Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Flexibility : The best dashboards are flexible enough to track the metrics that are most important to your nonprofit. Price: Starts at $9.99 – Pricing & Product Comparison | Microsoft Power BI. Amplitude is a data dashboarding tool that allows users to track, measure, and analyze their data. Website : [link].

Analytics 52

Analytics Tools Wikipedia Track 52

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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Drupal Comment Report Open Source 150

Candid

MAY 4, 2023

iv In comparison, the sharing rate for all other staffing levels is below 60%. To dive deeper into the factors that positively affect the sharing of demographic data, we created a metric called “survey completion level”, ranging from zero to four. Here, a higher number means that more data has been shared).

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Demographics Share Data Taxonomy 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Stephen Downes summarized my post on Social Media Metrics and Measuring Blog Outcomes and added some commentary. My post wasa riff on evaluating the effectiveness of blogs, and in particular, a set of metrics from Avinash Kaushik: "Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post). It's like measuring 'friendship'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

Last month, Stephanie Evergreen wrote an awesome guest post called “ Six Steps to Great Charts ” with lots of practical tips for using the Excel chart feature to visualize your social media measurement data. The vertical is used to label and measure different items. Time Series Comparisons. Step 4: Directly Label.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

Dashboards are a nonprofit’s best friend because they can be powerful tools in communicating your organization’s important measurement data at a glance. 4) Choose the Right Measure. Step B: Identify the comparison. If you can see the snapshot and learn, it is useless. (2) 2) Give Context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis.

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Social Media Strategy Media Social 99

ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

expectations); Compare actual activity to expectations (comparison of budget/prior year to actual); Present a picture of the financial health of the organization. The key to effectively using a dashboard is isolating the essential metrics aligned with measures of expectations. Simplify without Compromise.

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Report Ratio Tucson Director 86

NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

As the membership organization for nonprofit technology professionals, it''s an important, and often sticky, issue to understand, communicate, and especially measure. Another way we measure technology staffing levels is determing the Tech Staff - to - Organizational Staff Ratio. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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Ratio Report Technology Roles 85

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

Drupal 100

Drupal Comment Report Metrics 100

Neon CRM

JUNE 2, 2023

Nonprofit engagement metrics can help you understand your organization, but you’ve probably seen the same terms over and over again in your research. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information. By embracing a few overlooked metrics, you will be able to go deeper into that information.

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Metrics Rate Nonprofit Social Media 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

Take her ROI and Measurement list. I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. What I found most valuable was the tip about getting a baseline measurement before you begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

By understanding your activity and performance, fan response, trends and comparisons, you are better equipped to improve your presence on Facebook. What is measured you ask? . Total Interactions - The total interactions metric captures all of the feedback Pages receive from Facebook users.

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Facebook Stats Los Angeles Tips 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

We’d like to try to benchmark it against other disruptive pinterest campaigns but we’re not sure there is a good comparison case study. We predicted it might be smaller as the campaign is disruptive to the usual pinterest pattern. Please tell us if you know of one! Pinterest has only been around for short time.

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Sierra Leone Case Study Benchmark Comparison 126

Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

Comparison? 90% of them can’t be answered by data or metrics. aspects of our work because we’re so focused on what’s concrete and measurable: growth, visibility, program delivery. aspects of our work because we’re so focused on what’s concrete and measurable: growth, visibility, program delivery. What was our motivation?

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Nonprofit Team Goal Attention 59

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

She also said that the pressure of measurement is not lessening and the drumbeat is getting louder. But that nonprofit sector has struggled for decades about whether or not they could demonstrate impact and there are lots of comparisons between sub-sectors. She touched on some of the implications for staffing and governance.

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Skills Reflection Management Aggregator 96

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Even better, we discovered that we can use this practice to both inform and measure campaigns.

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Conservancy Measure Conversation Nonprofit 112

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And, as I was sharing earlier, we usually teach this in person over a period of two to three hours, so, you all are getting the, what we’ll call, the boot-camp version of “Measure of Success.” Was there anything helpful about that comparison between service engagement and impact? Is it measurable? 0001 pounds.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2016

We also had him share insights on the metrics you should measure. CausePlanet : Would you talk about how the metrics you have developed (lifetime value, etc.) Craver : There are some fundamental metrics that serve as a sort of fundraiser’s GPS—retention rates and lifetime value.

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Track Donor Retention Metrics 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? The closest thing I've seen is a little utility called Twitinfluence - it measures an individual users Twitter network based on the following: First and Second Order Networks. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. Does it exist? ahem, @pistachio ?)

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Donation Tanzania Organization Stats 50

CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Your fundraising goals, or “micro-goals,” should be SMART goals – specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time bound. These strategies should also have specific metrics and/or KPIs associated with them to measure their success. Fundraising Goals. For example, how many new donors do you expect to acquire?

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Calendar Template Guide Fundraising 98

NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2011

The traditional measure of open rates – total messages opened ÷ total messages delivered – should be used to gauge the overall health of your e-mail program. Because the comparisons will never be exact, the most important thing to watch is your True Open Rate over time. We're always looking for new metrics. True Open Rate.

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Rate Open Benchmark Mail 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

In a recent post , I mentioned that Jeremiah Owyang pointed out that "Retweet" (sharing a link or tweet from one of your followers with your followers) is a social gesture indicating endorsement of an idea and predicts that there will be an analytics tools to measure this. I went looking for stop gaps from Brian Solis's awesome list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. After you've been able to use metrics to learn what works and adapt your approach, you can use a traditional approach which begins with defining value and culminates with a financial calculation that could go something like this. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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ROI Social Media Slides NTEN 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

I sought out sessions that focused on setting industry standards for social measurement. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy. She’s launched a policy project you can read about here.

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Taxonomy Metrics San Francisco Ghana 61

Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. For a more in-depth Analytics review, we might also establish some Goal Tracking to measure conversions on the website via email sign-up and/or donations. If we set up Goals, reviewing them post-launch is another great success metric. Methodology. What’s Next.

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Analytics Design Research Process 37

AFP Blog

MARCH 4, 2010

Mobile Social Networking Usage Soars [STATS]: "Digital measurement firm comScore released a study today highlighting the rise in social media access via mobile phones and offering some comparison metrics for some of the biggest social networks and their usage on mobile devices.".

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Stats Social Network Mobile Network 20

NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Understanding your own goals and your nonprofit’s impact will keep you from getting too caught up in the comparison game. When two teams combine with different operations and metrics, it can be hard to form mutually beneficial goals and a compatible relationship. Cooperation isn’t smooth sailing from there, either.

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Cancer Nonprofit Profit Metrics 41

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

As some sort of measure of accountability, raw web statistics (this site got x visits and y pageviews in t timeframe) mean zilch. to care a whole lot about how many hits they got in comparison to similar (or different) organizations. And the mission of the organization matters too. And, I actually hope that doesn’t change.

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Stats Web Statistics NTEN 100

Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

Bringing together statistics from reputable sources across the sector, it gives you the metrics you need to see the full picture of the philanthropic sector and move your organization forward, all in one easy-to-find location. 2016 NGO Online Technology Report.

Professional 20

Professional Causes NGO News 20

Connection Cafe

APRIL 30, 2014

As with any initiative, goals and objectives should be clear, measurable, and aligned with the organization’s strategy and mission. Try looking at a variety of meaningful metrics (not just dollars raised) to better understand the drivers for the event and provide feedback you can use for optimizing future events.

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Volunteer Social Media Interaction Demonstration 38

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

I did a comparison of time on-site with top referrals and Twitter referrals stay longer than Google. This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. It takes time for Twitter to be a golden referral -- a year ago , Twitter did not make my top ten referrers.

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Twitter Ratio Google Artist 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By comparison, when Epic Change launched the original TweetsGiving in 2008 - when Stacey herself had far fewer followers & the Twitter ecosystem itself was exponentially smaller – the campaign generated over 3,000 tweets in just 48 hours. Some messages sent by Epic Change via their 180+ JustCoz participants would get zero response.

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Case Study Tools Studies Community 80

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric.

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