Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

This week, the call for data measurement in the social sector heightens with the proposition of a Social Progress Index and ways that NGOs can use data maps to increase effectiveness. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified. Data Measurement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

This was a considerable commitment, but many in the sector saw a need to measure the impact and effectiveness of such funding—specifically, whether the funds were going to nonprofits led by communities of color or to more traditional, white-led institutions. The best way to answer these questions is to measure and analyze consistent data.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

Here, we see a clear trend: Over 90% of nonprofits shared some demographic data about their leader. iv In comparison, the sharing rate for all other staffing levels is below 60%. Among demographic categories, the sharing rates are notably higher for race/ethnicity and gender. Here, a higher number means that more data has been shared).

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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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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience is utilizing the data you collect about their giving trends to inform your future fundraising decisions. . This will help you measure improvement year-over-year and hold your team accountable for meeting various goals.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

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. Key Performance Indicator (KPI) : A key performance indicator is a metric that organizations use to track and measure progress towards their goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2013

24th. Will nonprofits follow that trend? While techniques and equipment are important, it is also useful to have some benchmarks and best practices in the nonprofit sector to inform your strategy and measurement plan. Tactics will only go so far. I always look at Michael Hoffman, CEO, See3 Communications for an answer.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis. Institutional disaster philanthropy may be small in comparison to government funding.

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Care2

APRIL 30, 2014

Perhaps you have a hunch, but the only surefire way to know this info is to develop a tracking and measurement plan. To help get you started, here is a list of some of my favorite measurement tools. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' This will help your organization improve your understanding of what your audience responds to.

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

Your IT team will be interested in tracking metrics around how well your systems are performing and overall donor and data security measures. The overall product and managed package is so much more nimble and lightweight in comparison to other similar products built on the Salesforce platform. Solution Architect.

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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. Do you need to a monthly trend? 4) Choose the Right Measure. Step B: Identify the comparison. 3) Don’t Give Too Details.

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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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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. What is the trend of revenue, expense and other activities? How do these trends compare to expectations? you have half a tank of gas). Simplify without Compromise.

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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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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Your fundraising goals, or “micro-goals,” should be SMART goals – specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time bound. Study Past Fundraising Trends. These strategies should also have specific metrics and/or KPIs associated with them to measure their success. Fundraising Goals. And by what time frame?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

People are better at judging length, so bar charts are a decent option also useful for comparisons. Now the trends are much easier to see at a glance. Data Measurement' It’s difficult to interpret area, so if you use a pie, restrict the number of wedges to 4 or fewer. Ah, so much better!

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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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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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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. Having specialists in-house means we’re always monitoring trends and looking for opportunities. Please tell us if you know of one! Pinterest has only been around for short time.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 17, 2019

These two adages were both in my mind last week when I asked people for the worst museum trends. I wasn't surprised that the worst trends had much more pick up than best. In this decade museums worst trends were in labor and tech: 1. Technology was the number one worst trend in museums in people's comments.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Check out the comparison chart below. Check out some more statistics from the Cone study: 41% of Americans say they have bought a product because it was associated with a cause or issue in the last year – doubling since they first began measuring this in 1993 (20%). Tags: Cause Marketing Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. Does it exist?

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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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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. If a client hasn’t had Analytics for a year, 3 months would be the shortest timeframe we’d want to evaluate to ensure we get a clear enough picture of trends over time. To understand how visitors interact with the site. Methodology. Research Questions. Deliverables.

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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? . That score measures how engaging your posts have been to users in the last 7 days. See a sample of what the stats look like here.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 8, 2016

We also had him share insights on the metrics you should measure. Multiple Year Retention Rate : Same as above, but by tracking these year-by-year you can spot trends, problems and opportunities. Because year-over-year comparisons of this metric will trigger additional questions and answers for improving your program.

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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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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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. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. Lucy Bernholz, moderating, said that metrics are the carbon in the ecosystem and the oxygen is the policy frame.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. There are many other readers - here's a comparison of features from Wikipedia. Pattern Analysis You'll want to be look for patterns and trends. Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen. Here's a few: Bloglines.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

That might seem low, but it’s actually on track with other online trends. As a point of comparison, the U.S. People will manage, monitor, and measure their philanthropic activity primarily on a mobile device. of total fundraising revenue. of total sales. Donor behavior is keeping pace with consumer behavior. Choose wisely.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

Whether you’re interested in participant loyalty, fundraiser status, or team performance, this will give you a comparison for your program and help you make sure you aren’t missing a beat. This Study will act as a baseline for the peer-to-peer events happening in the fundraising world around you. npEXPERTS: The Future of Fundraising.

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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. "If you listen closely, you can pick up on trends and ideas that can really help your outreach and communication efforts." So, do visitors from Twitter simply click and then flit away?

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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. What are the trends on all of the above? And the mission of the organization matters too.

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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. as well as year-over-year comparisons for each metric. Clear Goals and Objectives. Constituent Experience.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

With the right knowledge and tools, we believe every nonprofit can better explore its data and spot trends, outliers, and even new opportunities. Use Line Charts and Area Charts to Track Trends over Time. One of the most frequently used methods for analyzing data is to track a trend over time. The answer is no.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2017

It made for interesting tweets and blog post headlines about online giving trends, but it wasn’t very useful. There are some interesting and insightful trends when you really dig into the data. As a point of comparison, in 2016 the median offline gift less than $1,000 was $20. How are you trending?

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