Kindful

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

When it comes to acquisition, we all know that metrics matter. However, most nonprofits don’t know which metrics to look at —or what to do with that information once they have it. . This is especially true if you aren’t sure which numbers or metrics you should review. I recommend looking at three key metrics. .

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

Members of this team review fundraising metrics , such as: Which recurring donors have upcoming credit card expirations, in order to stay ahead of lapsed recurring gifts. They’ll look at metrics on missing donor data, address updates, and donor actions. How many volunteer hours were recorded for a park cleanup event.

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Fundraising Metrics Database Nonprofit 95

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

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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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). Some pr professionals agree.

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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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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. Metrics : Metrics are measures of something. Nonprofit pricing is available – Power BI for Nonprofits.

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Everyaction

MAY 30, 2018

Quantify values to help compare When possible, assign number values to desires and compatibility to aid in comparison. Using a 1-10 scale or other similar metric may help you compare those options that fall somewhere in the middle. For any given feature, whether or not a vendor meets your needs may not be a simple yes or no answer.

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NetWits

MAY 26, 2011

- Although a great report in itself, I suggest opening the date range filter to include “past comparison,&# for year to year comparison (if you have previous year’s data). Use this comparison to survey peaks and valleys of traffic. Also, Google defaults to the most recent month’s worth of data.

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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. The key to effectively using a dashboard is isolating the essential metrics aligned with measures of expectations. Simplify without Compromise.

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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 Metrics 100

Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

Similar to the engagement meter, a generosity score also provides an at-a-glance view of an important supporter metric. Fundraising metrics. Your dashboard can provide insight into your most important fundraising metrics. This will help you make direct comparisons after you’ve received a demo of each. Blackbaud eTapestry.

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Software Management Donor Guide 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2013

For step 1, she suggested using Juice Analytics chart chooser tool. I wanted to learn more about what particular chart format is better suited to visualize a particular comparison or insight from social media data. Time Series Comparisons. More in bar charts in excel.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Is TikTok or Instagram a true search engine in comparison to Google? Analyzing metrics on platforms like Instagram and TikTok can help fine-tune your strategies. The way that people search is fundamentally evolving. As the next generation of searchers age, the way they interact with search continues to change. The short answer is “no.”

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

We also use the median for our comparisons, so that one outlier doesn’t skew the whole set. Average gift was nearly flat year over year for the median organization, but this metric is especially volatile and easily pulled by outliers. And boy, were there some outliers this year. On to the goods! . Giving Tuesday: December Edition.

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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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DNL OmniMedia

DECEMBER 13, 2021

We’ve created this guide to nonprofit CRM options, through which you’ll review the basics of CRM software and a side-by-side comparison of the top solutions through the following points: Overview of CRM for Nonprofits. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions. Nonprofit CRM Comparison: Top 7 Solutions.

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Blackbaud Nonprofit Summary Comparison 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2011

This requires some discipline to think long and hard about what data is most useful to gain an understanding. A nonprofit recently shared their social media metrics spreadsheet with me and it was 150 rows of data that require constant scrolling. Step B: Identify the comparison. 2) Give Context. 5) Choose the Right Display.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Here is a Year-Over-Year comparison of our survey responses to technology staffing questions for the last three years: The key things we notice here are: The significant diffence between tech staffing levels reported in 2010 as compared to 2011 and 2012. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

One participant on my Facebook page, Maggie Leifer McGary discovered this as well about her nonprofit's fan page (check out her case study ) While it is possible to go back and download an export of daily metrics from the Facebook insights tool from the beginning, it can be a huge pain. I look at the following metrics: Total Interactions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

One noteworthy part of the report is a comparison among three performance companies, the Metropolitan Opera , Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre , and Misnomer Dance Theater. A company like PICT has a little bit less freedom: it needs to use strong metrics and make an educated ask.

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Copyright Report Broadcast Free 74

Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leverage a CMS that has embedded Google Analytics functionality so you can track metrics like site visits, bounce rates, and more. Event comparison. Compare the reports and key metrics from any two events to evaluate the pace of registration. Provide SEO tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

I also found an indepth analysis of user behavior on Facebook and some specific thinking about metrics. Comparison of old/new metrics. Demographic drill down (34% work as professionals). Facebook users are aging. How to apply it. Nature of conversation on Facebook. Segments by app usage.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

Comparison? 90% of them can’t be answered by data or metrics. But we can’t achieve any of those things if our teams are burned out, overwhelmed, or more tuned-in to metrics than meaning. What was our motivation? Were we sparked by fear? What if COVID never ends?!) A scarcity mindset? How did the process feel? Was it inspiring?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Here’s my spreadsheet aerobics daily and monthly routine. I grab the monthly daily data from the insights tool (old version) and download into a spreadsheet. Out of the 25 or metrics I could look at, I only collect the following metrics: Total Interactions. New Fans (Likes). Unsubscribes. Page Views.

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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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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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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. Total Interactions - The total interactions metric captures all of the feedback Pages receive from Facebook users. Actually, this data will likely help you improve your overall web efforts!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

(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. A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

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. To get the market from niche to mainstream people are working on taxonomy, metrics and peer and trend ratings. Lagging indicators -.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. If you had an analytics tool to track your organization's use of Twitter, what metrics would you track and how would you define success? TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

The holy grail metrics is missing? Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. The big point is that successful efforts just don't happen on Twitter - it takes social capital, strategy, and the right metrics to track and evaluate what worked and what didn't.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 18, 2011

This filter may affect your key metrics, and you’ll want to make sure to be able to quantify the effect it has made on your data. This may come in handy if monthly or yearly comparisons are made and people wonder why traffic dropped. After you have recorded the deltas in your benchmark metrics, you have 2 options.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

I often use monthly and year-over-year comparisons, which helps me identify more active times of the year (like hurricane season, #GivingTuesday, or the holidays). Based on the prior two metrics, set a participation goal and a maximum budget allocation for the year.

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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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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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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

These strategies should also have specific metrics and/or KPIs associated with them to measure their success. The Irish International Immigration Centre nearly doubled their online giving by replacing their paypal button with the CauseVox donation page – they’re average gift jumped up by more than $100 in comparison to previous giving.

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