Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics. Because of its scale, Giving USA includes lots of different data points and inspires tons of conversations and speculation in the industry.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

Assuming that staff can just wander on to general AI models and create content is like when nonprofits thought it was a good idea to give their social comms to interns a decade ago. Fact-check and edit : While AI-generated content can be insightful, it may not always be perfect, especially if recalling facts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. In addition to weekly check-ins, the dashboard includes key performance metrics related to goals as well as more detailed metrics. Conversion, as measured in dollars and cents, as a means to evaluate and justify the time spent on social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. What seemed to resonate most with the crowd was the concept of “ One Metric That Matters.” They felt accomplished.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Metrics matter because they give your nonprofit insights on decision-making and provide evidence for what kind of content to share. However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. The Nonprofit’s Social Media Content Planner. Engagement Rate.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read it and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or read the full post below. This means users can share content publicly with subscribers (and privately with their direct contacts). Metrics that Matter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Popularity and relevance are the most common metrics through which to filter that content – but are they the best?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of September 13th).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Let’s start at the most fundamental place for this conversation. For this conversation, and those to have over the course of the next two days together at least, let’s work from the place that a movement is larger than coalitions. Look first at your organizational metrics.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

They send relevant content based on subscriber interests, preferences and actions. Delivering personalized content to your audiences can significantly increase click-through rates. It’s also been reported as the top tactic to deliver relevant and engaging content.*. Provides value (relevant content; event reminders).

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Is it best to create a monetary goal or one based on impact metrics? Craft a strong appeal by sourcing your content early. Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Make sure the links to any campaign pages or relevant blog posts appear in homepage modules that feature content.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

You can visit his blog to read the post and join the conversation there. Just as the content distributed and conversations participated in are integrated into many different aspects of your organization’s work, so should the knowledge, access and responsibility to participate be integrated across your staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2010

Think about those 4th grade science experiments where huddled over your experiment you all learn together. The instruction not only included the content – all the best practices and how-tos, but also took an approach that encouraged and developed reflection. Participant-Generated Instructional Content.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of February 23rd). Check it out!

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

Thanks to all those who participated or followed along, and to those who will join the conversation now! What makes a Twitter chat different than a blog post, for example, is that the conversation is 1. That’s not to say that conversation can’t be incredible – but even then it is probably still not real time.

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NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

By Amy Sample Ward, Membership Director, NTEN. Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. followers) – Stacey points to the difficulty in getting people to join in the conversation on Twitter. We thought we could generate a conversation but it didn't happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

" She was referring to sites like YouTube and Flickr, perhaps just the act of browsing content or what we might call "lurking" in online communities. " Amy Sample Ward, also pointed to the reciprocity. s a good way to start the conversation. Some takeaways. t (perhaps they???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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 uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. It’s also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your website’s content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. It's moved.

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Care2

AUGUST 16, 2008

If youre interested in video for nonprofits, keep up with us over the next two weeks because we have some great video content this month. There really are no golden rules here - were continually surprised by the content we see from people on YouTube and it spans a very wide variety of form and formats.

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Care2

JULY 14, 2008

If youre interested in video for nonprofits, keep up with us over the next two weeks because we have some great video content this month. There really are no golden rules here - were continually surprised by the content we see from people on YouTube and it spans a very wide variety of form and formats.

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YouTube Video Social Media Advocacy 34

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices. Rather, I selected a small group of nonprofits that have were early adopters of Pinterest and have been consistently using the platform as part of their integrated content strategy. Gardening/Farming.

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M+R

JANUARY 31, 2023

The averages we report for each metric are medians — they represent the middle nonprofit out of all those that provided data. The playlist also looked different for different types of nonprofits — every single environmental group that reported data in our sample experienced a decrease in year-over-year overall revenue.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Its also a good idea to use a content management system to manage your websites content and updates, like Wordpress , Joomla , and Squarespace. spam filters: are you using spam-like words in any of your content? Email is a critical channel.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

So, if you have to leave early, you just want to review the content later on, share with a friend or a colleague, don’t worry, we will get all that good stuff in your hands later on today. well, five areas of conversation revolve around, “What is impact reporting? We need to know what metrics we need to be tracking.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

There were interesting conversations at every turn and I also had requests to share my notes and slides. For this conversation, we are going to start with the frame of the analog paradigm and move forward from there. The tactics are created based on those limited moving parts – overall strategy and goal, the audience and the content.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Bonus: get a free Nonprofit Donor Persona Template + sample to start building your communications strategy now! Whether your mission is issue-specific or broader in scope, use this data to determine the type of content Susan is most likely to read, click on, or otherwise engage with. FYI - this is a long read. One last thing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

” It was always a terrific conversation starter with nonprofit techies because knowing the right tool for the job is important. As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. One place to look).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

You need metrics or measure against goals, but you also need harvest those insights. Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk did plan and execute one hell of a surprise party! You can't quantify love as a metric, but it is important sign or signal of life in your online community. CONVERSION! . So is creativity.

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

So if you have to leave early or just want to review the content, don’t worry, we’ll get all that good stuff in your hands. And here’s just a sample breakdown, $56 billion for individuals and families, $86 billion for health, $211 billion for education and childcare, $40 billion for transportation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. I think there will be different metrics for different strategies, organizations, and tools. Kaushik suggested these metrics for benchmarking blogs: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Audience Growth (content consumption ???

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

With a podcast you can edit the content, take out the “ums&# and “ahs&# and craft a great story. Look at what the purpose of your podcast is and try to link metrics to the success of your goals, instead of downloads or listenership. Gives you good metrics for downloads, where people are coming from, etc.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

So, if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, maybe share it with a colleague, don’t worry, you will be able to do that. I like to laugh, so I’m going to move quickly through the content. Just look for an email from me a little later on today with all those goodies. .

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

So, if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content, maybe share it with a colleague, don’t worry, you will be able to do that. I like to laugh, so I’m going to move quickly through the content. And I know Steven is watching the chat, and I’m staying focused on the content.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

From #batkid to #GivingTuesday, the Next Generation of American Giving to Content Marketing for Nonprofits , storytelling to social fundraising, retention rates to relationship building, the roundup below covers it all (and everything in between). Content is taking the Marketing industry by storm, and nonprofit marketers are no exception.

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