Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

This often overlooked and sometimes under-appreciated department uses data to drive strategy, best practices to guide training, and technology to hack success. Technology. Selection of Enablement Software and other Technology Tools. Conversion Rates. Technology Adoption and Optimization. Performance. Operations.

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Synchronous Structure Metrics Knowledge Base 145

Qgiv

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The most common donation ratio falls at a 1:1 match, meaning the company will contribute a corporate gift in the same amount as the employee’s initial gift (e.g., without automation technology at play. —which are tens of thousands of businesses across all corporate sectors?—essentially

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

I’m thrilled to be doing a session with Aisha Moore and Gina Schmeling at the NTEN NTC called “ Technology Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace.” When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? ” If you are attending the NTC, please join us.

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Collaboration Tips Tech Nonprofit 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

Effective content curation can help your nonprofit engage your audiences and help spread your organization’s content beyond current supporters because it can trigger sharing and conversation. Content curation is not about spewing out links on Twitter or Facebook as you find them. Take Crowdtangle as an example.

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Content Arts Guidelines News 119

NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

So many organizations view technology as an administrative, or overhead, expense -- we can argue that point later -- which means that they routinely under-invest to keep that ratio as low as possible. That was the easy part of the conversation. Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

So many organizations view technology as an administrative, or overhead, expense -- we can argue that point later -- which means that they routinely under-invest to keep that ratio as low as possible. That was the easy part of the conversation. Here at NTEN, we're keenly interested in this question.

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Roles Question Ratio API 57

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks. Projects Technology Tools Worth Checking Out usercontent' Future iterations of data sharing and use will help institutions and citizen-participants take the next steps to make it meaningful. informatics Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

If you were there , I would love to hear your thoughts as well; and if you weren’t , well, read David’s post about how it all works and join the conversation! If we limit the funding conversations to the end, I think groups will have more time to talk about their ideas and will worry less about understanding a fictional Borough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. To illustrate social bookmarking, you have to use a technology-related tag. and this can be less movitating. Why is it impressive?

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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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Social Media Strategy Media Social 190

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Donor management software and other technology tools used for raising funds. Most organizations either stay below that benchmark or work up to that size of an operation, allowing time to develop the right processes to accurately categorize expenses and maintain the right overhead expense ratio to get a three- or four-star rating.

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Fundraising Charity Mail Nonprofit 132

NTEN

JANUARY 5, 2012

This effect can also be replicated with technology. It makes other amounts look small and could drive higher conversion. Roger Dooley points to the golden mean, which is the width-to-height ratio of 1.618 that recurs in nature, the Parthenon and shells. Studies show a positive effect of height on generosity and cooperation.

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Brain Causes North Carolina Ratio 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. It would be unfair and misguided to evaluate the success or failure of a technology project based on this one financial measure. Determining a technology investment's value means quantifying costs and benefits.

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ROI Measure Ratio Benefit 74

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

If you only have an hour a week to post to a blog, then it is unreasonable to expect a lively conversation and community emerging from it, at least not very quickly. Technology. Identify what technologies are most appropriate. What we put into our social media engagement is what we get out of it, like everything else in life.

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Social Media Process Media Social 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is also good for conversation around resources or crowdsourcing research. About a year ago, a group of nonprofit technology social media early adopters ran a couple of experiments using FriendFeed and an NpTech room. In other words, I identify connectors across different "hubs" or communities that I want to track.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Some basic KPI's that would be useful to most nonprofit websites: Visitor-to-donor conversion ratio. Online Fundraising Technology Online Marketing. Understand donors and be donor-centric - What do visitors want to do when they come to your site? Unique visitors per day/week/month. Cost per visitor. Bounce rate.

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Analytics Google Websites Metrics 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? What did you learn from the conversation? Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . What's the tone, formal or informal?

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Tangible measurements are easy to calculate and can fall into any number of ratios and equations. Landing Page Conversions. Fortunately, the technology exists to help us answer some of these questions. Cost Per Impression (CPM). Cost Per Marketing Qualified Lead. Cost Per Sales Qualified Lead. Cost Per Sale (CPS).

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Digital Marketing Guide Chapter 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation.

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ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

Analytics 54

Analytics Google Social Media Websites 54

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Her blog, Susie's Blog - Winning hearts and minds over to FOSS (Free Open Source Software) is an excellent example of how professionals in the nonprofit technology field use blogging for professional development. What conversations did you have within your employer about starting this? Susie has a great sense of humor.

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Open Source Open Software Advice 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0 I was looking for the deeper purposes behind the implementation of technology. This was in the solidly web 1.0

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Summary Consultant NTC Technology 100

Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) DZ: What do you feel youre getting out of it?

Social Media 68

Social Media Twitter Action Advocacy 68

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

Last year, I did an experiment with Eric Siegel of the New York Hall of Science using the Voicethread technology to invite people to offer suggestions and critique on an exhibition plan. One of the surprises that arose from that experiment was the high participant-to-spectator ratio. On this blog, there's about a 0.5% comment rate.

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Museum Audio Participatory Phone 20

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I’m looking at “counting metrics” here – and I don’t have all the details of the overall results and the rest of their strategy – nor do I have other metrics - for example referral traffic and conversion rates for donations or purchases. Technology. Followers: Gives a measure of reach. Engagement.

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Benchmark Photography Ratio Stats 102

Achieve

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

While there is a time to speak to your recurring donors about increasing their support—which we will discuss later—these conversations should be had strategically to avoid making them feel like ATMs. . Share your donors’ impact. . Donors want to know their support is making a difference and that their money is being used wisely.

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Impact Donor Strategy Statistics 105

Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2022

This ensures that these descriptions can be read by screen readers and other assistive technologies. A/B testing is the process of designing two different versions of your giving form, then using website analytics to determine which page had a higher conversion rate. Include alternative text for images and captions for videos.

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Donation Practice Gift Nonprofit 92

Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Online fundraising technology allows your nonprofit to better understand which marketing campaigns effectively drive donations and where there’s room for improvement. These gifts can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, and even 3:1 ratio. Donation page conversion rate How do you know that your donation page is effective?

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Ideas Guide Online Fundraising 98

Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

As technology has advanced, so have the variety of choices and channels available to us. The most important one for our conversation—95% of donors consider content created by nonprofits to be trustworthy! Pro tip: don’t ignore your website conversion rate. At BDI, we also see total website conversion rates of 8 to 10%.

Channel 59

Channel Marketing Fundraising Nonprofit 59

Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Online fundraising technology allows your nonprofit to better understand which marketing campaigns effectively drive donations and where there’s room for improvement. These gifts can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, and even 3:1 ratio. Donation page conversion rate How do you know that your donation page is effective?

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Ideas Online Fundraising Tips 79

Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Including the best technology solutions, newest equipment, and even investing in content marketing. The efficiency ratio , also known as the revenue to cost ratio. The best part of the efficiency ratio is that it doesn’t involve any complex math. Use the efficiency ratio to calculate the ROI of your marketing activities.

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Content Leadership Marketing Files 40

Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations. So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. . Matt: All right.

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Method Video Giving Nonprofit 112

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

I confess to being an early adopter – someone who overpaid for technology tools that didn’t work and still do that today. My first job in this area was with an online network called Arts Wire where I learned new technologies as they came out – like email, HTML, and created and lead trainings, provided online support.

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Content Reflection NTEN Benefit 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. And, as stubborn as it sounds Mr. CEO, you don’t get money out of a conversation. Outbound links for influence.

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Metrics ROI Measure Content 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. Here's a brain dump of some key points.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Myself and the rest of the leadership team have a background in developing technology solutions and particularly technology solutions for nonprofit organizations. So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. Matt: All right.

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Method Giving Nonprofit Gift 52

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The generally recommended contrast ratios are 4.5:1 You can find a variety of tools online to help you check contrast ratios and test whether your website provides a positive user experience for colour blind audiences. 1 for standard text and 3:1 for headings and graphics. Use coloured overlays when displaying text over photos.

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Accessibility Design Websites Practice 64