Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 19, 2011

Description : Social media, online campaigns, and community engagement can be tricky things to dive into and do well without measuring, monitoring and evaluating. But what to measure? Slides and notes. How to evaluate? Related Links : Nonprofit Webinars website. Blog post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. Measure success against predetermined outcomes. The above slide was used to illustrate the iterative nature of a developmental evaluation of a complex systems social change initiative. Before Action Review/ After Action Review.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Once we get access to a client’s Google Analytics data, we first establish a timeframe for reporting. To understand how visitors interact with the site. Methodology.

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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

MAY 10, 2013

I thought if I set up a tumblr blog curating great nonprofit spreadsheets , but the next logical step is create visualizations of your data. Great data visualizations don’t necessarily require an expensive software package or a programmer on staff. If your data adds up to 100%, you might choose a pie chart. Low budget?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And just a couple of quick housekeeping items, just want to let you all know that we are recording this session and we’ll be sending out the recording, as well as the slides, later on this afternoon. So I’m going to stop sharing so that you can bring up those beautiful slides we were just looking at. Marie: Wonderful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.” ” Unfortunately, I could make it to Thailand, so I presented and lead a discussion remotely using Google Hangouts from California.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As we wrapped up the webinar we realized there’s an entire universe of fundraisers that could benefit if we shared the data and questions we received, so we’ve pulled it all together for you to share with your team. Let’s dive into the poll data. Is anyone being measured on their goals? Want help that is 100% free?

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Classy

JUNE 23, 2021

Present clear areas of opportunity with data-driven recommendations that lead your organization down a proactive path to success. . The State of Modern Philanthropy 2021 deep dives into the latest fundraising data and actionable takeaways based on the performance of over 4,800 nonprofits. . Recurring donation size.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Classy

JULY 5, 2021

You can tell a story of a client who benefited from your services, for example, or highlight key data on your activities from the past year. A pitch deck is a handout, slide presentation, or combination of materials that you’ll give a potential partner that makes the case for your ask. Stories and data showing your impact to date.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. By starting with a general question, you can gather important data right from the hop. Ask a general question first.

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NetWits

MARCH 23, 2012

In our 2011 Online Giving Report we’ve combined findings from The Blackbaud Index of Online Giving with additional multi-year giving data, which allows us to pull out a very rich set of insights. Understanding the data and where the nonprofit industry is headed can be useful, but without action it’s purely academic.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

My slides covered the tools and apps for the back stage side of energizing your community. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Ways to measure your efficiency and success within each . How to Measure Success. They also measure retention to see how many return each year and what factors could play into increases or decreases. . “ Set specific goals for your event that can easily be measured and attained within the scope of your event.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Create goals that are specific and measurable to ensure that the stories you tell are purposeful (“specific” and “measurable” just so happen to be the first two letters in the S.M.A.R.T. Make sure the stories you tell aren’t full of data with the people impacted as a footnote—let humanity be the center of your stories.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Now let’s look at Excel , which a lot of nonprofits initially use to track their data. Although it may seem like this is an easier way to manage data, it comes at the cost of the following drawbacks: Security: What happens if your computer is stolen and someone gains access to all of that donor data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2013

He’s one of many four-legged and fine feathered fans of ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” I will be facilitating peer learning groups on “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” and sharing many stories of how nonprofits are learning from measurement and making sense of the data to improve social change outcomes.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Do you have videos, pictures, or slides? What kind of content do you already have that you could reuse (videos or interviews from events, data or research, etc.) Here’s a how-to guide for Community Planning & Measurement. Get data and information about the blogosphere from Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2011

If you want extract value from your social media strategy, you need to use measurement. That means setting measurable goals, collecting the right data, making sense of it, and transforming it into actionable decisions. I think these workplace skills are important for nonprofits, especially making sense out of data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They shared a slide (see above) about new models we’ll see that combine both – especially the “not invented yet.” And the sector is getting better at measuring social change and that there has been a lot of progress in the way the sector measures and reports on big social change outcomes.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. By starting with a general question, you can gather important data right from the hop. Ask a general question first.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Smith and his talk "Charting Collections of Connections in Social Media: Creating Maps and Measures with NodeXL." Smith's slides from this presentation. TechSoup hosted the San Francisco Online Community Meetup which recently featured Marc A. What is social network analysis? More Informa tion. View Marc A.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2014

In a talk at New York University earlier this month, Berger called this lack of meaningful measurement a full-on "battle for the soul" of the social sector. Worse, Berger says that the sector's inability to effectively measure (and learn from those measurements) means nonprofits really aren't as efficient as they could be.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures. The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. Download Reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

some pics of slides are here ). " She talked about the importance of measuring your social media efforts.   This was a great positive spin -- rather than measure to show me or prove the impact, it's measure so you can quantify it.    It is about how to analyze the data. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

Chad did a video clip explaining the slide. (He He also said he'd upload his slides on slideshare.). It's a very tangible measure and they have a goal for victories. . In other words, I'm curious what their process or system is for " listen, learn, and adapt." The above map that Chad explains gets at it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

I'm beginning to post the slides and detailed notes from the session at NTC08 here on my blog and on my Social Media Metrics Wikispace. What do we mean by metrics, measurement, and ROI? What are the challenges in measuring the success of social media? Not many tools to make it easy to extract data. Learning is important.

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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. Below, you can find my full speech and slides, as well as links to address questions and requests from many of those I met with. I also encountered quite a few people asking very similar questions, or looking for the same resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. " She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. How can Google Analytics reports data help improve your Web site's performance. Possible Working Titles: 1.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Or enough data. My point here is this: Make plans based on data, not emotion. So, take the time to track your data this year and you’ll be all set for this step next year! It’s a quantifiable, specific, measurable goal your organization’s team agrees is important and doable if everyone works together. Set an Impact Goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

So making the audience part of the slide deck and inviting commentary surfaces the wisdom and knowledge in the room. These ideas are illustrated in the slides below. I talk about spreadsheet aerobics and other measurement tips. I don’t like giving a keynote where I talk at the audience for 45 minutes.

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Forum One

MAY 4, 2010

Two organizations who participated in the study, NARAL and AARP , shared their experiences in converting inactive users to active, by sending them emails less often in the hopes of reducing churn (you can also download the presentation slides and recording here ). Still, these reports are some of the best measuring sticks we have.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map. Here are my slides from the presentation. What’s Next?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. This is a book giveaway that John Haydon did for my book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit. Experiment, Measure, Learn, and Revise. It is important to measure along your whole engagement model (see my earlier post ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2007

This slide came from a presentation by Rashimi Sinha that I stumbled upon and is focused on a different topic, but I pulled out this slide for "Popularity Metrics." It's like measuring 'friendship'. measuring 'reflective moments'. It's like measuring 'friendship'. measuring 'reflective moments'.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Here are some of my thoughts going into the conversation and slides if you prefer engaging that way: Crowdsourcing for Social Change. Ushahidi : most recently, Ushahidi adpated it’s platform for use in Haiti and Chili to let the crowd both in Haiti/Chili and outside share information and data in real time via mobiles or a web browser.

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