sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

A few key things to keep in mind: AI measures probabilistic outcomes in response to a question to determine what data it should show. Basically: answer A is 56% likely; B is 23% likely, etc. ChatGPT is a probabilistic model. Get the design or presentation of prediction solutions wrong and you can impact user trust and adoption.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

We recommend following the SMART framework, which means setting goals that are… Specific Measurable Attainable Relevant Time-bound Here’s an example of a smart goal that adheres to the above criteria: To collect $5,000 through a combination of corporate matching gifts and volunteer grants by December 31st.

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Build Giving Strategy Tips 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

But, how do you measure the results? The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children. Research and policy analysis. Communications and framing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2013

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Database Manager. Internet Director. Web Producer.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Use SSL encryption and comply with industry-standard security measures to protect donors’ financial information. This is a great time to run some reports in your donor database and see what kind of gifts your supporters are already making. By linking your preferred payment gateway provider (e.g., Then test it again. Did it work?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Social Media Today | ROI: How to Measure Return on Investment in Social Media – A great post from Brian Solis on Social Media Today discussing the ROI of social media. This is a really great post to read for anyone thinking about how to measure, evaluate, and even consider the impact of social media use (and that should be everyone). "Over

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members’ names. Don’t forget your Constituent Database. Think carefully about your constituents when setting up your database or management tool.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

One of the first organizations to run tests to measure referral traffic for ActionSprout.com was the David Suzuki Foundation , a Canadian Foundation working to protect the diversity of nature and Canadian’s quality of life, now and for the future. Case Study: ActionSprout and David Suzuki Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

The panelists include: Amy Sample Ward – Amy is an author and speaker focused on the way social technologies can be used to support social impact by nonprofit organizations and community groups around the world. We needed to learn the technology and more importantly, how to measure to improve and make decisions about what to do next.”.

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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. 50% of organizations had databases that included 40% or more of inactive supporters. It doesn’t help your cause to have people in your database that aren’t really there.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 23, 2011

Security is a very important factor here, and it will be a mix of existing security measurements (e.g. Specification drafts and implementation prototypes will be available, and it will be submitted to W3C for standardization. asking the user for permission, like Geolocation) or coming up with new alternatives to ensure this."

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Your organization may have a lot of contacts in its database, but the reliability of that data is more important. By committing resources to making sure that the data you take in is accurate and that your existing data is current, your donor database will be more reliable and save you money in the long term. Data Health. More Secrets.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

It is not something confined to an “IT department&# any more as everyone (if we are looking at a nonprofit, for example, staff use the website, database, email marketing, etc.) Technology is a catalyst for data, analysis, scalability, effectiveness and efficiency. can be harnessing technology to improve their work and impact.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. For example, they partnered with groups like Focus the Nation and 1Sky so that they could share a backend database ensuring that they were then able to share calls to action and garner far more numbers together than as competitors. What do you measure every day, week, month, year?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

emphasis mine) &# ooooooh… During the NTEN call on Connect, they had mentioned that they were only going to publish sample code in C# and Java. Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. That doesn’t mean NetSquared’s perfect, by any measure, but it does mean that a quick abandonment isn’t in store. to which New York Times reporter Stephanie Strom tweeted back “No kidding.”.

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Myspace Causes Philanthropy Offline 108

Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Assess your needs: Conduct a thorough analysis of your current donor database’s shortcomings, challenges, and the goals you aim to achieve with the new system. Map each field from the old database to its corresponding field in the new system, accounting for data format differences and potential transformations.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 14, 2017

I introduced the idea of taking a step back—way back—and starting with a partnership with Program in which Finance brings our expertise in targeting risks and measuring performance and compliance. Organizations who receive governmental funds must check certain vendors against the federal and state debarment database.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 9, 2015

Here are some common threads (that also happen to be best practices): They both liked testing and sampling their respective data analytics results, using both control groups and test groups to determine what types of appeals were improving over previous performance metrics as well as what might need refinement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. Use of metrics to measure your results. Defined Audience.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Our organization, Fight Colorectal Cancer , started using Salesforce as our primary database in 2006, when we were barely a year old. Add a few sample records and then go to town on your customizations. We adopted Convio Common Ground for better integration with fundraising and email marketing in 2009. Document everything.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members names design: is it clean? Think carefully about your constituents when setting up your database or management tool. Link to things that can be measured.

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Social Media Tools Online Advocacy 34

CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When setting your own goal, use the SMART principles approach, making sure it’s Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Relevant, and Timely. Provide them with graphics, sample posts, press releases, email templates and more. Keep an ongoing database of bloggers that write about your organization’s cause and philanthropy as a whole.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Why should we measure story in a new way? To do this we have to be able to measure story in a new way. It enables organization to show their constituents that the organization is engaged – the organization measures its impact based upon the content of stories. Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk. Demonstrating the capabilities.

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Bloomerang

MAY 7, 2021

We’re going to start in our database. Start in that database. So what does this look like in our database? Many databases will actually look at this or there’s some Excel downloadable templates that can do this analysis. We can do wealth screening of our database to find out who are these hidden gems?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

It’s important to keep your donor database clean. This is how you will measure success. Where does it draw your eye? If you’re not much of a designer, hire someone to help with this part. Make sure your mailing list is clean. When a letter is returned, update the donor’s record.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

Then, make a few sample pledges and send them out as examples for people to join. Experiment, measure , experiment, measure…your first #hashtag campaign will not be perfect, or your second. By the way, your supporters don’t actually need to use their Twitter account to give each time a #hashtag is mentioned on Twitter.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Our focus on new media in the digital period also meant that we started to forget about the technology tools we already had in our organization: the hardware, software, databases, servers. There is no reason we should, as an entire sector, have to change the way we operate in order to use a database. Holistic Tactics.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

But if you never heard of Bloomerang besides the webinars, we are also a provider of donor database software. That’s what we are, Bloomerang’s a donor database. Here’s something on Alex’s Lemonade Stand where they share sample language that donors can share with their attorney.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

You can even do grant tracking in the database, which is germane to this presentation. How will you measure quality and outcomes? Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. So check that out. .

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Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

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. And also there’s going to be discretionary opportunities and they’re going to be directed towards states, and counties, and also to nonprofits.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

It’s a good database so that we can keep track of all these relationships.” So nine, “How will you measure results?” And oh, by the way, this implies that you have a database where you can park this information and have access to it. . So find this out, take good notes, get it in the database? .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 22, 2010

of the report should include an appropriate measure of uncertainty. Some of the other sources for the authors’ conclusions are convenience samples. A convenience sample is simply data that canbe conveniently observed via witness accounts, press sources, or other means. There are two problems with the authors’ reasoning.

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Achieve

JANUARY 1, 2018

Though Achieve’s sample was relatively small, Asian Americans made up 5.5 percent of the research sample, close to the 5.7 But confidence in their own abilities turned out to be the measure in which cultural influences may be most apparent. percent of Asian Americans comprising the wider American population in November 2016. [4].

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 6, 2017

One of the main reasons you should get serious about influencer marketing is because you have supporters in your database who could be extending the reach of your campaign to hundreds or thousands of new supporters. Like traditional wealth, social wealth can also be measured. and 3) they are often better messengers.

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Influence Social Media Action Guide 29

Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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