Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Evaluate your current fundraising strategy. If you don’t have a formal strategy, evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of your individual fundraising efforts and campaigns. Also, review your fundraising metrics and data from previous campaigns. A few effective metrics to track include: Donor retention rate. Wrapping up.

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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). Cost (what!).

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. For example, you need to raise $250,500 to achieve the organization’s mission of feeding 1,000 families. However, this goal should be the one that all the other smaller goals feed into.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 14, 2022

Record and analyze key matching gift metrics. By spoon-feeding donors all the details they’ll need, you can significantly streamline the process and drive more match revenue for your cause. Record and analyze key matching gift metrics. Provide donors with access to an employer database.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Key metrics to measure on social media Like with any campaign, it’s important to decide on how you’re going to measure the success of your social media strategy. Understanding the metrics behind social media is key to evaluating the success of your social media and help you fine-tune your approach as you go. Higher reach.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. Can’t wait!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Be aware of key accomplishments, metrics, testimonials, and milestones. 50 helps us feed one child for a week.”). Perhaps you can individually evaluate the way the organization pays vendors or contractors and see if there are efficiencies to be found. Facebook , Reddit , LinkedIn , and Twitter have great options. Miscellaneous.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). And furthermore, by focusing on justification and metrics, we were distracted from the primary objective of building relationships and cultivating dialogue.

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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. Compare the reports and key metrics from any two events to evaluate the pace of registration. Provide SEO tools. Event comparison. Make the most of your social media presence!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Take Breaks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Take Breaks.

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Social Media Media Tips Social 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 14, 2008

Last week, I did my annual Blog ROI benchmarking and I started to noodle around with the question - How can I use AideRSS as a tool to help me evaluate engagement and improve my blog? Aide RSS wrote about measuring social engagement on a blog which that looks at a number of different metrics.

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Achieve

JULY 2, 2019

When evaluating how much effort you can realistically put into social media, you may discover that you need to scale back on how many channels you utilize. If you landed on your organizations Instagram feed, would you be able to quickly tell what the mission is based on the videos/images posted in the grid? for inspiration.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Sometimes it’s best to take a step back and evaluate if you’re doing everything possible to get your message heard. These platforms make their revenues from advertising, giving them no incentive to show your post to thousands of feeds unless you pay for it. Clicks are important because they show value.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

As you continue to plan and evaluate social media’s role in your organization, arm yourself with the right knowledge and memorize these five social media myths. Organizations have little control over how things are displayed in their Facebook page and what shows up on people’s feeds. It has limited functionality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

I don’t want to start a race to the top of the Nonprofit 25 – where organizations start spending more time worrying about their position on that list, and less time feeding people. Allan says: Granted, web site stats will not tell me anything about how many hungry people a nonprofit feeds. David 4 Kivi Miller 09.18.07

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

What metrics are you using for mobile? We’ll then evaluate if it’s something we should include in a future release. Additionally, an upcoming version of the app will feature a “What’s New” feed that will have sustainable seafood news and additional ways to become involved and support our mission. How will you measure success?

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Mobile Integration Strategy Green 111

Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

We see those feel-good stories about amazing fundraisers on our feeds: “Viral Irish GoFundMe Raises Millions for the Navajo Nation In Act of Generosity That Bridges Historical Debt of Gratitude ”. Charity Navigator is the world’s largest independent charity evaluator and rater. We’ve all been there. Charity Ratings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

If anything, that's the most important thing about social media metrics or for any metrics. Metrics in context connected to action - whether to improve a program already underway or evaluate impact. I'm more interested right now in applying the metrics to program improvement. Up or Down?"

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Overall, the nonprofit online landscape looks good.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

She couldn’t stand the focus on metrics as the reference point against which her work was evaluated. We feed people, because no one should be hungry.” “We The other day I spoke with a major gift fundraiser who had quit her job with a large health care facility. We plant trees, because they help heal our planet.” “We

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Here's my AMORE step-by-step recipe: Set up a simple and small experiment , identify some outcomes and metrics. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. Blogs can be a great source of 360 evaluation. It's called double-loop learning. Watch it closely as it unfolds.

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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. If we evaluate by last-click — counting only donations sourced from a click on a digital ad that landed directly on a donation page and resulted in a gift — revenue decreased by 14.6%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

Michael Quinn Patton , an evaluation guru, visited the Packard Foundation yesterday. I participated in a lively exploratory conversation about "How do you evaluate network effectiveness?" evaluation field, how it has changed and get a deeper understanding of developmental evaluation. But first, some context. .

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Social Media Story Evaluation Media 90

Qgiv

AUGUST 13, 2021

This means good marketing should allow you to: Take a critical look at your marketing strengths and weaknesses Evaluate your progress toward you current goals Set new goals based on your progress Clarify and help you connect with your target audience. Evaluate Results for Next Year. Don’t try to do too many things at once.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Now, we evaluated tools based on who was using them, and how. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. Analog Strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. What do you think? A new entry into the charity shopping category , is MAATIAM.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic? Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

However, thats hard enough to do when evaluating any one nonprofit organization, let alone the many thousands that we would like to compare. Its a work-in-progress, and students already have reported the expected bumps in using the pilot methods to evaluate the accountability and transparency of their subject nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). Only 40% of the direct.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

They built an iGoogle dashboard and fed RSS feeds based on information they were seeking in online social networks. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Tell me what thy wildlife name is on the twitter feed-but be sure! And anxiously anticipating metrics that assign value even more; And my hopes have all the seeming of a marketer still dreaming, That my efforts not in vain, will yield intangibles and metrics all the same. My twitter feed: [link]. DEFINE the METRICS.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. Are you going to use this to evaluate your internal operations so that you can become more efficient, more effective. We need to know what metrics we need to be tracking. Sample metrics. How will they to be evaluated and organized? You can tweet us.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 21, 2017

One easy way to do keep content current is to sync your Facebook or Twitter feed to your page. Identify key milestones and metrics and have a plan to monitor those activities. At the end of the year, look at the metrics to evaluate progress and hold a focus group to gather feedback from donors.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Measurable: Choose metrics that will help you know whether you’ve met your goal or not. Try giving regular social media updates on Twitter or through a live feed on your homepage. Here are some questions your team can ask to evaluate your campaign’s success: Did we meet our goal? Check them often!

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

While you want to include the program’s metrics and efficacy, you’ll also want the central piece to relate to a real story from your community. Release profile photos & banner images, social feed photos, Facebook/Instagram story images/GIFS. Evaluate Remember the measurable goals you set in the beginning?

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