Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

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. While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Social media metrics mavens know that both qualitative and quantitative data is needed. Don’t wait to collect a year’s worth of data in a week. Finally, avoid getting into data collection and analysis ruts – and evaluate your approach. One place to look). That usually isn’t case. Analytics Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Establishing metrics for this campaign was difficult in that we didn’t have anything to use as a benchmark. Our digital engagement success is evolving based on our experience and it is difficult to outline what metrics of success might look like. What does success look like? Pledges to Get Affiliated/Trained: 129 (Goal 250).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

The tools in an analog world fulfilled a specific function but did not influence our planning or programs. 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. Analog Tools. Analog Strategies.

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Forum One

MARCH 6, 2009

Last week at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation a group of 23 folks who manage Global Health data met to talk about common issues and best practices. I'm reminded of my colleague Joe Pringle's recent post to Influence about the UN Web4Dev conference. Who was there: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2010

With ever-shrinking budgets, many government entities have been forced to re-evaluate their resource allocations. In preparing for such an engagement, government web managers know that performance against qualitative and quantitative web metrics will be a key component of their presentation. Tags: Influence Government.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. First, a simple metric relating to security reports, and second, what processes are in place in the communities to deal with security. More on that in a bit.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 7, 2010

We also heard from Peter Speyer of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation about their work creating and disseminating health data from around the world. Tags: Influence Data & Visualizations. ” The group had a few ideas that seem genuinely worth exploring (which we’ll discuss more at another time).

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2011

It provides data such as number of followers, number of tweets, number of retweets, top hashtags, number of mentions, etc – which are great metrics. What kind of influence do they have – how many followers do they have, what kind of people are following them? For Facebook, check out their built-in analytics for your fan page.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The same number of people considered ‘amount of online donations’ as an important criteria when evaluating the influence of their social media efforts. How concerned should nonprofits be with social media metrics? We're still very early in our explorations of social media, and the metrics will follow.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

It's where I grabbed the above slide show that offers a conceptual framework for strategy and metrics. He has analysis and some thoughts on how to use social network analysis to evaluate your social media program - I haven't seen any other writing on this. Tags: ROI. He lays out what to measure for each of these areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Two gems shared by a participant was this leader board of healthcare tags and this twitter tool that lets you look up your legislator’s Twitter handle by zip code. The point was to create “SMARTer” objectives. The “E” stands for evaluator and the “R” stands for “Revaluate.”

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Know when to respond and when not -- pay attention to people's tone and influence. We monitor sites in real time, evaluate what's necessary to respond to, develop responses with PR, deliver responses the same way generated, monitor following conversation and alert Communications in daily meetings. Have a response process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

tags: nonprofits roi ). 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. Use of metrics to measure your results. It answers the "Was it worth doing?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With NWF as the hash tag; Wildlife sightings perhaps would not lag; (for all to brag?). 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. DEFINE the METRICS.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

Mapping Metrics to Social Media Strategy: This wiki will be retooled to go deeper in more specific metrics linked to strategy. Return on Influence: This will be a deep dive into social media metrics and keeping an eye on the new tools that will no doubt debut to help us measure. Tags: goals.

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Forum One

JANUARY 26, 2024

Use the terms in high-quality, relevant, and valuable content (more on that in tip #2 below) and make that content easy to find by incorporating selected keywords into titles, headings, and meta tags. “On-page It’s an SEO best practice to include any important keywords from the page in the title tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

On the web, anyone can evaluate the photographs in terms of aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. But as Nina notes, they are doing research from this experiment about the role of independence and influence in a participatory experience. Launched in Jan.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 21, 2008

Fred created the Net Promoter Score, a metric related to the number of people who answer affirmatively to the question: "How likely are you to recommend X to a friend or colleague?" To evaluate this, you have to consider whether your visitors are Web 2.0 Tags: Book Discussion: Groundswell marketing membership.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 19, 2021

Peer influence is key. And I had meetings with them, and I asked them to leverage their peer influence. I used, in terms of tracking donations, I used the Soft Credit function in our database and allowed that to keep track of a gift that came in from someone that was influenced by one of the young professionals board members.

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