Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. It might help you with: Identifying cross-collaborations with other Fan Pages. Tags: facebook metrics.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

A well-crafted branding strategy can help you stand out from the crowd, attract donors and volunteers, and make a lasting impact on your community. A strong nonprofit brand can help you: Raise more money. Share stats and information that people can easily understand. But what exactly is a nonprofit branding strategy?

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Roundtree

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Your report will have to account for the unique characteristics of your organization but the following is meant to be a helpful guide: Letter from the Leader (1 page). Mission + Metrics (2-4 pages). Share key impact metrics. Include at least one picture and one key stat with each program. . Remind donors why you exist.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. To know that your email works you have to be sending email regularly – and developing clear metrics for what success looks like. Digital Sherpa ).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Including links, of course, also helps increase traffic to your website. Using a graphic design tool such as Canva or Venngage , converting powerful stats, quotes, and CTAs into graphics is a time-tested, proven method to grab the attention of your followers, thus increasing your engagement on Twitter (and all social media).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. How can we use our data during our fundraising event or campaign to identify opportunities that help us achieve our goals? Warm Bodies. The Quiet Ones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

The bot replies to frequently asked questions about the organization’s emergency response programs such as applying to receive help as well as volunteering and donating to support specific programs. Ultimately, the bot helped the organization decrease the response time which is a critical metric for emergency and humanitarian work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be. Do you collect metrics to impress your boss or ones that truly help you improve?

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. Good data is important, but if your viewer can’t understand it, it isn’t always helpful. EveryAction features data visualization tools to help your reports come to life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Four tips to help you get started. Help people connect with others. Stats, stats, stats …. Facebook Pages give you stats!! You may be thinking “why do stats matter?”. Actually, this data will likely help you improve your overall web efforts! See a sample of what the stats look like here.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The study takes a deep dive into the metrics, statistics, and trends of four different peer-to-peer fundraising event types: cycling, endurance, 5Ks and walks. In the study, we identify areas for potential growth and share key performance indicators to help you benchmark and refine your existing events. billion in event revenue.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

While there’s a ton of insightful data I could share, there are 5 must-know recurring giving stats I want you to know. This is a really scary stat to me. Not only does it improve your typical email metrics, it often generates more email responses which help to cultivate the relationship with your donor. The result?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

This will help you stay focused and give you a baseline against which you can monitor your progress. Define Your Metrics and Create a Social Media ROI Spreadsheet. In the far left column of the spreadsheet, list the metrics that you want to monitor. Show her the stats. To foster social good and create social change?

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. They’ve been applying science to major gifts fundraising to help nonprofits raise funds more effectively. This partners with native donor research tools to help officers discover the highest-value prospects to connect with.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

Her company helps mission-led businesses succeed, and also connect socially minded investors with “impact investing” opportunities, where they can generate both financial returns and social impact. Set Program Goals & Metrics. Clarify quantifiable outcomes or metrics that can be easily measured on a routine basis.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Snapshot: Today’s Environmental Sustainability Stats. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 California State Park’s Virtual Earth Day Report helps them track their progress and record their impact for prizes. Read Next: How Ocean’s Power Our Wallets, Health, and Planet.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

With the help of an online fundraising platform that’s integrated with your nonprofit CRM , you can automatically transfer donor information to donor profiles. Essentially, online fundraising platforms are robust systems that consolidate fundraising data, reports, and donor information in one place, helping increase fundraising efficiency.

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Nimble AMS

JULY 3, 2019

Customer lifetime value (CLV) is one of the key stats likely to be tracked as part of a customer experience program. This metric helps you understand a reasonable cost per acquisition for each customer. Nimble AMS is part of Community Brands, the leading provider of end-to-end solutions for associations. Learn more.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2011

Nonprofit campaigners have a gazillion tools to choose from that they can use for online outreach, social media, measuring metrics, updating their website, and much more. But are most of them useful to you? Are they efficient? Do they pull the data you need to run a better campaign and engage your activists and donors?

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is where the increasing amount of nonprofit sector research reports can help. Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics. But they often find it difficult to know where to begin.

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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. pick the right metrics.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

While it is advised to review event metrics after an event, it may be beneficial to review some fundraiser participation while the fundraising is actually happening. Enhance your communication plan with helpful tips on how to use those fundraising tools you are providing them. Offer Helpful Guides.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2014

So I broke down and purchased a FitBit and as a metrics geek, I have to say I love it! The device syncs with my apps that help me track my miles and meals while the FitBit itself tracks my activity level, steps, and my sleeping patterns. So why not think of your event metrics as your own personal P2P FitBit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. Too often I hear nonprofit communicators and techies bemoan the stats that their Executive Directors and boards want them to track – mostly follower counts and ‘Likes’. Five Steps You Can Take Now to Apply the New Measurement Standards In Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

While some appeals favor stories while others lean toward stats, the pitch is fundamentally the same: help us make the world a better place by supporting our work. Erica Mills heads up Claxon , a company on a mission to help those doing good get noticed. Year-end appeals are a perfect case in point. It needs to be pitch-erific.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. The holy grail metrics is missing? Photo by NimagesDR. a question asked by the Give and Take blog.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Metricly aggregates your data across the Web, allowing you to compare and combine your metrics in one place, and making it easier for you to stay on top of your business. In my office, we have a TV displaying all the stats we can think of, and it helps our team make decisions based on this data.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

But these stats show how receptive people are to email after they've take an action. They also help cross-promote other channels and engagement opportunities. Mostly you decide what content to deliver for each action, coordinate them with other emails and review metrics periodically. And best of all, they're automated!

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular. We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics.

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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. A breakdown of the engagement and site visit stats are below.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2013

In Executive Director Karen Worcester’s opening keynote to the 2000+ in attendance, her message was clear- to find yourself, you must first lose yourself in helping others. And I hope the compilation below does just that- helps you help others. It’s important that you begin paying attention to the stats.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2015

Statistical data help us understand how our programs are performing and highlight opportunities for improvement. If this is the first year you’re doing some P2P archaeology, start by pulling the following stats: Event level data: Online and offline fundraising totals (separate from sponsorship or other dollars).

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

LinkedIn’s Social Selling Index is one of the few metrics I think is worth obsessing over. If you’ve ever wanted to increase your “ weekly search stats ” on LinkedIn then investing in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) might be a good place to start. I truly hope this helps you crush LinkedIn marketing in 2019!

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