Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. She gives a seven step framework for measuring the ROI of relationships.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

As the membership organization for nonprofit technology professionals, it''s an important, and often sticky, issue to understand, communicate, and especially measure. So, how did these various question formats impact responses/results? This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric. FTE tech staff for your team is keeping up.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 5, 2023

What’s a fundraising efficiency ratio? And what’s a “good” ratio to try to maintain? Your efficiency ratio measures the amount of money you spend on fundraising against the amount of revenue generated by those activities. Why Is Understanding My Fundraising Efficiency Ratio Important? Why should you track it?

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Through strategically implemented training, software tools and engagement techniques, sales ops leaders enable sales reps to focus more on selling in order to drive business results. . Understandably, this is where the number-crunching prowess of sales ops analysts has the most significant impact. Sales Activities.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

As it turns out, people are 7 times more likely to visit a nonprofit’s website in a search result then they are through social media. Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Leadership wants to see results in their investments and it’s your job, as a marketer, to be able to show that progress.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

Other evaluation forms include: process evaluation, which requires that specific program activities and procedures be reviewed in order to help explain why a program worked or did not work; and program monitoring, which uses in-process measures to track whether a program is being executed as designed. The Evaluation of Reporting Results.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

The part that's still very tricky for most is measuring the impact of these activities. Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Wave those survey results around. Video views?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. It would be unfair and misguided to evaluate the success or failure of a technology project based on this one financial measure. That lead me to Tom Gilb, an engineer and measurement guru. given the answer???

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. listening has been to the community and to the quantitative results. pull in hashtags from Twitter into the RSS reader (pull in the RSS of a search.twitter.com result). pause for reflection time before next reiteration: how to improve results? obama reach vs local reach. success stories.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. As a result, email expectations have changed. Conversely, if you’re not delivering personalized content, your email could negatively impact your relationships. Building in targeting capabilities. Follow-Up Approaches.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 12, 2017

If we want to collectively elevate these gifts of impact, we need to understand where we are, so we can plot out where we want to be. Even with a 5:1 identification-to-gift success ratio (or 200 gifts) annual revenue from this major gift prospect pool could reasonably be set at $5,000,000! And if they do, they do it wrong.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Starting in the mid-1990s, telecenters provided a relatively quick and measurable way (# computers bought, # people trained) to show change in access (digital divide) and capacity building (Microsoft UP). We knew that what we were doing was so hard, no one could produce consistently better results (that would make us look bad).

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 9, 2020

Because social impact leaders with a comprehensive understanding of their financial operations can confidently communicate, empower and build trust with their stakeholders. But here are some operational decisions for your team to consider to ensure your data is squeaky clean: What data needs to be measured? FinTech or bust! [

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CauseVox

JUNE 1, 2021

For a deeper dive into visual storytelling, be sure to download this free comprehensive guide on how to develop high-impact videos. By recruiting a pool of passionate individuals to advocate on behalf of your cause, you’re able to meet new networks of donors and quickly scale your impact. Impact Created. Who’s impacted?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach. Keep up the good work!

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

Communicating accountability, responsibility, and impact with the general public should be a priority for any organization. It can be hard to determine what’s essential with so many different rating systems out there—so what charity rating platforms are most important for building credibility and how do they measure efficacy?

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

How content marketing impacts search ranking results (and why that matters). How to measure data to influence your marketing decisions i. But I also blame the substanceless blogs showing off the “ amazing ” results of inbound marketing. “ This campaign resulted in a 63% increase in revenues on social media.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

Organizations that invest in PCI-compliant online fundraising solutions can take proper cybersecurity measures to ensure that their online donation process is secure. These gifts can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, and even 3:1 ratio. You can track this by measuring the page’s conversion rate. Make secure donations.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Your content should go beyond the basics to provide web visitors with a meaningful understanding of your nonprofit’s work and its impact. Make sure your goal is specific and measurable. Ensure sufficient color contrast (to achieve the WCAG level AA, you’ll need to ensure a contrast ratio of at least 4.5:1 Keyword optimization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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Bloomerang

JULY 20, 2023

Organizations that invest in PCI-compliant online fundraising solutions can take proper cybersecurity measures to ensure that their online donation process is secure. These gifts can be matched at a 1:1, 2:1, and even 3:1 ratio. Make secure donations. Benefits for nonprofits Your nonprofit benefits from online fundraising as well.

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

He attributes Water for People’s success to their relentless focus on (and measurement of) outcomes. Data Use in Collective Impact – Strive Partnership Strive Partnership spearheaded a cooperative program to examine collective impact on student success in the Cincinnati School District.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

As your budget allows, layer in Paid Google Ads to get even better results. Monitor the ad performance to gain benchmarks against which to measure future performance. This is a good benchmark against which to measure the performance of your donation page. I recommend using Google Grants as your initial base search strategy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And so in addition to being horrible fundraising, he’s told this story to many people, which has a negative impact on the organization and that individual doing this. . What do you think the ratio is of you talking versus the donor talking? So nine, “How will you measure results?” So respect is earned.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

In this post, you’ll learn 8 research-backed ways that are proven to improve the reach and impact of your content. What was the result? . In fact, a study conducted by SerpIQ found that content written between 2000 and 2500 words dominates search results. The more useful the content, the higher it ranks in search results.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Being results-driven is an intrinsic quality we share as nonprofit professionals. We all use data and analytics in some measure every day to guide our strategic planning and tactical decision making. Data to help tell the story of the mission—through outcomes and impact. Lifetime value measurements. by Jann Schultz.

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