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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Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

The three powerhouses, Guidestar, Charity Navigator, and Better Business Bureau, that foundations, philanthropists, and donors use to seek out information and ratings about nonprofits released an open letter to the nonprofit and foundation world yesterday. Organizations also fear being penalized by some of the ratings services.

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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. Read on for insight into why this metric is important and how to calculate it.

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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. Kellogg Foundation Evaluation Handbook.

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Nonprofits Source

JUNE 22, 2017

Step 2: Set expectations and key performance indicators to measure progress. Next, measuring the impact of your digital marketing can be broken down into two ways: Tangible Measurements : Are typically revenue focused where the desired outcome is to sell a service or receive donations while accounting for expenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I started the Webinar asking folks to type into the chat the first few words that popped into their heads when they heard the phrase "ROI." As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Now in part 2, we will cover how to establish which key performance indicators (KPI's) you'll be using to measure success. Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. Which metrics will help you achieve it? Bounce rate.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Now in part 2, we will cover how to establish which key performance indicators (KPIs) youll be using to measure success. Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. Which metrics will help you achieve it?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2013

A 2011 Gleanster survey found their most important value drivers were: Testing and measuring everything. Delivering personalized content to your audiences can significantly increase click-through rates. In case you didn’t see, nonprofit click-through rates declined 16% in 2012.**. Building in targeting capabilities.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

How to create an online fundraising strategy Tips for a successful online fundraiser 10 effective online fundraising ideas 8 online fundraising metrics to track Use the tips and ideas in this guide to create your own online fundraising plan and to determine the fundraising tools you’ll need to accomplish your ultimate goals.

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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. Track key metrics To determine how successful your strategy is and see if you’re reaching your goals, you need to know which metrics to track.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Google actively measures your quality scores, maximum cost-per-click, and click-through rates to monitor your account activity. Ticket sales, donations, petition signatures, and email list registrations are all metrics you can use to measure your nonprofit’s marketing progress. Increased Conversions.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity.

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Whole Whale

MAY 5, 2021

Your organization’s public disclosure of financial and tax documents can help instill confidence in donors, yes, but also grant making foundations, future hires, journalists, charity rating organizations, and the general public more broadly. Charity Ratings.

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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. But thats okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Make sure your goal is specific and measurable. Decrease bounce rate by 50% for important pages like your homepage or donation page. . Assign relevant metrics to each goal. For example, you might track donation page conversions, homepage bounce rate, or overall website traffic. Define your audience.

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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. Kaushik offers up some metrics for blogging: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post).

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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.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 5, 2017

We all use data and analytics in some measure every day to guide our strategic planning and tactical decision making. Data and the understanding and interpreting of metrics is something I have to work hard at, because it simply does not come naturally to me. Donor retention rates across lifecycles. Lifetime value measurements.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 29, 2010

One thing that impressed me was their circulation figures, and how they valued circulation (read: engagement with library materials) as a metric as important as the amount of people who came to programs. But we need to learn how to measure degree of engagement so we know when we’re doing it right!

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