Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2012

. ”Don’t measure the world, if you don’t have the time and resources to do so.” ” It is a key theme in our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Measuring World Hunger Day – a guest post by Geoff Livingston. Is WOM referral a right metric for small acts?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2017

One important part of effective digital measurement is being able to benchmark your performance relative to your organization’s past performance or compared to peer organizations. One excellent resource to use for benchmarking nonprofit digital results (in the US) is the annual M&R Benchmarks study of nonprofit digital advocacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

Two new books on measurement and analytics came to my attention this week. The other is about using data to make decisions, but for the start up audience. They have some ideas in common – including finding the “One Metric that Matters.” ” Here’s a quick review of both books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 24, 2012

We’ll also share some some tips and frameworks for measuring engagement to improve relationships with your organization’s stakeholders. Don’t take my word for, see Pew Internet’s recent Networked and Hyperconnected study ). How do you measure engagement? That’s the secret! … Read More

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2021

The Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study is making its eleventh highly anticipated appearance on the desks of peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraisers everywhere. The data highlighted in this study represents a careful analysis of 687 organizations that produced 31,035 peer-to-peer fundraisers from January 1, 2019 through December 31, 2020.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Drive strategy by using data to inform your association’s strategy and departmental strategies as well as drive business metrics and KPIs. This will align the organization by having clear success metrics and KPIs. Describe what you plan to improve and outline how you plan to measure it. Analyze your short and long-term returns.

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Analytics Language Associations Case Study 169

Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

According to Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study, while data analytics is a higher priority for organizations, just one-third of association professionals report their data is excellent or very good. Gauge how your association measures up by surveying your staff to identify key trends in your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 27, 2015

Methods and Metrics for Assessing Civic Tech, Guest post by Anne Whatley, Network Impact. Designers of these civic tech platforms and apps are already measuring results, such as the number of users, and are very familiar with tools like Google Analytics. Hone in on your true scope of influence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

I have been thinking a lot about actionable social media measurement strategies that are fit and trim and light on their feet! Inspired by the Measure Everything: Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? , You should also be thinking about what to measure and an efficient method for collecting that data before you begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2013

Last week, I was lucky enough to be invited to participate in a meeting organized by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation called “ Advancing Social Media Measurement for Foundations.” Despite the difficulty of working measurement in a generic way, the output from sessions was quite valuable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

The panel featured some previews from a recent research study “ How Strong Is Your Social Net? The panel also featured, Mary Beth Smith, from the SF Ballet, who share her organization’s experience integrating social media into marketing strategies since 2007. The panel was on social media, adoption, and measurement.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

I decided to conduct two studies with my colleagues to get to answer this question. Then we used a random number generator to select which of those records would be pulled into our nonprofit mission statement studies’ sample. . from 2016–2018 and added a number of financial metrics to the spreadsheet. For our first project,?

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Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 30, 2023

According to the latest M+R Benchmarks Study , monthly giving increased by 11% in 2022, making up 28% of all online revenue. Before you begin any project involving data analysis, start by clearly outlining your goal so you know which metrics to analyze. First, we’ll cover how to determine your goals for your monthly giving program.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 7, 2024

The book’s teachings are based on exclusive research from two Salesforce studies of thousands of employees and c-suite executives around the globe, and further validated by hundreds of executive conversations and other industry research. What metrics you can use to measure the benefits of this new operating philosophy.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The deadline to join the 2023 Benchmarks Study is THIS Friday, December 2. The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a tasty fusion of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a pot of averages, trends, and key metrics. Be sure to sign our consent form to secure your spot!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

Benchmarking is the process of comparing your organization’s practices and results with a group of peer organizations. It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

While people are asking questions and sharing resources not related to the monthly theme (this month is measurement), quite a few are. The Social Media Measurement Checklist. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure. The Challenges of Measurement : Getting Agreement on What To Measure.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The book’s teachings are based on exclusive research from two Salesforce studies of thousands of employees and c-suite executives around the globe, and further validated by hundreds of executive conversations and other industry research. What metrics you can use to measure the benefits of this new operating philosophy.

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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. Again, we take measures to make sure that your organization’s data is confidential and non-identifiable in the final study.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 8, 2022

But according to the Community Brands 2022 Association Trends Study , only 39% of association professionals have one! A set of rules, metrics, or policies established by an organization to bring clarity and ease of use to data practices is a data governance policy. What is data governance? . Download now.

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Forum One

APRIL 20, 2010

So you're tracking your web analytics, and your metrics are going up in all categories. To help with this, Convio has released their Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study , which shares 2009 data from over 500 of their clients. Tags: Influence Performance Measurement Tips & Trends.

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2024

Understand Digital Engagement Metrics Before you launch your digital recruitment marketing campaign, you need to understand how digital engagement works so you can fine-tune your strategies accordingly. Stay aligned on what success means for your campaign by tracking and sharing engagement metrics with them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

This post summarizes the sessions I facilitated or participated in related to “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” which included a book signing, panel discussion in the Beacon Lounge , and a workshop with co-author KD Paine. 2. Don’t Be A Zoombie Repeating the Mistakes of the Past.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Explore the March of Dimes case study Smithsonian NMAAHC’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Freedmen’s Bureau Search Portal now makes more than 400,000 pages of volunteer-transcribed records and previously-unavailable data sets accessible for anyone to search.

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M+R

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a wide-ranging exploration of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. Again, we take measures to make sure that your organization’s data is confidential and non-identifiable in the final study.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 18, 2024

The top 50 organizations outperformed the also-rans on a variety of metrics, as they have in the 13 years this study has been conducted (not a surprise). Across the board within the 2021 study, which evaluated employee attitudes during 2020, the data revealed high-water marks in employee satisfaction. Then it was turbocharged.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2010

This month’s theme was measurement – here’s a summary of the month’s learnings: Measurement Approaches. Many nonprofits often address measurement at the end of a project or program or fiscal year, but by putting it first it enables organizations to build a thoughtful strategy. Measurement Challenges.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 1, 2021

I recently presented two academic research papers as part of my graduate studies. Then we recorded key metrics from their IRS Form 990s from 2016-2018. We then ran the following studies using this data. Study 1: How sad is your mission statement? Study 2: Who do nonprofits serve?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

The study looked at the flow of donation pages on each of the nonprofits websites as well as email appeals, follow up emails, etc. Measure The Results There are myriad amounts of ways your nonprofit can measure the success of your online fundraising campaigns. Out of 151 nonprofits, only 24 of them scored 76% or above.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2011

Living Case Studies: Social Media and Sustainable Agriculture. As part of my work this year as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’m designing and delivering peer training sessions for grantees all around the theme of social media, learning, and measurement. Living Case Study.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Measuring this requires some surveys of fans as well as counting the number of insights gleaned from posts and discussions from Fans. To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Tags: facebook metrics. I have not done this yet.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. In fact, a study by Salesforce found the number one most valuable metric of success for service organizations is customer satisfaction. How are you measuring if you’re meeting or exceeding them?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 5, 2023

The book’s teachings are based on exclusive research from two Salesforce studies of thousands of employees and c-suite executives around the globe, and further validated by hundreds of executive conversations and other industry research. What metrics you can use to measure the benefits of this new operating philosophy.

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Experiment Teach Instruction Instructional 52

M+R

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The annual M+R Benchmarks Study is a tasty fusion of digital fundraising, advocacy, and marketing data. with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a pot of averages, trends, and key metrics. Again, we take measures to make sure that your organization’s data is confidential and non-identifiable in the final study.

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. Key Benchmarks: How Did Your Nonprofit Measure Up ? Are enewsletters still worth your organization’s time? Are nonprofits experimenting with mobile more?

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2012

Combine all this knowledge with your free copy of the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook study , and you’ll be rocking your organization’s Facebook page in no time! Many of the metrics in our report require no calculations. Facebook reports negative feedback on a post level, and also as daily, weekly, and 28-day page metrics.

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