Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Metrics Tracking template! Metrics Tracking template! Analytics and Metrics. During the class, we talked about the importance of tracking and the possibilities that exist for tracking usage beyond just your organization’s website.

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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. The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size.

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Byte Technology

MARCH 11, 2016

According to Louise Craft, digital marketing executive at Metric Mogul, Analytics “ensures marketers can make data led decisions to streamline their marketing efforts, increase their conversion rates and ultimately achieve their business goals.” Here is a sampling of some advanced features and set-up tips that Craft recommends.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 29, 2011

The PMDMC conference had a 4-part social media track. In the presentations section of this post you can follow how to set up a community map, content map, and basic tracking documents; and templates for all of those are in the resources section below. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Metrics Template.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

In April 2012 NTEN worked with Idealware to conduct a survey of nonprofits about their relationships with data, and what we found was a large dichotomy—either they were doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all. Here is a sample of what we found: 99% of respondents track some sort of metrics.

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NTEN

JANUARY 28, 2013

In 2012, NTEN was able to survey a sample of US nonprofits to find out how they were doing when it comes to being data-driven: were they collecting data and tracking metrics? How do we determine which data matters in the first place, and how that data will impact the direction of our work?

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

If you’re a nonprofit professional you know what it’s like to drown in excel spreadsheets tracking your supporters, donations, major gifts prospects, and almost anything else. From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics. Investing the time and resources necessary not only to track but act on donor retention rates should be one of your organization’s top priorities.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Be sure to ask for work samples if appropriate for the work you are requesting. For example, many VAs can handle small design jobs on Canva, but you won’t know for sure until you view their work samples. Use a project management too l like Trello or Asana to keep track of deadlines and progress. How Much Does a VA Cost?

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

When it comes to your organization's Facebook page, you've probably already been doing a good job at tracking your number of fans; it's right there on your fan page for everyone to see! The average churn rate in 2010 for nonprofits in our research sample was 14%.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

To avoid common volunteer management mistakes and optimize your volunteer scheduling processes, implement these simple strategies: Carefully track volunteer hours. Carefully track volunteer hours. For one thing, tracking volunteer hours and maintaining accurate volunteer data logs makes it possible to apply for volunteer grant funds.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 4, 2011

Metrics tracking template: [link]. From content planning to really listening online, you’ll find that the more you look for ways to interact, instead of broadcast, the more you can do with those 30 minutes. Related Links : SM4NP Conference. Community map template: [link]. Content map template: [link].

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Starting to fundraise without a plan is like building a house without a draft – you need a plan to know where you’re going, and to keep you on that track. The downloadable spreadsheet includes a sample, along with a blank template for you to use for your own plan. For example, how many new donors do you expect to acquire?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

If this is your first Giving Day, keep it simple and pick the right metric. (See See this for Giving Day metrics to track your goals.). Here is a Sample Six-Month Planning Timeline to help you get started. You can also set goals for donor engagement, brand awareness, or capacity building for local nonprofits.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

Many organizations struggle with the idea of ROI and metrics when it comes to social media because so much of it feels, well, untouchable. So now, finally, we get to the metrics. By charting out the problems, strategies, benefits, and values first, we give ourselves a better picture to pull out metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2009

Who knew that using the discipline of poetic form could generate such a great discussion about measurement and metrics. Some takeaways about measurement and ROI: Need to incorporate tracking of how many people that you involved in engaging conversations via social media become donors. The twitter feedback was very positive.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Metrics matter because they give your nonprofit insights on decision-making and provide evidence for what kind of content to share. This is especially true on social media because there are so many data points you can track. Across platforms, you should be tracking social media engagement rates and conversion rates.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 25, 2010

While the area of social metrics continues to evolve and grow, there are five main tips all organizations should follow when measuring social media activity for ROI: 1. Define success metrics before starting campaigns. Keep an ongoing dashboard of metrics updated regularly. Specific and easy to assess. Measure actionable items.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 12, 2010

And little did I know that Amy Sample Ward and Stacey Monk were planning one hell of a surprise party! For now, enjoy Amy Sample Ward's reflection on crowdsourcing a surprise party ! One of things I've learned about social media and doing fundraising for causes is that you will be surprised! But it is late, and time for bed!

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Classy

MARCH 26, 2021

Setting goals for a fundraising campaign is an important step to ensure you are staying on track and seeing year-over-year growth. However, it can have so much more impact than just for your internal tracking purposes. Then, turn on the progress metrics for your hard launch to your wider network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Amy Sample Ward lays out a 5 things to think about before you get into the execution of a social media strategy for the first time. Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Use Time Management Techniques.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2016

Does the service track how their candidates have performed once recruited for a board? Does the service you are considering track metrics such as these and others that are important to you? Or do they provide a short sample of some boards they have helped? Have they stayed on the board where placed?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Metrics that Matter. When it comes to using a third-party platform for community engagement, communications, marketing, and fundraising, organizations often find that they have trouble tracking the data they really want to, or they find it too difficult to get to the numbers that they stop trying all together.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 24, 2012

Topic : Strong Connections: Linking Strategy, Goals and Metrics. Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or something else, you don’t have to be satisfied with a feeling: use your organization’s strategic plan to identify real goals and then track the data to show your impact. Topic : Social Media Boundaries: Personal/Personnel Policy.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Explore Bloomerang’s sample job descriptions for positions like major gift officer and development director. Bloomerang’s donor database also includes an interactive dashboard to monitor metrics like donor retention, incoming donations, and campaign progress. Hold interviews.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Look first at your organizational metrics. Those metrics and accompanying goals are the best resources for identifying the focus and the calls to action for your campaigns and even daily communications. Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2013

Amy Sample Ward facilitated a lunch time conversation about impact measurement for nonprofits in the Beacon Lounge with Lynn Labieniec of Beaconfire and Robert Rosenthal of VolunteerMatch. It was a great opportunity to test out some ways to talk about performance assessment and outcomes-based approaches as David Hunter and Mario Morino.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Here's the list: Amy Sample Ward, Building Blocks of Social Media. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. The data collection should be not be a burden and that's why it is useful to carefully pick and choose what metrics you'll track. Where do you look for standard metrics? Does anyone?

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Note , this was adapted from the book Social Change Anytime Everywhere by Amy Sample Ward and I. Produce a monthly website and online engagement report of key metrics. Record key online engagement on a spreadsheet so you can track what compels your community to engage with you online. Who are the target audiences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

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. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. Defined Audience.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

We donated to 10 organizations of all different sizes and tracked the following: Did they make it clear why I should donate? Based on these 10 organizations and the much larger sample size we’ve seen in 2019, here’s where the nonprofit sector is winning and losing in online fundraising. How many clicks did it take me to give?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Moderator: Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. View more presentations from Amy Sample ward. Consider the groups you will want to track or by which you will want to arrange members: donors, activists, organizers, stakeholders, partners, volunteers, supporters, and so on. Web metrics, talking to people, emails (who opens, clicks, etc.).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or something else, you don’t have to be satisfied with a feeling: use your organization’s strategic plan to identify real goals and then track the data to show your impact. Related Links : Nonprofit Webinars.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

I was presenting on the way we can identify metrics in social media that help us reach our mission and how to use those metrics strategically. I have done a few webinars and presentations about social media tracking and metrics and frequently used the phrase “actionable data.” That’s what actionable means.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Throughout the 3-day conference, industry experts, customers, and partners participating in the higher education track shared what the higher ed landscape looks like today, challenges, new opportunities, digital transformation, and more. . A sample of 404 institutions reported on receipts from DAFs. ” .

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, or something else, you don’t have to be satisfied with a feeling: use your organization’s strategic plan to identify real goals and then track the data to show your impact. Related Links : Blackbaud Conference information.

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