Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features. 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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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s a strategy that I have been using, testing, and adapting since @NonprofitOrgs first launched on Myspace in 2006 and now there’s an ever-increasing flow of data being released that proves that social and mobile media are, in fact, powerful fundraising tools. Other Metrics. eNewsletter Subscribers.

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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. The Facebook Insights tool lets you see trends Fan acquisition and subscription. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. I have not done this yet.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

It’s a strategy that I have been using, testing, and adapting since @NonprofitOrgs first launched on Myspace in 2006 and now there’s an ever-increasing flow of data being released that proves that social and mobile media are, in fact, powerful fundraising tools. Other Metrics. eNewsletter Subscribers.

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Track Mobile Media Fundraising 186

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. Below are some ways to use your event metrics to identify and engage specific participant types during your fundraising event. Warm Bodies.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Share stats and information that people can easily understand. Here are a couple key metrics: Donations : Have your donations increased? Tell your impact story. People are more likely to support organizations that they feel connected to. Share your organization’s story in a compelling and inspiring way. Research your competition.

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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. Probably because there are so many free tools on the market. What tools are most useful to you? But are most of them useful to you? Are they efficient?

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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. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

I just discovered that one of my blog colleagues in Australia, Seb Chan, is writing about a topic of mutual interest - social media metrics (my blog ramblings here and my wiki/presentations here ). I am also prepping a panel on the topic for NTC (more about that later) Seb Chan is focusing specifically on blog metrics for museums.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 28, 2023

Well, I’ve got some eye-opening stats that might make you reconsider where to channel your communication efforts. Well, here’s another mind-blowing stat: Radicati Group reports that there are over 4 billion email users worldwide, and that number is projected to reach 4.6 The numbers don’t lie! But what about reach?

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. You should be reviewing these stats at least once a month. What are some of your favorite low-cost tracking tools? ?. Postrank Analytics. For $9 a month, PostRank will measure how engaging your blog or web content is.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 12, 2011

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. Finally, pick a day of the month to begin and enter the baseline metrics for the first month, then enter your progress for that month on the same day of every month thereafter.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

You’ll even get real-time click stats! By setting these two tools up you’ll increase your efficiency and set your-self up for success early on. You’ll have real web metrics to back up your work. This will allow you to shorten your URLs (e.g. link] and measure your sharing effectiveness.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Common costs associated with online fundraising tools Before we dive into our list of top fundraising platforms, it’s helpful to be aware of the common costs and payment terminology associated with these solutions. Customize your dashboard to show the fundraising metrics most important to your nonprofit’s mission and campaign success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Facebook is also a great tool for nonprofits. Stats, stats, stats …. Facebook Pages give you stats!! You may be thinking “why do stats matter?”. See a sample of what the stats look like here. The goal of the metric is to provide an updated snapshot into how fans are engaging with your Page’s content.

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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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Care2

MARCH 9, 2013

I have seen it be a powerful organizing tool as part of a multichannel campaign. Twitter can be a great platform to engage with people though, if campaigners take the time to have back and forth discussions and not just use Twitter to promote blog posts, press releases or fact sheets.

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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. It involves examining the data and performance metrics of individual major gift officers, as well as the team as a whole, to understand what’s working and what leaves room for improvement. How do we know this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

With over 100 tools, approaches and platforms for measuring impact, the process can be overwhelming and time consuming. Set Program Goals & Metrics. Clarify quantifiable outcomes or metrics that can be easily measured on a routine basis. How can they get started? Create a roadmap for measuring your financial + social impact.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

In my previous posts, I shared how NEXT Worldwide and AIDS Arms encourage their participants to use centralized fundraising tools, but how do you know if your participants are using these tools? Individuals who personalize their fundraising pages and use online tools raise six times more funds than those who do not.

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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. Analytics tools. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We also just started reporting on the metrics we already had available (web analytics, FB insights, email campaign stats) and are now moving towards more of a “digital content services&# model with metrics related to specific campaigns, etc.&#. There are specific metrics for specific platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2005

Ethan Zuckerman has been analyzing Global s stats since the site's redesign last month. The tool used to count total links is Blogpulse (He also shares his worksheet ) In the analysis, he mentions that the average blogger links to Global s 1.86 In another post, Ethan writes about the Blogpulse tools he used to do the analysis here.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

Twitter Twitter has long been a tool for organizing and bringing people together around topics of interest. One of the best things about using tools with APIs is that you can consolidate your reporting and data in one centralized location to create a business dashboard for yourself and your internal teams, or even for the general public.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

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? In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list. Twitt(url)y.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

social media stats you consider most important to track. I hear about what tools they're using -- and how many fans they have. Beth Kanter had a great post a couple of weeks ago about the variety of social media metrics she puzzles over. Maybe social media metrics are a little like horseshoes.

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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. As long as your email tool integrates with your CRM, the emails will go out on their own. Mostly you decide what content to deliver for each action, coordinate them with other emails and review metrics periodically. The work is done upfront.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. At e-metrics, someone told me it had to do with them dropping counts from different news readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We'll talk through the tools and strategies you can use to get the answers to these questions. Through demos of free tools such as AWStats and Google Analytics, we'll look at what these tools can tell you about your site. We'll also use the Idealware stats to demo a methodology that connects metrics to business questions.

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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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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

As you read that stat, you’re probably saying to yourself "wow, that’s impressive. And while it maybe true that your organization needs a better Facebook strategy, it’s also important that you dig a little deeper into social media stats. Social Media is a great fundraising tool. Nothing lasts forever.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The day was designed as a one-day interactive strategy session in the morning and intensive mini-workshops on tools and tactics in the afternoon lead by a cadre of local social media specialists and experts. Hashtag Stats. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder. Some Reflections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. Learning Goals. To understand the definition web analytics. You won't be able to think.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. We need to know what metrics we need to be tracking. Sample metrics.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Are you measuring the right social media metrics or do you have your head in the sand? Or, you may have experienced shinny-new-social-media-object-of-the-week syndrome – using new social media tools with no real purpose, reason or objective. One metric I track on our Blog is RSS or eMail subscribers. The answer matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. We need metrics! Not only those that apply metrics but need to rethink them.

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