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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Share stats and information that people can easily understand. Measure and track your success. 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. Research your competition. What are they doing well?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

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). Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions.

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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. How do you track and measure your Facebook Fan Page against your objectives? Tags: facebook metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About. Last night Facebook announced some changes to Insights , the analytics program that we use for tracking Facebook pages, that includes a new metric, “People Talking About.” More new stats include, “Friends of Fans” and “Total Reach.”

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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. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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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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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

You’ll even get real-time click stats! Set it up on your website and blog so that you can track your efforts. Once you’ve got the basic setup done look into using Google Analytics to track campaigns. You’ll have real web metrics to back up your work. First, set up a bit.ly Next, set up a Seesmic account.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be. Do you collect metrics to impress your boss or ones that truly help you improve?

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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? Focused Prospecting.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Snapshot: Today’s Environmental Sustainability Stats. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 California State Park’s Virtual Earth Day Report helps them track their progress and record their impact for prizes. Read Next: How Ocean’s Power Our Wallets, Health, and Planet.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2012

The Valid Metrics Framework, Updated to Include Social Media. Hopefully those days are coming soon as there’s a new movement to simplify and standardized social media measurements and better track what really matters. Well Katie calls that HITS = How Idiots Track Success.

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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. But are most of them useful to you? Are they efficient? Do they pull the data you need to run a better campaign and engage your activists and donors?

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Nimble AMS

JULY 3, 2019

Customer lifetime value (CLV) is one of the key stats likely to be tracked as part of a customer experience program. This metric helps you understand a reasonable cost per acquisition for each customer.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

This allows you to track all donor interactions and reach out to donors at the right times. Customize your dashboard to show the fundraising metrics most important to your nonprofit’s mission and campaign success. Pull reports with the most important metrics for your nonprofit’s success. Interactive dashboard. Selling tickets.

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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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Connection Cafe

APRIL 24, 2014

So I broke down and purchased a FitBit and as a metrics geek, I have to say I love it! The device syncs with my apps that help me track my miles and meals while the FitBit itself tracks my activity level, steps, and my sleeping patterns. So why not think of your event metrics as your own personal P2P FitBit?

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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? So what type of metrics are non-profits tracking to determine if they are achieving their objectives? One metric I track on our Blog is RSS or eMail subscribers. Only 28% measure this metric!! The answer matters.

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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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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? Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those. , a question asked by the Give and Take blog.

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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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NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

social media stats you consider most important to track. 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. We recently asked on our Facebook Page what. Nobody said number of followers.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 12, 2013

While it is advised to review event metrics after an event, it may be beneficial to review some fundraiser participation while the fundraising is actually happening. Many peer-to-peer fundraising solutions offer a way for the development team to track the usage of online tools by their participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

As one participant points out, “It is very hard to get departments to agree because Web wants one thing, Membership wants another, Communications has it’s own tracking.&#. There are specific metrics for specific platforms. In the end only one thing worked: small, “non-threatening&# pilots.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular. We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics.

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NTEN

JULY 14, 2011

There are actually quite a few – even ones that track the flow of money to politicians. Metricly aggregates your data across the Web, allowing you to compare and combine your metrics in one place, and making it easier for you to stay on top of your business. There is an API for that.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

We're tracking open rates, web site hits, blog comments, people served, high-dollar donations, staff productivity, and thousands of other things across our organizations. " Why are you tracking all those things? If you feel overwhelmed by data, the solution is simple: track only what you NEED to know, and let go of the rest.

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Care2

AUGUST 22, 2013

Produce a monthly website and online engagement report of key metrics. Monthly Website Stats: Monthly visits, unique visitors, pageviews, pages per Visit, time on site, and bounce rate (aim for under 60%). Record key online engagement on a spreadsheet so you can track what compels your community to engage with you online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

If you been following this thread, I was prompted to explore blog metrics in this post after reading what Avinash Kaushik had to day on the topic : The blog metrics he identified were: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Chris Blow writes a blog called Unthinkingly. Unique Blog Readers (content consumption ???

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 10, 2019

LinkedIn’s Social Selling Index is one of the few metrics I think is worth obsessing over. I strongly recommend creating a spreadsheet to track your progress. If you’re looking to crush LinkedIn marketing in 2019then consider these 5 tips: 1. Check Out Your LinkedIn Social Selling Index (SSI).

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 6, 2013

Here Are This Week’s Nonprofit Highlights: Jeff Haguewood of Sidekick Solutions suggests the 5 Basic Fundraising Performance Metrics to Start Measuring Today. It’s important that you begin paying attention to the stats. Do you have a CRM that makes tracking relationships and supporter interactions possible?

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Nonprofits Source

APRIL 3, 2019

LinkedIn’s Social Selling Index is one of the few metrics I think is worth obsessing over. I strongly recommend creating a spreadsheet to track your progress. If you’ve ever wanted to increase your “ weekly search stats ” on LinkedIn then investing in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) might be a good place to start.

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