Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2011

A key finding: Nearly 60 percent of respondents listed “ measurement, analysis, and learning &# as their top information technology bottleneck. How many take the time on the front-end to set up a simple system to collect the essential metrics to figure out what is working or what isn’t? Or to document results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis. Another pitfall is doing “drive by&# analysis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. This is where I’ve gleaned most of my insights – a combination of quantitative metrics culled from Insights and what people are saying on the page. Unsubscribes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 13, 2007

The demographics summary: The numbers : 44 million active users. I also found an indepth analysis of user behavior on Facebook and some specific thinking about metrics. Comparison of old/new metrics. This slideshow came from the recent Forrester Consumer Conference (see here and here ). Facebook users are aging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Jeremiah Owyang's " Why Your Social Media Plan Should Include Success Metrics " post might help nonprofits identify some realistic short-term outcomes for social media implementation. Many individuals tag hundreds of resources each week. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

There have been a lot of questions about customized Facebook landing pages and my business partner at Zoetica, Kami Huyse, wrote this fantastic summary of the resources shared. This post harvests some of the insights shared about social media measurement and nonprofits. There are specific metrics for specific platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

" Holly Ross from NTEN has the final word with a brilliant post sharing all the metrics they track and putting them into context. Trends in the Living Networks blog gives an analysis of the structure of influence and social opinion which offers some insights into leveraging a network effect. What do you think?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

If you were unable to attend the conference, we hope you can use the summary below to inspire thoughtful conversations at your institution and help in your planning for the new year. . . Conduct an impact analysis and use it! private and public 2-year and 4-year institutions. . Fundraising during a global pandemic .

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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. Definition: An analysis that looks at the benefits, costs, and value of a technology project over time.

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Neon CRM

MAY 16, 2023

Instead, you’re writing a two to three-sentence summary of that post focused specifically on the theme of your newsletter. Add visuals: An image or graphic next to the summary can make it more eye-catching and help it stand out in the newsletter. Track the Right Metrics With a CRM Your newsletter should be ever-evolving.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

You have to be creative: offer to meet over lunch, coffee, prepare a summary of what you see in the strategic plan that asks probing questions that could lead to mutual ideas and extended discussion; chocolate works, too. Your task here is to minimize the obstacles via the development of relationships and an organizational analysis of I.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. Drop a comment or link back and I'll round it up for next week's summary. What do you think? And if you???re

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Forum One

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Not only can users narrow down their search to the district level, they can then choose from various impact metrics to better understand specific factors, behaviors, outcomes, etc. It includes those who understand data well (researchers), and others who are likely less familiar with complex data analysis tools.

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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. 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. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2023

Enhanced Data Analysis AI can also analyze data more quickly and effectively. Your organization probably generates and collects a lot of data, and AI-powered data analytics tools can help you gain insights into donor behavior, program outcomes, and other key metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

As measurement guru KD Paine says, you need the right measurement tool for the job – identify SMART objectives , pick metrics , and then your tool. Here’s a summary a responses from my Facebook Page. Creating is more appealing then analysis to most. We all need to be curators of our analytics data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Benchmarking comparing your organization’s past performance to itself or doing a formal or informal analysis of peer organizations can help. It is also important to think about what specific metrics are needed to measure along the way. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2016

Plus, spreadsheets provide numbers but not critical analysis, and meaningful data-driven conclusions are hard to come by. The most effective dashboard solutions are intuitive and visually dynamic; they present an accessible real-time look into a range of metrics. Dashboards are only as good as the information that goes into them.

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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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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Giving summaries that show the donation histories of your organization’s individual supporters. Between effective market research and useful data analysis, you can feel confident reaching out to new audiences for donations. You receive a list of prospect insights for analysis. Bloomerang’s pricing.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2022

The analysis is based on a July – June fiscal year, covering the period of FY2017 through FY2021. Best Practices and Key Findings for Conversion at organizations with strong conversion metrics: . The data set included 20 million donors who gave 71 million gifts for a total of $2.9 billion in FY2021.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

I had the honor of participating on the ROI (Return on Investment) of Social Media panel at the Women Who Tech TeleSummit with Monique Eldwell of Conversify and Cheryl Contee of Fission Strategies where we laid out some key metrics and useful case studies. The metrics for measuring ROI can be extremely varied. Here are a few examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code. Geotagging Photos.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

There is no simple metric to understand how to consider efficiency and effectiveness in intellectual work. I performed an analysis of my organization’s attendance at programs for the last five years, I created the decorations for our new music series, and I worked on labels for an exhibition in our interpretation laboratory.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2017

To a large extent, understand the market forces at play that help or hurt your chance for success; think SWOT analysis and marketing mix. The conclusion of your article is a condensed summary of your major points and if possible should be no longer than 2-3 sentences, or about 50-75 words. Conclusion.

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