Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2007

Experiments, snafus and stumbles December 17, 2007 I seem to have lost my head. And if you have a Gmail account, it’s the same username/password that you’d be using for Analytics, Google Docs, Adsense, etc. I was all curmudgeonly until last week, when I started tweeting and got into Spock. You know why I started to twitter.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 28, 2010

The Target Analytics donorCentrics Index of National Fundraising Performance for 2009 reported this trend. Recurring Gift Donors only accounted for 10% of all US Donors The Target Analytics 2009 donorCentrics U.S. That’s not the case this time. First Year Donor Retention is 29.3% Recurring Giving Benchmarking Analysis says so.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

6) Google Analytics vs. Sitemeter. This blog entry from 2007 is about being open about one’s mistakes. The proprietary consolidation of the CRM/Donation management system space continues apace. 5) The Search for Good Web Conferencing. An exploration of options with my own particular requirements in mind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

The 1 st tool was MySpace back in 2007. 1) Using Google Analytics to track referrals to www.pancan.org from social networking outlets. (2) YouTube: youtube.com/StopPancreaticCancer. LinkedIn: linkedin.com/groups?gid=104492. gid=104492. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? The least?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

September 17, 2007 There is an interesting discussion happening between Holly Ross, soon to be ED of NTEN, and Allan Benamer , about web statistics, and whether or not nonprofits should be “transparent&# and publish their web statistics. It’s been there since 9/7/2007, two days after my call for getting people on Quantcast.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. The research has been going slowly -- partly because web analytics is a very complex and geeky topic. Analytics This! Zen and the Art of Web Analytics.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

billion donated in 2007. This is a 44% increase over 2007's online giving estimates. Target Analytics noted in the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarking Analysis study that as much as 16% of new donors and 27% of new revenue came from online sources in 2008. Giving USA estimates that $307.65 Your own results may vary.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

80% of participants used in-person asks and 73% used email to raise funds The second study is “Understanding the Value of Team Captains&# based on research from the donorCentrics Events Benchmarking Group by Target Analytics , a Blackbaud company.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2011

The organizations that participate in the Target Analytics online benchmarking group are prominent nonprofits covering a range of sectors, including animal welfare, the environment, health, human services, international relief, and societal benefit. Only 11% of online donors acquired in 2007 were still giving in 2010.

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NetWits

JANUARY 29, 2009

As discussed in the 2007 Target Analytics DonorCentrics Report, the average online donor gives more initially and has a higher lifetime value than a conventional donor. As everyone is acknowledging these days, online donors are going to be a key growth segment for nonprofit organizations this year.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

If you haven’t already started using Google Analytics 4 (GA4), there’s no time like the present. We’ve said it before and said it again —there’s no reason to delay the switch from Universal Analytics (UA), the tool 99% of our partners use as default. What is Google Analytics 4? What do you want to learn from analytics?

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TechCrunch

JULY 13, 2022

Through Tech Scouting, Booz Allen has recently backed firms including Latent AI, whose technology compresses AI models; Synthetaic, a data-generating platform; and Reveal Technology, which performs analytics on aerial data. For example, Lockheed Martin Ventures has pledged only around $200 million toward startups since 2007.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

Since the turn of the century, we have faced many societal and financial challenges to raising money for our organizations: September 11, 2001, the recession that began in 2007, and annual natural disasters that challenge the worldwide environment. We’ve weathered the 11 recessions that have occurred between 1945 and 2001 as well.

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Kaggle Blog

APRIL 20, 2020

I’m also a part-time software developer for 11ants analytics. After the first 10 testing submissions, I realised that there was a concept drift happening between 2007 and 2008. The success rates decline gradually from 2007. I’m a PhD student of the Machine Learning Group in the University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2011

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. They have also made changes to the analytics program Insights and introduced new metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Analyze the types of posts (content and format) that get linked and the impact of that linking in referrals using Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. We’re also keeping a close eye on our Google Analytics to ensure that enough people are visiting the campaign page and the conversion rate. In 2008, even more people joined and raised over $1 million for clean water projects in Ethiopia.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2011

This is a significant increase from 2007 when ComScore reported that Internet users spent 1 out of every 12 minutes online using social networks. Analytics are limited. A new study by ComScore says that US Internet users spend 1 out of every 6 minutes online engaging with social networks. It has limited functionality.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

It requires having both “hard skills” (technology, network mapping, analytic tools, strategic thinking, understanding of complexity and dynamic systems) and “soft skills” (group dynamics, crossing boundaries, ability to create alignment, relationship building, networking/ connecting people, conflict resolution, etc.)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

Follow-up reports were published on 11 th and 26 th November 2006 and 12 January 2007. I'm am inspired to do something like this and incorporate the use of google analytics to get some qualitative data. Reasons For Experiment To explore ways in which a new blog can be found. Its use is recommended to others. What happened?

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2021

“The Financial crisis [of 2007] was a tipping point in terms of how financial services companies became more proactive, and I’d say that the pandemic has been a turning point around other sectors like healthcare in how to become more proactive,” Marria said. “To do that you need more data and insights.”

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Farley made the analogy that electric cars are now at a similar place as smartphones in 2007. Globally, battery production is expected to grow from 95.3GWh in 2020 to 410.5GWh in 2024, according to GlobalData, a data and analytics company. Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge. Photo by Sean O’Kane / The Verge. This story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2010

I've known since 2005 and I realized that the last time I had seen him was in 2007 in Cambodia at the blogging conference and over an interesting dinner served by our hosts. Strategy is analytical, reflective, and thinking - not much action. I also pointed out the inherent tension we experience between strategy and tactics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2007

He writes the Web Strategy blog that I follow closely because of his analytical writing about Web2.0. 2007: What does it mean to my business? One of the other panelists was going to be Jeremiah Owyang who could not participate due to a conflict with his new position at Forrester. Nancy Schwartz, Getting Attention. This made me wonder.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

all IPO’d circa 2007/08 for a combined market value of around AUD $13 billion. Although I couldn’t possibly cover them all, some of the larger ones by attendees and membership are Silicon Beach, Lean Startup, Startup Grind, Amazon AWS and the Big Data Analytics meet-up group. and RealEstate.com.au

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2011

Instead, in 2007, we started stocking it with articles written by members of our community. Then, when we compose NTEN Connect each month, instead of guessing what we should send out to our 30,000 subscribers, we can look at our blog and social media analytics data to learn what our blog readers have already found most engaging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

What is interesting is how the web metrics include a mix of traditional web analytics and social media metrics, in this case number of friends on myspace (454) and views (see above) on its youtube channel. For instance, folks can check to see how much we have spent so far this year and how it relates to what we projected in our 2007 budget.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 4, 2021

It’s a strong vote of confidence when you consider that Roseman himself is also an ex-Amazonian, having been its VP of technology between 1998 and 2007 working on marketplace technology, among other things. “We

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Care2

MARCH 23, 2009

According to the donorCentric study published by Target Analytics, which gathered data from 25 large nonprofit organizations ranging from CARE to Amnesty International, many nonprofits have mastered raising money from Direct Mail campaigns, but haven’t quite figured out how to replicate their fundraising success online.

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2023

In 2007, Alan O’Herlihy, who previously worked with large SAP installations as well as retail, set out to find a way to help retailers minimize “shrinkage,” or where a store has fewer items in stock than in its recorded inventory. ” Everseen hasn’t always succeeded in this mission.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

The assessment helps nonprofits look at eight different areas: Technology, Content, Channels/Devices, Audiences, Analytics, User Experience, and Governance. The session kicked off with a Spectragram exercise involving the full group. I learned this technique from Allen Gunn from Aspiration over ten years ago at 2007 Penguin Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. I had less of those in May, 2008 compared to May 2007. What does that mean?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 12, 2020

Nextiva expanded horizontally, adding CRM software, analytics and other functionality to its broader suite as it scaled. It goes a little something like this: After moving to California in 1996 at the age of 20, Gorny eventually founded a web hosting company in 2001 after working for tech companies during the dot-com boom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Also, most of the audiences I'll be talking to are not web analytics geeks either, so will need a basic and condensed overview too. Many are discovering that traditional web analytics and metrics (like page view) are not appropriate. Source: Avinash Kaushik 's "Web Analytics An Hour A Day"). The Web is changing!

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