Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2016

Here are four common mistakes my team and I see made by social, government, and nonprofit organizations trying to measure their impact, and tips on how to avoid them: 1. Measuring Too Much. By far the most common problem we see is that most organizations try to measure too much. Little or nothing happened as a result.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

There are two solutions for integrating your data — either build an in-house centralized data platform or research an analytics vendor to outsource data collection and analysis. This leads to measurable growth and improved patient results. So, how do healthcare organizations overcome these data silos?

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

In a recent analysis , we looked at the characteristics of the December cohort, which totaled $4.2 The $126 million grant, to Easterseals, is an outlier in size and structure—it actually represents an aggregation of grants to a set of individual Easterseals chapters. billion to 384 nonprofits. Grant size distribution.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. Data connectors can consolidate data from many different platforms, not just UA and GA4, significantly streamlining the data aggregation process and providing a more comprehensive view of your organization’s data.

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Forum One

APRIL 8, 2021

Not that long ago, powerful data management and analysis tools were often only accessible to the commercial sector. Today, there is a wealth of modern tools that make deep and meaningful data analysis more accessible to the nonprofit and social good sector. How can you get data into your platform for future analysis?

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Association Analytics

JUNE 2, 2021

Many organizations measure the success of their products by aggregate revenue, engagement numbers, and member feedback. Understanding post-purchase behavior is an important part of the analysis. Aside from membership, do you know the most valuable products your association offers? What is the trend in sales over time?

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

It’s critical to actively track and measure your website traffic against your goals. Your aggregate-level data will still be saved, but event-level data, such as file downloads, will only be kept for 14 months. Your website is arguably the most important tool you have in your fundraising arsenal. leads) it’s bringing in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2011

If we (NPOs) are investing in social media, then we should be measuring it to make sure it drives action – this presentation shows a way for just looking at Twitter using Google Analytics. o Google Analytics is free, as are many other basic analysis tools. o Just gather, analyze, and act based on key performance indicators.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 30, 2023

When’s the last time you heard a board member say, “Members want…” followed by an aggregate of the last five conversations they’ve had. Dig Below the Surface to Find Gaps in Member Retention It’s likely that your organization measures retention rates, but are you looking at the surface or digging in below the aggregate level ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2007

I'm doing a workshop on Social Media Metrics, Measurement, and ROI at PodCamp Boston tomorrow. But, here are a few comments: Kudos to you for setting clear goals and starting off with measurement from the beginning. You talk about aggregating content, but what about comments/conversation on the blog? | View | Upload your own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2009

Collaboration: refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Collective Intelligence: refers to the idea that the social web enables us to not only aggregate individual actions, but also run sophisticated algorithms on them and extract meaning from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding? Aggregating Conversations. The big deal is that all of this data is in one dashboard, so I can jump straight to analysis, making my weekly report a whole lot easier to produce. Spredfast is one, but are there others?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

But, if you want more suggestions, see 22 Must Circle Nonprofit Bloggers and Nonprofits on Google + that Heather Mansfield aggregated. How are you measuring that? Measurement and Learning. It offers a quasi social network analysis to see how your posts are shared: when, by whom, and to whom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

In a recent post , I mentioned that Jeremiah Owyang pointed out that "Retweet" (sharing a link or tweet from one of your followers with your followers) is a social gesture indicating endorsement of an idea and predicts that there will be an analytics tools to measure this. I went looking for stop gaps from Brian Solis's awesome list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. TwitLinks aggregates the latest links from the worlds top tech twitter users. Does it exist? ahem, @pistachio ?)

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 22, 2016

In the fall 2015 issue of npENGAGE Magazine , my colleague Annie Rhodes wrote about our extensive outreach to the market to discover how measuring outcomes and impact are becoming essential to the philanthropic sector. All foundations and their nonprofit partners can benefit from measuring, tracking and reporting on outcomes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. From these questions, you need to pick the three most critical metrics to measure success goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 25, 2024

1) Data Analysis and Reporting Marketing automation platforms give aggregated insights into donor behavior and campaign performance. Open rates , click-through rates , conversion rates , and other metrics measure the effectiveness of your fundraising efforts. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 3, 2011

Well, total aggregate unrelated business income has grown in the sector over the last few decades, but so has the number of nonprofit organizations. In an effort to be fair, Child looks at a couple different measures. I appreciate your analysis of the claims that the sector is becoming more commercialized. Good post Mark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

What I learned is that “drive by&# analysis of metrics is really a waste of time. You need to grab the month’s worth of measures and look at them against your content. NutShell Mail is an software that aggregates comments and likes on your fan page and delivers it in one email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

Back in 2007, when Facebook opened it doors to people older than college students and nonprofits started the early experiments on Facebook Causes, Froggy Loop did an extensive analysis " The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes " using the dollars per donor analysis. The nonprofit doesn't have to do all the heavy lifting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2007

" Allan also offers an analysis of the nonprofit micro-philanthropy applications, but says it is too early to speculate where things will be in the next 21 days or next few months. Charlene Li has an analysis of the impact. as a sole measurement of success. ll aggregate all the data together. The web, it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Why should we measure story in a new way? To do this we have to be able to measure story in a new way. If the new story could be aggregated and given momentum, the shift will take place sooner. . To do this we have to add our trust and our power to aggregate the right kind of stories. . Alan Deutschman – Walk the Walk.

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NTEN

APRIL 16, 2009

But it all starts with a commitment to excellence and a theory of change that identifies explicit, clear, measurable objectives. It should also provide tools for flexible, customized data analysis. Tags: ingvild bjornvold measurement Newsletter NPTech NTEN performance management. Your organization is ready for a change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2009

It is an excellent example of working through how an organization might respond to comments on a blog, but even better it is map for insight harvesting. As David Meerman Scott notes in his analysis of their social media strategy, the goal is "to use current and developing Web 2.0

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Learn more Improve data collection and demonstrate impact Unified case management and impact measurement Capture and manage your data in a single system so your team can spend less time on caseload monitoring a and more time improving programs and boosting outcomes. more services delivered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Social Media: Adoption, Strategy, and Measuring Success ZUP4Nonprofits has a two-part post ( pt. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. There's going to be a Netsquared Meetup (recommendations for restaurant or location are needed) How will your nonprofit avoid the Meatball Sundae? asks Rich Reeder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2009

I also plan to continue blogging about these topics - focusing on writing in-depth thought pieces as well as aggregate and summarize the best thinking in the nptech field. Social Media Audience Research and Social Network Analysis: I've been tracking social media research snippets for a while, but not in a very well organized way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2009

I've been thinking about how you measure what your organization does on Twitter. Given Sean's and Alistair's knowledge in this area, we engaged in a couple of really useful "micro" chats on Twitter about different measurement tools. Aggregate (a Twitter user's followers or friends). What can they measure w/Twitter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. The Aspen Institute’s Nonprofit Advocacy Campaign guide points out they come in three flavors: Tactical: Tools and Techniques. It is also important to think about what specific metrics are needed to measure along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 31, 2010

In reflecting over the past three years, the definition of listening tools has broadened beyond “monitoring&# or “research&# to include several categories: social media engagement management, analytics, influencer identification, and social network analysis. Saves a lot of cut and paste time and great for analysis.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

Analysis & Strategy: The consultant conducts an analysis of your current software and formulates a strategy to align those solutions with your goals. Research top providers online using third-party sites, review aggregators, and educational guides. Documentation: The consultant documents their recommendations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 11, 2014

The solution we have been exploring is a semi-customized, open source, secure, data collection and analysis application that makes it easier for social sector users to safely gather and use information more efficiently. In fact, a secure mobile app for data collection is merely the beginning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

A year ago, he said that measuring outcomes for social media is, "an evolving art (not quite a science yet) and you have to be up to the challenge of both thinking a bit differently and be ok with leveraging several different tools. Measuring the success of social media efforts can't be done with a single metric. Technorati ???Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

I've been retweeting a lot of these links, but I also like to look for patterns and the best way to do that is aggregate them in a single blog post. It has explained social network analysis and techniques in a way that is easy to understand for those who are not experts. How do you measure sucess on Twitter? Take your pick!

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

We’ve taken the guesswork out of the equation by aggregating only the best social media marketing resources available online. Measure and track results. In it, you’ll learn how to develop: An action plan based on a current situation analysis. Reporting and measurement plans. DOWNLOAD TEMPLATE.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. When the exhibition opens in June, visitors will see the photos ordered by aggregate score, but you will also be able to look at the scores by art knowledge (and geography) on the web and on interactive kiosks.

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