Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 This was an attempt to find out the ratio of contribution to ???lurking??? The respondents are self-selected, so expect the numbers to skew high.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Last week, I wrote a post that summarized some tips, resources, and tools for using Pinterest. 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. Followers: Gives a measure of reach.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. of a small, but very productive non profit, the ratios always look bad.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

At Zoetica, we facilitating a social media peer learning project called “ Leveraging Social Media: Becoming A Networked Nonprofit.&# Devon Smith, who writes the 24 Usable Hours blog, and a self-described “data nerd&# did a benchmarking analysis for participants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" " He goes on to describe how the noise ratio is constructed. My ratio is 2.4, My ratio is 2.4, This is, of course, a simplistic analysis of a select number of Twitter users. so I'm in the low end of conversationalist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

He agreed to write a four-part primer on a visual diagnostics, mapping, and social networking analysis primer and how nonprofits might use these tools for social change. There are new forms of “mapping”, including social network analysis , which can vastly enhance and speed understanding of the systems.

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Blue Fox

AUGUST 9, 2020

The flow creates continuous improvement and continuous analysis. Insights result from analysis and discussion. Stewardship (Yes, Again) It’s time to close this loop of continuous improvement and analysis. It’s a cycle. It’s a system. Data tells you what happened.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

As the volume of business information exploded, sales ops has evolved into a more powerful data analysis and reporting unit that can provide critical insight on the following areas: Sales Process Optimization. Average Win Rate is the ratio of closed won deals over the total number of won and lost deals. Performance Metrics Analyses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2009

Identifying these people or what Krebs calls "nodes" is core of social network analysis. There was considerable discussion about the following to friends ratio (the number of people whose tweets you read compared to the number of people who read your tweets) and whether you should follow everyone who follows you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

The scores are based on analysis of the “ 5 Cs ” of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting and clicking. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio. Hard data points: Conduct an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. It can also influence traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. See if there are published tangible payoffs from others and collect these "data nuggets" because they add credibility to your analysis. To quantify intangibles look and listen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. John Haydon did this pattern analysis of different types of questions that nonprofits ask on Facebook. The exception is when there are many comments that are generic such as “Nice!” or “Love it!”

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

See, you don’t need to give donors a down-to-the-cent analysis of your expense report. Your charity’s overhead ratio is not necessarily an indicator of its success, but rather a way to offer insight about how funds are broken down. Here’s an example of a circle graph that a Texas Humane Society put on their website.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

You can also have AI analyze recordings of past pitches to review metrics like listening ratio, speaker engagement, and overall emotional tone of the meeting. Adding the Human Touch to Reduce the Cringe We’d be remiss to not address how to avoid being creepy when using AI.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Jim''s post suggests some fun but somewhat silly conclusions about the height/width ratio of artworks. These experiments prompt questions, identify gaps in the data, and promote new forms of collection, dissemination, and analysis. Opening up data is just the first (big) step to make it usable and useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Inspiration for How To Think Like A Social Media Marketing Genius Presentation by Beth Kanter For the past two years, I've been doing an annual Blog benchmarking process that attempts to do a ROI analysis. At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. Analysis of words in posts.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Skipping this analysis can lead to missed opportunities for adjustment and improvement, potentially causing long-term financial issues. Neglecting Month-to-Month Financial Comparisons Month-to-month comparisons are crucial for detecting trends, anomalies, and areas of concern in your financial activities.

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sgEngage

APRIL 3, 2023

When a supporter who works for a company with a matching gift program contributes to your organization and submits a match request, their employer will match their donation, usually at a 1:1 ratio. Just remember that while the fundraiser itself is passive, your marketing and data analysis need to be active. Happy fundraising!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. I said, somewhat jokingly, that you shouldn't be spending more time doing the ROI analysis than the actual project. The final report or analysis can be a memo or simple report, doesn't need to be elaborate.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 31, 2017

A lot of our inquiry is based more on trend analysis than ratio analysis. Having said that, there are two ratios that I believe are very important for nonprofit leaders to track – and both have to do with liquidity. The first is the months of cash ratio. Steps to Calculate Months of Cash Ratio.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Most of the time nonprofit agencies are looked down upon if their program ratio does not show extremely low overhead costs. Anatomy of the nonprofit starvation cycle: An analysis of falling overhead ratios in the nonprofit sector. It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. & Searing, E.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Companies Are Matching Employee Donations At Higher Ratios. They offer a generous 2:1 match ratio and will match donations up to $10,000 per employee per year. Both full-time and part-time employees are eligible, and the company will match donations from $25 to $500 at a 1:1 ratio. Take Coca-Cola for example.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Companies Are Matching Employee Donations At Higher Ratios. They offer a generous 2:1 match ratio and will match donations up to $10,000 per employee per year. Both full-time and part-time employees are eligible, and the company will match donations from $25 to $500 at a 1:1 ratio. Take Coca-Cola for example.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The analysis and audit findings will serve as a wake-up call to set the L&D issues in order. Though feedback also serves as a quasi-audit, it is restrictive in scope. The following points summarize L&D audits raison d’être: 1. Prevents mismatch between organizational goals and training; 2.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The analysis and audit findings will serve as a wake-up call to set the L&D issues in order. Though feedback also serves as a quasi-audit, it is restrictive in scope. The following points summarize L&D audits raison d’être: 1. Prevents mismatch between organizational goals and training; 2.

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Gyrus

MARCH 14, 2024

The analysis and audit findings will serve as a wake-up call to set the L&D issues in order. Though feedback also serves as a quasi-audit, it is restrictive in scope. The following points summarize L&D audits raison d’être: 1. Prevents mismatch between organizational goals and training; 2.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 12, 2016

Conduct a financial analysis of each nonprofit (and of your organization). In addition, this analysis may be useful for partner meetings down the road in which major concerns may be voiced. This will aid in identifying any financial weakness, which depending on the severity, may force you to discard a candidate from the list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

It would based on an analysis of all the "words" or tags that people have used to describe resources also bookmarked with nptech. " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed. " What do those guidelines look like? Is it a vocabularly or adding sub-categories ?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 27, 2022

Did you maintain a 3:1 ratio , providing donors with three warm touches between Asks? Without a thorough analysis, you’re just making educated guesses about what’s working and what’s not. Stewardship: Run a report looking at repeat donors. How many donors who donated during this period last year gave again this year? Handwritten notes?

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

From data collection to analysis to presentation, technology has made it easier to manage KPIs at every stage. Ratios, percentages, and rates are used to express KPI measurements. When firms have to put in so much time and effort to track KPIs, they finally give up. For example, net profit changes from X to Y.

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Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

From data collection to analysis to presentation, technology has made it easier to manage KPIs at every stage. Ratios, percentages, and rates are used to express KPI measurements. When firms have to put in so much time and effort to track KPIs, they finally give up. For example, net profit changes from X to Y.

Learning 52

Learning Measure Metrics FAQ 52

Gyrus

MARCH 19, 2024

From data collection to analysis to presentation, technology has made it easier to manage KPIs at every stage. Ratios, percentages, and rates are used to express KPI measurements. When firms have to put in so much time and effort to track KPIs, they finally give up. For example, net profit changes from X to Y.

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Learning Measure Metrics FAQ 52

Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2015

The CEOs of BBB Wise Giving Alliance, Charity Navigator, and GuideStar USA published a second open letter last year with the express goal to "crush" the overhead myth, the idea that overhead ratios should serve as the sole basis for evaluating nonprofit performance. Bridgespan Group Nonprofit Cost Analysis toolkit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

What is your post to comment ratio? The Web is changing! The emphasis is on collaboration, sharing, and conversation. Demographics How many people visit the site? Raw numbers aren't as important as trends) Unique Visitors. Engagement= Interaction + Attention. How many people comment on posts? What do they click on? How long do they stay?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Overhead to program expense ratio. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. ROI is a cost/benefit analysis methodology that measures how much money is made or saved for a given investment and is calculated as. Having money left over to reinvest at the end of the year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Here's a recent analysis of the "best" posts on my blog and I need to go figure out what the numbers mean. The reflection involves qualitative data -- anecdotes, reflections, stories, and pattern analysis. Technorati ???Authority???

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