Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The reality for many organizations, whether a smaller nonprofit, a large international advocacy organization or a government agency, is that their data lives in separate silos. Tools and channels that house data often do not make it easy to navigate. Not sure how to compare or connect data sources. Does this sound familiar?

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The NonProfit Times

JULY 16, 2024

Experience management and direct response fundraising firm Moore has released its Moore Audience-Centric Testing Suite (ACTS), a packaged suite of testing tools designed to enhance the effectiveness of fundraising creative and communications across all marketing channels. director of the Moore Neuro-Fundraising Lab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

” My answer is: ”Don’t ask me, ask your audience.” ” That to say that you need to know your audience and how they get their information. Even more importantly, what motivates them. So, was delighted when Darren Barefoot asked if he share a guest post about how to do audience analysis.

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2021

With a qualitative research method like this one, you really don’t need a large sample size to get good data. Data obtained from user interviews can be used to develop Audience Personas , to help guide design and content creation for your website/emails and to get ideas for improving events. Google Analytics Data Review.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2012

The audience consisted of data geeks, data scientists, and analytics professionals! I told this crowd of data geeks that they should volunteer with nonprofits by signing up for the Analysis Exchange or serve on a nonprofit board – that nonprofits would welcome their expertise.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

From navigating donor data to finding the most effective ways to communicate, AI for fundraising can be applied to many aspects of your organization to help lift some of the burden of changing the world. These systems follow predefined instructions without the ability to learn from new data. How can charities use AI?

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The Analytics team at Blackbaud has been playing around with ChatGPT over the past few months and we thought it might be helpful to share our observations. Your charitable organization has probably fielded questions from curious supporters and internal audiences on the ways it might be leveraged. Is it just a fad?

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M+R

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Before we get into specifics, some business about how we looked at this data: because Giving Tuesday jumps around, we can’t just look at December revenue year over year and keep things apples to apples. No matter how long the year ahead ends up seeming. . The national spotlight on charitable giving and important causes.

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DNL OmniMedia

MAY 25, 2022

That includes web development, technical strategy, fundraising, and CRM and data management— each of which depends on a strong understanding of an organization’s audience to be successful. Do your messages resonate, or do they leave your audience confused or underwhelmed? What do you know about your current audience?

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 23, 2024

The underlying analytics were impressive. Updates three years ago to Apple’s data privacy policies allowing users to limit tracking of email open rates have further complicated efforts to measure audience engagement. Average 2023 clickthrough rates were nearly identical to what they were in 2022 for GivingTuesday.

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Forum One

JUNE 10, 2021

What data can you review to assess the current state of online giving to your organization? Most nonprofits have access to at least one web analytics platform, like Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics. This is the most exciting part of data-informed decision-making! Step 2: Segment your current users.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

According to the most recent Fundraising Effectiveness Project data on donor retention , the typical nonprofit will lose around 5 out of 10 donors on a yearly basis and 8 out of 10 new donors. These are but a sample of the decisions that nonprofits need to make when entering into a budgetary process. Historically, it costs $1.25

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

You may not have heard about Lara Stockman's "25 Days to Make a Difference" blog, or how, after profiling different nonprofits, random acts of kindness, and community-driven efforts she mobilized an audience of 25,000 readers after just a few weeks. Representative Samples? So what, you may ask? Weeks, if not months.

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Everyaction

JULY 18, 2018

The best fundraising strategic plan tells a complete, organized, and analytics-based story that your team can actually use to help your campaign be more successful. It should contain purposeful actions that aim to achieve specific fundraising goals from a diversified group of sources, and be data-driven from start to finish.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 20, 2021

Don’t assume a nonprofit virtual assistant is limited to basic clerical work like data entry and responding to emails. Be sure to ask for work samples if appropriate for the work you are requesting. For example, many VAs can handle small design jobs on Canva, but you won’t know for sure until you view their work samples.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

The Secrets of Data-Driven Nonprofits Aren't So Secret. Steve MacLaughlin, VP of data analytics at Blackbaud and author of Data Driven Nonprofits , broke down what successful nonprofits do to manage big data. Data Health. "Vigilance about data ensures accuracy." More Secrets.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

If you look carefully at the Excel 2016 "Insert" ribbon tab, you will notice the new chart types, which will help you better share your data with your audience. " So it's great for showing financial data. Powerful Analytics Tools Are Now Built-In. Power Map is very useful for mapping your data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2015

By 2012, about 20% of my audience was reading my blog through a mobile interface, either tablet or smartphone. Here’s what I learned: Don’t Panic, Check Your Google Stats : Ari Sahagun, web designer, suggested know your audience first. That kind of data can ground an argument to a website redesign and use numbers (ex.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

AI processes information and makes decisions using algorithms and data. AI is only as objective as its programmers and its data. Humans can invent new ideas and solutions based on emotions, relationships, and a host of other circumstances related to consciousness, while AI systems can only generate new outputs based on existing data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2009

We'll take a look at how to use both qualitative and hard data points to refine and adapt your strategy as well as the role of continuous listening and learning through implementation of pilots. We'll examine what can and can't be quantified as well as various metrics and analytics tools. Amy Sample Ward captured great notes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

“ Mobile is the Needle, Social the Thread ” is the name of a presentation from Pew Internet data that illustrates the rapid growth of mobile connectivity and social networking in the U.S., They tracked the patterns of usage of the mobile site against donation volume data by location. Check it out on your mobile phone.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

OCTOBER 3, 2018

It’s no secret that storytelling in the digital age is essential for nonprofits , but the efficacy of stories depends largely on how clearly and strategically they’re communicated to each unique segment of your audience, also sometimes known as a persona. And the process of building these personas can get very detailed. Click an online ad?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Google Analytics – [link]. Whether you have a blog, website, or even multiple, you can use Google Analytics to really drill down into the data and understand how people are visiting and using your site. Tip: You can also get Google Analytics for your Facebook Page! These analytics are part of having a Facebook Page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2014

I’m just back from the SXSW Interactive Festival where I was on a panel called “ What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You ” moderated by Alexandra Samuel of Vision Critical , Jeremiah Owyang , Crowd Companies, and Colby Flint, Discovery Channel. It is more of an on-ramp to donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Defined Audience. David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " was written for the business audience in mind, but the concept and techniques can be used by nonprofits and more importantly lead to success. ROI analysis requires documenting, collecting data, and internal discussion and cooperation.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

This is especially true on social media because there are so many data points you can track. However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. By interacting with your content, a segment of the audience shows you they care about what you have to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your organization has identified a social media objective, audience, strategy, tools, measurement, and experiment. KD Paine has some excellent advice about how to shift through some of the listening data. The key value is if you have the volume that requires analytics and if the tool can support your work flow.

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EveryAction

AUGUST 17, 2016

Bonus: get a free Nonprofit Donor Persona Template + sample to start building your communications strategy now! It’s no secret that storytelling in the digital age is essential for nonprofits , but the efficacy of stories depends largely on how clearly and strategically they’re communicated to each audience, or persona.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2012

FluidSurveys also rolls all the data from surveys conducted in multiple languages into a single dataset. Real-time analytics. Do a trial run with a sample audience, if possible. Support for multiple languages. FluidSurveys supports over 64 languages. Presentation-ready reporting. Excellent user support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Audience Growth (content consumption ??? I just sampled one month. Audience Growth. And how has the audience grown overtime? " 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. Technorati ???Authority???

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

With the ever declining attention span of your audience, it’s necessary that you start appealing to a broader range of senses. Consistently finding and creating content that resonates with your audience can be a struggle. Creating share-worthy content means understanding your audience and the story they want to tell.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 13, 2009

The first full session I was able to catch was “Tools Galore in Online Communications” moderated by Netsquared’s Amy Sample Ward with speakers Natalie Foster , Director of New Media for the Democratic National Committee , Rebecca Moore, Google Earth Outreach and Laura Quinn, Executive Director of Idealware.

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