Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

Most nonprofits already have Google Analytics installed on their website to track online traffic. For some good how-to posts, check out my co-blogger Alissa Ruehl , perhaps starting with her Intro to Google Analytics. This post is about how we incorporate Google Analytics data into our Design Process. Research Questions.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

Maybe it’s an article about AI-powered predictive analytics, creative tool, text generator or perhaps it’s a new tool that promises to completely automate your donor management process. Start by asking questions. Your first thought might be, “Great, one more thing on my plate.” What does this tool do?

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

Follow along, email us your questions , and let us know what you’d like to hear about! But what about the roll up data for those big picture meetings? So picture this, you’re starting out at your brand new job as a major gifts officer at the nonprofit of your dreams. Enter our new series, “New Year, New Heights.”

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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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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Custom reports offer a real-time picture of your supporters across all channels. With customizable analytics dashboards , nonprofits can build beautiful charts and graphs of their digital, fundraising, advocacy, and organizing data to paint a better picture of their work. #9. Pull detailed, customizable reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

Pictured is: Eliza Straim (Communications Associate) and Katie Wang (Communications Director). We have realized that without a large budget and stringent privacy restrictions regarding Google analytics, it will take us more time to accomplish the final steps. What questions did you ask? What prep did you do? What was hard?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2016

Analytical Style people control their emotions but tend to ask questions rather than give orders. Amiable Style people show their emotions openly and prefer to ask questions rather than give orders. They prefer to control a situation and are focused on big-picture results. Reflection questions : “Why did this work?”.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 28, 2015

Marketing research done on a regular basis will allow you to make better decisions, chart changes over time, plan initiatives, and assess your success. Clearly define the question you want the research to answer. The first step to market research is to clearly and concisely define the question you want the research to help you answer.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

That's why TechSoup has partnered with Tableau on a new blog series called "Beyond the Pie Chart." Tried to create a report and couldn't find a chart or graph that would clearly illustrate your point? Picture a spreadsheet with a long list of individual donations. Why You Need to Move Beyond the Pie Chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2007

Inspired by the NTEN blog post about whether online engagement leads to more money, Gavin's Digital Dinner gives a brilliant counter point essay on the topic filled with facts and nice pie charts. She offers a three-step questioning process to help think through how to cut through the clutter. What's your guess? Here's an example.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 18, 2021

In a previously published blog, The Complete Picture of Alumni and Donors with Cloud for Good’s Advancement Accelerator , we showed how the connection between the Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) and Education Data Architecture (EDA) provides your advancement team with both alumni data as well as giving history.

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sgEngage

JUNE 23, 2022

Here are some guiding questions that can help you define your major gift threshold and identify major donors: Is this gift 5–20 times greater than the donor’s previous annual donation? Innovations in analytics tools have come a long way. Four Questions to Ask Your Team. Set Your Major Gift Threshold. Make the (Right) Ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Rob Stuart, who passed away recently and who was instrumental in the creation of the nonprofit technology movement always had a favorite question, “What tools are in your tool box?” Measurement tools or perhaps more accurately, social analytics tools collect that data. She advices subjecting your data to the so what test.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

StoryBrand Framework There are two major ways you can think about crafting stories, and you can test this through donor research and data analytics to see which is more successful for you. Consider asking questions like, “What would you want the world to know?” or “what does our program mean to you?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Their categories were based on whether or not the respondent was using a specific measurement tool like Facebook Insights or Google Analytics. We all need to be curators of our analytics data. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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NTEN

MAY 5, 2015

We had to use optical character recognition scans on five decades of Billboard Charts, get them into a database, and categorize all the entries. They are attempting to get a big picture view of the impact of interventions children receive not only in school but through all programs: afterschool, college preparation, etc.

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