Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2011

Malaise is a feeling of general discomfort or uneasiness, of being “out of sorts.&# Lately, I’ve been hearing about “measurement malaise&# infecting nonprofits and not just social media measurement. Idealware Study. Respondents that names tools were labled as “substantial.’

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2011

Part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is facilitating several peer learning groups on social media measurement. The intent is to help grantees improve their social media practice through measurement and learning. What social media measurement pilot can best help move your practice forward?

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Candid

JUNE 24, 2024

Priority setting that aligns with available data will help you make the most of the data and ensure it aligns with your foundation’s approach to impact measurement. In addition, Candid’s recently released benchmarking report, The state of diversity in the U.S. Identify questions you’re interested in using the data to answer.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

While not a representative sample of institutional funders, it’s one of best avenues for detailed exploration and benchmarking of salaries. iii As the size of the grantmaker rises–as measured by grant dollars awarded or the total number of full- and part-time staff)–so does the ratio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

There are so social media analytic tools to measure social media and other emerging technologies, that we’ve created a new genre of Shiny Objective Syndrome — Data Puking disorder. It isn’t hard to see why we forget about one of the best ever social media measurement tools: surveys!

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Qgiv

JUNE 14, 2021

Create a goal chart to guide your team during this process. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. You can then visualize these goals on a chart in order to understand their relation to one another. Identify areas of organizational improvement.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead. Setting Clear Goals: Define specific, measurable, attainable objectives for each training program to ensure targeted growth.

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead. Setting Clear Goals: Define specific, measurable, attainable objectives for each training program to ensure targeted growth.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 1, 2022

If you try to use your regular email, you run the risk of being marked as spam, looking unprofessional, and not being able to measure open rates. Use graphics, charts, photos, and video to break up the text and give the reader some eye candy. A system like Constant Contact complies with U.S. Good images.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks. How will you measure them along the way? How did you determine it?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 9, 2010

Earlier this summer I posted on top tips for measuring ROI and getting strategic with data , touching on the idea and importance of actionable data, or rather, data that helps draw meaningful conclusions and future actions to optimize programs. Analyze goals of you social media and decide what metrics to measure based on those goals.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . Fifteen years ago, I worked for a healthcare consulting firm with the motto: “you can’t move it if you don’t measure it.” However, much can be learned from analyzing even a single year and comparing yourself to industry benchmarks. 10 Key Data Points.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

I introduced several methods for using measurement for transformative results, including the Maturity of Practice Model (CWRF) and how to use it as an assessment tool, principles of being data-informed , and how to apply KD Paine’s 7 Simple Steps of Measurement. What are your measurable objectives?

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Gyrus

MARCH 18, 2024

By developing a recession-proof strategy, maintaining agility, and investing in your employee’s growth and innovation, you can chart a course to resilience, prosperity, and calmer situations ahead. Setting Clear Goals: Define specific, measurable, attainable objectives for each training program to ensure targeted growth.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Next, simply choose what the chart should look like, how it should be labeled, and save. Users simply drag and drop those fields into the report columns area, drag and drop the filters, customize the grouping, and then watch the report come together before their eyes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

This panel will discuss realistic metrics and benchmarks any organization can use in their campaigns and ensure that your using the right strategies and tools to listen and engage your audiences on different social networks. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Let’s take a look at a few of the key findings from the second nonprofit content marketing benchmark report – produced by Content Marketing Institute and Blackbaud – Nonprofit Content Marketing 2015: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America. Here are a few of our second year benchmarks. It’s Your Turn. What’s your take?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

One tactic that has been successful for the nonprofit CARE is to provide their donors with two simple pie charts that illustrate how funds raised are allocated below the credit card donation form. Measure The Results There are myriad amounts of ways your nonprofit can measure the success of your online fundraising campaigns.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 22, 2017

While it might seem a little early to start thinking about 2018 to some (hint: it’s not ), it’s the perfect time to benchmark where 2017 has taken you. Gift range chart : Utilizing a gift range chart is a great way to created focused, goal-oriented campaigns. Use this checklist to check in.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Benchmarks let us know how we perform compared to our event fundraising peers. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Just getting started using metrics and benchmarks to improve performance? Peer to Peer Fundraising: How Do You Measure Up?

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Care2

JULY 16, 2010

2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Collaborative Benchmarking Analysis); * The average online gift was $144.72, according to BlackBaud though M&R’s benchmark study noted that the average one time online gift was $81. How Does Your Nonprofit Measure Up? Tell people what you want them to do quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

About a year ago, I decided to benchmark my blog using some tips suggested by Avinash Kaushik. 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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

” TechSoup’s Coleridge likens analytics to a roadmap that guides where an organization wants to go with benchmarks that mark the progression to a goal. Tools that incorporate a dashboard can help organizations visualize and more easily analyze their data by taking that information and turning it into charts and graphs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

Spitfire’s useful SMART chart planning tool has been used by many nonprofits and was adapted for social media for nonprofits by NTEN’s WeAreMedia project several years ago. SMART Objectives are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely objectives. It also helps to break down your goal into monthly or quarterly benchmarks.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? see the Traffic Sources pie chart on the right for an example of this data). Methodology. Research Questions.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

The first metric that we need to rethink is measuring success based on the percentage of participants we’re converting into fundraisers. Below is a chart which shows percent of participants with one or more online gifts over the last 5 years. As always, I’m obsessed with data. I know what you’re thinking… I’ve lost it. Is it working?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Monday.com Platform overview: Monday.com enables workflows based on your organization’s needs, including views like Gantt charts, Kanban, and more. Top feature: Analyze your data using charts that are updated in real-time. Run Agile sprints, marketing campaigns, and other initiatives to support your nonprofit’s goals.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

Monitor progress: Continuously track the performance of your fundraising efforts and measure them against insights detailed in the report. It’s important to answer these questions for yourself and chart your course of action accordingly. Collaborative efforts can lead to innovative solutions and improved fundraising results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

And, it also includes measurement - not just qualitative information. It uses metrics to measure your results and help you improve your strategy over time. ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. Use of metrics to measure your results.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2016

Access to data and information will validate our strategies , show us when and where we’re wrong, and help us benchmark our performance. It’s about understanding the full picture of where we are and where we want to be, and charting our progress along the way. Maybe we’re not lazy, maybe we’re just tired of status quo.

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2011

To whet your appetite for the full report, here's a great peek at the charts regarding Facebook page churn: You need to think about quality of your Facebook posts to make sure you're not driving folks away – just like you already think about tone, topic, and frequency with your email messaging to avoid unsubscribes!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Institute for Peace 's " Building for Peace ," where the designer has layed a yellow bar chart over the banner image instead of aligning it in the right column. Another session I enjoyed was a collaborative conversation about how one can possibly "measure" design. Thanks for the creative tour, @mojoguzzi!

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2009

I just finished reading the 2008 donorCentrics Internet Giving Benchmarks Analysis , put out by Blackbaud company Target Analytics. By many measures, online fundraising had a red letter year in 2008: Online donors are younger and have higher incomes than traditional, primarily direct mail donors. Get the report and read it.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Lets dig in.

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Care2

MAY 27, 2009

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Here are a few examples.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

These key points were recently shared in the Peer-to-Peer Benchmark Study released earlier this year. As seen by the chart on the right, the participants who are also donors have a lower total donor value (across the organization) no matter the number of gifts. let’s also consider the value after the event.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 15, 2007

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Which features are in the profiles?

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