Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2013

Give me an interactive map, a pivot table, even a plain old pie chart and I’m happy. Why are you measuring or tracking something that you can’t (or don’t want to) impact? An organization has, for example, 20 volunteers, and they want to track the hours contributed, the impact on programs, and so forth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2011

So, in honor our collective Twitter birthdays in October and Halloween, I thought I’d share a few Twitter tools for tracking and learning that are real treats and a few that make your work flow on Twitter efficient for documenting events. I track to learn and improve relationships on Twitter. RowFeeder fits the bill.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For example, when mapping out a timeline for a software implementation or chart of accounts restructuring, you will want to incorporate time for your team’s expected busy seasons when they will have other high priorities, such as preparing for an audit or year-end close. Keep looking at your future roadmap to remind you of your end goal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2013

I’ve been facilitating a peer learning group with Packard Foundation grantees during the past year with a goal of improving measurement practice for social media and based on my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” On a call last month, participants shared examples of their measurement tools and spreadsheets.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Rumours now ranks seventh on the Billboard 200 chart, the publication announced last night , the album’s first appearance in the top 10 since 1978, a year after it debuted. Billboard ’s chart measures album “units” moved each week in terms of sales, track purchases, and streams. Billboard says it counted 30.6

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The Next Web

MARCH 10, 2013

If you’re an entrepreneur, you’re probably measuring everything you possibly can about your business and your product. It’s how you improve things – you build, you measure and you learn. By tracking when this flow time typically occurs, it’s easier to design a schedule that minimises interruptions and allows makers to get more done.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

If you took a high school or college course in statistics, you’re on the right track. Here’s an example where I created data bars —miniature within-cell bar charts—to quickly compare each youth’s pretest score and posttest score. Charts can showcase your organization’s most important findings. Why get good at Excel?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

She set up a private Facebook Group to facilitate our support for the campaign. A few weeks ago, she reported back to the group some of the results of our work with some insights based on Google Analytics charts. Shonali kindly agreed to an interview to share this story more broadly. Describe the Twitter Charts: What are you showing?

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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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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Numeric, quantitative values that you can measure. Measures can be aggregated. When you download your Spotify data, the time measure they use is milliseconds, written as ms. The “Hours played” column and measure will replace any measures related to milliseconds or “msPlayed” in the instructions. Colored green.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

ROI had it origins as an accounting term and was originally a measure of return on the total investment in the entire business. It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Numeric, quantitative values that you can measure. Measures can be aggregated. When you download your Spotify data, the time measure they use is milliseconds, written as ms. The “Hours played” column and measure will replace any measures related to milliseconds or “msPlayed” in the instructions. Colored green.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 16, 2021

If you have no idea what a good or poor donor retention rate is, it’s difficult to measure your own performance. Track your own data. Here are some of the questions you might ask in order to understand what metrics to track: . But you’ve got to be patient, and you’ve got to have goals against which you can measure your results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The pie chart illustrates proportionately how each contributes to the campaigns’ success. Finally, and this is critical: Measure your results against expectations. Measure, measure, measure. They can create these assets and help refine your media buy and distribution. This is a marathon, not a sprint.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Ateken Abla November 14, 2023 - 6:59pm Sue Kraemer Senior Data Skills Curriculum Strategy Manager, Tableau Charts are all around us. When viewing and creating charts, it’s vital that we gain the ability to critically explore and discern the integrity of the information and conclusions shown in charts. Don’t be SCAM’d!

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

There are companies and tools that offer “solutions&# for tracking, measuring, and even “engaging&# with your community online. Create a chart – either on a whiteboard, a flipchart, or even a document on your computer. So, I thought I’d take the time to document my recommended processes here! A note about DIY.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

A focus on the bar charts without taking the time to understand the challenges and open up creative thinking will not inspire organizational buy-in which is so important. Tracking for Impact and Learning. While technical topics such data and measurement processes emerged, so did a lot culture change issues. Data Measurement'

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2023

The ALDOT flies drones over construction projects each business day of the week and uses data collected to help with things like making sure erosion control measures, including silt fences, are installed properly.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But how should nonprofits track their social media? Understand What You Want to Track.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

By charting out the problems, strategies, benefits, and values first, we give ourselves a better picture to pull out metrics. Given the answers to 1-4 of our example, some of the metrics we could use to measure our success and ROI include: volunteer participation, online “chatter,&# and program growth.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 3, 2025

With a shared vision, the organization can confidently chart its course. An engaged board understands that strategic plans must be flexible and adaptable, allowing for course corrections to stay on track toward achieving goals. It facilitates discussions that foster consensus among board members, staff, and volunteers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2012

But if you want to get better results, you need a content strategy, strong creation and curation skills, and a robust measurement process. Success is based on knowing what content your audience likes based on making sense of measurement so you can replicate that success. What’s keeping you from measuring and learning?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

Track your open rates and conversions (do they open the email and then do they actually make a gift) – open rates are important to measure, not just conversions and gifts. You can get the full report, review charts and data, and more at: [link]. Get the full Millennial Donor Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 11, 2011

Charts, graphics, analytics, metrics, and data are like crack to me … A guest post by Kyle Andrei, Idealware. In addition to constituent impact, we also asked respondents about what we call “measured results,&# those goals that don’t directly involve constituents, and can be easily quantified.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

That's why we've partnered with TechSoup to offer basic data visualization tips in Beyond the Pie Chart. Part 1 covered some basic terminology and why you shouldn't use a pie chart. Use Line Charts and Area Charts to Track Trends over Time. First, let's look at the line chart below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Outcomes, indicators, metrics, logic models, flow charts galore – measurement and evaluation are in season these days. Measurement springs from many different motivations. Are you measuring to test a hypothesis? Is your measurement approach a way to manage your grants and portfolio? Are you required to measure?

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TechCrunch

JUNE 9, 2022

There are a few ways to measure the health of any market. Another way is to track how value is being conserved by individual units — for example, in the stability of floor prices for popular NFT sets. You could also track the total value of traded assets instead of their unit volume. So, let’s take another look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2017

These qualities may sound “soft”, but Goleman found direct ties between emotional intelligence and measurable results. The first step is self-awareness and that happens through tracking and observing yourself in work situations that trigger stress. One way to do this is to build in some reflection time into your day and maintain a journal.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 7, 2015

From tracking donations and expenditures, the success or failure of fund-raising events, staff protocols and effectiveness, lists of donors large and small and so much more, the organization that shirks information management does so at their own peril. For many non-profits, data crunching is everything.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Measuring outcomes for social media tools and strategy is as Avinash Kaushik notes in his recent post on the topic , "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 your impact on the world!).

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Blackbaud University’s Henry Wiencek and Chrissy Haskell will do a quick overview of the different chart types, including how you can use them, and they will even build a few from scratch. Trends in Impact and Outcomes Reporting in Grantmaking Measuring the impact of your grantmaking can be difficult and time-consuming.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Fertility tracking has seen an explosion of startup activity in recent years. launch of a dual-purpose device, called kegg , that’s designed to measure hormonal changes in a woman’s cervical fluid to help her determine the chance of conception on a given day. It’s announcing a $1.5

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Scaling is about increasing three main things during training, which typically need to grow together: The amount of data used for training the AI; The models size, measured in parameters; Computational resources, often called “compute” in AI. This makes tracking these metrics important. trillion in the QMoE model.

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NetWits

DECEMBER 2, 2010

Past behavior is the best metric or predictor for future actions and behavior, so you should be tracking this in your database system of choice. You will also want to decide in advance how you will measure the overall results of your efforts. Also note that segmenting is an ongoing process. Next, Determine Who to Contact.

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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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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Mobile measurement partner (MMP). A mobile measurement partner is only necessary when running mobile app install campaigns and is being used as the tool to attribute paid acquisition efforts. In short, a data warehouse is used to combine data from many sources, track historical changes in data and provide a single source of truth.

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