Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

This week, the call for data measurement in the social sector heightens with the proposition of a Social Progress Index and ways that NGOs can use data maps to increase effectiveness. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified. Five trending Big Data technologies are also identified. Data Measurement.

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Association Analytics

OCTOBER 10, 2022

In today’s world, success is measured by more than just clicks and open rates. There are many marketing technology tools that can help you measure success. Having this data will help you make business decisions based on trends or actual performance. These two tools will help you measure the success of your campaigns.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Actionable Measurement. The gym metaphor resonated because lately I’ve been obsessed with the idea of “ SpreadSheet Aerobics , an actionable social media measurement strategy that is fit and trim and light on its feet! I don’t try to measure everything. Avoid Measurement As Therapy and Drive By Analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2011

and use a tool like rowfeeder to capture the hashtag stream into a spreadsheet to analyze. You’ll can do some comparison testing of different calls to action and then refine what you’re doing. Just a small pilot, a little bit a data, and linked to decision-making can help your tweets have more impact.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When communicating with data, viewing a chart instead of a table of numbers can help us very quickly understand our data, make comparisons, see patterns or trends, and use that information to make better decisions. Quantitative variables can be measured numerically. Qualitative variables can’t be measured numerically.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

AARP helps policymakers by providing a digital scorecard that measures how states nationwide perform across different categories, such as nursing home costs or long-term care insurance. Remember, different types of data require different visualization techniques bar charts for comparisons or line charts for trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2013

People are better at judging length, so bar charts are a decent option also useful for comparisons. Now the trends are much easier to see at a glance. Data Measurement' It’s difficult to interpret area, so if you use a pie, restrict the number of wedges to 4 or fewer. Ah, so much better!

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

expectations); Compare actual activity to expectations (comparison of budget/prior year to actual); Present a picture of the financial health of the organization. What is the trend of revenue, expense and other activities? How do these trends compare to expectations? you have half a tank of gas). Simplify without Compromise.

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Care2

APRIL 30, 2014

Perhaps you have a hunch, but the only surefire way to know this info is to develop a tracking and measurement plan. To help get you started, here is a list of some of my favorite measurement tools. Social Networking Trends Web 2.0' This will help your organization improve your understanding of what your audience responds to.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2011

Dashboards provide measures to help you make better decisions. Many customer relationship management systems, for example, like Salesforce and Raiser’s Edge , include dashboards to make it easier for the development staff to track fundraising activities, donations, and other performance measures. 5) Scenario Comparison Dashboards.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

As the membership organization for nonprofit technology professionals, it''s an important, and often sticky, issue to understand, communicate, and especially measure. Another way we measure technology staffing levels is determing the Tech Staff - to - Organizational Staff Ratio. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

These proactive measures will not only keep your SOA in line with the latest accounting standards but also ensure your organization’s financial health is accurately represented, fostering trust among stakeholders and supporting the sustainability of your mission. Engage with accounting professionals who specialize in nonprofit finance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Note from Beth: Last month during one of our book talks for “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit: Using Data to Change the World , ” at TechSoup Global, Rachel Weidinger from Upwell came up to say hello. Even better, we discovered that we can use this practice to both inform and measure campaigns.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A major part of connecting with these individuals and optimizing the giving experience is utilizing the data you collect about their giving trends to inform your future fundraising decisions. . This will help you measure improvement year-over-year and hold your team accountable for meeting various goals.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

as measured by total giving. 2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. Today, we refer to it as the “Foundation 1000”, and it is often used to look at historical grantmaking trends. Staff entered, cleaned, and coded this data using largely manual processes.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 25, 2021

A “particularly concerning trend,” according to one slide, was that time spent in the Facebook app by young people in the US had declined from the period before the onset of the coronavirus pandemic last year, when usage of Facebook’s services momentarily spiked across the board. But there was still cause for concern. Product sprint.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

Check out the comparison chart below. Check out some more statistics from the Cone study: 41% of Americans say they have bought a product because it was associated with a cause or issue in the last year – doubling since they first began measuring this in 1993 (20%). Tags: Cause Marketing Trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

By understanding your activity and performance, fan response, trends and comparisons, you are better equipped to improve your presence on Facebook. What is measured you ask? . That score measures how engaging your posts have been to users in the last 7 days. See a sample of what the stats look like here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

And we’ll continue this trend for social networking, social action, and commerce. The party, candidate, and/or cause that has the best handle on geolocation will have a measurable advantage. Scanning for Ethical Products : With online shopping, we’ve become accustomed to reading reviews and making comparisons before we buy.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Donation Tracking & Optimization Volunteer Management Mission Impact Content Campaign Performance Stakeholder Journey Analysis Technical Performance Community Building Geographic Impact Board Reporting Email Campaign Performance Regional Geographic Analysis Seasonal Performance Analysis Donation Tracking & Optimization Track donation funnel (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

I'd like to see an analysis of retweeting, number of new donors, an overlay of the blogging campaign with the hash tag trending, how much off twitter promotions generated direct traffic to donations page and vice a versa. Twist analyzes and presents trend comparisons and volume between keywords and tags. Does it exist?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2017

It made for interesting tweets and blog post headlines about online giving trends, but it wasn’t very useful. There are some interesting and insightful trends when you really dig into the data. As a point of comparison, in 2016 the median offline gift less than $1,000 was $20. How are you trending?

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Singularity Hub

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

The data comes from Epoch , an organization that analyzes trends in computing, data, and investments to understand where AI might be headed. 11 In comparison, GPT-4, released in 2023, was trained on almost 13 trillion tokens, or about 9.75 What Can We Learn From These Trends for the Future of AI? billion words. trillion words.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2008

In a recent post , I mentioned that Jeremiah Owyang pointed out that "Retweet" (sharing a link or tweet from one of your followers with your followers) is a social gesture indicating endorsement of an idea and predicts that there will be an analytics tools to measure this. I went looking for stop gaps from Brian Solis's awesome list.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2023

Here, we see a clear trend: Over 90% of nonprofits shared some demographic data about their leader. iv In comparison, the sharing rate for all other staffing levels is below 60%. Among demographic categories, the sharing rates are notably higher for race/ethnicity and gender. Here, a higher number means that more data has been shared).

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Media Cause

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Despite this obstacle in measurement, this tool and others like it are still incredibly useful. Rather than relying on it as a singular source of truth for actual numbers, we recommend using GA4 to look along trend lines to make the most of the data you’re able to collect. Plausible 2.

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The Verge

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2018, it alleged Flywheel had copied its patented tech , specifically the leaderboard which displays where a user stands in comparison to others in a given class. One reason for Peloton’s reversed fortunes is increased competition, and it appears the at-home fitness trend is here to stay.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 25, 2023

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. In this analysis , Coldeway published a head-to-head comparison of top generative AI tools — asking them to create everything from a phishing email to code.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

“It’s really hard to find and develop a material that stretches over 200% or 300% … and not break and not measure anything,” Weiss tells TechCrunch. But that’s a fairly poor comparison, because here you’re getting a whole fitness package versus just a piece of elastic.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

With the right knowledge and tools, we believe every nonprofit can better explore its data and spot trends, outliers, and even new opportunities. Use Line Charts and Area Charts to Track Trends over Time. One of the most frequently used methods for analyzing data is to track a trend over time. The answer is no.

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Classy

AUGUST 4, 2021

Your IT team will be interested in tracking metrics around how well your systems are performing and overall donor and data security measures. The overall product and managed package is so much more nimble and lightweight in comparison to other similar products built on the Salesforce platform. Solution Architect.

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sgEngage

APRIL 29, 2021

This year’s summit included data from a variety of sectors, drawn directly from participant CRMs and standardized to allow for consistent comparisons. After such a tumultuous year, with many drivers for both potential increases and declines in giving, it was no surprise to see mixed trends among sectors and organizational sizes.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Earlier this month, Candid and the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) released the eighth edition of our annual Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report. This has been a dominant trend in the past eight years of our analysis. Institutional disaster philanthropy may be small in comparison to government funding.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 10, 2024

They are particularly effective in identifying trends, highlighting winners and losers, and visualizing shifts in position. Polar Areas charts are particularly effective for showcasing relationships and proportions among multiple variables in a format emphasizing comparisons and trends.

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CauseVox

APRIL 29, 2021

Your fundraising goals, or “micro-goals,” should be SMART goals – specific, measurable, actionable, realistic and time bound. Study Past Fundraising Trends. These strategies should also have specific metrics and/or KPIs associated with them to measure their success. Fundraising Goals. And by what time frame?

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

When communicating with data, viewing a chart instead of a table of numbers can help us very quickly understand our data, make comparisons, see patterns or trends, and use that information to make better decisions. What types of measurements were taken and how accurate are those measurements? You say ⅗ or 0.60

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