Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why. Email is still a very powerful tool for fundraising and the likely reason why donor conversion rates dropped in 2012 is because nonprofit e-newsletters are still formatted to primarily be read on desktop and laptop computers. Other Metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy Media 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. From my conversations with organizational leaders, I have found that there is too much focus on one video, rather than a video strategy.

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Video Communication Strategy Nonprofit 139

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s OK to not include links in conversational tweets and replies, but even then sharing links to resources or call-to-actions (CTAs) is often appropriate and useful, especially in Twitter Threads. That said, if engaging in a public conversation on behalf of your organization on Twitter is unsettling, there are other ways to engage: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

Ironically, I read a post from a month ago by Stowe Boyd called " Beyond Blogs: The Conversation Has Moved Into Flow " where he stats that conversation is moving from blog comments thread which is slow and static to a more fast form of conversation - the flow in Twitter, Friendfeed, and other places.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2022

based conversational intelligence platform that companies use to record, transcribe, and analyze communications from across sales and other customer-facing teams, today announced it has raised $16.5 Jiminny: Dive into the engagement stats. Conversation piece. Jiminny , a U.K.-based million in a series A round of funding.

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Conversation Team Companies Voice 75

Classy

JUNE 30, 2021

From stats on conversion and acquisition to retention and supporter experience, check out the infographic below to get a peek at the data from the 2021 report. We created a free Benchmark Assessment to surface actionable fundraising takeaways based on your organization’s current metrics.

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Fundraising Philanthropy Benchmark Stats 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. And, above all, the session needs to be a conversation about Social Media, not a lecture. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Social Media Metrics Media Social 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I didn’t understand it until I read the conversation on Twitter. I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices.

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Benchmark Nonprofit Photography Ratio 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

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Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

If anything, that's the most important thing about social media metrics or for any metrics. Metrics in context connected to action - whether to improve a program already underway or evaluate impact. I'm more interested right now in applying the metrics to program improvement. " (I think he even trademarked the term).

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Care2

MARCH 9, 2013

I have personally had some of the most thought-provoking conversations on Twitter about social justice issues and politics. 95 percen t: public conversations about TV shows that happen on Twitter. I have seen it be a powerful organizing tool as part of a multichannel campaign. Note, these statistics were provided by Twitter executives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2012

By “pitch”, I mean opening the door to deeper engagement with your organization, whether through a quick conversation with someone who is learning about you for the first time or the ask in a year-end appeal letter to a donor who has supported you for a long-time. Those initial conversations tend to be awkward and creepy.

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Social Media Sound Conversation Fundraising 124

TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

When starting out, it may seem obvious to optimize toward a north-star metric such as a purchase. If spend is very minimal, that could mean that the conversion volume will be low across campaigns. Looking at the conversion rate between sign up and subscription, it’s a much healthier 10.21%, versus the 0.61% from landing page view.

Marketing 95

Marketing Metrics Conversation Channel 95

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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Social Media Map Media Strategy 102

TechCrunch

JULY 1, 2022

For those of us who haven’t memorized economic frameworks: The Rule of 40 is a metric investors developed to gauge the health and growth potential of SaaS startups. Focusing on the ‘why’ is why this slide is so powerful; it opens the door to more in-depth conversations if needed, but the groundwork is there.

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Stats Tech Trend Green 80

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

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Metrics Fundraising Benchmark Stats 42

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2011

Instead, they identify key organizational results areas and associated metrics to define successes and failures. Momsrising knows from years of message testing and research , that to change minds about an issue, wonky stats fall flat. What are the best metrics to measure those? getting policies passed. increasing capacity.

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Results Facebook Social Media Measure 118

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

As the platform has evolved over the past few months, there are some other benefits including driving traffic and conversions and more recently how pinning helps encourage audiences to “like” the brand more. You might also want to spend some time doing a little research on site and browse some of the pinterest stat sites.

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Tools Tips Resource Stats 107

The Next Web

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Toss in a URL and see stats on keyword density, internal and external links and more. Conversation Score. Discover any Facebook Page’s influence, engagement and performance with Conversation Score. Onpage Optimization Tool. After the Deadline. Wolfram Alpha Facebook report. LikeAlyzer. Fanpage Karma.

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Tools Internet Marketing Free 167

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Notes one participant, “It definitely gave us the ability to work around chicken & egg conversations. There are specific metrics for specific platforms. Getting Started: The Importance of Small Proof of Pilots With Measurement Component. Participants pointed to the importance of small pilots.

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Social Media Measure Media Social 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 7, 2019

Even though the answers are available on the organization’s web site and Facebook page, they discovered engagement and conversation got people to the information faster. Ultimately, the bot helped the organization decrease the response time which is a critical metric for emergency and humanitarian work.

Social Media 86

Social Media Team Media Nonprofit 86

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

20) at the AFL-CIO headquarters in conjunction with the Campaign for Community Change. We got into a conversation about the challenges of measuring the success of community organizing and social justice in a connected age. What exactly are the right metrics for measuring this transformation? What is needed to achieve it?

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Measure Community Organization Social 97

TechCrunch

JULY 15, 2021

Startup founders often turn to pitch decks when fundraising as a visual representation of their story — from the origins to total addressable market to those juicy metrics. And I think I’ve read some stat recently, which is that investors really spend 2 minutes and 47 seconds per deck. Pitch deck or pitch blurb?

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Fundraising Storytelling Stats Exercise 102

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Below are some ways to use your event metrics to identify and engage specific participant types during your fundraising event. Warm Bodies.

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Metrics Action Create Benchmark 34

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Yesterday was the 3rd annual Women Who Tech Telesummit , bringing together over 600 women (and men) from for-profit and nonprofit organizations and technology start, connecting developers and techies with those new to the field, igniting conversations and long-term collaborations. URL Shorteners – [link].

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Tools Tech RSS Map 162

Towards Data Science

JANUARY 7, 2024

These profiles give us stats like counts, distributions, and more, depending on how we set up whylogs. We can examine various metrics for each column, like their mean values. We can combine it with Pandas to analyze all the metrics from the profile. That’s where condition count metrics come in. reset_index().to_csv("/home/jovyan/patint_profile.csv",header

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Profile Data Tutorial Metrics 98

TechCrunch

JULY 14, 2022

. “Secure and trusted” — product slide. “Intelligent gap detection” — product slide. “Trusted by the best” — customer breakdown slide. “Metrics Summary” (redacted) — traction slide. Customer testimonials slide. Contextualized numbers are sexy.

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Slides Stats Articulate Product 97

Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

4 The Ultimate Email Marketing Cheat Sheet: Facts, Stats, And Actions. Whether you’re a seasoned email pro or trying to improve campaign effectiveness, this cheat sheet is for you: 5 7 Email Marketing Conversion Mistakes To Avoid. The Program Is Using Specific Metrics To Prove The Return. Conversion Optimization.

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email Strategy Marketing Fundraising 89

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. That the old metrics aren't working. This is the same conversation that is happening around web metrics versus blog metrics. How to begin to have conversations to understand it. We need metrics!

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Change Game Metrics Learning Environment 50

NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

social media stats you consider most important to track. We tried to get a little closer to it with that Facebook conversation. Beth Kanter had a great post a couple of weeks ago about the variety of social media metrics she puzzles over. Maybe social media metrics are a little like horseshoes.

Social Media 52

Social Media Stats Metrics Facebook 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular. We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics.

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Analytics Web Metrics Social Media 50

TechCrunch

AUGUST 31, 2022

Enter a meeting with the spirit of having an intellectual conversation about your business v being in hard-core “sell” mode. This may be a graph of a key metric like revenue or users that goes up and to the right, lots of logos of companies that have already signed up, or other goodness. Fundraising wisdom for any stage. Product Love.

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Fundraising Slides Metrics Business 74

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

look at stats and compare to your audience to see if it is a fit. Levelator - free, from Conversations Network, takes the raw audio and does the compression and leveling for you to give you a better sound file - this means you are just editing out ums and ahs instead of also editing balance between speakers, etc. existing and target.

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Podcast Support RSS Nonprofit 123

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. But the stats. Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). Only 40% of the direct.

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Social Media Measure Tools Social 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

If you been following this thread, I was prompted to explore blog metrics in this post after reading what Avinash Kaushik had to day on the topic : The blog metrics he identified were: Raw Author Contribution (posts & words in post). Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium).

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