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Does Your Nonprofit Need a Website Revamp? How to Tell

Top Nonprofits

However, if these engagement metrics are chronically low, your nonprofit may need more than routine maintenance—you may need an overhaul. Some of the considerations you should take into account when redesigning your website for engagement include navigation and A/B testing. Include alternative text on images.

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How Should Funders Evaluate Charities?

Care2

This is a topic that Amy Sample Ward and I also discuss in our book Social Change Anytime Everywhere in the chapter on Disrupting the Nonprofit Sector. Do the organizations test and experiment in order to meet their mission? It takes testing, experimenting, and iterating to see what works and what clearly doesn’t work.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

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. test and teweak.

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Return on Mission: A Framework to Measure Success at Philanthropic Organizations

Connection Cafe

Overhead to program expense ratio. As with many multiple-choice tests, there is only one answer here that makes sense: programmatic statistics related to mission impact. There’s also no question that ratios can be valuable tools for evaluating charitable groups. Having money left over to reinvest at the end of the year.

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Defining a Nonprofit Website's Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2)

Care2

In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics. Out of the box, Google Analytics provides a lot of useful metrics, such as visitors, pageviews, most popular pages, and a variety of other helpful data. Which metrics will help you achieve it? Unique visitors per day/week/month. Bounce rate.

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Reflections and Follow Up Questions from Techsoup/NTEN Share Your Story: Social Media ROI Webinar

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find the archived recording and there is a follow up discussion item on TechSoup's forums. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. You want to make this a quick test. Where do you look for standard metrics? I think it is wrong to think about metrics first. Short timeframes help, too.

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Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team | Main | Year-End Fundraising » Tuesday Jan 06 2009 Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) Tuesday, January 6, 2009 at 12:43PM | by James OMalley In part 1 of this series, we discussed how to correctly install your Google Analytics.