Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2015

Her company helps mission-led businesses succeed, and also connect socially minded investors with “impact investing” opportunities, where they can generate both financial returns and social impact. Set Program Goals & Metrics. Clarify quantifiable outcomes or metrics that can be easily measured on a routine basis.

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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. Can’t wait!

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 24, 2023

This is where the increasing amount of nonprofit sector research reports can help. Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) The Fundraising Effectiveness Project (FEP) is the industry standard for donor retention stats and other related donor engagement metrics. But they often find it difficult to know where to begin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Can Twitter help your cause raise money?, Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. The holy grail metrics is missing? Photo by NimagesDR. a question asked by the Give and Take blog.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics!

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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 do we think about virtual worlds and help us study human behavior. Two years ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Establishing metrics for this campaign was difficult in that we didn’t have anything to use as a benchmark. Our digital engagement success is evolving based on our experience and it is difficult to outline what metrics of success might look like. A breakdown of the engagement and site visit stats are below.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2015

Statistical data help us understand how our programs are performing and highlight opportunities for improvement. Evaluate your event data from the past 3 years or so. Fundraising performance metrics. When we dug into the event metrics, an interesting picture emerged. Participation / registration growth.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

We know that nonprofit professionals are the hardest working folks out there and we want to help you succeed. So we’ve compiled 10 of the most valuable philanthropic resources available to help get you to the best results—and not twiddle your thumbs while you try to figure it out! 50 Fascinating Philanthropy Stats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Our main goal is to help you learn how to leverage our technology and the tools that make up social media. Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! You will also get some great statistics which will help you with number one above. by Avinash Kaushik.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? s linking to you -referring URLs in stats program -google rss alerts (can be set to daily, as it happens, etc.) ??? One person to know where all the moving parts can be brought together to evaluate in the end. will be easier to track ???

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Pt 2 Re-evaluating YOUR annual report Pt 1 Why did an agency create an Impact Report, anyway? It’s what we’ve always preached as our core approach when helping nonprofits with their marketing efforts. Part 2: Re-evaluating YOUR annual report. But there may be opportunities to highlight other key metrics, as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

On the web, anyone can evaluate the photographs in terms of aesthetic quality and relevance to the exhibition theme. All evaluations are private; all artists are unnamed. o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site. Can I help next time?

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

In that spirit, Convio released their comprehensive online marketing study today that looked at close to 600 nonprofit organizations’ online marketing results and compiled benchmarks for evaluating fundraising, email, advocacy, and marketing success online. Overall, the nonprofit online landscape looks good.

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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. I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. UPDATE: The presentation slides and wikispace is here.

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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'm working on one. Up or Down?"

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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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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

As the fundraiser, you are simply a guide helping your donor find a way to make a meaningful impact in the world. You can see here that Miriam’s House uses the donor based brandscript to center the supporter as the hero by saying “you can help end the cycle of homelessness.” Emotional Connection 1.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Holiday celebrations and time spent with family and friends help us reconnect to the things that matter most and prepare to start fresh for the new year ahead. No matter your donors’ reasons for giving, the stats above show that at the end of the year, they’re ready and willing to give. Let’s get started.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

When I started in the nonprofit field, over 20 years ago, you know, all of the annual appeals said, “Please help us keep our lights on,” or, “please help us keep our doors open.” That’s going to help you determine what information do we need to track in order to get that engagement we’re looking for.

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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. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. He did and gave me permission to blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

One of them @peoppenheimer was kind enough to critic and help my own poem's meter and rhyme! But from my stats surcease of sorrow, I realized - some things you can’t keep score. DEFINE the METRICS. Say, let’s define our metrics. Session Content 1. Introduction by Beth Kanter Poem Welcome! This I hope and so much more.

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

part 1: Crafting Your Appeal To get started, it’s helpful to begin by splitting your plan up into the classic components: “what”, “why”, “how”, “when”, and “where” What – the goal The first step is to set a goal. Those stats you used earlier?

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

To get started, it’s helpful to begin by splitting your plan up into the classic components: “what”, “why”, “how”, “when”, and “where” What – the goal. Connect with your program staff and volunteers to help you find a story from your community you can share.

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