Whole Whale

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Real-World Example: A donor makes a $100 contribution after clicking a Google Ad. Value Every Stage Assign appropriate credit to awareness activities Measure engagement metrics Track time-to-conversion Consider assisted conversions 3. Traditional analytics might attribute the entire value to that ad.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

For example, a telecom company might donate public service announcements or media airtime, while an internet service provider could donate complimentary Wi-Fi access or cybersecurity services. However, only 20% measure societal outcomes of their volunteer programs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Brent Merritt is a digital strategy consultant at Metric Communications and blogger at The Caliper. Running Facebook fundraising ads is an excellent way to reach your target audience and optimize for donations while generating data that allows you to measure your success. 5) Select metrics and monitor campaign performance.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

Unless you measure your nonprofit’s performance, it’s impossible to know where you are succeeding and where you need to focus future efforts. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 8, 2021

SMART is an acronym people use to remember the five aspects of a well-articulated goal: SMART goals are specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, and time bound. For example, your organization may have a 2021 goal of “increasing membership.” Most often, you’ll use at least one measurement. Formulate SMART Goals.

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Forum One

JANUARY 28, 2025

We call these big, beautiful, but often distracting numbers vanity metrics high-level data points that dont point to actual performance and its important to know the appropriate time and place to use them. Stakeholders at nonprofit and government organizations are often on the hunt for the biggest numbers.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 7, 2024

At the same time, it can be a real challenge for association staff to translate them into something measurable. It involves: Defining What to Measure: Identify the specific metrics that align with your strategic goals. It involves: Defining What to Measure: Identify the specific metrics that align with your strategic goals.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Here’s what we suggest: We need to start rethinking annual giving metrics to create a new storyline about fundraising for higher education. Maybe the story lies in how we measure success, how we improve the health of our annual giving programs. Maybe we need to focus our attention on narrower metrics. And then there is capacity.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2022

These key event metrics quantify the success of your events, and can show you how to improve them. Key performance indicators (KPIs) are measures of how much money your fundraising events are raising, how your audience is growing, and which parts of your event are the most successful. Important Event Metrics to Track.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Deciding which metrics matter most for your startup. In this last part of my five-part series , we’ll cover how to determine which metrics matter for your startup. It’s very easy to get lost if you assume upper-funnel metrics are the most crucial for your startup. Don’t fall into this trap. They would be wrong.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 12, 2022

Identify the key metrics you’ll use to measure your goals. Start by reviewing each of your strategic goals and identifying the key metrics you can use to measure progress against those goals. Most likely, you’ll have more than one metric for each goal. Step 1: Create a master list of all your metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2019

Does the platform provide powerful tools for data analysis, insight and built-in reporting for nonprofit metrics? Does it have pre-built dashboards with nonprofit metrics that are important for each persona at your organization and important for board members. Are you able to measure outcomes that directly relate to your cause?

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

For too long, success was measured by the performance of individual channels, often overlooking the holistic experience of our donors. For example, loyal, high-value donors might respond differently to your organization than new donors. Reporting: Measure overall donor health.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Engagement Metrics Engagement data includes metrics like how often employees log in, interact with content, and participate in discussions or collaborative learning activities. For example, if employees consistently score well on certain courses and engage with them regularly, it’s a sign that the material is resonating.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 9, 2022

That’s an extreme example, but it shows why optimizing your growth funnel is crucial in the early days of your company. As a bonus, try to measure which sources add the most users incrementally as well. While leading fleet growth at Postmates, I quickly learned to become numb to remarkable upper-funnel metrics.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

Whether you’re a construction company, software startup or Fortune 500 company, retention is a key metric across customers, employees and partners. I believe the three key foci for growth and product should be: Enhancing measurement capabilities. Measuring conversion volume accurately is paramount for all companies.

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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. Once you have your taxonomy and metadata in place, you can use metrics to analyze the performance of your marketing channels. Let’s use email as an example.

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TechCrunch

MAY 10, 2023

Anyone who has read product management books, attended workshops or even simply gone through an interview, knows that what is not measured cannot be managed. In this article, I am looking at cybersecurity product management and how metrics product leaders are tempted to track and report on may not be what they seem.

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Bloomerang

JULY 6, 2023

You’ll discuss measurable objectives for the team to reach and draft the priorities for each of these objectives. Here’s an example of what this would look like: Let’s say your organization is an animal shelter. For example, let’s say your nonprofit has a good track record with grant writing. Let’s get started.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2024

For example, do you want to increase online donations by 15% in the next year, or reduce your sites bounce rate by 10%? By setting measurable targets, you give your design agency a clear direction. These metrics can then guide layout decisions, calls-to-action, and content structure.

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Forum One

JULY 6, 2023

One very helpful metric to understand your audience’s experience of your content is a combination of engagement time and scroll depth. Looking at both of these metrics together tells you much more than just one of them alone. There are other metrics that can provide a glimpse into your site’s CX as well.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

“Once you get investors, the story doesn’t matter; it’s all about the metrics, the numbers and the performance,” Bamberger said. Track and capture: Getting started with attention metrics. ” Track and capture: Getting started with attention metrics.

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Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Going Beyond Basic Metrics Learning analytics goes beyond basic metrics to offer you a deeper understanding of course performance and learner engagement. Assessing Learner Sentiment Another important part of measuring the effectiveness of education programs is assessing learning sentiment.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

The word darkness, for example, would be split into two tokens, dark and ness, with each token bearing a numerical representation, such as 217 and 655. In this example, the shared numerical value associated with ness can help the AI model understand that the words may have something in common. How Do Tokens Drive AI Economics?

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Pick a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) that is clear, measurable, and accountable. For example, an organization with the primary mission of providing financial literacy courses and counseling for low-income families may add service areas such as providing housing or food.

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Towards Data Science

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Today, maximizing and measuring data team ROI is near the top of every data leader’s agenda. The goal of this pyramid is aimed squarely at helping data leaders Get closer to the business Balance competing priorities And focus on the right metrics to generate value for their stakeholders. Calculating data ROI Image by author.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 10, 2019

Set SMART(Smart, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, Timely) goals to make the tracking of your success easier. For example, you can use social media at different stages of your fundraising journey. The measurement of your performance will help you create more successful posts. 3) Pick the right platforms.

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CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

For example, “write a 100-word fundraising appeal email for high-value corporate donors” is a much better prompt than “write a fundraising appeal.” We’ll show an example of this in the next section. For more best practices and examples, take a look at our instructional guide for prompting ChatGPT.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

For example, a clothing store puts out a new line of clothing; they want to know how that line is performing. Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. An example of a KPI could be the number of surveys completed after an event. Think about what metrics you will use.

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DataRobot

APRIL 21, 2022

Leaderboards for popular benchmarks are full of examples of Red AI where improvements are often the result of scaling processing power. Here, model size is measured by the amount of floating-point operations. Measure efficiency, not only accuracy. Machine learning has been obsessed with accuracy — and for good reason.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

For example, you can group donors by giving level, event participation, or interests tied to specific programs. By tracking key metrics, you can measure the duration and quality of your donor relationships and identify areas for improvement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It’s a good idea to be strategic, with the use of a content plan to schedule the content of your #GivingTuesday campaign in advance and what metrics you’ll be measuring to determine whether your campaign was successful. This is an example from Wheels for wellbeing and a graphic explaining why every contribution matters.

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The Verge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Announced today, the Withings Body Scan will feature six-lead EKG readings, segmented body composition measurements, and the ability to assess foot nerve activity. Smart scales measure body composition via bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA). For example, many smart scales don’t differentiate between subcutaneous and visceral fat.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

It’s an easy way to set measurable goals and to align your objectives with your daily posting. For example, you can schedule a set number of posts to promote your campaign and then also post real-time content to engage with your supporters to keep the momentum going. 10) Measure success. 10 Steps to Create a Content Calendar.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 10, 2024

For too long, success was measured by the performance of individual channels, often overlooking the holistic experience of our donors. For example, loyal, high-value donors might respond differently to your organization than new donors. Reporting: Measure overall donor health.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Email deliverability is the measure of how many of the emails you sent actually made it to inboxes and there are many factors that can influence deliverability. Now, subject lines aren’t the only factor that influences open rates. The sender name is an important factor, and even more important, your email deliverability.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 4, 2023

This means Zoom customers, Zoom One Pro Business and Business Plus users will have free access to Read’s premium features, like real-time and advanced meeting metrics, for 12 months. Read, which lets you measure how well a meeting is going, is now a Zoom Essential App by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch.

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