Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

This framework provides a holistic approach, encompassing various dimensions of a digital strategy, including audience engagement, content creation, and impact measurement. Uncover the step-by-step process of defining goals, selecting prompts, implementing initiatives, and measuring impact in this comprehensive guide.

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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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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Are you looking at a map or the rearview mirror? How can I measure and track our overall fundraising program? . You might answer this question with metrics like the number of new donors or the number of donations. I consider those basic metrics to be “rearview mirror” metrics. Map Metrics.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 19, 2024

This makes it easier for the agency to map out intuitive navigation. 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. Content Inventory : Determine whats working, whats outdated, and whats missing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2013

One of the posts that got a lot of engagement and contributed to the uphill trend in the metrics was about editorial calendars. ” What are the metrics for measuring your content? Over the past 5 years since I’ve been analyzing metrics and my content , I have a good list of the topics that do well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

Over the past three years, I've been presenting on this topic , the thinking and practice has evolved from 'we can't measure social media or it doesn't yet provide a tangible return," to being able to have guidelines, metrics, and techniques for demonstrating the ROI.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

The Social Media Strategy Map and Worksheet 1. Now, restate your objective so it is “SMART” – specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and time-based? Make your objectives "SMART" (Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-Bound). Measurement. What else might you add or change? Identify Objectives.

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Tableau

MARCH 2, 2021

Today, on the Tableau COVID-19 Data Hub , we launch a new Global Tracker that combines and visualizes the key metrics that measure our return to normalcy. Yet, progress cannot be measured simply by tracking the number of vaccinations. With the gradual rollout of vaccines, the coronavirus pandemic has entered a new phase.

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NVIDIA AI Blog

MARCH 17, 2025

For visual AI models that process images, video or sensor data, a tokenizer can help map visual inputs like pixels or voxels into a series of discrete tokens. There are tradeoffs involved for each metric, and the right balance is dictated by use case.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 28, 2025

If your look and feel are all over the map, you could be missing out on critical donor support. Measure Your Progress and Refine Track Key Brand Metrics Brand clarity is about more than warm, fuzzy feelingsit also impacts measurable results. Keep an eye on: Donor Retention Rates: Are first-time donors coming back?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Lucy brings up some points about metrics for Twitter.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Send Regular Communications: Consider creating a donor stewardship calendar to map out regular touchpoints, such as newsletters, mission updates, and impact stories. 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

MAY 25, 2024

Open rates , click-through rates , conversion rates , and other metrics measure the effectiveness of your fundraising efforts. Use benchmark data from past actions or other nonprofits to evaluate your campaigns, and then work to improve the metrics that matter most. 2) A/B Testing Not sure what subject line to go with?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 28, 2025

Whole Whale created the Funnel of Engagement to help orgs like you better map the typical journey a supporter takes from being Aware of your organization to becoming Committed to your cause. What it looks like: Growth in key metrics YoY: more web traffic, more actions, more donors, more email subscribers, more clicks, more views, etc.

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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. Image by author.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 17, 2025

Data visualization uses graphs, maps, and other graphics to communicate complex information more effectively. 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. Why is data visualization so effective?

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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 also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go.

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The MatrixFiles

MAY 23, 2024

Each dashboard can be tailored to help measure what is important to your association, and relevant to your memberships. Membership Churn, in particular, charts members lost over a specific time period, providing a crucial metric alongside membership retention.

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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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M+R

OCTOBER 15, 2021

with data from dozens of other nonprofits to create a set of averages, trends, and key metrics. Again, we take measures to make sure that your organization’s data is confidential and non-identifiable in the final study. Only you will know how your organization stacks up in the end (and you will know sooooo much about it).

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

A unifying vision The message, goals, and metrics that both define your top-line digital future and give you a means for tracking its progress. The result is a digital ecosystem plan : a map of complementary digital products and services aligned with your mission goals. Your mission depends upon it. Forum One can help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 18, 2014

Dashboard design is more than simply clarifying outcomes and key metrics. Many times dashboard design is focused on “getting it done efficiently” and graphs and does not address the human side – buy-in, learning from data, and consensus on metrics. They created a concept map of the different themes that emerged.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And Gensler rolled out its Product Sustainability Standards, providing for many in the industry a clear way to measure the carbon impact of the interior products they select. Gensler estimates that use of GPS has the power to offset up to 341,000 metric tons of carbon annually. Its innovations can have seismic impacts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

It's a very tangible measure and they have a goal for victories. . The above map that Chad explains gets at it. He gave a presentation about how Surfrider Foundation is striving to make its grassroots network more effective. He touched on how they are using social networks/media in this effort.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2012

Last week, I had the pleasure of doing a Brown Bag Lunch Book Talk for Measuring the Networked Nonprofit hosted by VolunteerMatch at their offices. After the session, I sat down with VolunteerMatch’s President Greg Baldwin to learn more about how they use data, measurement, and learning to measure and improve impact.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 1, 2025

We use the Funnel of Engagement to map how someone goes from hearing about your work to becoming a loyal, long-term donor. This approach meets supporters where they arewhether theyre discovering your mission for the first time or giving for the fifth year in a rowand guides them toward meaningful, recurring support. Start the relationship.

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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. Step 5: Measure. Do you have one?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

Measuring success of social media in your work can be a tricky thing to do, especially as we all explore and experiment with the tools every day and many tools and processes are still very new. Benefit : These are both tangible and intangible, and can also include things that you don’t see or expect at the beginning but develop later.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

They’re walking along untraveled roads without a map. It’s time to use a different set of metrics and accounting systems to measure progress in new or unstable industries. The old metrics are tailored for well-established industries, so it doesn’t make much sense to apply them to fledgling startups.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Interestingly, the company judged to be the fastest-growing on the latest list, Plausible , is an “open startup” (all its metrics are published, including revenues) and states on its website that it is “not interested in raising funds or taking investment. China is building a GitHub alternative called Gitee.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

We had simple goals, and defined our metrics only as they related to grant deliverables or obvious data, like: we will launch programs in 3 schools, or we will feed 500 families. Our strategies are focused on clear goals and metrics. Analog Strategies. In the analog paradigm, our strategies did not include technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 16, 2010

Miradi is the first software program designed especially by and for conservation planners based on a common set of environmental metrics. Miradi is a joint venture between Benetech and the Conservation Measures Partnership (CMP), a consortium of global environmental organizations committed to improving the practice of conservation.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

Identify what measures of success can be used. You know who and what, and you identified where you want to go, but before you dive in you also need to establish how you can measure and monitor activity from day 1 onward. Liveblogging notes from Beth Kanter’s NTC session on “Mapping your social media strategy to metrics&#.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Analyzed data—usually in the form of charts and dashboards—provides a way for you to measure your organization’s activity against past output or industry standards: it allows you to determine growth and success, or lack thereof. Next, there are some preliminary steps you—or your data guru—can take: Dedicate time to mapping your data flow.

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Tableau

JANUARY 5, 2022

Drag a measure on top of a dimension to auto-create an LOD! ??????. If you love flexible, cloud database schemas and analyzing maps, then Tableau offered you a lot in 2021. Our first release of the year introduced support for spatial data in Snowflake, followed by map layer control and area calculations with 2021.2, Quick LODs.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

They want us to invest in digital analytics tools to measure our efforts, but I’m not really sure what this will tell us. In fact, a study by Salesforce found the number one most valuable metric of success for service organizations is customer satisfaction. How are you measuring if you’re meeting or exceeding them?

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Tableau

JANUARY 4, 2022

Drag a measure on top of a dimension to auto-create an LOD! ??????. If you love flexible, cloud database schemas and analyzing maps, then Tableau offered you a lot in 2021. Our first release of the year introduced support for spatial data in Snowflake, followed by map layer control and area calculations with 2021.2, Quick LODs.

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