Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Measure and manage trust. Implementing regular surveys or feedback sessions can help assess and manage trust levels within an organization. Consider integrating trust metrics into performance evaluations to emphasize their importance. Its a measurable force that drives success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2012

. ”Don’t measure the world, if you don’t have the time and resources to do so.” ” It is a key theme in our book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit.” Measuring World Hunger Day – a guest post by Geoff Livingston. Is WOM referral a right metric for small acts?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Mari Smith pointed to this blog post from All Facebook explaining the metric and how it has been implemented in apps. Photo by lecercle. Size has never mattered to us.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As I’ve been working on “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ” with co-author KD Paine, we’ve come to the chapter on measurement tools. I sent out a query nonprofit tech colleagues who are social media mavens and ask that age old question, “ What’s in your social media measurement tool box ?”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2019

“We work quickly to create and disseminate content, and look at metrics on our various digital platforms. Having talented people in-house allows us to pivot and move quickly based on our metrics,” Melissa says. Speaking of metrics, how do you measure your nonprofit site’s performance?

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 20, 2022

. “The truth is: vanity metrics don’t measure how engaged potential customers are, ” writes Christopher P. Relying on vanity metrics is like attending a Little League awards dinner: Everyone goes home a winner! Relying on vanity metrics is like attending a Little League awards dinner: Everyone goes home a winner!

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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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Blue Avocado

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We recently asked the Blue Avocado community, “How does your nonprofit measure success?” While most who responded would agree that counting the number of program participants, clients served, and funds raised each year are solid metrics, success looks different to every organization.

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TechCrunch

MAY 3, 2022

According to a 2021 Garden survey , the majority of developers found slow feedback loops during the software development process to be a source of frustration, second only to difficult communication between teams and functional groups. “Measuring engineering efficiency is a known, large and growing problem that’s now become solvable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Most nonprofits do not have the resources to hire one of these in-demand professionals nor do you see many funding opportunities to build this type of commitment to measurement and learning from data into a nonprofit’s DNA. ” @ mmorino just finishing up talks in RI/Boston – some great discussions about measurement.

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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. For us, this has been linked not just to content like articles a blog posts but also forum threads, email outreach, and broad campaigns — like our recent Cloud Survey.

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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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AccelEvents

AUGUST 10, 2020

To help you compile this survey and get the data you need, we’ve compiled a few tips for writing post-event surveys and details of some of the most important questions that you need to ask. Here’s what you need to know about post virtual event surveys: Tips for Crafting Your Post Virtual Event Survey.

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Pamela Grow

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Consider sending surveys to gather insights on your events, communications, or fundraising campaigns. By tracking key metrics, you can measure the duration and quality of your donor relationships and identify areas for improvement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

The State of Nonprofit Data report was released this week (hat tip to Ted Fickes ). Idealware and NTEN prepared the report based on a survey in April 2012 with nearly 400 nonprofit organizations about how they manage and use data. The report found that nonprofits are either doing a lot with their metrics or not much at all.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 1, 2024

Most associations don’t have an easy way to measure member engagement across all their different systems and touch points. And even when measured, it can be tricky to know how to use engagement scores to improve member experience and operational results.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2013

When nonprofits started to read and apply our book, ” Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” I noticed this tweet from the ACLU in NJ showing a white board capturing their team meetings to define success for social media. How did your organization apply it to social media measurement? What is your measurement pilot?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. That’s where training metrics come in. Why Are Training Metrics Important? What Is Training Effectiveness?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. That’s where training metrics come in. Why Are Training Metrics Important? What Is Training Effectiveness?

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Gyrus

MARCH 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness: Metrics and Analytics for Educational Institutes, Corporates, and NGOs Gyrus Systems Gyrus Systems - Best Online Learning Management Systems Training programs play a pivotal role in the success of any organization. That’s where training metrics come in. Why Are Training Metrics Important?

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NetWits

AUGUST 23, 2011

In 2011, Blackbaud and the Run Walk Ride Fundraising Council conducted an online survey of individuals who have participated in at least one run, walk or ride event in the last two years. The survey also found 40% of team members exceeded their fundraising goals vs. only 29% of non-team participants. Measuring Success.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 17, 2024

Some organizations utilize Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure their goals. Donorbox defines KPIs as “a measurable value that demonstrates how effectively a nonprofit (or another type of organization) is achieving its key organizational objectives.” An example of a KPI could be the number of surveys completed after an event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 3, 2013

How Nonprofits Measure Success of Video. The report, “I nto Focus: Benchmarks for Video and A Guide for Creators ,” is based on a survey of 500 nonprofits and interviews with experts (including me). 3. Metrics with video are hard and is probably one thing holding back investment.

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Gyrus

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Types of Data Available in LMS Systems According to our 2024 Customer Education Benchmarks & Trends report —in which we commissioned Forrester to survey 300 education leaders at the director level or above—80% of high-success organizations consider “access to multiple types of data” important to running a successful customer education program.

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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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TechCrunch

JULY 29, 2021

Relying on proven tactics and measurable metrics isn’t enough — today, the most effective marketers constantly study and learn from innovative approaches while exploring new avenues. If you know of one, let us know by filling out this quick survey. Every experiment we ran increased the demo request metric to some extent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2013

Note from Beth: You need a identify a measurable goal for your integrated social media strategy that can be linked to your organization’s overall results and pick a data point or KPI that you will collect along the way to measure success. To date the survey has received 131 responses; 45% projects and 55% organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

The survey fundings are based on a sample nonprofit CEOs whose organizations are receiving funding from foundations giving at least $5 million annually in grants called the “Nonprofit Voice,” with 170 respondents answering the questions on this survey.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

Despite being a basic safety measure, seat belts were introduced late, and even then, only for luxury cars at first. According to a Candid survey , 23% of grantmakers say they dont accept AI-generated grant proposals. Reduced staff burnout : Conduct regular wellness surveys to measure mental health and workload satisfaction.

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Candid

MAY 13, 2024

In a 2022 survey, nearly 70% of respondents cited building measurement, evaluation, and learning capabilities as a critical area in which they would like to invest. Like other types of grantmakers, collaboratives seek to measure effectiveness and learn from feedback. Tracking common outcome metrics across grantees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Carie Lewis mentioned the Humane Society’s KPIs – which is why they do and how they measure this sustained engagement. She went to say that she thinks too many folks are focused on the Facebook Like as the social media success metric. “Who cares? I asked her how do you measure relationships?

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness with LMS Analytics GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Companies use Learning Analytics Tools to collect, analyze, and measure the effectiveness of their learning and development programs. Having measurable metrics is crucial to pinpoint what is and isn’t working in training development programs.

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Gyrus

AUGUST 15, 2024

Measuring Training Effectiveness with LMS Analytics GyrusAim LMS GyrusAim LMS - Companies use Learning Analytics Tools to collect, analyze, and measure the effectiveness of their learning and development programs. Having measurable metrics is crucial to pinpoint what is and isn’t working in training development programs.

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Nimble AMS

AUGUST 23, 2022

Gauge how your association measures up by surveying your staff to identify key trends in your organization. Take your information-gathering process a step further by surveying members or forming a focus group. If you don’t cast a vision, your association won’t know what metrics to include in reporting.

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