Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices. Here’s the stats I asked for and why: Average Repin Ratio : Gives a measure of engagement. For engagement, I looked at the Repin Ratio by board and select those with the highest ratio.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 30, 2012

Focus Attention on Critical Factors by Using Ratios, Dashboards and Other Strategies. Many ratios and other information can be derived from financial documents that are useful to interpretation. The Nonprofits Assistance Fund has a great resource that describes 14 different types of financial ratios. Simplify without Compromise.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Whether your events included auctions, galas, or virtual campaigns, understanding key metrics and takeaways will set you up for even greater success next year. Key Metrics to Evaluate Your Fundraising Events When assessing your events, focus on measurable outcomes that align with your goals.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2017

Sales Ops Metrics & KPIs. Performance Metrics Analyses. Selection of Key Sales Metrics to Adopt. Common Sales Operations Metrics & KPIs. Preferred metrics vary across teams and organizations. Average Win Rate is the ratio of closed won deals over the total number of won and lost deals. Performance.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

One of the more helpful ways to explore top executive pay is to examine the ratio of their compensation compared to that of the “median worker” (i.e., For example, in The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism , John Bogle estimated a nationwide ratio to be approximately 280:1 in 2004 (up from 42:1 in 1980). The median ratio was 2.7:1

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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. pick the right metrics.

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Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do some math Use our Magical Nonprofit Financial Ratio Matrix to assess your organization’s financial health. Decision-making moments are preset moments in times, activities, in regard to revenue or expense metrics at which you will make a certain decision. Remember: information is NOT insight.

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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. 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. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

This includes things you are probably looking at already like the number of visitors to your website and subscribers of your emails; but, it also includes metrics based on the funcationality of the tools you choose and how you identified success. For more on evaluation: Social by Social How-Tos. WeAreMedia’s ROI Toolbox.

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Achieve

MAY 3, 2024

Here are some metrics to watch for that can be tracked through most professional email delivery services: Open Rate The open rate is the percentage of emails opened out of the total number of emails sent. If negative feedback outweighs positive feedback, try to pinpoint the areas for improvement and incorporate new ideas for future events.

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

Another way we measure technology staffing levels is determing the Tech Staff - to - Organizational Staff Ratio. This gives us (and you) a more comparable metric. If you have 12 total staff members, and you know that the average ratio of tech-to-org staff for your budget size is 1:24, then you know that having at least 0.5

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

It can be an informal study and fairly simple to do. You identify a list of similar organizations and collect specific metrics to compare. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith. By the end of 2011, we will increase the number of people who “Like&# us on Facebook to the median Facebook network or x%. Benchmarking Study by Devon Smith.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2011

News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach. But thats okay.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. It’s not possible.

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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. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. It lead me to this post by Louis Gray called " What's Your Twitter Noise Ratio ?" " He goes on to describe how the noise ratio is constructed. My ratio is 2.4, Twitter As A Conversation Tool. Did it surprise?

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Ticket sales, donations, petition signatures, and email list registrations are all metrics you can use to measure your nonprofit’s marketing progress. These metrics are key indicators of your nonprofit’s success. Microsoft uses metrics like clicks and impressions, so you can easily assess your marketing progress for each campaign. .

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 20, 2015

Rottenness is not a very useful criteria for picking where to eat, but GuideStar President and CEO Jacob Harold said this scenario happens every time a person chooses to rely upon a nonprofit’s overhead ratio to make a donation. The post Myth Busters: Why Donors Shouldn’t Rely on the Overhead Ratio appeared first on Nonprofit Hub.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. The PTAT metric includes all the following activities that happen on your page over a one-week rolling period: Liking a page.

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Progress bar with CauseVox automated matching And it’s not just about the money—CauseVox also displays impact metrics, so donors can see the tangible results of their gifts, like meals served, trees planted, or hours of service funded. Plus, when there is a match in place, these metrics automatically double!

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Media Cause

MAY 20, 2021

Paying attention to contrast ratios is one of the easiest ways we can adapt our websites to be more accessible for color blind people. For example, if I visit a site that has a combination of pink colored text sitting on top of a background that is either busy or “too close” in color like a pale green or yellow, it gets a lot harder to read.

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Care2

JUNE 18, 2013

“At the extremes the overhead ratio can offer insight: it can be a valid data point for rooting out fraud and poor financial management," the letter stated. Marketing Research Metrics Nonprofit Trends nptech' The nonprofit community must take risks, test new ideas, and fail quickly to succeed.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 1, 2022

The problem with ratios. They often use financial ratios to measure a nonprofit's impact, but these do not most accurately showcase a program's efficiency. Combining anecdotes with metrics that illustrate the problem can invite donors to be a part of the solution.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 20, 2023

How to create an online fundraising strategy Tips for a successful online fundraiser 10 effective online fundraising ideas 8 online fundraising metrics to track Use the tips and ideas in this guide to create your own online fundraising plan and to determine the fundraising tools you’ll need to accomplish your ultimate goals.

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Neon CRM

MAY 22, 2023

This should include: Minimum and maximum donation amounts Matching gift ratios Types of qualifying employees Types of qualifying nonprofits Submission deadlines And more! Some matching gift email metrics are similar to those of a standard nonprofit marketing email.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 2, 2009

This includes things you are probably looking at already like the number of visitors to your website and subscribers of your emails; but, it also includes metrics based on the funcationality of the tools you choose and how you identified success.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 30, 2024

You can also have AI analyze recordings of past pitches to review metrics like listening ratio, speaker engagement, and overall emotional tone of the meeting. Adding the Human Touch to Reduce the Cringe We’d be remiss to not address how to avoid being creepy when using AI.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

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. It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. Which metrics will help you achieve it? Cost per visitor.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

As ASU Professor Mark Hager discussed in his blog post , this led to the popularization of one particular metric – the overhead vs. program costs ratio – as a way of judging the effectiveness and donation-worthiness of a nonprofit organization.

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

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. It also gives you some more advanced, calculated metrics like bounce rate, average time on site, and pages/visit. Which metrics will help you achieve it?

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Classy

JUNE 4, 2021

While most matching gift companies match at a 1:1 ratio, some even match at a 2:1, 3:1, or even 4:1 ratio. Most matching gift programs offer funds at a 1:1 ratio, but some even go as high as 4:1. Capital Group. Air Products and Chemicals. American Express. Maximize Matching Gift Revenue With Direct Appeals.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 13, 2012

Try calculating a ratio of how many people comment and/or like and/or share your posts divided by how many like your page. So maybe that gets you an “engagement” ratio. Metrics, metrics, metrics. So we start with the industry-wide best practices: How many people like you on Facebook? How many should?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

So here are four principles we used in designing GuideStar Platinum : Nonprofits should choose metrics that make sense for them. We have gathered 700 suggested metrics for our Common Results Catalog —but nonprofits can always add their own metrics, too. It is valuable to identify cases where nonprofits use common metrics.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

To strengthen wellbeing in the workplace the book provides leaders various solutions, including a new metric to track suffering, struggling, and thriving — Gallup Net Thriving. Doing so is critical when you consider Gallup’s research of a few years ago that found that one-third of Americans have shown signs of clinical anxiety or depression.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. Some interesting questions and reactions in the chat during the Webinar that I wanted to answer and reflect on further. ( part 1 , part 2 ) Is there a general time ratio or average percentage of time spent on ROI measures vs the actual work? This is such a good question.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Keeping track of the right nonprofit KPIs and metrics for program evaluation and impact measurement, fundraising and development, and financial management will give them the data they need to make the right decisions. You can provide a few different metrics to show the program’s impact to your board.

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