Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why. Other Metrics. In the far left column, add the metrics you want to track. Under the green row, add your fundraising metrics. At the beginning of each month, plot your metrics. SUM your totals for monthly columns and annual rows.

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Mobile Track Media Fundraising 222

NetWits

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Analyze the stats of previous emails. MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, MarketingSherpa “Email Marketing Benchmark Guide” 2008. Give current subscribers the opportunity to tell you what they like. Capture more info during event registrations.

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email Raise Cancer Info 230

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Facebook Rolls Out New Metric: People Talking About. Last night Facebook announced some changes to Insights , the analytics program that we use for tracking Facebook pages, that includes a new metric, “People Talking About.” More new stats include, “Friends of Fans” and “Total Reach.”

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Metrics Facebook People Change 131

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To refine a content strategy, I used the Fan Page insights metrics tool, particularly the stats on interactions and Fan Page growth. Here are some metrics that I use to harvest insights on those questions. Tags: facebook metrics. I have not done this yet.

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Metrics Benchmark Facebook Experiment 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 13, 2013

That said, below is selection of metrics to track and a brief explanation as to why. Other Metrics. In the far left column, add the metrics you want to track. Under the green row, add your fundraising metrics. At the beginning of each month, plot your metrics. SUM your totals for monthly columns and annual rows.

Mobile 185

Mobile Track Media Social 185

Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

But are these stats meaningful? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? Why is Social Media Data Important?

Social Media 77

Social Media Metrics Media Social 77

NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

You’ll even get real-time click stats! You’ll have real web metrics to back up your work. Now that you’ve got your blog humming along and your Facebook and Twitter accounts in working order it’s time to pull things together. First, set up a bit.ly This will allow you to shorten your URLs (e.g.

Social Media 251

Social Media Media Social Slides 251

NonProfit PRO

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The 2022 Donor-Advised Fund Report details growth in all key DAF metrics for the 12th consecutive year. The new report also reveals DAF grantmaking to charities around the world grew 60% compared to pre-pandemic 2019 and increased 400% over the past decade.

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Fund Charity Report Donor 245

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2014

And when video is paired with a continuous strategy and clear metrics for success, there is overwhelming evidence showing that it is a crucial, important investment for nonprofits. To know that your email works you have to be sending email regularly – and developing clear metrics for what success looks like. Digital Sherpa ).

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Video Communication Strategy Stats 139

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Using a graphic design tool such as Canva or Venngage , converting powerful stats, quotes, and CTAs into graphics is a time-tested, proven method to grab the attention of your followers, thus increasing your engagement on Twitter (and all social media). Create custom graphics for powerful quotes, statistics, and call-to-actions.

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Twitter Practice Social Media Nonprofit 342

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Stats, stats, stats …. Facebook Pages give you stats!! You may be thinking “why do stats matter?”. As I discussed in a recent post (see 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site ) stats are key to helping you improve your web site or in this case your Facebook page. Awesome, I know.

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Facebook Stats Los Angeles Tips 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

I just discovered that one of my blog colleagues in Australia, Seb Chan, is writing about a topic of mutual interest - social media metrics (my blog ramblings here and my wiki/presentations here ). I am also prepping a panel on the topic for NTC (more about that later) Seb Chan is focusing specifically on blog metrics for museums.

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Metrics Museum Technorati Influence 50

Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Nonprofits need to pay special attention to this stat. These stats are not surprising and show how many more people on nonprofit’s list are willing to take some sort of action on behalf of your organization, but they require a much deeper level of nurturing and engagement to turn them into donors. Why is that?

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Benchmark Advocacy Studies Metrics 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be. Do you collect metrics to impress your boss or ones that truly help you improve?

Benchmark 95

Benchmark Network Learning API 95

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 think he even trademarked the term).

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Metrics Action RSS Feeds 50

Care2

APRIL 6, 2014

Looking for a report that combines your Google Analytics stats in a visual format? It won''t fulfill all of your data analysis needs, but if you use some of these tools together, they will provide a decent baseline. Google Analytics Report with Visually. https://create.visual.ly/graphic/google-analytics/. graphic/google-analytics/.

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Analytics Track Metrics Tools 71

Classy

JUNE 30, 2021

From stats on conversion and acquisition to retention and supporter experience, check out the infographic below to get a peek at the data from the 2021 report. We created a free Benchmark Assessment to surface actionable fundraising takeaways based on your organization’s current metrics. See How Future-Ready Your Nonprofit Is Today.

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Fundraising Benchmark Stats Metrics 98

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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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 2, 2023

By collecting essential metrics as part of your program management process, you’ll be able to use this information to: Identify program gaps and areas of need. Using predefined metrics can be incredibly valuable for determining how well your nonprofit has been meeting the needs of your constituents and where you can adjust for greater impact.

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Statistics Stats Program Management 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

I took a look at a couple of the measurement tools available for Pinterest and got on the waiting list for Pinerly after reading this analysis from the Poynter Blog based on stats provided by Pinerly. Rick Kats kindly sent me a spreadsheet of metrics for 6 nonprofits that were early adopters, using it consistently and best practices.

Benchmark 104

Benchmark Photography Ratio Stats 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic? Google Analytics.

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Metrics Web Tools Technorati 50

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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Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2011

Instead, they identify key organizational results areas and associated metrics to define successes and failures. Momsrising knows from years of message testing and research , that to change minds about an issue, wonky stats fall flat. What are the best metrics to measure those? getting policies passed. increasing capacity.

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Results Facebook Metrics Measure 118

Connection Cafe

JUNE 13, 2013

Focus on Event Fundraising Analytics , we looked at how peer-to-peer event metrics let us know if our event planning and execution efforts are paying off in fundraising results. Metrics and benchmarks can be our guides to whether your efforts at creating a great experience for participants are paying off. Profit/loss.

Metrics 42

Metrics Benchmark Fundraising Stats 42

Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Metrics matter because they give your nonprofit insights on decision-making and provide evidence for what kind of content to share. However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. The 10-Week Social Media Event Promotion Plan.

Social Media 122

Social Media Track Conversation Media 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

Ironically, I read a post from a month ago by Stowe Boyd called " Beyond Blogs: The Conversation Has Moved Into Flow " where he stats that conversation is moving from blog comments thread which is slow and static to a more fast form of conversation - the flow in Twitter, Friendfeed, and other places. Conversations are fragmenting.

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Comment Metrics Conversation Twitter 50

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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Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2005

Ethan Zuckerman has been analyzing Global s stats since the site's redesign last month. The tool used to count total links is Blogpulse (He also shares his worksheet ) In the analysis, he mentions that the average blogger links to Global s 1.86

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Analysis Global Metrics Stats 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 30, 2012

You might also want to spend some time doing a little research on site and browse some of the pinterest stat sites. And while there is some bogus stats that attempts to give you a dollar amount per pin, the site does generate some useful data for you. Repinly is a site that analyzes Pinterest users and content.

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Tools Tips Resource Stats 107

Care2

MARCH 23, 2012

The 2012 eNonprofit Benchmark study comes out April 5 th and is packed with great data that highlights key online fundraising and advocacy response rates as well as social media metrics. Some maybe surprised by this stat given how prevalent mobile is today. Can’t wait to get your hands on the data? of its email list size.

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Benchmark Advocacy Stats Mobile 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2010

We also just started reporting on the metrics we already had available (web analytics, FB insights, email campaign stats) and are now moving towards more of a “digital content services&# model with metrics related to specific campaigns, etc.&#. There are specific metrics for specific platforms.

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Measure Social Media Media Benchmark 102

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

What exactly are the right metrics for measuring this transformation? Success is not a single metric, and it’s not a linear path. The statistics listed were sourced from the Internet World Stats Index. What is the long-term change that they want to see? What is needed to achieve it? How will we know we’re making a difference?

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Measure Community Organization North Carolina 97

Care2

MARCH 9, 2013

A lot of organizations focus more of their engagement efforts on Facebook than Twitter. I think this is because organizations feel limited by the 145 character tweet length. Plus it can be a noisy space.

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Twitter Japan Stats Statistics 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

I loved this post from Devon Smith analyzing the metrics and reaping insights from her post on The Networked nonprofit. I learned about some new techniques for measuring blog stats and Twitter. So, go read her post now.

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Network Oakland San Francisco Photo 92

Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

Event metrics can be great guides as we plan. In earlier posts, npENGAGE has discussed how to focus on our event fundraising analytics and how to use these metrics for success. Below are some ways to use your event metrics to identify and engage specific participant types during your fundraising event. Warm Bodies.

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Metrics Action Create Benchmark 34

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! There are stats built into the tool for the number of clicks and so on, but if you are measuring site traffic already it shouldn’t be new that regard. URL Shorteners – [link].

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Tools Tech Map RSS 162