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    GaggleAMP

    Score8.3 out of 10
    N/AGaggleAMP's employee advocacy and communications platform enables companies to boost the distribution of workforce communications and social media messaging. The solutions aims to foster a network of people, or a Gaggle, who share company-created messages to their social media networks and contribute content to their internal workforce community. This aids in employee development, leveraging them as a thought leader in their space while increasing social selling and recruitment…

    $25

    per month

    YourCause

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AYourCause is a SaaS-based platform that is a fully hosted and managed solution used to engage employees in volunteering, giving, and sustainability initiatives, along with helping grants administrators manage corporate and foundation philanthropic programs.N/A
    Pricing
    GaggleAMPYourCause
    Editions & Modules
    Enterprise
    $1
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    Agency
    $1
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    Small and Medium Businesses
    $300
    25 seats per month
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GaggleAMPYourCause
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsGaggleAMP serves small businesses, medium-size businesses, enterprise-class organizations, and agencies that represent these businesses. Their small business offering starts at 25 seats for $300 per month, with additional packages available based on the number of seats needed. For Enterprise-class pricing and agency offerings, it is best to speak with a GaggleAMP representative to secure a rate.Product pricing varies based on company needs and employee size.
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    User Ratings
    GaggleAMPYourCause
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.7
    (12 ratings)
    10.0
    (17 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    7.8
    (5 ratings)
    Usability
    -
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    9.0
    (15 ratings)
    Availability
    -
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    7.5
    (2 ratings)
    Performance
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    5.0
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    Support Rating
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    7.3
    (14 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
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    7.1
    (3 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
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    5.5
    (14 ratings)
    Configurability
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    7.0
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    Ease of integration
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    6.5
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    Product Scalability
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    6.5
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    6.0
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    User Testimonials
    GaggleAMPYourCause
    Likelihood to Recommend
    GaggleAMP
    GaggleAMP is well suited when you want to get timely local language content out to folks in other countries/regions, or content for a specific group/department. It is also well suited when you have multiple Gaggle content managers with multiple content calendars. It might be less appropriate if you want to hold multiple Social contests (gamification) with different rules, scopes, leaderboards, etc. for different groups/tags as there is only one leaderboard.
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    Blackbaud
    In my experience I feel YourCause is well suited for: Companies that need to manage multiple corporate giving, volunteering, and grant making programs, etc. on one platform. For companies looking for an easy and effective way of vetting non-profit organizations. Those organization focused on employee engagement and looking to measure employee participation and using data to share impact and storytelling. Company platform super users or platform admins looking to influence new products and ideas as early adopters.
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    Pros
    GaggleAMP
    • Easy to tell associates what posts to like and share. Especially like that we can point them to like or share industry posts.
    • Easy to get others in organization to sign up. Also offers app and browser app.
    • Gamefication aspect allows associates to have friendly competition and allows awarding of prizes for reaching set point values
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    Blackbaud
    • The Engagement Element functionality is flexible and user-friendly.
    • The IRS database integration is a great feature when employees are able to choose any charity in the U.S.
    • It is very helpful to see your total community impact (volunteering and giving) on one page.
    • Our dedicated account manager is great - very responsive and proactive.
    • Integration with Workday.
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    Cons
    GaggleAMP
    • There are no out of the box implementations to get started quick.
    • The campaign manager could be more involved and vocal about recommendations and how to implement them.
    • I'd like deeper insight into what my employees do and do not like to share.
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    Blackbaud
    • There is not a blogging feature, it would be great to have that as an innovative feature in the future. Many firms are lookign at new ways to always share their stories, story tell, and allow their employees to share their volunteer and charitable giving passions.
    • It would be very beneficial if external NPOs could create events within CSRconnect on the compamy's behalf. This would help drive volunteerism and the administrative burden.
    • There are a lot of steps to "Give" to an NPO and also request a company match.
    • There are no generic toolkits to help onboard new companies to show them how to set up different features i.e. playbook. There is not a guide that outlines the different tools and functions, etc.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    GaggleAMP
    Customer service has been good. It's easy to use. It's cost effective. It's a good way to expand your social presence and get your employees more vested in branding the company without spending a ton of money. There are bells and whistles that may be good for other users. I just haven't had the time to use them
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    Blackbaud
    We have thoroughly enjoyed our relationship with CSRconnect and YourCause/Blackbaud thus far.
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    Usability
    GaggleAMP
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    Blackbaud
    The usability of CSRconnect is light years ahead of our last program and we are so thankful for this. Some of our employees get intimidated by using the computer so it is helpful when the site is user-friendly and welcoming for our employees. They are also easily able to find events in the portal.
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    Reliability and Availability
    GaggleAMP
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    Blackbaud
    It is available when needed. It can be very slow at times.
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    Performance
    GaggleAMP
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    Blackbaud
    We do have issues with having to reload pages when we are working on reports or engagement tiles. If we dont reload something the information that we have been working to input in to the site or the reports do not save. This can be frustrating when we are on time constraints
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    Support Rating
    GaggleAMP
    Support for GaggleAMP is easily the best customer support I've experienced with any software tool. Our rep, Sam, is dedicated to our account (no bouncing around a call-center bullpen), and is highly proactive and eager to help us succeed. Most of our interactions have nothing to do with problems, but rather opportunities to optimize our use of the tool and set us up for greatest success. GaggleAMP sets a gold standard for customer support!
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    Blackbaud
    The implementation process was a bit rocky but ended up okay. The account manager is new and still learning himself so many of our questions are answered with "let me look into that and get back to you". He absolutely gets back to us and is very nice but not always very knowledgeable which can get frustrating.
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    Online Training
    GaggleAMP
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    Blackbaud
    It was a little challenging doing training on line i think in person may have been a little easier. we also did training before we had access to certain things so when the time came to use that training we had questions that came up that were not apart of the initial training.
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    Implementation Rating
    GaggleAMP
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    Blackbaud
    I wasn't involved in the decision to go with Your Cause but I came on as the implementation was happening. It was clunky at best but that was mostly due to our previous account rep not being in a role that suited his talents along with YC being new and us being a very large global company with lots of IT/HR challenges
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    Alternatives Considered
    GaggleAMP
    A former colleague suggested EveryoneSocial, but I think that GaggleAMP has more industry experience in terms of employee advocacy and social engagement. While it did appear somewhat easier to use, it didn't have all the features and attention to detail that GaggleAMP provided such as the detailed reporting and the specific activity suggestions I was looking for.
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    Blackbaud
    When we chose YourCause it was because of the access to data and the fact that their CSR and Grant platforms "spoke" to each other. Also YourCause seemed to be more forward thinking and innovative. The fact that YourCause platform supported giving with so many countries/languages was impressive as we were expanding. Their platform for the end user was also significantly more advanced, easy to use and modern than others.
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    Scalability
    GaggleAMP
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    Blackbaud
    It has worked for our large company fine.
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    Return on Investment
    GaggleAMP
    • Take this with a grain of salt, but our company's all-time CPC (cost per click) savings is $1.85 M ($184,116.95 last quarter).
    • GaggleAMP has become an important part in getting our employees and partners to engage with us on Social Media more regularly - a great tool for getting information out there.
    • Brand awareness.
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    Blackbaud
    • We have been able to more accurately track global volunteerism.
    • Having an online platform for employees to organize their team volunteer projects has been wonderful. They are either doing more of them (we are so busy) or they were always doing all these activities but we are just finally aware of them because there is a platform to use now.
    • Reporting is not as flexible nor robust as we need it. Still doing many manual steps to get the data how we need it.
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    ScreenShots

    GaggleAMP Screenshots

    Screenshot of The member view provides a simple view of actions and messages available. Acting take a simple click of a button. "Share" to share the message or "No Thanks". If a user declines a message/action there is an opportunity for them to provide feedback on why they chose not to share the message or perform the action. This helps the Gaggle manager learn the preferences of their member base and helps future content curation.Screenshot of Channels provide an outlet for employees to create user-generated content, communicate with their fellow employees, discover new content, and more. Channels also allow for automated RSS feeds, pulling in Twitter Lists, and monitoring hashtags, making the content curation process easier for marketing team.Screenshot of My feed shows employees and stakeholders what activities they have available to them. This area enables employees to engage and interact with content. Here they can share content to their social channels, see when content is expiring, and also engage with external and internal Channels.Screenshot of The GaggleAMP scheduling feature helps employees and stakeholders schedule their social media advocacy efforts on their time. Here they can pick and choose which messages they want to schedule, when they want to schedule them to go out, and their default preferences.Screenshot of Gaggle Managers, the term for the administrator of an employee advocacy program, can choose what types of activities to send to their employees and stakeholders. GaggleAMP offers over 50 different activities on any favorite social media networks. Some favorites are displayed here.Screenshot of Leaderboards allow sorting by reach and by points assigned to activities during certain timeframes. With leaderboards, employees and stakeholders can see how they are performing compared to their peers and also have the option to opt-out of the leaderboard.

    YourCause Screenshots

    Screenshot of CSRconnect is an Employee Engagement Platform for enterprise clients of all sizes, providing a hosted solution for a broad array of corporate community involvement programs and clients are able to manage and report the depth of their social impact and overall employee engagement.Screenshot of Grants ManagementScreenshot of NPO Portal - Free management of donated funds and volunteer information.