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A Roundup of New Year's Predictions, Resolutions, and Best Of 2008

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Last year, I couldn't decide and ended up writing the look back as a lessons learned, a personal New Year's resolution post, and a round up of what nonprofit folks had on their minds as they entered 2008: Four Lessons Learned: Social Media and Nonprofits Meme: I listed four lessons learned and tagged four other people.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Did anything surprise you?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Penguin Day in New Orleans, Fondling the Tools, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Applications will be available form Feb 1 to March 14, 2008. KM4Dev has a section devoted to Social Network Analysis process and tools. Guess you can't have too many social bookmarking applications.) Then enter The Netsquared Mashup Challenge ! Wonder if smashups are eligible?) NTC will take place in New Orleans March 19-21.

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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But, maybe you've done some of that thinking and implemented a few focused social media experiments in 2008 and have gleaned some insights. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. Good for you! Great work.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Why you need social media marketing.

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Barracuda said it based its findings on analysis of more than a billion e-mail messages received daily by its approximately 50,000 customers worldwide. link] 17 Dec 2007 social bookmarking With all the junk email we receive it seems to me that rss and social networking sites will become the primary way we communicate with each other.

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MySpace.com: A Place for Donors? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Á la our Causes analysis awhile ago , we examined 150 nonprofit profiles on MySpace to see which functions people were using, how those features were working, and how much money their profiles were raising. The social bookmarking sites offer this. But was there ever any gold? And is there any left? And is it even worth it ?