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

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I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Information Coping Skills: How Information Overloaded Are You?

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Twitter Is 2nd After Google in Referrals To My Blog, But They Stay Longer.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Referrals - percentage of visitors by top ten sources for past 30 days (April, 2008). 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 for me is mostly a listening tool. Did it surprise?

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Research Friday: Does your nonprofit have an outcome-driven culture?

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inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. 7 With the large number of nonprofits that offer similar services, individual donors are striving to make more informed decisions before investing their charitable dollars. Given this trend, individual donors may soon demand information on a nonprofit’s outcomes before investing in it.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What's the tone, formal or informal? If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . This one point caught my eye: RSS subscriber metrics : For some sites, this information is very useful. Insight Harvesting: What are the topics? Do they have round up a lot outside resources?

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Defining a Nonprofit Websites Google Analytics KPIs (Part 2) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Is it signing up to receive information? Map organizational roles - What information will decision-makers want to know? January 12, 2009 | Altan Khendup Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Recognize value drivers - What user actions on the site help you achieve your goals? Excellent post! All rights reserved.

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Successful Organizations On Twitter: Wellstone Action - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. We try to keep it light, informal, and funny -- providing helpful resources and interesting links, and being responsive to our followers, while also using it as a way to crowdsource and get buy-in and guidance on new projects. What inspired you to join?

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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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. So, what kinds of information, if not outcomes?

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