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Tagging Discussion

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio. Technorati Tags: nptech , tagging , folksonomies { 1 trackback } Beths Blog 01.08.07 at 5:46 pm { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth 01.08.07

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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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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

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.

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

ASU Lodestar Center

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. Her focus of study is program evaluation and research for international nonprofit organizations.

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State of the Twittersphere: What It Means For Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

State of the Twittersphere HubSpot has just shared the State of the Twittersphere report for Q4 2008. Here's a summary of the data from the report: - Twitter is dominated by newer users - 70% of Twitter users joined in 2008. - I have a clipping file in a flickr set called Social Media Research Snippets.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . Users have been impatient and frustrated with Google’s lack of urgency in handling what used to be a mobile, customer-focused service." He points to this post by Duncan Riley from December, 2008 wondering how the backend might change.

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

Care2

Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. If I were to put a ratio on it, I wouldnt want to exceed 30% self-promotional content to about 70% links to other things. www.MHPonline.org April 22, 2009 | Rick Bernardo Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Deanna Zandt (DZ): How long have you been on Twitter?