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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Moderate Approach: Understand the argument for an early investment but will also insist on a sound cost/benefit analysis when new ways of doing things are not yet fully proven. Momsrising is an early adopter of online tools currently exploring the Google + platform and discussing it in team meetings. Wait for maturation?

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The Scoop on the New and Improved Google Analytics

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Do you use Google Analytics? Google Analytics reported that people have shared that they've had difficulties using traditional path analysis tools. To meet the needs of the visitors, Google Analytics is now introducing Flow Visualization. bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. bookmarking on Delicious & Digg.

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Great reads from around the web on December 8th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The analysis is approached from a user’s perspective, and highlights the types of problems consumers frequently encounter with the service.

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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A few months ago, I listened in on a Google Hangout with Eugene Kim and Dave Gray where they discussed the question “Is documentation learning?” David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology.

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

Google Alerts. Spring cleaning definitely applies to your Google Alerts! Be sure to update your Google Alerts to include: the names of staff members who may be in the news or lead your programs (like your Executive Director, Communications Director, Fundraising/Development Director, any program-related staff, and so forth).

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Hard Data Points: You can get this from Google Analytics.

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Taxonomy VS Folksonomy: Google Fight

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Anyone can tag it and add it to their social bookmarking account and get it into the tag stream. Chris Blow has done some analysis. Marnie suggests - in a comment someplace - that we should do some user-generate research analysis on this user-generated research.