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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

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.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

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You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Photo by Dwinton.

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Three Cheap Tools to Measure Blogs and Social Media

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That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking? Analysis of each individual post while giving it an engagement number based on social shares and page views. Postrank Analytics.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

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Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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

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Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. This analysis took all of five minutes. Using Metrics for Continuous Learning.

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site

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Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik. Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is? Check out a great video by Common Craft : Social Bookmarking in Plain English.

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