Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

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). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Web Journal Children Global 132

Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

Postrank Analytics. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking? It provides a: Breakdown of networks (Delicious, Digg, Facebook, etc) and you’re super users for these sites as well as tips on how to engage the audience.

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Social Media Measure Tools Media 65

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use Google Analytics (GA) to see things like how many unique visitors you’re getting, what content is being viewed the most, what keywords or phrases people are using to find you and where people are coming from when finding you. This is only a glimpse into what you can do with analytics. Put these tools in place. Off we go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Your tools are social bookmarking and the excel spreadsheet and, of course, your brain. Using Delicious to Bookmark mentions. WeAreMedia Tool Box: Social Bookmarking 7. The key value is if you have the volume that requires analytics and if the tool can support your work flow. This requires stepping back.

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Literacy Technorati RSS Bookmarking 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

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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ROI Widget Cambodia Metrics 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. I also bookmark posts that reference the project using a unique project tag. The first project was to listen to what was being said on blogs about the Red Cross.

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Story Learning Organization Metrics 72

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

suggest looking at the number of views and delicious saves as does Sue Waters in her post, Life is One Big Top Ten. Chris Brogan recently provided some insights about bookmarked blog posts and how they can help increase traffic. And notice that he doesn't just take a list of most bookmarked content, that's only the first step.

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