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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest.

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Three Cheap Tools to Measure Blogs and Social Media

Care2

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? You should be reviewing these stats at least once a month. Postrank Analytics. Greasemonkey Script.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! 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? 8 Great tips and the resources to educate you on each of them.

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7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic? Google Analytics.

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4 Signs Your Nonprofit Should Quit a Social Network

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The return on investment was practically nil and it was a great feeling to remove it from my bookmarks, take it off my list, and just let it go. of posting and reblogging on Tumblr, my WordPress stats revealed that referral traffic from Tumblr to Nonprofit Tech for Good was an abysmal total of 359 click-throughs over 26 months.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

We need to know what metrics we need to be tracking. Sample metrics. I personally love using bookmark-type magnet postcard-type, I guess, handouts or alternative needs lists. Hopefully, that helps a little bit. And the only way to do that is to create SMART goals, or we might call them SMART goals, objectives.

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