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Social Superpower: Using Facebook to Increase Your NPO’s Website Traffic

Byte Technology

One of the more advantageous developments from social media behemoth Facebook occurred recently when they increased News Feed exposure for links people share with their friends. Simply put, Facebook puts friends “first” in a News Feed. What does this mean in practical terms? What does this mean in practical terms? Use Sharing.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. .

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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. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Hard data points: Look at the feed subscribers trends from Feedburner and unique visitor trends from Google Analytics. If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio. You should pay attention to monthly trends of content consumption over time. Gathering insights: What is the style of the writing?

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What are the best metrics to use to measure ROI and improve your blog's content?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics can give you these numbers easily. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics you can get a comment to post ratio. Analysis of words in posts.

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NTC Summary, and Nonprofit Technology Consulting 2.0

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But no one seems to be asking “why are we on this track in the first place?&# “Is being on this track going to really help me save the whales/feed people/organize/save the planet?&# Schools have all these legal and political mandates to get this kind of network, and increase their computer:student ratio, and so on.

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