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The Perils of Popularity

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The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. A lthough neither Digg.com, StumbleUpon or NetVibe purports to be a social network, replacing a Facebook, each is a leader in new forms of social Internet use. Will google set it free in 2007 ?

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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The idea is that you need to think about your organization's web presence, one-way communication like email marketing and search engine optimization and finally the social. My own feeling is that social media is not a either/or to email or search engine optimization. There is some debate about how to order these components.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

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Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. Here's your chance to vote on sessions and suggest speakers.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

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I'm doing a session at Boston podcamp called the Social Media Metrics/ROI Game. So when I heard that one of the leading subject matter experts on social media metrics - Jeremiah Owyang - was the guest of honor at a local social media networking event , I decided to go. So, here's the session description: Social Media Metrics/ROI Game.

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? What metrics? StumbleUpon. StumbleUpon referred nearly 17,000 people to nature.org this past January, and what most marketers don???t a lot of our initial efforts weren???t

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Updates made by phones to twitter, are searched more easily than before -. Searched using Twitter Search with no URL to look for -. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Hashtags: [link] "search #nwf" 3. Perhaps with this we will engage more. This I hope and so much more.

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