Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2014

News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites. To support your curation efforts, you need two different tools – news discovery to help you find content and curation tools to organize and share it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2016

This means simple financial metrics will no longer be the primary focus when telling a nonprofit’s full story ( goodbye, overhead ratios !) Our new profiles emphasize answers to key questions about nonprofit programs and performance. Turning snapshots into stories . Data is meaningless without context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

The Code Liberation Foundation ( codeliberation.org ) aims to change the female-to-male ratio in video game development by offering free workshops in order to facilitate the creation of video game titles by women. Around Gender. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

In addition to the regular system of points and rewards, a ratio will be created between points earned and dollars, with the funds raised donated to CampInteractive. Dennis Crowley, FourSquare’s founder and CEO said today: “This has been something we’ve wanted to do with FourSquare for a long time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 2, 2011

For example, you could collect number of fans or the post to like or commenting ratio – without having to survey other organizations. If you wanted to gather information that isn’t publically available, you could collect useful data points in a survey using a free tool like Google Forms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2016

The field is hungry to move beyond simplistic measures such as the overhead ratio. Within 48 hours of first announcing Platinum we had more than 500 nonprofits sign up as Early Adopters. Is your organization ready to join them? Let’s tell the real story of our impact, together. Learn more about GuideStar Platinum.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

Lately, the crap to good stuff ratio has been a little skewed toward crap when it comes to trackbacks and somewhat with comments. I've always placed a high value on trackbacks and comments and the ability to get into a conversation - I get the best information and links from them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

" I just have to quote her in a few places: When you complain about your student teacher ratios, look at everyone gathered around the computer in this lesson! My colleague Vicky Davis, Coolcat Teacher Blog, has put this question out to her network, in a brilliant post called " How would you use cell phones to bring Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2009

Twitalyzer calculates your influence based on your signal-to-noise ratio, generosity, velocity and clout, and it also allows you to calculate a score for any other Twitter user you wish to track. He has developed an analytics tool that if you apply thoughtfully can help you improve the results of your Twitter strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

These are points that, when focused upon, have a large ratio of amount-of-effort to desired-change. This analysis can assist in bringing greater alignment between the two, which in turn reduces conflict and enhances productivity. The focus can involve application of resources, or actually reducing resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2008

POP QUIZ: True or False The ROI Methodology collects just one data item, a financial ratio, expressed as a percentage. So, the most simplistic definition of Return on Investment (ROI) is the difference between cost and income (or quantified benefits) and expressed in dollar amounts or percentages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

How Bloggers Can Use FriendFeed Effectively - This post includes some great tips on how to contribute value to FriendFeed, keep your "signal-to-noise" ratio high, and use "rooms" effectively. How To Use FriendFeed To Keep Up On Nonprofits - (Netsquared). How Nonprofits Can Use FriendFeed by Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To really master the art of screencasting and to get my 1 hour to 1 minute video editing ratio lower. I'm disciplining myself not to think of play as wasted time, it's important. To hone my video and photography skills in the creation, shooting, and editing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

Is the ratio of team/solo time adequate? Your teams needs to accept that you have to make choices. Take a trend-line view. Reflect on the past six months or the past year as a team. Do you have too many back-to-back meetings? Is your team emailing after hours? Rethink having status update meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Guy notes that the ideal ratio of peoples’ comments to your responses is one-to-one. Always Be Commenting – This wisdom comes from Guy Kawasaki and while it isn’t hot off the press, it still holds true as we noticed in the examples above. The exception is when there are many comments that are generic such as “Nice!” or “Love it!”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2007

I don't have a sense of the lurker to twitter ratio and whether it holds true as for other online communities the 1-10-90 rule. Most of my friends I know from face-to-face or from the web. There are a few that are friends of my friends, but I check out their profile before I friend them. What content do you think is appropriate for a Tweet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2006

Also, if we want to see a more balance female/male ratio of podcast gatherings, more women need to show up. I keep thinking about the podcast listener survey she conducted and how it makes a compelling case for some nonprofits to consider podcasting as part of their mix. All in all, podcamp was a valuable source of knowledge exchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

Provide quick human answers to your followers, ask questions, direct people to great resources (not your own 1:20 ratio - point to one of your resources for every twenty resources), stay in touch without being intrusive, no when to direct message, be funny, etc. Chris Brogan for starters. Learn how to engage your followers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I wrote a lot of about ways that you can think about intangibles in a post called "Can You Quantify Love?" ( part 1 , part 2 ) Is there a general time ratio or average percentage of time spent on ROI measures vs the actual work? Collect anecdotes that illustrate your numbers or final results. This is such a good question.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

You described JOTS urls-to-tags ratio as impressive (2:1). She ends invoking the PHP gods. I have a couple of questions for Alexandra: What's your take on "site-independent taggregation" services arena? Why is it impressive? How does it compare to del.icio.us?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard Data Points: You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. Insight Harvesting: What is the style of the writing?

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

So, we know that there is a well documented and established lurker to poster ratio that is well established in online communities as the 5%. Public conversation has been happening on the Internet since it started - via listservs, newsgroups, and online forums. It appears that the lurker to participant may also hold true for various Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

I notice Tesco has started selling extra-large ones, which would seem to me to destroy the whole chocolate/raisin ratio, but that???s The best chocolate raisins are the ones from Al-Amin, the shop down the road, ??1 1 for a great big bag. s Tesco for you ??? never satisfied.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

" Michelle Murrain hints at a possible solution: "I think that it is certainly possible to disseminate some guidelines (that some people will pay attention to) for the use of the nptech tag that could increase the signal/noise ratio." " What do those guidelines look like? Is it a vocabularly or adding sub-categories ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2012

Here’s the stats I asked for and why: Average Repin Ratio : Gives a measure of engagement. For engagement, I looked at the Repin Ratio by board and select those with the highest ratio. The ratio is the total number of repins divided by total pins. Followers: Gives a measure of reach. Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio. Conversation rate: This is the amount of commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Hard data points: You can get a list of the most commented on posts from PostRank. Gathering insights: What is the style of the writing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2012

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics you can get a comment to post ratio. Conversation Rate : This is the commenting and conversation. You can get the most commented posts from PostRank. But you have to ask yourself, what did you learn from the conversation? What's the value of that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2008

My agency, Livingston Communications, is currently helping Network Solutions with reputation management across blogs, Twitter, and forums to significantly decrease the company's 58 percent negative commentary ratio (as of June 30) by more than 20 points. It's not a nonprofit example, but it serves as an interesting case study for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

What is your post to comment ratio? Demographics How many people visit the site? Raw numbers aren't as important as trends) Unique Visitors. Engagement= Interaction + Attention. How many people comment on posts? What do they click on? How long do they stay? I also think quality of the conversation or shape of it is important.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! I hope to share some simple and fun ways to create "shoulder-to-shoulder" instructional media for the panel on Screencasting at NTC I'm doing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I agree, but is a ratio the best number? For April, I had 52 posts and 29,332 words. Kaushik acknowledges that this metric only measures quantity, not quality. He does suggest that comments per post is also another metric of quality. I find it very hard to measure quality with numbers. which is very hard to so.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 Anyway, since I didn't want to spend all day on this and since I couldn't really slice and dice the data easily, so I only compared two months - May, 2007 and May, 2008. (I I did not include spam comments or my own). and simply want to improve the quality of the conversation taking place in the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Make it as long and smooth as possible (without straining) and try to make it a few counts longer than the inhale breath, working towards a 1:2 ratio (i.e. Then focus on lengthening the out breath. breath in for 3 counts out for 6 counts). 2: Walk Away and Bathe in Nature.

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