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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.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My blogging platform, Typepad , does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. Maybe one of my readers will point me to some third-party typepad plugin that does this? I agree, but is a ratio the best number? Raw Author Contribution (posts and words in post).

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My blogging platform, Typepad, does not have a way to easily and automatically measure the number of posts and words in post in a given time period. I had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad. Why doesn't typepad have this integrated into its platform? Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 A time consuming pain.