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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

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. Maybe one of my readers will point me to some third-party typepad plugin that does this? I need to know how!

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10 Steps to Extension Professional 2.0 Remix

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A nonprofit organization that provides support for homeless in Northern, CA found references to homeless people on restaurant blogs and used what they learn for a fundraising campaign. If you have a small budget, you might consider a blogging platform like typepad for the ease of use. and the trends driving it. Another example.

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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 think the more important metric here is RSS subscriber trends or what Kaushik called "off-site audience." I had to compute mine manually by counting them in typepad.