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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

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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. Bloggers Who Create Community Award.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

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If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . Users have been impatient and frustrated with Google’s lack of urgency in handling what used to be a mobile, customer-focused service." He points to this post by Duncan Riley from December, 2008 wondering how the backend might change.

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Successful Organizations On Twitter: Wellstone Action - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Elana Wolowitz (EW): Im pretty sure we started in May or June of 2008. I was starting to hear more and more about the service (from bloggers and early adopters like Beth Kanter and others), and simultaneously was launching a new website for Wellstone Action that we wanted to be more interactive, and which included a blog.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks?

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News and World Report , and Money routinely publish stories that emphasize program spending and fundraising cost ratios. Federated campaigns often "help" their donors make giving decisions by prominently publishing such ratios next to the organizations names. A lot of people really didnt like the approach.

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

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For example, in April 2007 I wrote 52 posts, but in April 2008 I wrote 61. " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. In early 2008 it was slightly lower for several reasons. Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4

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

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At the end of 2008, I did a " Best of Beth's Blog " analysis using PostRank. Some education technology bloggers, like Tony Karrer. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics you can get a comment to post ratio. suggest looking at the number of views and delicious saves as does Sue Waters in her post, Life is One Big Top Ten.

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