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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What do web stats mean, anyway? Allan’s argument is that because NTEN is in a leadership position in the field, it should lead in showing transparency by publishing its web stats.

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Useful Stats Every Nonprofit Should Know Moving into 2010

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Chris McCroskey, founder of TweetCongress says that in 2009, the number of Members of Congress using Twitter has gone from two dozen to more than 160. Internet Usage by Latino’s Grows by 10%. The Rise of Politicians Using Social Media. Are politicians finally understanding the value of being social via social networks?

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

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Connect2Compete (C2C) is a project to supply low-cost broadband Internet, low-cost computers, and free training to as many as 100 million "offline" Americans. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground.

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Email is Dead? Long Live Email

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Email grew 21% between 2008-2009. In August 2009, 276.9 Between 2008 and 2009 the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 Between 2008 and 2009 the number of users on social-networking and other community sites jumped 31% to 301.5 Social Network demographics can be skewed.

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Last minute tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. I’ve got a number of ideas up my sleeve for next year for this blog, one of which is to take up the challenge that Beth mentioned , and do 100 posts on something. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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Google Analytics vs Site Meter

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It gives you all of the necessary stats: page hits, visits, referrers, some nice geographical info, etc. Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. Google Analytics is also free.

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Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know

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The Internet is not an ATM. Andrew spoke about the huge access the Internet offers — citing stats from how the presidential candidates used social media in the 2008 election. Where radio, TV, and print are economies of scarcity, he said the Internet is an economy of abundance. People want to talk to other people.