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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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%. " She points to a post by Caroline Middlebrook with some advice about developing a blog commenting strategy. I need advice! communities as well. Look forward. Look backward.

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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. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What is your post to comment ratio? Dave Winer says why rss subscriber numbers alone don't matter and Kaushik has some advice on measuring this. Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Demographics How many people visit the site?

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