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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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PBS Development Presentation (Draft)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I know this question has been asked before, but if you don't have a lot of resources to purchase subscriptions to services that give detailed audience size and monthly growth statistics and demographics, where can you find some summaries for free? I'd also like to see an age spread that is more recent than the Businessweek chart.

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Do posts with more questions in the title and questions in the end generate more comments? You could analyze your blog using services like compete and Alexa - Alan Benamer has done this. .

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Social Media ROI Case Study Slam Panel at 08NTC: Carie Lewis, Human Society

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? s linking to you -referring URLs in stats program -google rss alerts (can be set to daily, as it happens, etc.) ??? s linking to you -referring URLs in stats program -google rss alerts (can be set to daily, as it happens, etc.) ???