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Social Analysis of Tagging: How Tagging Transforms the Solitary Browsing Experience Into A Social One

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This visual comes from Rashimi Sinha's essay on the question Why do people tag? For many, tagging is for sharing their own information and watching others. Even if you tag mostly to remember your own stuff, it is difficult to remain untouched by the presence of others. Will tags begin to converge ? communicative tools???

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Sping Cleaning: Taking Inventory of your Social Media Tools

Amy Sample Ward

Twitter Karma is a great tool to use if you want to inventory your Twitter community, clean up any nonreciprocal followers, or simply evaluate your lists. Delicious / Bookmarks. Check in on your tags and see if there isn’t any cleaning you can do! dashes (tags for “blooddrive&# and “blood-drive&# ).

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. I think engagement metrics are far more useful for evaluating reader interest. It is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. But the exchange prompted some reflection on how I use Feedburner.

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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Take Breaks.

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Frank Barry, Guest Post: 4 Keys to Building a Successful Nonprofit Web Site

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Check out: Google Analytics Maximized: Deeper Analysis, Higher ROI & You by Avinash Kaushik. Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is? Check out a great video by Common Craft : Social Bookmarking in Plain English.

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My New Year's Resolution: Use Social Media Efficiently - 52 Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If you are using a RSS reader, evaluate if it is still works for you. Do a regular task analysis of your social media work flow looking for redundant actions or where you've simply lapsed into automatic pilot or bad habits. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Take Breaks.

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7 Tips for Measuring the Success of Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The scores are based on analysis of the “ 5 Cs ” of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting and clicking. Reader bookmarking This measures whether readers are bookmarking your content for later retrieval which provides some indication of how much they value it. Tags: Blogging metrics. Are there patterns?

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