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Great reads from around the web on June 17th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). " The trend is up 12.1%! You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying.

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Great reads from around the web on November 25th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). nitions and examples for ten trends that we believe are shaping the use of social media in the public interest. " What do you think?

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). We've done analysis that shows a fairly standard "engagement curve" for when and how engagement metrics show up for any post.)

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Three Cheap Tools to Measure Blogs and Social Media

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Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking? Allows you to see engagement trends over time. Analysis of each individual post while giving it an engagement number based on social shares and page views.

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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. You should be looking at monthly trends over time. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. Remember bookmarked items can also influence your blog traffic (positively).

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What about Pscyho Socialgraphics?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been translating different audience analysis frameworks to a nonprofit context. These include: Audience Target Group Identification : This is the most important question and may be informed by research or listening. This can be designed then into lists, favorite, trends, news and more.

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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

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 Use these filtering tips to make your social bookmarking and RSS reader more efficient.

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