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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

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. PostRank scoring is based on analysis of the " 5 Cs " of engagement: creating, critiquing, chatting, collecting, and clicking. This analysis took all of five minutes. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Measuring Your Blog's Outcomes and Use of Other Social Media Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Maybe one of my readers will point me to some third-party typepad plugin that does this? Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. I agree, but is a ratio the best number? The reflection involves qualitative data -- anecdotes, reflections, stories, and pattern analysis. For April, I had 52 posts and 29,332 words.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Word Press users can use General Stats plugin.). Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 You can do an analysis of your blog feed here. Here's a recent analysis of the "best" posts on my blog and I need to go figure out what the numbers mean. I just sampled one month. Audience Growth. Technorati ???Authority???