Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

After all, running a site—a successful site—takes a lot of time: there’s a constant need to make updates, post new content, respond to user comments and more, and our present go-go climate doesn’t allow for as much static and dedicated “office” time as it did in the past.

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Byte Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Basically, they want people to return to their page again and again, whether it’s to buy their merchandise or engage their services, read the latest blog or just comment on topic-specific trends. Incrwd’s designers have shown that the program increases page views as well as time spent on a site, social shares, comments etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

Photo and Video Editing Ability. To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software. The foundation of effective photo and video editing is a creative eye and an appreciation of digital photography and video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Use Nostalgia (old class photos) to Spark A Trip Down Memory Lane. ” 3.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Social platforms are included in Google Analytics traffic sources. Since social media plays a big role in driving traffic for organizations, Google Analytics treats it as a separate and distinct entity. Be aware that adding keywords in comments does not help with search. In your profile, in your posts, alt-text, captions.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. The decision matrix in below will help you decide which photos to share and how." I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2007

I'm pleased to announce that I have completed the screencast, sponsored by NTEN , on Google Analytics! Avinash Kaushik , Analytics Evangelist, Google, really helped me understand the true meaning of Web Analytics 2.0 Several months ago, I knew zip about web analytics. High bandwidth version available here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Personal: In an age of Facebook, many of our close friends and family are using it – and we’re sharing family photos, what we do in our leisure time, hobbies, our location, and all sorts of personal information. There is a trade off is that your friends my not want to comment if they notice people they don’t know.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The app lets you take photos of yourself, and uses facial recognition magic to find your dog match. Not only did they take repeated photos to see what breed of dog would match their photo, they also started to ask if we could adopt a dog. Best Friends has just launched a fun mobile app.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

Photo from Pro-Zak's Flickr Stream. As you know, I'm working on a screencast about Google Analytics and have been collecting real life nonprofit examples. Larry comments sent me into my blog's search keyword referrals report and also found a connection to Taxi Cabs. These are the people who came to your site but didn't engage.

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Care2

APRIL 24, 2014

Earlier this year, Adobe released a Social Intelligence report based on consumer data from Adobe Social, Adobe Media Optimizer, and Adobe Analytics. Photos and videos have increased in popularity on Facebook. Facebook ad click through rates are up 160% year-over-year and are up 20% quarter-over-quarter.

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NetWits

JUNE 13, 2011

flickr.com/photos/mikebaird. What I do know from this Target Analytics study is that ignorance and sloth are ruinous. The data clearly shows that integrated direct marketing is essential for maximizing the long-term value of online-acquired donors. The writing is on the wall, it’s in the data and, frankly, it’s staring us in the face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Photo by Laughing Squid. Expect to get answers both in the poll itself and in the comments, and run with both! Conversations will naturally spring up in the comments section of your document. It’s important to manage the flow between what is being written in the doc and what’s happening in the comments. Group chat.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Top feature: Users gain insight into online traffic, transaction times, website visits by device type, and conversion rates with real-time analytics. Top feature: Adobe users have access to a robust asset library of over 195 million royalty-free Adobe Stock collection photos, videos, and music.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Assuming you’re using Google Analytics*, here are 4 steps you can take: Year-Over-Year Comparison. Setup Google Analytics to do a year-over-year comparison. In Google Analytics, go to Audience > Overview to see whether your Visits have increased or decreased. In Google Analytics, head to Traffic Sources > Overview.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2014

You can also learn a lot from analyzing the email questions from your organization’s web site general email address. And, of course, don’t forget to pay attention to questions and comments that bubble up on your social media channels as well. For instance, you can change the photo that goes with your article.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 20, 2007

First, links for the day: High Tech Trash – it’s an in depth photo essay and interactive feature on the National Geographic website. And now, the top ten posts of the year, according to my Google Analytics stats: Getting Naked : Being Human and Transparent. Hmmm, think it was that keyword?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

Photo by Dwinton. The tools include Google Analytics, PostRank, Feedburner, and others. Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Did you do any outreach to encourage commenting?

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Here are a few ideas for you: Keywords you use on your website or in your analytics. Backtype allows you to watch what’s being said in blog comments around the web. Please start asking in the comments below. Photo Credit: Customers Rock. Here are some steps to get you started listening … 30 minutes or less, I promise.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions. Paris, France: Analytics — Initiation. Left photo : Gregory Munyaneza / NetSquared Rwanda / CC BY. Center photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. Right photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Facilitate commenting Allow commenting. Moderate your comments if you are concerned about inappropriate remarks, or spam. If they are civil, allow comments that are critical of your organization. If you receive a comment, acknowledge it, even if your reply is brief. Notes, photos and presentations from events.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 17, 2010

A blog post has, like this, one person writing it and sharing it at the end for comments. Mostly we measure it in whether we get positive feedback from our supporters and whether they seem engaged (commenting on stuff on Facebook, Retweeting, etc.). real time, and 2. co-created. Cost per action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

The steps include reading, commenting, and sharing stories of personal behavior change. For example, they know from their survey research, real-time monitoring, and content analysis of comments on their posts that a lot of people care deeply about environment issues, but don’t self-identify as “environmentalists.” Source: grist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2010

Photo by Metro Library and Archive. There are some new third party analytic tools. They recently announced a new analytic product called "insights for your domain" which allows you to gather FB insights data if you add a like button to your web site. Photo Views. Tagging photos. Unsubscribes. Page Views.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 5, 2017

Make sure you have someone armed with a camera to capture photos and videos of every event to show people what you’re all about. You will need website analytics set up to find out if the level of engagement on your website has increased. Use social widgets to allow easy interactions such as like, share, comment, etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

However, to stand out from the other nearly one hundred million Facebook Pages vying for likes, comments, and shares, your nonprofit needs to excel at Facebook to ensure News Feed exposure. Ensure that when potential new followers land on your Facebook Page, the design of your cover photo and your avatar is visually compelling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

What I need is your input -I'd love to hear about your social media "adaption stories" - please leave me a comment. They determine what comments need action, whether to say thank you and build a relationship, repair a customer service issue, or ignore. We don’t really care about views as much as we care about comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Flickr Photo by Metro Transportation Library and Archive. Photo/video Views (optional if I’m testing as content strategy). Successful social media is like going to the gym because the discipline of a good routine gets results much like working out on a daily basis. Let’s take Facebook pages as an example. New Fans (Likes).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Remember – Even if you’re using google alerts and google analytics, you may not really be able to look at data over time in a critical way. If you have other questions, please don’t hesitate to ask; and if you have examples or resources to share, please post them in the comments for other readers! Metrics Tracking. >>

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2010

Flickr Photo by Roberto Ferrari - Creative Commons License Some Rights Reserved. But keeping a spreadsheet of the names of people who “like&# and comment on threads involves a lot of cut and paste. What if you want to aggregate and look at all the comments and responses to threads before responding?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. Flickr - to host photos from events we have attended and hosted. For each of the social media tools you are using, you might want to set up your google analytics so you can track referral traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2012

Flickr Photo - Of Small Things. That is a quote from co-panelist Matthew Dyer from the Columbus Gay Men’s Chorus who is commenting on the kind of people who should be social media managers. Our group was in agreement that analytics are the Ying to content’s Yang. Have a passion for the art, and the technique will follow.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2009

Flickr Photo by Incurable Hippie I've been writing a lot about listening through social media channels in preparation for a live workshop for WeAreMedia next month in San Francisco. I spend a majority of my time listening and responding to questions, commenting on blogs, and tracking NWF's mentions and various programs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2008

Comment on other blogs. Make it easy to comment. It's ok to have comment moderation, but don't make people register. Install web analytics tools like SiteMeter , StatCounter and Google Analytics. Flickr photo credit: Daily Traffic uploaded by Nam Nguyen. Link to other bloggers in your posts. Have a blogroll.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2015

Finding quotes, articles and photos to schedule out is fine, but it is ever so important to be real whenever possible. Ask for ideas on content, get suggestions on topics, wording and photos to post. Once the content is published, keep your team in the loop on how you are tracking on your numbers and analytics. That’s okay.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 17, 2008

This is by no means a comprehensive list, so please add your suggestions in the comments! We've compiled a list of Tools and Resources to share with participants, and thought that you might enjoy seeing it as well. Update: The presentation slides are available on FivePaths. month. . $5-$30 5-$30 based on how many MB's of storage you need.

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NTEN

MARCH 3, 2011

See photo, below.) For Facebook, check out their built-in analytics for your fan page. Negative comments can often be turned into positive experiences! When you’re ready to get REAL serious, ask your IT department for a second monitor that you can put just Tweetdeck on. You even see negative conversations. What do you do?

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