Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

Analytics tools. Learning: evaluating what is being said and what information is needed. Adapting: using the listening and learning to inform how you change. use your RSS reader. How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? Feed digest. Here goes… Take aways: How to use listening.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 10, 2009

Make it easy to subscribe Have an rss feed. Put a prompt to subscribe by rss and email at the top of your blog. If you are using Facebook, share your blog's feed in your Facebook news feed with the Notes application. Write titles that tell the reader whether or not the post has information that is relevant to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2010

We are much more successful when the stories come with a blurb than when they are simply automated RSS-feeds. Those who didn’t participate in the poll at all, but did on my wall asking for their feedback on polling apps said they didn’t like that the app asked for their personal information.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Whether the movement of information is one-way (knowledge transfer) or a two-way flow (knowledge exchange), an organizations ability to pursue its core mission can depend in large part on effective communication. and give them the information that is most useful to them, then follow up to ensure that your message wont be forgotten.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

Michele Martin discovers a really useful tool called FeedCycle that lets you publish serialized RSS feeds or chunks of content. I've been looking for something like this where I could create feeds based on a category. Via LifeHacker , does google analytics make you say huh? These two penguins do not want closed API.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. Peter Dietz has an article explaining why we need group fundraising RSS feeds. She shares four Recommendation Paradigms to Watch.

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Care2

JANUARY 23, 2009

In addition, Click2Call offers advanced reporting features and Google Analytics integration, enabling organizations to track how many calls were made, from what IP addresses and regions, and how long each call lasted. Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloop's RSS feed. Receive monthly updates.

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Care2

DECEMBER 28, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" When collecting information, separate users home phone numbers and cell phone numbers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

I've been trying to collect screen captures and stories about nonprofit web analytics for a screencast on Google Analytics for NTEN. Even more don't come at all -- they come from feed readers (as you would know). Ah, my screencast script on google analytics completely ignores social media and only focuses on web sites.

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Care2

OCTOBER 22, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" First, Google Analytics delays processing data for at least 12 hours, not real-time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. RSS reading patterns are changing. Audience Growth (content consumption ??? Technorati ???Authority???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. You can look at Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics (grain of salt about looking at numbers only) and the Feed Subscribers Trends from Feedburner. If not, why? Cost (what!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

" Here's how the site defines it: is a search visualization tool that enables you to compare, remix and share results from the best web, image, video, blog, tagging, news engines or RSS feeds. You can also use it to find out what is popular on Wikipedia or use the Search Analytics Toolbox in your browser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

There were some good points made about the need for context (outcomes and audience), some assumptions made about bloger RSS reader behaviors, and a very short list of tools. I've found traffic largely comes from search and RSS subscriptions." Google Analytics. Are blog metrics all about traffic? blog metrics and beyond.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" It seems to generate very accurate traffic information, too. My personal favourite is [link].

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Care2

MAY 4, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Friend Feed is another option. All great questions!

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" But obviously the struggling economy is impacting fundraising.

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