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How are you using metrics, benchmarks, and experiments to improve your Facebook presence?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To engage and discuss techniques and tips for using Facebook effectively for nonprofits. The M&R social media benchmarks study is a good start, although the benchmarks are based on a small sample size. Tags: facebook metrics. My Fan Page objective is: .

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Cut Through the Clutter: Why Storytelling Matters for Nonprofits

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Then tie your user-generated stories together using hashtags and encourage them to tag your organization and share it with their social networks. You can use basic storytelling techniques to create compelling videos that use humor, cliffhangers, excitement or drama to capture attention.

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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

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Tags: Information Coping Skills. Do you need to prune?

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Can Social Network Analysis Improve Your Social Media Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the topics was “How to understand social networks through social network analysis and mapping techniques.&# I thought I’d expand on it here. It is really a technique to understand relationships. One of the first social networking analysis map was created by Jacob Moreno. Communications flows.

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at. Make a note of the less obvious benchmark s (such as SEO rankings and referrals, customer satisfaction scores and other business data). . Make a note of ROI benchmarks. Tags: socialmediametrics ROI.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new. Use Time Management Techniques. Learn to use the tools that help you measure success.

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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. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter. Effective ROI StoryTelling Techniques. Tags: socialmediametrics. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. The Kids in Cambodia Say Thank You.

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