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Should You Quantify Love? Redux 2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I caught up with Jen Lemen's post " To Cambodia With Love " I met Jen at Blogher last summer in a session about Global Women Bloghers. One of the panelist had asked the room on my behalf for t-shirts for my suitcase campaign and Jen gave me a her blogher schwag! Now, I could quantify it.

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What color is the social web?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. No real hard data in them though, more trend/zeitgeist-type analysis. Last week, I did at workshop for the Kellogg Action Lab College of Consultants.

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Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants: Using Social Networking Tools - Advice, Brief Case Study, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes some action learning, small focused experiments where you track, evaluate, and learn from before investing more time and effort. Look at your data for answers. I interviewed Tuesday Gutierrez from SaveGuimaras over at blogher. I don't think there is a cookie cutter approach yet -- a fish to toss at you. The Case Study.

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Tools for gathering data for blog and web page metrics

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" traffic is an important metric to evaluate a blog. In addition, I also look at the Technorati ratings, but with a huge a grain of salt (thanks to my smart blogher friend, Amy Gahran. Are blog metrics all about traffic? After all, if no one is reading the blog, there isn't much point to writing it.

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Connecting Metrics to Action.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Metrics in context connected to action - whether to improve a program already underway or evaluate impact. Now, there's a lot more data collect from other sources, but for now I'm just thinking outloud and riffing my last week's post. If anything, that's the most important thing about social media metrics or for any metrics.

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