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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks).

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx.

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Three Cheap Tools to Measure Blogs and Social Media

Care2

Do your website visitors find your content compelling enough to comment on and share on social networks? Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking? That said - they are still useful as part of your metrics and tracking. Postrank Analytics.

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The Scoop on the New and Improved Google Analytics

Care2

bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. commenting. Blast Advanced Media explores some of the site interactions that you will now be able to track with events as goals (though some of these options require additional tracking code setup): printing pages. emailing to friends. liking your site on Facebook. listening to audio.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it. Should also note, re.

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Social Media Case Study Slam Panel at NTC 08: Danielle Brigida, NWF - A Case Study on Traffic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

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Patent Office goes Webby

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg. Most interesting, I thought are the comments on " reputation management " and the role it plays in opening up a process like this. Here's the story from this morning's Washington Post.

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