Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

"An Offering to the PHP Gods" Alexandra Samuel just coined a new word, bloggespondence , for the back and forth conversation we've been having about social bookmarking from our respective blogs. That's the term she gave JOTS in her response after reading my response to her answer to my initial question in the comments of this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Reader Bookmarking: This is bookmarked content for later retrieval which is some indication of reader value. . Hard Data Points: You can find out about bookmark saves from PostRank numbers, although the program doesn't make it efficient to grab data over time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I happen to catch the question above from the Idealist. And then I remember answering a similar question during the Convio Webinar last week. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog. The worst thing you can do is ignore people who ask you questions or share comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. Let's begin with big picture question that Gavin raised: What purpose do folksonomies serve? " In the comments of Gavin's post , Marnie describes how an emergent NpTech taxnomy might be developed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

She recommends that you don't go into your analytics or stats program without composing a specific question first. I've been advocating this approach for a long time and offer you a set of data points and questions. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments section? Did you do any outreach to encourage commenting?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Here's the ah ha insightful quote: To illustrate that point for all our measurement and metric geeks out there, what you are trying to do is assign multiple choice scoring to an essay question. Chris Brogan recently provided some insights about bookmarked blog posts and how they can help increase traffic. It’s not possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It 2) Bookmarks can???t

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