Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

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). And furthermore, by focusing on justification and metrics, we were distracted from the primary objective of building relationships and cultivating dialogue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. Or more specifically, the limitations of using tagging in managing large collections of photographs in institutions. Update your bookmarks: [link]. Technorati Tags: stopcyberbullying There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. It's moved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

While waiting for my plane this morning before dawn, I scanned my Twitter stream thinking that a jolt of caffeine and Twitter would wake me up while I did my morning 20 minute information grazing routine, finding good stuff, retweeting, bookmarking and sharing. And metrics geeks, how should I track this? Tags: twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2009

Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. Do research first and implement one presence at a time with specific goals and metrics. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

tags: blogs facebook ). I'm also doing a session at the NTC in April called " Mapping Metrics To Strategy: Using Measurement To Improve Your Social Media Efforts " with panelists Wendy Harman, Red Cross, Qui Diaz, Livingston Communications , Danielle Brigida, NWF, and Susan Granger, PDF. Listening skills and tools upgraded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. The top ranked content was on strategy including metrics, adoption, and overall strategy. Tags: guest blogging. Have a post?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Use a social bookmarking plug-in like Add This so people who like your work can easily share with their network. Not sure what Social Bookmarking is? Check out a great video by Common Craft : Social Bookmarking in Plain English. Check out How to Use RSS in Sphere. Not sure what RSS is? 3) Make Your Content Easy to Share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. Success Metrics for Your Social Fundraising Plan. Using Metrics for Continuous Learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story. Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Figuring out the Return on Investment for your blog can't be done with a single metric. I look at several metrics proposed by Avinash Kaushik These include author contribution, audience growth, conversation rate, and authority Then I look at the amount of time in my work flow and reflect on productivity. It’s not possible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic?

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Whole Whale

MAY 8, 2020

Bookmark this handy glossary and have no fear. ing someone is akin to tagging them, which sends them a notification that you’ve done so. More “properly” defined as denying access to certain users, stopping them from following or tagging you in the future. What you’re looking for, you’ll find here! . via GIPHY. @ (mention) . @-ing

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2009

For background, in the 3 previous NMC conferences I have been involved with since starting my job there in 2006- we’ve done mainly a “tag this conference” approach where we ask people to tag photos, web sites, blog posts e.g. 2006 , 2007 , 2008 where I cobbled together some summary pages using mainly my own Feed2JS code.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

What metrics? This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. I routinely bookmark and comment on environmental news, green blogs, and stories about sustainability and alternative energy technology. Stop: Hammer-Time! StumbleUpon.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

Bookmarked. These companies like Bloomerang, they are listening to your feedback, and they are making modifications to make your life easier, simple, and to boost your bottom line fundraising results, retention results, all the key metrics. And I believe in the Bloomerang manual we put together I did use those standards.

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