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Happy Information Overload Awareness Day! Here's Some TIps for Reducing It!

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Mapping Strategy to Metrics, Benchmarking, and ROI. Do an annual ROI for your blog (and other social media activities) using benchmarking and metrics. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take her ROI and Measurement list. What I found most valuable was the tip about getting a baseline measurement before you begin. (number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). Make a note of ROI benchmarks.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

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    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items).

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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. For example, are you bookmarking everything you come across into del.icio.us Live in a tool or technique for at least month before adding something new.

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Social Media Rubrics and Blogging Behind the Firewall: Options?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I've been thinking a lot about Wendy Harmon's advice about ROI and Social Media: A project that won???t s a free social bookmarking service. As you release your product, find some interesting articles or blog posts on the Web and bookmark them. t take much time and relates to org goals. Write down your successes.

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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. It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Social Media ROI: Compare With Paper. Donor Solicitation Techniques on Twitter.

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Reflections on Guest Blogging

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See Allistair Croll's guest post on some tracking techniques). Engagement on PostRank is calculated with a number of metrics including commenting, clicks, sharing on google reader, retweeting, and saving on social bookmarking services. I'm looking for a few good posts on Social Media, ROI, and Nonprofits. Have a post?