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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent. Who is using the platform? Is your community largely tech-savvy early adopters? So far, the demographics of Google+ skew toward American males working in technology.

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Data in the Museum: Experimenting on People or Improving Their Experience?

Museum 2.0

These experiments look a lot like those conducted in social psychology labs, with two big differences: the sample sizes are many tens of thousands of times larger than those in the lab--and a lot more diverse across age, class, and geography. cull visitor comments to emphasize a particular perspective (or suite of perspectives)?

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

If you are using a forum, then measuring the number of replies to post (or, if your forum allows voting, then the positive feedback on posts) could be appropriate, as well as the ratio of people signed up vs posting vs replying, etc. It’s incredibly important for the success of your work to evaluate how things are going throughout.

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Live Blogging: 09NTC Mapping Your Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. Beth’s learning process: document on the fly. test and teweak. pick the right metrics.

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How to structure your nonprofit social media plan

Get Fully Funded

If you share things that interest her, she’ll engage with you, liking your posts, commenting, and sharing. I’ve got more tips on creating great videos along with some samples here. For every Ask you publish, you should follow the 3:1 Ratio and post at least 3-4 informational and/or warm fuzzy pieces. And that’s fine.

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Measuring the Value of Your Blog: Reflections Over the Last Year

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I just sampled one month. Conversation habits in the comments in the blogs - it's what makes them a social media. Conversation Rate = Number of Visitor Comments / Number of Posts. I did not include spam comments or my own). Last year, I had a ratio of 1.4 But here are some tips to help encourage comments.