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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

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A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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How To Make Your Content More Shareable: Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. These options might be called " Social Media Optimization " (more here ). Nick asked the question. I saw this on her blog.

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Free Ranger Rick

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition, some comparisons of the pros/cons between Facebook and Myspace policies and the larger organizational policy issue related to embracing Web2.0 Institutional spokespeople who cultivate a useful reputation within a community like Facebook or Digg while acting on behalf of their employer are building a very personal equity.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Avinash suggested Technorati.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. NTEN does a comparison on Alexa of several social networking sites. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg. It means antenna of an ant. technologies.

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