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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. But, the real question is how do you facilitate conversation? Co.Comments.

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Great reads from around the web on April 8th

Amy Sample Ward

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources all over the web every day. You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of April 8th).

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Using Metrics To Harvest Insights About Your Social Media Strategy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

On a listserv the other day, Laura Quinn at Idealware asked if "Visit" or "Click" data on Feedburner were useful metrics to track to assess reader interest in your blog content. I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Are they tips? Are there patterns?

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VolCom Groups in UK and Web20 - Research notes for presentation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I need to start organizing the various pile of UK examples that tagged and grab from various emails and listserv posts. He finds blogging valuable for the same reasons I do, although I love the way he phrased it: I'm really hooked on the idea of blogs all being linked together into one big mega-conversation. All by next week!

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Meet Amy Fox of MuseumTweets: Best Practices for Micro Blogging in Museums

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I first met Amy Fox when she de-lurked on the Museum Computer Network listserv. Do you want to start conversations? Will it be another RSS feed? Try using the @username feature to start conversations with your audience. One example is simply turning a Twitter account into an RSS feed. Trivia and information?

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The Answer to Sean's Question: Tools for Effective Listening

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Add the feed to your RSS Reader. Follow the feed and leave comments when mentioned. Tracking Blog Conversations. News Feeds. Gavin wrote some excellent advice not too long ago on a listserv and if we're lucky, he'll write it up as a blog post). Technorati. Ice Rocket. BlogDigger. Robin Good - Ego Searching.

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Digital Habitats: Stewarding Technology for Communities

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first is to feed my inner geek who wants to explore the tools and how to use them. Open ended conversation – conversations that continue to rise and fall over time without a specific goal (i.e. listserv or web forum , Twitter , etc.). When I explore a toolbox, I have two impulses.

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