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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

.    A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "     Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). We also check for metrics for existing posts for a set length of time. (We've

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WeAreMedia Webinar on September 23rd: Choose Your Own Adventure

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This interactive webinar experience will begin with a plenary session providing an overview of social media strategy, organizational adoption issues, capacity, metrics, and strategy execution. Goal: To understand how to use listening strategically and the tools and techniques required. Listening/Engaging. Presenter: Beth Kanter.

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Putting the Public Back in PR - New Book from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0 The old Web metrics don't work well for measuring social media.

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Digital Life Hacks: Savvy Social Media

Connection Cafe

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Retargeting should be a constant advertising goal to fuel your multichannel marketing approach. Connect your social to overarching campaign goals. Don’t put too much stock into vanity metrics, such as number of followers, page growth statistics, or number of impressions.

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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site.

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(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. A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons.

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Web Analytics Webinar from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular. We're using the Idealware stats to explore Google Analytics and to look at some of the basic reports and explain metrics. My role on the panel is to look specifically at Social Media Metrics. evidence???