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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

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Take her ROI and Measurement list. Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at. 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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Things We Like (March 2009)

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Holly posted a video of the Nonprofit ROI Poetry slam at SXSW. The appropriation of big ideas for good. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Epicurious has one listing seasonal produce available in your area by month. (If Geek poetry.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

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The first C, Content, refers to the idea that social media tools allow everyone to become a creator, by making the publishing and distribution of multimedia content both free and easy, even for amateurs. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

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by Don Bartholomew I'm noodling around with a couple of ideas so this post does a lot musing.        A few days ago, I asked " What are the best metrics to track your blog's ROI and make improvements? "   Source: A New Model for Social Media (and Traditional) Measurement.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » NTEN Does Web 2.0

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In other words, to formalize that relationship is a great idea. The first was about ROI. ROI” as the title of a session. Beth pointed out a great study on blogging ROI from Forrester. She asked the audience how many people use formal ROI evaluations with regard to social media efforts. I attended two of them.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Ugliest MySpace Pages

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read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Recent Posts 5 Questions to Evaluate Your Nonprofit Video ROI Enter the 2010 Tagline Awards Today! One reason is that it’s ugly. Take a look. The Facebook news is big.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

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Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. Stephen Downes describes the difficulty of measuring ROI of E-Learning with the best quote yet, "Measuring learning is still like measuring friendship. And if Web 2.0 generators.

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