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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

freakishly high, we do analyze for things like the digg/slashdot effect, so if one post in someone's blog gets a really unusually high amount of engagement compared to the norm, we don't allow that to completely skew the analysis afterwards, e.g. "dooming" the next bunch of posts to a PostRank of 1.0 Should also note, re.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

Would you trust a survey report about consumer confidence in meat safety commissioned by the beef industry? There are two reasons to pursue this: for better accuracy (trusted source of info) and for more diverse inclusion of voices (trusted source of varied social experience). And here's the bigger problem.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Standardized Metrics are those attributes that an industry might use to compare different organizations, media outlets, etc. Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Think Nielsen Ratings ). Avinash suggested Technorati. This is hard to pin down.

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