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Measuring Engagement and Return on Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Smitty42 Lucy Bernholz has a great post called " Metrics Are Good, Unless They Are Bad " which talks about the problems we encounter when we're trying to measure hard to measure stuff - like social media, social return, and social enterprise. Several of us disagreed with the thesis money was the only one metric for success.

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5 Steps to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Amy Sample Ward

This includes things you are probably looking at already like the number of visitors to your website and subscribers of your emails; but, it also includes metrics based on the funcationality of the tools you choose and how you identified success. For more on evaluation: Social by Social How-Tos. WeAreMedia’s ROI Toolbox.