Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

A social graph if the NpTech tag based on a google search NpTech Conversations Gavin's digital diner has written an article about the options that technology gives us for opting out of face-to-face gatherings. Allan Benamer and Holly Ross debate transparency and publishing web stats numbers. He notes with a trace of sarcasm, "???With

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. The right metrics. Themes that people want to learn: new metrics structures can bubble up. funders of a 20th century mindset - what metrics speak to them. pick the right metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 30, 2011

Establishing metrics for this campaign was difficult in that we didn’t have anything to use as a benchmark. Our digital engagement success is evolving based on our experience and it is difficult to outline what metrics of success might look like. A breakdown of the engagement and site visit stats are below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2010

I loved this post from Devon Smith analyzing the metrics and reaping insights from her post on The Networked nonprofit. I learned about some new techniques for measuring blog stats and Twitter. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. So, go read her post now. The staff of Donordigital Bay Area are [.].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. The holy grail metrics is missing? In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list.

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NTEN

MAY 13, 2010

social media stats you consider most important to track. Beth Kanter had a great post a couple of weeks ago about the variety of social media metrics she puzzles over. Maybe social media metrics are a little like horseshoes. Tags: facebook missrogue NPTech NTEN Social Media twitter Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. At e-metrics, someone told me it had to do with them dropping counts from different news readers.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

While they aren’t the most comprehensive of reports, there is no point in ignoring free metrics! There are stats built into the tool for the number of clicks and so on, but if you are measuring site traffic already it shouldn’t be new that regard. URL Shorteners – [link]. How do you set up an unconference?

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Do those numbers tell you anything you NEED to know, or are they vanity metrics (those numbers we LIKE to track because we think they make us look good)? Funders are going to eat those stats up! Tags: Data Leadership NPTech ted visualization. Let's take a step back, and ask one simple question: "Why?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

I started experimenting with these concepts back in 2008 at SXSW session on Nonprofit ROI and SXSW Session on Nonprofit Crowdsourcin g as well as at the NTC in 2009 on a session mapping metrics to strategy. Hashtag Stats. Tags: Training Design. I’ve using the technique to deliver conversational keynotes at conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The other two included my tagging and widgets screencasts). Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. All the metrics you collect, ask the So What? You'll face that problem with any tool you ultimatley use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2009

Plan on spending some time on this and blow your boss away next time you bring her your web stats and action plan! Tags: googleanalytics guest blogging metrics npfundraising nptech RSS social media socialbookmarking socialnetworking. 8 Great tips and the resources to educate you on each of them. by Avinash Kaushik.

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Classy

JUNE 24, 2021

Metrics matter because they give your nonprofit insights on decision-making and provide evidence for what kind of content to share. However, this amount of data can be overwhelming, so nonprofits have to prioritize which metrics to actually measure. Just like with engagements, the sheer number of conversions lacks valuable context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2008

o is Transparency - and the best example of that is what the Indianapolis Art Museum has done with its pubic metrics on its web site. Finally the Library of Congress community tagging pilot project on flickr. More at TechCrunch and Technology in the Arts Blog. Another theme of web2.o Read more of Jim Spadaccini's reflections.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 28, 2009

Posters for each social networks showcasing our profiles on each as well as how to fan and follow us via text message, the conference hashtag and twitter feed, and flickr tag. All of this added up to some great success metrics. Twitter stats were obtained from What the Hashtag and Twitter Search. of Tweets: 357 2. #

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Last week, there was a useful exchange on the NTEN Affinity group for Nonprofit Bloggers around the question "What metrics do you use to measure success for your blog?" the listserv question was focused on blog metrics and primarily as traffic and driving traffic! Are blog metrics all about traffic? Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points, or metrics, that will help you harvest insights and improve your blog. Next, you need to know the right metrics to use, and employ the proper tools to collect the data. Most important, you need a strategy—either for yourself or for a team—to gather insights from your metrics.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 28, 2009

look at stats and compare to your audience to see if it is a fit. ID3 tags - can use itunes for this, drag album art and file over. let’s you listen to mp3 format before you upload it to be sure it sounds right, add tags, etc. Gives you good metrics for downloads, where people are coming from, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2015

To know that your email works you have to be sending email regularly – and developing clear metrics for what success looks like. At See3, we help organizations build YouTube strategy into their video strategy and part of this is optimizing what videos you have and how they are tagged and titled for search. The same is true with video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2007

Kevin Gamble left me a comment on a google analytics post that the " Depth of Visit Report " was one of the best metrics (coupled with referring source) for understanding visitor behavior on his university's web site. But the stats. Word Press users can use General Stats plugin. He did and gave me permission to blog!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Metrics, Stats, Research, and Other Misc. It used to be tough to gather rich metrics on a Twitter use. Tags: nptechtagsummary. Registration here. Socap09 Still Buzzing : Last week, the SoCap Conference generated a lot of buzz. Susan Tenby from TechSoup shares her notes from the Unconference. What was most sexy?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

But from my stats surcease of sorrow, I realized - some things you can’t keep score. With NWF as the hash tag; Wildlife sightings perhaps would not lag; (for all to brag?). Has tagging and category capability so media can subscribe to only what they’re interested in receiving. I thought this it is, and nothing more. 'Tis

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