Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2020

If you’re heading into 2020 unsure of the state of your site, it might be time for a refresh! What are your goals for your site? Here’s what we’ll cover: Frontend elements of your site. Backend elements of your site. A nonprofit’s website is one of its most valuable assets. Is it performing well? How does it look?

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

Which KPI's your nonprofit organization ultimately uses will depend heavily on its goals and the goals of your website (your site does have a purpose, right?!?). Google Analytics has proven particularly helpful for content-based sites and commerce sites. For this reason, you must tailor your KPI's to your own site and strategy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot. How Bloggers Can Use FriendFeed Effectively - This post includes some great tips on how to contribute value to FriendFeed, keep your "signal-to-noise" ratio high, and use "rooms" effectively.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 18, 2009

If you are using a forum, then measuring the number of replies to post (or, if your forum allows voting, then the positive feedback on posts) could be appropriate, as well as the ratio of people signed up vs posting vs replying, etc. Tags: socialmedia strategy goals guestpost POST social media. What do you think? What did I miss?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2005

Sometimes these folks also need a method to share their bookmarks with other staff members in the organization or at remote sites. They get excited about the possibility of a web-based bookmark and whole concept of tagging and folksonomies. To illustrate social bookmarking, you have to use a technology-related tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post to comment ratio. . Hard Data Points: Do an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. This one point caught my eye: RSS subscriber metrics : For some sites, this information is very useful. Tags: socialmediametrics RSS.

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

One topic that I regularly track are research reports, including demographic, technographics, and overall numbers for social media sites. I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. Tags: social media research snippets twitter. Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. Chris Brogan for starters.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 25, 2007

SUMO has done an impressive job of combining clean design, quirky content, and multiple points of access in a site that is surprisingly useful. Trails were developed by staff, community members, and are submitted on a continuous basis by visitors to the site. Tags: web2.0 But it's not a typical directory. Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 26, 2008

This week, I'm launching a new site: the Voicemail Museum. One of the surprises that arose from that experiment was the high participant-to-spectator ratio. Tags: participatory museum usercontent. Call 641.715.3900 ext. 60138, listen to the recorded question, and leave a message with your response. comment rate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

Photo from my flickr stream View the Tagging Screencast Presented by NTEN. I'm pleased to announce that my screencast about tagging has been released and showcased by NTEN ! I created it for the screencast to illustrate the definition of tagging. If you have questions about tagging or want to share your organization???s

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Nonprofits Source

FEBRUARY 25, 2017

Setting up a WordPress site takes no more than 5 minutes. The efficiency ratio , also known as the revenue to cost ratio. The best part of the efficiency ratio is that it doesn’t involve any complex math. Use the efficiency ratio to calculate the ROI of your marketing activities. Anyone can blog. Google Analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

If you use Wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics will give you a post-to-comment ratio. Hard data points: Conduct an analysis of the number of links to a post using Yahoo Site Explorer. Look at the referral traffic (including which sites visitors to your site click from or what keywords they searched to get to your site or blog).

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

When evaluating your nonprofit website’s effectiveness , an important question to ask yourself is whether all possible users can access the content on your site. The generally recommended contrast ratios are 4.5:1 Some aspects of content flow to examine include: Heading tag order. Text formatting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

Recently, Chris Brogan did an analysis of most linked to content using Yahoo Site Explorer and while it isn't clear whether it includes links to yourself it sparked an insight for me that different blog posts might have different objectives. If you use wordpress, Joost Blog Metrics you can get a comment to post ratio. Cost (what!).

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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. We're trying to make some changes in our web site based on user behavior. The second graphic on depth of.

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Qgiv

JULY 21, 2022

Check out this site for some creative ideas. Install Google Tag Manager on your website. That also helps make sure your ratio of funny/serious/building blocks/ask posts is where you want it. Looking for inspiration? Or just curious about what others are doing in your sector? Pro tip: don’t ignore your website conversion rate.

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 13, 2017

But, times have changed and Google is increasingly rewarding sites that provide relevant and useful answers to user searches. . These sites plummeted in search rankings losing valuable traffic to their website. Drives an insane amount of traffic to my site. Search engines are becoming more sophisticated by the day.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2008

that the signal-to-noise ratio is low. The ideas can be tagged and grouped into categories, and can be browsed in time order, by most popular, or by category. Positives of Ideascale: Easy to customize the look and feel to brand to your site. In most institutions, the suggestions on comment cards don't get to the people in power.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 15, 2009

It’s common to have low expectations with regard to the number of people who will create content in participatory platforms (online media-sharing sites, contributory projects, story-sharing exhibits). Tags: design usercontent. 1% is a pretty exclusive club. Is this a flawed argument that will lead to less participation, not more?

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Forum One

AUGUST 26, 2009

I'm very excited that our Datamasher web site is one of the three finalists in the Sunlight Foundation's " Apps for America 2 " Contest! The other two finalists are very interesting sites, but here are my thoughts on why Datamasher is very cool and deserving of your vote! Tags: Technology. by September 7th. It's social!

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