Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

In this post, I’m sharing my slides , resources , and practical engagement tips with a higher purpose. This has an added benefit of increasing your “people talking about” metric which gets the content into more newsfeeds. Here’s a brief summary of the tip with a link to the full post with more tips.

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Practice Tips Social Meme 109

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

You need to pick the right hard data points (fancy way of saying metrics) that will help you harvest insights to improve your social media strategy. For blogging, you have to use a couple of different tools to get the different metrics you need. Jay Dedman pointed to an analysis Feedburner by Chris Baskind. Are they tips?

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Metrics Social Media Strategy RSS 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

I wanted to see if Avinash Kaushik had written in depth about analyzing Twitter in Google Analytics - I found his reference in his blogging tips that Twitter was golden in terms of referral. This post from Cometrics -- Developing Metrics for Conversation for Twitter -- has lots to ponder. My ratio is 2.4, Did it surprise?

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Twitter Ratio Google Artist 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

As you can see the words paint a picture of a traditional ROI analysis, with the emphasis on quantitative, measurable results. What's common to both is the use of metrics to measure results. Tips to ensuring you choose the right pilot project: Begin with some form of listening or monitoring. This is such a good question.

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ROI Social Media Reflection Question 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. This analysis took all of five minutes. Using Metrics for Continuous Learning.

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ROI Widget Cambodia Metrics 50

Blue Fox

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do some math Use our Magical Nonprofit Financial Ratio Matrix to assess your organization’s financial health. Information is data that requires analysis. And, through analysis, your organization can generate insight and inform strategic budget decisions. Remember: information is NOT insight.

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Create Ratio Analysis Review 158

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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Measure Tips Metrics Bookmarking 95