Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Hard Data Points: Look at the Feed Subscribers trends from Feedburner and Unique Visitors Trends from Google Analytics. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments? Are they tips?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts. 16:9 ratios require that the viewer tilts their phone and watches it in a non-vertical orientation. Both versions were identical except for one key difference—aspect ratio.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Hard data points: Look at the feed subscribers trends from Feedburner and unique visitor trends from Google Analytics. What is the quality of the conversation in the comments section? Conversation rate: This is the amount of commenting and conversation that is happening on your blog. Are the comments positive or negative?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 8, 2007

But no one seems to be asking “why are we on this track in the first place?&# “Is being on this track going to really help me save the whales/feed people/organize/save the planet?&# I welcome any feedback and conversation, either by email , or on comments and trackbacks on this blog. { Mitchell 04.08.07 Mitchell 04.08.07

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

How do you use a RSS feed like a rockstar? Feed digest. assessed the conversation and they had a 58% negative blog/conversation ratio (used manual researching, icerocket, forumtracker, search.twitter, etc.), new that was the metric/goal to track and 6 months later there was only 18% negative ratio. test and teweak.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2009

It is one of a number of "life streaming applications" where individuals and organizations who are active on the social web can port their activity across social networks into one, easy to follow, read, and comment activity stream. With Twitter becoming more mainstream , perhaps we'll see more activity on FriendFeed.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“The modern enterprise relies on data intelligence and data integration solutions to provide access to valuable insights that feed critical business outcomes. Alation is foundational for driving digital transformation.” Alation also makes recommendations based on how information is being used and orchestrated.

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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. " I asked him if would share a screen shot of the report and reflect a little further on his comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2007

The Cross Blog Discussion of the NpTechTag has generated some comments and blog posts that I've summarized below. However, in the comments, readers point to the benefits of a folksonomy and suggest that combining the two approaches can lead to a best-of-both-worlds outcome. Do you subscribe to the feed to find resources?

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Care2

JANUARY 6, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Never miss a post by subscribing to frogloops RSS feed.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2009

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. I'm also having some problems with lumping all the engagement measures together, although it's good for a quick and dirty analysis. Is the number of comments the sole measure for success of a blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2008

I found it because I have an RSS feed for a twitter search on the nptech tag. I also track an ego feed on Twitter through Radian 6 and caught wind of this tweet about best practices and twitter. It's like starting a blog without first following and commenting on others blog. Nonprofit Best Practices on Twitter. Here's how.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Unique Visitors & Feed Subscribers). " That's a hard question for me to answer because as Kaushik notes and all of us bloggers know all too well -- many analytics programs do not track RSS feeds. The dramatic rise a year ago was I consolidated several RSS feeds so Feedburner was reporting aggregate statistics.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

If you share things that interest her, she’ll engage with you, liking your posts, commenting, and sharing. Many people scroll their social feeds and don’t turn the sound on. For every Ask you publish, you should follow the 3:1 Ratio and post at least 3-4 informational and/or warm fuzzy pieces. Captions are great. Share videos.

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Care2

APRIL 22, 2009

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!" Receive monthly updates 1 Comment | by Share Article in Social Networking , Web 2.0 com , Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2007

I've thought long and hard about how video editing amplifies my compulsive nature and how I need to reduce my ratio of video minutes viewed per hours of editing time! What is really interesting to me is that the photo - which I composed and uploaded into flickr is my most commented, favorited, and viewed photo ! (It s in-box.).

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Last year, there was a HUGE media kerfuffle when people were shocked to learn that they had been "lab rats" for Facebook engineers researching how the News Feed content could impact people''s moods. Facebook decides what content you see, what ads you see, and your personal ratio of puppies to snow warnings. To me, this was surprising.

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The Verge

MARCH 3, 2022

Yang did not respond to a DM requesting comment; a spokesperson didn’t respond to an email requesting comment, either. A third said he didn’t think the gender ratio mattered. It also had the best ratio of men to women of all the parties; there was even a line at the women’s room. One person told me it was too depressing.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. . If you take a resource, you feed kids. So just be on the lookout for an email from me later on today with all that good stuff. . So don’t be shy.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 1, 2010

If you read along and have something to add, please share your comments. Q: Is there a good ratio of times to communicate with a donor and asking for donations? SO, I thought I’d answer them here so that everyone could benefit. I grouped the questions by category, since many were similar. Building a donor base.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Send in your questions and comments. So this is really causing a look at the ratio to maybe shift from 85% or maybe even more of your dollars coming from 15% of your donors. If you take a resource, you feed kids. So just be on the lookout for an email from me later on today with all that good stuff. So don’t be shy.

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The Verge

JUNE 17, 2020

Apple declined to comment on the decision, but told Pierce its mistake was in ever permitting Hey into the App Store to begin with. Trending sideways : Google banned far-right websites ZeroHedge and The Federalist from its ad platform over racist comments posted on the sites. billion in cash it has no clear use for, to boot.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. You can actually go back and review your entire feed.

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The Verge

MARCH 9, 2021

And so I think every creator will have their own twist on this, and will have their own sort of ratio of how they want to mix their content. So we call that the jury moderation feature, which to your point, I think is arguably easier to do in text because you’re scoping the deliberation that you’re asking the jury to make, to be a comment.

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The Verge

JULY 30, 2020

In its lunatic whipsawing between companies, issues, and conspiracy theories , Wednesday’s antitrust hearing resembled nothing so much as an endlessly scrolling social media feed. Send us tips, comments, questions, and unanswered questions for the CEOs: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Polarized and polarizing. Remember books?

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The Verge

JULY 7, 2020

Among those comments: “defamation lawsuits should be easier to pursue.”) She later returned, only for the company to say she would step aside later this year after her comments about the media on Instagram.). The employees made their comments at a time of increasing activism inside workplaces. Manish Singh / TechCrunch ).

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The Verge

JULY 2, 2020

Reddit’s content moderation scheme differs sharply from the Facebook News Feed or the Twitter timeline. Send us tips, comments, questions, and fair pay for Reddit moderators: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. If advertisers sincerely wanted to address Facebook’s hate speech problem, they would start there. Talk to us.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

It bubbled to the top of the feeds, and inspired many anguished comments. Facebook Watch introduced a new feature called “Your Topics” that will allow you to further personalize your feed. Send us tips, comments, questions, and the most controversial post inside Facebook right now: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 24, 2025

The bot farm broadcasts coordinated likes, comments, and shares to make it seem as if a lot of people are excited or upset about something like a volatile stock, a global travesty, or celebrity gossipeven though theyre not. On TikTok, you used to be able to see how many times a specific hashtag was shared or commented on, says Alexander.

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The Verge

JULY 14, 2020

A spokesperson for California Attorney General Xavier Becerra declined to comment. After this woman was diagnosed with cancer, her Facebook feed came to be dominated by ads for phony “alternative” cures. Interestingly, I haven’t seen any legitimate cancer care ads in my News Feed,” she writes, “just pseudoscience.” Talk to us.

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The Verge

JUNE 23, 2020

Discussion of this story dominated my feeds on Sunday. One, the people in my feeds mostly like to see the president made to look foolish. The post includes tips for personalizing the feed to avoid being served random videos you might not be interested in. The move is meant to curb the spread of misleading photos and images.

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The Verge

JUNE 18, 2020

And so starting soon, you’ll be able to remove political ads from your Facebook feed. And a new voter information hub modeled on a similar module that Facebook created for COVID-19 could also be useful as an island of sanity in a News Feed full of the usual polarized provocations. tweets, comments, posts, etc.) Talk to us.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

We would all benefit, I think, from having greater insight into how social networks choose what to show us in our feeds. Send us tips, comments, questions, and those good TikToks: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Today in news that could affect public perception of the big tech platforms. Talk to us.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2020

But the conversations stalled because taking down QAnon-related groups, pages and accounts could feed into the movement’s conspiracy theory that social media companies are trying to silence them, the people said. Instagram is now placing ads at the end of the feed, where the “You’re All Caught Up” notice sits. Talk to us.

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The Verge

JUNE 9, 2020

Around the same time the company issued its public statement last week, that same language was published on Nextdoor feeds, enraging some moderators active in the private forum. “I The Ratio. ?? Send us tips, comments, questions, and Karen posts from Nextdoor: casey@theverge.com and zoe@theverge.com. Talk to us.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Blending talking-head interviews with some well known Silicon Valley apostates and fictional, after-school special-style dramatizations of what happens when Johnny and Janey scroll through feeds all day, the film presents itself as an urgent warning about our modern condition. I’m more than a little sympathetic to these concerns. Talk to us.

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