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4 Ways to monitor your Twitter account
You tweet, you retweet, people tweet you… but it can be difficult to see how these patterns are changing over time. Just taking a snapshot of your numbers of followers once a month, or counting up how many retweets you … Continue reading
Posted in Tools, Trends and Numbers, Twitter
Tagged measure, monitor, social media for third sector, Twitter, Twitter tips
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5 more useful things we learned about Facebook this week
Like it or loathe it, Facebook is the big beast in the social media jungle. With 900 million users across the globe, and updates to its services coming thick and fast, it is the social network to which we often … Continue reading
Monitoring: are we asking the right questions?
I recently went to an excellent workshop on web metrics, organised by CharityComms. I was surprised to see that the workshop was absolutely packed, so it seems that I was not alone about wondering whether I was really asking the … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, How it Works
Tagged Fundraising, measure, monitor, social media for third sector
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Got a FB Timeline now? Time to optimise
If you’ve already taken the plunge and changed your Facebook page to a Timeline layout, then check out these tips about how to optimise your page to make it work harder for your organisation. First up, read this article from … Continue reading
Understanding feedback
What do you do with the feedback you’ve received on Twitter, Facebook, your website, LinkedIn or G+? Do you add it to your library of comments, respond and file it away, or just congratulate yourself at having inspired somebody to … Continue reading
Posted in How it Works
Tagged engagement, influencing, measure, monitor, negative comments, reputation, social media for third sector
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Monitoring: some spreadsheets that could help
Measuring and monitoring your social media presence is something we’re all supposed to be looking at, and it’s a topic that frequently comes up on this blog. But while there are lots of paid-for tools that can help, if you’re … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, Monitoring
Tagged Facebook, free tools, measure, monitor, social media demographics, social media for third sector, Twitter
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Chasing those metrics: what do followers mean?
Social media makes it easy for us to count the number of people who’ve liked our page, or who follow us on Twitter, or who’ve added us to one of their circles on Google+. This is all well and good, … Continue reading
Posted in Big Issues, Facebook, Monitoring, Trends and Numbers, Twitter
Tagged engagement, Facebook, like button, measure, monitor, reach, social media for third sector, Twitter
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Five Top Fives: Makes You Think
Fourth in our list of 5 Top 5 articles this Christmas is a set of those issues and ideas that have really made me stop and think about what I’m doing with social media, and whether I can use it … Continue reading
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Tagged engagement, Fundraising, measure, monitor, social media for third sector
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Keeping your eyes peeled: 3 ways to monitor your online reputation
Our organisations may be engaged in challenging the inequalities of the world, but that doesn’t mean that we don’t also come in for our share of public criticism or disapproval. A campaign that doesn’t hit the mark, questions about our … Continue reading →