Tag Archives: metrics

New Facebook Insights Brings Better Data to Page Owners

Social data and insights are imperative to understanding how consumers engage with our content. It’s also imperative for understanding how our consumers react to our product when talking to their respective online networks. The more intelligence we have on the consumer, the smarter our communications strategies will be and, even more importantly, the better our products will be for them to consume.

Fewer places offer as much data on the consumer as Facebook. With an astounding global user base topping 800 million, Facebook is a treasure trove of consumer data just waiting to…

Can Social Business Be Quantified?

Last week, the Dachis Group launched a tool called the Social Business Index. Fundamentally, the Social Business Index attempts to determine a brand’s social business prowess. According to the firm’s press release, the Social Business Index “provides ongoing real-time ranking, analysis, and benchmarking of Social Business adoption and performance of the most connected and engaged companies”…

Friday Five: Social Media Metrics for Digital Marketers

Measuring social media is the hot-button topic facing digital communications in 2011 and is likely to be every year until we land on a standardized approach. How do we set up measurement frameworks? Are we tracking things that ladder up to a broader business and communications objective? How often should we be measuring? Can we measure accurately when the standards keep changing?

The questions are always the same, no matter the platform or channel (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, etc.) under consideration for a communications effort. Digital marketers are searching for the…

How to Measure Social Media PR

Originally posted on Technobabble 2.0.

TweetLevel and BlogLevel are two purpose-built tools for the PR industry that aim to be a GPS for navigating influence. At its heart is an open and transparent algorithm that seeks to measure who is important within each social media channel.

Resting behind the methodology are several key insights:

Influence…

Looking Beyond Followers: How to Measure Your Performance on Twitter

Originally posted on Analytics is King.

We’re always (hopefully) interested in how our social channels are performing versus last week, month, year or even versus competitors. To that end, marketers of all stripes often wonder what the best metrics are when evaluating the performance of a particular platform. Depending on the platform in question, the selection process can be daunting. Take a look at a Facebook…

Engaging Brian Solis

If you don’t know who Brian Solis is, perhaps you should take a closer look. Brian is one of the veterans of the communications space who has pushed the PR industry into new territory as an early adopter who fully embraced Web 2.0 and the changes it has brought. You may have seen Brian’s thinking in a slideshow near you—his Conversation Prism is ubiquitous social media frameworks. He’s also written…

Digital Digest: July 12

How to Organize A Successful Meetup

While the social media world is a great place to forge connections with people. Eventually, you want to meet up with them IRL (in real life). Enter the meetup, an event geared to get to know your friends, likers, and followers in person. Mashable offers a how-to post.

Brands Offer Incentives for Location-based Check-ins

Now…

Metrics And Analytics Tools

Disclosure: The tools below are resources we have come across lately and are exploring.

Last week Suzanne shared a few tools to help you find new folks to follow on Twitter to kick-off a new focus on tools and resources for online engagement. I wanted to continue this trend by introducing you to a few blog analytics tools!

Before we dive in, it’s important to note that you should have an idea of how you will measure blogging success and what metrics you will use to measure…