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Resource Page

An ongoing list of resources and tools related to social media, marketing, and metrics.  Add to the list and share how you use them.

Blogs & discussions

New blog on metrics issues: Fun with Web Metrics

Fun with Web Metrics imageBob Donahue, longtime NSDL community member and valued colleague at WGBH (Teachers' Domain Pathway), has started a new Wordpress blog on metrics: Fun with Web Metrics. The NSDL community has benefited greatly from Bob's expertise in metrics collection and analysis, and his new blog will be a great resource for all NSDL projects. 

Have you created an NSDL Community site account?

If you haven't yet created an NSDL Community site account, take some time now that the Annual Meeting is concluded, and do so - check out the site, discussion forums, groups, Community News, etc. To subscribe to the updates you want to receive, contribute a news item, add a comment, or provide feedback on the Community site itself, you need to be an active Community site member. We want you!

Whether or not you were at the Annual Meeting in DC, NSDL is seeking community feedback on several documents released at or during the meeting:

NSDL Metrics Working Group & Report

In January 2009, in discussion with Pathways, a new working group was formed—the NSDL Metrics Working Group. The group is charged with exploring metrics-related issues and making recommendations to the NSDL community on best practices for metrics gathering and analysis, over multiple aspects of an NSDL project's activities and lifecycle. The working group is composed of NSDL projects' staff, and representatives from the NSDL Resource Center and NSDL Technical Network Services, and meets monthly via teleconference.

Check out the Google Analytics Brown Bag....

If you are currently using Google Analytics, or thinking about implementing it, you'll find it worth your time to give a listen to the recorded August 6, 2009 NSDL Brown Bag session: Google Analytics: Making Metrics Make Sense, presented by LunaMetrics LLC analyst Jonathan Weber. LunaMetrics is a Google Analytics-authorized consulting firm based in Pittsburgh.

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