Facebook Metrics Nonprofits Need To Know

If you are a social media data junky, then you are in luck because M&R and NTEN recently analyzed Facebook statistics for the 40 organizations surveyed in their 2011 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. They categorized organizations as small, medium, or large, based on the number of fans their pages have, and also looked at groups by sector.

Check out some of the Facebook data findings:

Comparing email subscribers to Facebook page users – On average, the nonprofits studied had 110 Facebook fans per 1000 email list subscribers. The Wildlife/Animal Welfare sector had the highest ratio of Facebook users to email subscribers at 242 per 1000. “If groups had a lot of email subscribers, they tended to have lots of Facebook fans,” said the study.  

Opting out – Unlike your email list subscribers, Facebook page users can opt out of receiving your posts in their news feed while still being counted as “likes.” The study used both opt-outs and “unlikes” to calculate churn rates. These varied only slightly by sector, and not at all by organization size, with the average for churn rate at 14%.

In a future study, it would be great to see if there is a correlation between frequency and/or quality of posts and opt-out rates.

Facebook Metrics Nonprofits Need to Know

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Another Reason You Don't Need To Be Worried About Apple's Download Only Lion OS (AAPL)

If you have concerns about Lion being download-only, you shouldn't.

Apple has designed a system called "Internet Recovery" that will download and install OS X Lion even if your hard drive fails or somehow gets wiped. From Apple's site:

[Internet Recovery] downloads and starts Lion Recovery directly from Apple servers over a broadband Internet connection. And your Mac has access to the same Lion Recovery features online. Internet Recovery is built into every newly-released Mac starting with the Mac Mini and MacBook Air.

If you're absolutely paranoid and want a hard copy of Lion, Apple will sell it to you on a USB drive for $70.

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Google News Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinking Google News Badges

Whether you think gamification is the road that leads to the bright future, or instead straight to the irreparable infantilization of the Web, even the harshest of critics have to admit that there's more to the concept than simply slapping some badges on a website, game or application, Foursquare-style. The more I read up on this new Google News Badges stuff, the more I think some people over at Mountain View didn't quite get that particular message. Starting today, in the U.S. edition of Google News, users can earn more than 500 types of badges as they read articles about their favorite topics.

Google News Badges? We Don’t Need No Stinking Google News Badges

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Hands On With Spotify: Here's Everything You Need To Know

At last! Spotify has officially landed in the U.S.

Spotify is a European startup that offers streaming music from a library of 15 million songs.

The basic service is free, but paid users get unlimited, ad-free streaming and access to mobile apps for iPhone and Android.

The mobile apps also allow you to download songs to your phone so you can listen offline.

So what does the U.S. launch mean for you? It means you can finally take advantage of the hottest and most-hyped online services around.

If you have an invite, that is.

To request one head over to Spotify's home page. In the meantime, we'll whet your appetite with our full tour of the music service.

We've been using Spotify for a few months now, and still think it's one of -- if not THE -- best streaming music service around.

Click below to see what all the fuss is about.

When you download the desktop app, you have to log in with your Spotify account

Make sure you agree to the Terms of Service before you continue

You can listen to music stored on your computer or search Spotify's library of streaming music

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Everything You Need To Know About Apple's Rumored TV Set (AAPL)

As we approach September and all those eagerly-anticipated Holiday gadget announcements, rumors have started up again that Apple is working on its own television set.

We've thought for a whole that an Apple-branded TV was the next obvious step for the company. and thanks to some leaked details a few weeks ago, it seems more and more likely to happen.

We put together everything we know about Apple's television set right here. Click below to check out the latest rumors.

The launch will coincide with the iPhone 5's in September (Maybe)

Some analysts think Apple will announce the television this fall when it announces the iPhone 5. That would be around the same time that the second Apple TV was announced, and just in time for the Holidays.

It will run the same OS as the current Apple TV

The television will run iOS, just like the current Apple TV does. Think of it as Apple TV without the box.

You'll be able to download apps from the App Store (Likely)

This is something many have been waiting for. The Apple TV set may finally allow developers to create apps for the platform. Google TV will be getting access to the Android Market, so it makes sense for Apple to do the same. Plus, who doesn't want to play Angry Birds in their living room?

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