Tag Archives: analytics

How To Get More Out Of Your Facebook Insights

Posted 01 February 2012 | By | Categories: Analytics, Marketing, Social Media, Strategy | No Comments

Still grappling with the latest changes to the Facebook insights dashboard?  Did you rack your brain over the difference between Engaged Users and People Talking About This, Consumptions and Stories, Reach and Impressions?  Did your heart rate increase a little when Facebook announced they were eliminating the old insights dashboard at the end of January? [...]

Social Media Measurement News Roundup

Posted 10 March 2010 | By | Categories: Industry News, Research, Social Media, Strategy | 263 Comments

This week brought with it some exciting news and stories in the area of social media measurement and, since I didn’t write any of them, I thought I would do my part to highlight some favorites.  I’m not going to trust myself to say that I’ll do this every week, I probably won’t. Here are [...]

Facebook ‘Impressions’ Lend Little Insight

Posted 10 February 2010 | By | Categories: Industry News, Marketing, Research, Social Media | 332 Comments

Any marketer who has directly measured or quantified the performance of a Facebook page or application knows full well how primitive and unreliable the Facebook Insights dashboard is.  Fan count, page views, and interaction rates serve as the key metrics which, to Facebook’s argument, does provide ‘insight’ into a page, but offers limited access below [...]