Each Wednesday for 6 weeks, the Measurement and Analytics Certificate Program goes well beyond simply measuring the effectiveness of communication. You will also learn how to build research into the beginning of your planning process in ways that are fast, easy and inexpensive. At the end of communication campaigns that involve audience behavior changes, you’ll be able to calculate the marginal ROI on your organization’s communication investment.
Electronic Communication
Subtle ways to measure social media’s impact
The impact of social media on business can be difficult to measure, yet there are a number of subtle or indirect approaches you can take.
Setting Targets for Intranet Growth
Set a target of nearly your entire employee base on computers, minus your average turnover (since it often takes people a while to get used to visiting an intranet) and expect all of them to visit the site at least once a month. When you find out where you are currently, you can set a series of goals year by year that will lead you to that ultimate level.
Printed Versus Online Publications
Print has a definite place in the mix of our communication channels. The position it should hold does depend on access issues for your own employee population. But even with universal access, it’s too easy to kid ourselves that we’re communicating just because we’re posting things online. Very few might be seeing it.
Don’t Let Face to Face Be Eclipsed by Technology
Over the last 15 years, more and more employees have obtained online access to internal communication such as email, intranets, webcasts, and Web 2.0 social media. Is this a good thing? Perhaps not entirely, as Angela Sinickas discovered by comparing communication survey results from companies where all employees are online vs. those where numbers of employees do not.
Measuring the usefulness of e-newsletters
Angela Sinickas explains which online analytics are useful to track for e-publications and which can either be misinterpreted or over-valued.
Use of Electronic Communication in Political Campaigns
Once these elections are over, you could contact the staffs of the candidates and ask them about their outcomes from political websites, both in terms of fundraising and volunteers.
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Interesting stats on social media usage
Between 2006 and 2007, time spent online increased by 12%, reading content online increased by 5%, and communicating online decreased by 4%.