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Measuring Our Success with Social Media Outreach While the use of social media has been an important new tool in our overall outreach and advocacy arsenal, we have also been aware of the importance of qualitatively and quantitatively measuring the performance of our social media outreach efforts. The quantitative evaluation is typically done by using the Twitter Analytics tool, while our qualitative measures of success are done by gaging the influential Twitter users that are actively engaging with content posted from our efforts. The use of Twitter Analytics has been a great way to quickly figure out if we are getting “eyeballs” on the content that we producing for our TOP. When using the analytics tool to see how the “tweets” created by …show more content…

Brenna Erford’s “tweetstorm” in February received engagement from other prominent Twitter users in the realm of state economics and finances. While Bob Zahradnik has recently been followed and “retweeted” by influential state legislators such as Rep. KC Becker of Colorado, Sen. Heath Mello of Nebraska, and Sen. Deb Peters of South …show more content…

Both tools have been useful in allowing us to get a lot out of Twitter, comb through the network as a way to find out what relevant political news is happening in our target states, and to see if any of our bills/public policy positions are being mentioned within a state’s political “Twitter-verse”. Yet, we are looking at other new tools and services that demonstrate detailed social analytics and social listening features. The social listening element is important to our exploration of new tools because a service with a strong social listening component would potentially expand our ability to gain political knowledge of a state from social media and provide more insight into potential future target states for the

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