Profit and nonprofit
- Below we describe some additional control variables we collect information about.
Thanks for providing accurate information about your blog in order to provide you with better statistics.
This variable addresses who is behind the social media effort. What kind of organization.
0 = other
1 = not-for-profit organization (e.g., non-governmental organization or NGO, school, government and charity);
2 = corporation (e.g., Inc, PTY Ltd, GmbH and SA)
The above means that a private person’s social media effort would be scored under the category other.
To decide if a blog is a corporate blog or not we use six criteria that we explain here in some detail:
By the way
An ever greater number of CEOs has decided to become bloggers. How this helps the company’s bottom line is still open for discussion as this article suggests (download pdf):
Financial Times – Is blogging good value for the C-suite? 2-pages
More information about the FT ComMetrics Corporate Blog Index can be found here:
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