Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

Read the full interview with him on Britt's blog! While the exact formula behind the front page remains unclear, its contents are clearly changing minute by minute. It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The origin of this phrase was a blog post announcing BackType Connect , " a one-stop destination for retrieving comments on just about any topic across a wide variety of blogging platforms and social services." The conversation graph is the mapping of conversations and how they're related across social platforms and blogs.

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OCTOBER 29, 2008

My co-worker, Anne Keisman, recently came to me for advice on how she could get started using social media to promote web content. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. They support the content they like. She provides a resource.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog. Source: Skelliewag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2011

A link from a blog post? bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. interacting with a slideshow (such as the rotating content on many home pages). Check out the Google Analytics blog to stay on top of the newest tools and exciting changes. The Goal Flow, on the other hand, helps you to understand the dynamics of your site.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. This also applies well to what a lot of our clients who are focused on accomplishing - trying to have their policy analysis content reach the widest possible audiences and have the largest possible impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  Micro Media: Any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.   Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources? . 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 In A Museum? 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Hone in on the ones where your supporters are and where they are most likely to engage with your content. Think about the type of content you have to share and which social channels are most appropriate for that type of content. WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Issues Dynamic, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The First C: Content. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

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MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or check out the repost below. So when Scoop.it , a new content curation platform, hit the web recently, the #CommBuild network seemed like the perfect place to try it out. How it Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Graphic in Flickr Source: Tara Hunt's post " Cross the Chasm " Chris Brogan sent me a link to the new NpowerNY/Squido Handout on Seth's Blog. " I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. Tap the Blogs. It's call org.2.0! in nonprofit land. Or maybe not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

When asked about social news sites like Digg, Jonathon says: "The type of things we post regularly on Digg and Netscape and Newsvine are real-world events, announcements, and discoveries ??? re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. They actively engaged the site?s s community using Twitter. Finally, she submitted the site?s The results?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Contributing on-topic content is usually appreciated. He blogs at [link] on successful community building. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

I've had this post about a mashup between Idealware , TechSoup , and Social Source Commons in draft and was going over to Deborah Finn's Blog to grab the URL for her excellent post last week about Social Source Commons. In it was was pointer to James Davis's Blog post about testing a tool called RTFM (Request Tracker FAQ Manager).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I scan the table of contents and the index and jump to the parts that I'm most interested in. For this book, I was like a moth to flame to Chapter 18: A New Guide for Metrics. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Measured by inbound links for blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. content creation??? ???It's It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Methods for listening to conversations off-blog and outside my media. Measuring Your Blog's Results (Revisiting). Almost six months ago, I did an analysis of my blog using some metrics suggested by Avinash Kaushik. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. Good content matters. Was it worth it?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

In a few weeks, there will be a video blogging geekout session at NTC. I'm the session designer and I got a couple of rock stars from the video blogging community with us - Jay Dedman , Ryan Hodson , Jonny Goldstein , Andy Carvin , and Robyn Tippins to lead the session. So, over the last month, I've been looking for examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds. The key benefit is that drives traffic.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Main | Lean, Mean Blogging Machines » Thursday Nov 16 2006 The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Some reactions here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Nonprofit Blog Exchange shares Roundup #9. The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. " But you need to flesh out the group profile, add content, invite friends to join, and promote it in other ways on and off Facebook. My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Allen Benamer of the Nonprofit Tech Blog says " Support Idealware !" Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Google Blog Search. Donor Power Blog defines fundraising 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

The Nonprofit Software Development Summit Lots of notes and blog posts over at the 2007 Nonprofit Software Development Summit wiki to read. Tools Creating Passionate Users Blog asks " Are our tools making us dumber ?" There's a lot of work to be done, whether the results go on a wiki or a blog or a stone tablet."

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NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Main | Lean, Mean Blogging Machines » Thursday Nov 16 2006 The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. Have a question: I want to publically acknowledge the names of the donors here on this blog and what I don't know is whether donors opted to be anonymous or not? Should have set up a campaign tag to track blog posts, etc.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? Think about what kind of content it is that you want to share with your audience.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

More importantly, if you don’t have any knowledge of the group within which you’re releasing your content, forget about it. To create content that is appealing to a certain group of people, you need to know what they’re talking about, what they feel, what they eat, drink and dream. Don’t give up.

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