Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

Read the full interview with him on Britt's blog! 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." "–David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users? I don't think that you can really compare the entire user base of one social network with another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. Ivan's story adds an excellent example to accompany these resource links. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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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? Nonprofit Blogging Policies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

For example you will now be able to see how many active visitors are on your site at that very moment, what platform they are using to view the site and if they are using a mobile device ? A link from a blog post? bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. traffic source, campaign, browser). emailing to friends. listening to audio.

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See3

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

" For example, a pledge might read, "I'll organize a street party in my neighborhood, but only if 5 other people will help organize it" or it might read, "I'll organize a street party in my neighborhood, but only if 50 other people will attend. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Read more posts on our blog. The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. Beth Kanter tipped us to this flowchart on how to respond to blog posts about your organization. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education.

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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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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

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. Blogs, photos, video, and bookmarks can benefit from the use of many tags when they are uploaded.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

In my presentations, I use a slide from Nina Simon's blog post called " How Much Time Does It Take To Do Web2.0 For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. 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 A Museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources. My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Examples of niche social networks include: . Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). 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. Related SlideShare. .

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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

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

He has, however, expressed concern in the recent past about the way the term has been mis-applied and his definition, taken from a recent blog posting, attempted to clarify some of the issues: Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrival [sic]. keyword to use.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks. Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Facebook, for example, has Facebook Groups and Messenger which allows you to communicate more directly with your supporters. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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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. For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. TechSoup blog profiles Taproot Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds. The important thing is having the conversation.

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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. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. choice and when it is not.

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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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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? I gave her an example of an example of a Facebook friend that I recently had to let go.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 8, 2006

Many of these are among the developers of the "new web" apps I've tried out over the last six months - Writely , 37 Signals , Digg - while others are companies with offerings I hadn't encountered yet. For example, Newsvine is a read-write news site with a revenue sharing model for its members. Writing for CNN's Business 2.0

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. Forums and blogs too! For example, a tool created to allow a community to map local water quality data can easily be re-purposed for a neighboring community, or one across the world. What do we want?

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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 !" The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Google Blog Search. NTC 2007 Pipe.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. For example, many of our clients work with Heller Consulting. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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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. For example, this month’s online chat, normally coordinated via the text chat platform CoverItLive, tried out a new platform, Google+ Hangout. How it Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. Are there links from blogs?

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Consider, for example, the above image, created by David Lee King , which describes less a spectrum than an ascension to 2.0topia. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. General Web skepticism.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Whether on blogs or talk-back walls, people are more conscious about their comments when they know their name will be associated with their work. Citizen journalism, blogs, and talkback walls aren't just interesting because they offer more volume of content. Why don't we stand behind our words the way reporters do? In the Web 2.0

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

He blogs about community management. An Example of Causes: Birthday Wish. Jen introduced Causes' Birthday Wish feature as the first example of how the Causes community can use social structures to create value. You see someone's blog post. Lady Gaga is a high-profile example of the latter option.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? s an example of a comment that I feel really illustrates this point. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s a lot of our initial efforts weren???t but wouldn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. This is very interesting to me - an entire community of nptech taggers has been imported into a digg like entity or what Allan Benamer is calling the anthill. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Seth Godin took a swing at nonprofits today in a blog post “ The problem with non ," saying that nonprofits are afraid of change and that many are lacking in social media adoption. Twitter & Digg? See [link] com or countless other examples catalogued by Beth and others. Photo by THall. and social media. And one (other!)

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