Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? " This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Jonathan Coleman is the featured Changemaker at Change.org ( hat tip NTEN roundup).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I pick up some tips and tricks, but I had a strong urge for "Practitioner Worksheets" which made set up this spreadsheet. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . The chapter is a great overview for the C-Level suite.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. If you're a blogger, there are also ways that you can craft your posts to encourage more commenting and conversation. Some excellent tips: 1.) Look forward. Look backward. Ask what if?

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MARCH 27, 2008

A good tip Brian mentioned was to deputize people to grow your network for you. Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. 1cent thoughts on NPTech is another anonymous nonprofit blogger and has a post " Is technology meant to be more than a set of best practices?"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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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

APRIL 13, 2007

There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. DEIdea Lounge blogger Melanie Coulson offers a roundup of Day 2, including some reflections on David Weinberger's Keynote. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. One of the ways is via strategic commenting and here's a terrific video tutorial on the topic or this terrific tips article from problogger. See below).

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MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration. Amazonfail

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us On blogging and blogger outreach : They both moderate every single comment on the blog (they recommend not to allow auto-posting), and someone responds personally to each comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Hat Tip Stephen Downes. Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. Well known blogger and social media guru, Robert Scoble adds all friends. BTW, a huge big hat tip to Connie Reece who pointed me to the notes from her session on social networking at Blog Orlando awhile back.). (4) Photo by Leppre. s face it, I don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. Blogging Advice Tim Johnson of the I'd Rather Be Writing blog, offers some tips to Nonprofits on how to start a blog. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg. technologies.

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