Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. For example, these are the stats for the above post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Think of the comment area of your blog like a cocktail party.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. And for spreading buzz for that matter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

So, over the last month, I've been looking for examples. In the comments to a post , Jonny Goldstein, pointed me to the above video from SEIU in YouTube. Well, this example is no astro turf. It's the real thing. How did the idea of using YouTube to message about your organization come about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Researcher have found support for the 1:9:90 rule in many different contexts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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MARCH 27, 2008

You must be a credible member of the community sharing useful information and thoughtful comments before anyone will respond to your asks. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. See3 has run many successful video contests (a few examples here , here and here ). The last session on 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! There's an excellent tip sheet on how to get the word out about projects here. The NTEN's NTC and NPTech Pipe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The nptech tag stream (plus other sources) has been imported, so you can comment and vote on tagged items. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest.

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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. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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MARCH 28, 2008

It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. 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. But this goes both ways.

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APRIL 16, 2008

In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0. At some institutions, there has been friction when artists find out that their work will be judged or commented on publicly by visitors. We are just providing the container, the mechanism so it can function.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Nick Temple from the UK left a comment on the link I shared on Facebook: It smacks of someone who knows the marketing and internet world very well, and the non-profit world barely. Twitter & Digg? See [link] com or countless other examples catalogued by Beth and others. Is that how we measure social impact now?

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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. ??? This means that we see a lot of value in commenting, linking, tagging, and the like; sometimes more so than just an empty visit to our site. a lot of our initial efforts weren???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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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. Post your commenting policy on your Fan Page's info tab. Retweet followers, answer questions, and comment back. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

His page features a famous clip of Seinfeld's George Castanza shouting "I was in the pool, I was in the pool." People who donated enjoyed the opportunity for innuendo in the comments. He called out Kevin Rose of digg fame to shave his head for charity. While a modest amount raised, Erin surpassed his fundraising goal by 50%.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

How many people comment on posts? What is your post to comment ratio? I used some metrics and measurement techniques suggested by Avinash Kaushik to look at the commenting. Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. What can we adjust?

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OCTOBER 22, 2007

84% of people comment, 82% message others, and 39% create content. However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us Share and Enjoy: 5 Comments comment UN Foundation Web Team Blog [.] Carie opened with an intro to social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. The example I talk about in the poem covers the initial use of NWF's twitter accounts and then continues to how we actually starting using it to improve and grow one of our programs- "wildlife watch". is a great example of this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators. Remember that the tagline’s purpose is to provoke interest. Once you’ve got someone’s attention you can do things with it. Vary the message.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

How many museums have stacks of comment books that are only culled for the gushing quotes that belong on annual reports? The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. But getting information from visitors is not enough.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

In a post called " Linked In:You Tell Me " by Monica Hamburg that Chernyshoy points to illustrate the problem, there's a comment by none other than Rob Cottingham who is his witty style gives us the kind of scaling of intimacy: - Personal friend. Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. Family member. Business friend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. I particularly like the advice about how to use the comments for refining your point, a sort of thinking outloud and "Correct English be-damned" point. Here's an example from Doctors Without Borders. Example Wikieducator ). Kikono is the new name for NpDigg. It means antenna of an ant.

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