Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 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 When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can be fun!

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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

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. I thought, this might be great geek bait for the NpTech Facebook group experiment. The first six people to leave a comment got the invites. My Flickr Stream. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku. It was invitation only.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment. Time Chart - See Flickr Discussion on Version 1 Wanna Remix it? Download it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

In the comments to a post , Jonny Goldstein, pointed me to the above video from SEIU in YouTube. We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. So, over the last month, I've been looking for examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

and, if you linked and I don't have you on radar yet - leave me a comment). I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice. So, I really need reap experience to create a checklist, templates, and a worksheet. By the end of the experience, will have some beginnings of a checklist, templates, and worksheets.

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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

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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See3

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. All experiments still, but there is clearly potential.” Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. Most importantly, participate with authenticity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. There's a thoughtful comment from Givewell that points out the work flow involved.

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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. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. with a detailed account of her organization's experience. A few comments over at Kikono too. Miles Maier has been blogging about his Web Office experiment for the past month or so. Are there other experiments going on? What do you think? era websites.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

As long as that number is growing, I can get some indication of the topics I'm writing about are of interest and that the time I spend responding to comments and leaving comments elsewhere helps build the regular readership community. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. re already here. And that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! Here's a few blog posts about the NTC experience: Marnie Webb says Web2.0 Kim Lowery also gives us a round up the sessions she attended as well as her Day of Service experience. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

PledgeBank is a platform that gives folks a way to connect with others in ways that integrate with their everyday lives and capitalize on their wisdom, experience, and resources -- whatever. This pledge was initiated in Edinburgh, and created a really interesting side conversation in the comments section. those might be.

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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. Especially in this economy.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Make sure you are hooked up to an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Netvibes to monitor everything from Twitter to Blogs to what stories hit the front page of Digg. It is essential not only to read the blogs and websites of the influencers in your community, but also become a frequent commenter. Reader Comments (4) Great tips, Jen.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. You don't need to be a technologist to conceive or lead a project like this, but in many museums, non-techies just aren't as exposed to the ideas and products that typify participatory experiences.

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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 upcoming donations API will allow organizations to deliver a completely customized donation experience. Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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Museum 2.0

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. Find a way to vet non-traditional primary sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social 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

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

More nonprofits need to adapt, to experiment, to take risks, to embrace change. 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? Is that how we measure social impact now?

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NTEN

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

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter?

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See3

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

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. Not only did this give us a measure of success it helped evaluate the experience as a whole and focus us to come up with these lessons.

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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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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

” After you take action, you get sent to a landing page that asks you to share your own experience with having (or not having) Paid Sick Days. There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts. Reader Comments (3) To speak to your point about passion, Allyson.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace? If you think your voting experience is meaningless, think again. If words arent enough for you to express your voting experience, you might want to turn to YouthNoise.

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