Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

I noticed that Google added a new feature where you can comment on a search engine result and like DIGG either promote it or demote it. I was googling to find an article about social network policies, specifically friending policies. You can customize the search results page too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

In this case, it's Kevin Rose of digg fame. They did, so she did. Gary Vaynerchuk has come up with a variation on this and he isn't shaving his head. He's calling out someone else to shave their head. Meanwhile, if you want to help out DonorsChoose.org and use wordpress, here's something that doesn't require you (or Kevin Rose) to shave.

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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. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. I also mentioned the desire to have some collaborative filtering - like digg, perhaps using pligg as Allan Benamer and Marshall had suggested. When I mentioned this, Jerry suggested I take a look at Dabbledb -- especially the screencast on analyzing digg data with it.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate. " It was a remix of Scoble's white board.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2008

And if you think this is cool, go digg it. Here's the list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How does he find and pick feeds? How can you catch his eye with your posts? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Goal: To understand how to use tools like Twitter and Digg to quickly and virally spread your organization’s messages. Goal: To understand how to use blogging and video blogging tools to strategically tell your organization’s story or get others to share the story. Generating Buzz. Presenter: Holly Ross. Chat Leader: Danielle Brigida.

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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.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources? Micro Media: Any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. These options might be called " Social Media Optimization " (more here ). Nick asked the question. I saw this on her blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. I know you and you know her and i connect to you, I can be connected to her. Water cooler conversations around shared objects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0 and the ps3 tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. Search engines keep improving, sometimes imperceptibly, but my money's on social search. We'll find. our best information from other people, not from software filters. the Google Reader Sharing.

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2008

  Jonathan will focus on using Digg.  .  Laura and Jonathan will be sharing awesome case studies based on their experience.    Laura will focus on Twitter and measuring success.     From what I've seen in the draft slides, their presentations will rock.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. And here's a good listener's guide. Donations with Squidoo. I'd also take a look at widget fundraising. And you might want to read this primer first.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. I've seen this first hand -- I don't engage deeply on MySpace - yet some of my donors for the Cambodian campaign who heard about on Facebook and shared it with their friends on MySpace. Brian Solis points this out in terms of branding.

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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. Indeed, I've been looking for some research that confirms that the lurker to participant ratio in online communities (see Nielsen ) holds true for some web2.0 Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I also found this bit extremely important - the whole that actually talks about tagging in the context of "wisdom of crowds" - so what are the differences between, say, tagging and collaborative filtering with digg. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. How can they enhance or support? lots to ponder here.

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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. My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku. It was invitation only. I managed to get an invitation from one of my twitter friends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. Luckily, my colleague Francesco has remixed the game for fundraising, but it is in Italian! cards and presentation ). I wonder what they translate into?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. There is an interest in a community filtering concept. So, rather than have just a few folks filtering the nptech tag stream, to have some way to make the filtering social. I found that idea exciting!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in. It pinpoints the conversations surrounding a particular article or post or the "conversational graph."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Institutional spokespeople who cultivate a useful reputation within a community like Facebook or Digg while acting on behalf of their employer are building a very personal equity. After all, if somebody wants to read organizational boilerplate, they'll visit your homepage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real. The First Step Get a champion in the organization. They don't have to be social media butterflies, but they need to have influence and support in the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. So, ran a google analytics reports on visitors and there was definitely a rise on the day I gave the presentation. Here's the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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. How did the idea of using YouTube to message about your organization come about? It was an experiment to see if pushing SEIU in non-traditional areas for us would prove popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Traffic: Suggests partnering with the web team and using analytics software to track the referrals of unique visitors to site from a site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

t be surprised if u r on the way to somewhere sometime and see cambodians on bicycles or motorbikes wearing t-shirs of technorati , creative commons , secondlife , techsoup , and so on??? beth kanter brought all of those for cloggers. m wearing ???i writing this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

One thing he spoke about was mashups with content from other sources, the ability to make "playlists" of tools, and some collaborative filtering or "digg like" features. He talked about some future visions as well as some shorter-term upgrades to the site. I'd love to see some workflows shared too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

freakishly high, we do analyze for things like the digg/slashdot effect, so if one post in someone's blog gets a really unusually high amount of engagement compared to the norm, we don't allow that to completely skew the analysis afterwards, e.g. "dooming" the next bunch of posts to a PostRank of 1.0 Should also note, re.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. . * Continue to talk about the fundraiser in multiple posts, updating and describing the cause or event.

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