Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

My Flickr Stream. Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. 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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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

The 30% of repeat donors came from my blog posts and repeat donors who saw it on the Twitter stream. One donor told me that they follow Robert Scoble on Twitter and he mentioned the talk and pointed to the live stream and was in the stream chat room.- It got 189 diggs. 70% new donors. 35% friend of friends.

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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

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I also received a Cambodian Bloggers Summit T-shirt upon my arrival (and a Khmer keyboard from Javier Sola at KhmerOS) Photo from Beth's Flickr Stream. 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???

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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

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. Just A Few Good Resources Plucked from the NpTech Tag Stream and Kikino.

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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. And give those blog posts good technorati tags so people can find them. Send your contacts in LinkedIn a note about what you???re re doing and ask ???em

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" 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. Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline.

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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. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Also found in the NpTech tag stream and a good backdrop to this conversation is " When the best tool for the job. For others, the concept of ???public public information??? had connotations of finality, something you couldn???t t withdraw, something that once out there was set in stone. isn't " from Kathy Sierra.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

thrives on a constant stream of new applications and products. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, we have to work first on establishing a culture that makes Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube. I then opened Tweetdeck, a desktop application for managing Twitter and other social platforms, and watched the stream of content from Twitter flowing by.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

That takes some of the duplicates out of the tag stream. The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. So, while it may appear that this user is tagging all this material, it is the sum effort of the community of taggers who contribute to the stream.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

You can post general updates to the Cause page, post to the Facebook news stream, send email, or do all three. I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg.

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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. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Who knew that there were poets on Twitter? Oh my god, take a look.

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