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Digg is Dying. Who are the Players Now?

Care2

Digg, the once beloved link-sharing site that power users were able to game has been dying a slow death over the past couple of years. Since January of 2011 Digg’s unique web visits have declined by more than 50% and gone from 9.4M visitors in October 2011, according to Quantcast. monthly visitors to 4.3M

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

About 75 percent of young people who provided data for the 2012 Millennial Impact Report said they gave money to a nonprofit in 2011, while 70 percent said they have helped solicit donations by encouraging colleagues and others to support a cause." Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

Only having launched in March 2011, they just broke $25,000 in funds raised in ventures on their site, with donations ranging from $3 to $2,000. StartSomeGood was created after seeing a gap of types of projects and ideas they would want to support - social enterprises and amplifying social and environmental good ideas. Over and over again.

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Meetup Recap: Jen Burton from Causes on Fundraising and Online Communities

Tech Soup

Causes' goals for 2011 include a redesign and a deeper focus on key features. Last month, unbeknownst to Causes, they set up a fundraising project in response to the 2011 quakes. 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.

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