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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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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. 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.

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

Tech Soup

Ability to utilize social networks to drive a message. Weaknesses of the Causes Network. 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.

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