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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. You can see our action in the message below, or by going to: [link].net/OneMinute Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it. And as readers start to respond -- commenting, tweeting, bookmarking, etc., Should also note, re.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Some user curate user generated content, by tagging it on social bookmarking websites, voting for it on social voting websites, commenting on it, or linking to it. The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results.

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Digital Life Hacks: Savvy Social Media

Connection Cafe

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Pinterest and Flipboard are for bookmarking and content sharing. For the best results, target your most engaged and well-connected supports first as they will have a higher propensity to respond to calls-to-action and get others involved. Get specific with social advertising.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It uses sources such as how many delicious bookmarks, incoming links, how many times mentioned on Twitter, how many comments, etc. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? E-Metrics Panel Presentation.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Chimp Personality, Convio Open API, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" 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. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment. Social Bookmarking. Ruby shares her 10 Questions video.

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