NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Social actions wants you to tap their API. (Oh, and if you want to drive yourself insane, try this hi-def version.). The appropriation of big ideas for good. But where's the TARP of nonprofit funding?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Listening: Knowing what is being said online about your organization and the field you work in. Key skill is pattern analysis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second C, Collaboration, refers to the idea that social media facilitates the aggregation of small individual actions into meaningful collective results. Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. The Third C: Community.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. 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. Build an incentive program for ambassadors who recruit others to take action (gamification).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. A= Action M0= Monitor RE= Reflection on results - rinse and repeat. Use feedback in action to adjust as you go. Document in action in as much detail as possible. It got 189 diggs. I'm going to call it AMORE. Here's the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

What people or actions will come along to break the deadlock and allow the desired outcome? It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. The Catalyst: Stories begin with a struggle between hero and villain that does not begin to resolve until a catalyst appears.

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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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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The site is a project of Action Without Borders, a nonprofit founded in 1995 with a rich history of helping people share resources and information. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. I hope that they will be able to continue to enrich our community which is why I am writing about Idealist.org today.

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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. . Engagement: This is defined as the amount of time a person either participates within a dedicated or hosted Web community or service related to your brand, or interacts with someone from your organization online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference. Then I spent another hour going back through the 1,000 plus blog posts and pulling out those that scored in the "best range" which was 8, 9, or 10. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Which one worked best?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories). You need a strategy for your video and your call to action. Views do not necessarily lead to donations and email addresses.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

ROI and Continuous Improvement both Lead To Actions. The most important thing that comes from your analysis - both the map of your strategy and tracking a key metric or two is ACTION. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. There are differences between ???measures measures of success??? re already here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

It allows anyone to create a pledge to action that follows a simple formula: "I will do X action, but only if Y number of people will do Z action." You want folks to know that you've thought about this sufficiently and have a plan for action. What are your secrets to success using PledgeBank? 2) Tell a story.

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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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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Democracy in Action Blog has a wonderful post about the most common typos that people make. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. The Bamboo Project points to two excellent examples of technology stewardship from the World Grows Wide blog. This queen of typos enjoyed that post quite a bit! It's moved.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. The idea of utilizing open source and in turn utilizing community was recently put into action in Portland, Oregon. First, let's take a look at what can happen if we dive directly into the technology and overlook the actual needs of our community.

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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. This week was Blog Action Day for the Environment. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3 Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing.

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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. t just arbitrarily demand openness.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

60) Search « New Research Findings: Advocacy Groups More Trusted | Main | Social Actions: How to Pitch Yourself in Two Minutes » Wednesday Jun 11 2008 Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 11:52AM | by Hatef Yamini Campaigning online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The key skill is pattern analysis and of course, using what you find to inform decisions or actions. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. I recommend reading the report " A Network of Networks: Email Lists, Nature Protection, and Pollution Control " it explores the value of email lists as well as next-generation online communities like Digg, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

To understand how to identify actionable reports from the complex sea of information collected in an analytics tool. Test three times and if doesn't lead to action, you are wasting your time! What is the call to action? Learning Goals. To understand the definition web analytics. All the metrics you collect, ask the So What?

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Notice the different calls to action to give either money or time. " Jen returned to this theme later: the importance of communicating a cause through real, visible actions. The JCCCNC continues to maintain their page with bulletins, posts, and videos of donations in action. Video content, copy, calls to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s s OK, because our popularity on Digg drove in 50+ links from blogs, including a few elite sources like The Huffington Post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Remember, this is a free tool, one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action. Twitter & Digg? And yet, virtually no “major” causes have sent their volunteers over to use it as a fundraising or attention raising or action generating tool. None of them are non-profits. Not one as far as I can tell.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We made the action obvious. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators. Have a clear call to action. In Twitter’s 140 characters, there’s only room for one call to action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever). The categories were audience, engagement, loyalty, influence, and action. What's interesting is the acronym aelia stands for Jerusalem ).

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start. certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Josh and Charlene spend most of this chapter talking about ways to prioritize and focus customer suggestions so that they form a useful basis for informed action. The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. that are often asked without true interest in the answer.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. platform has a limited feature set and focuses on one or two basic actions that users can take. The choice of what to display on the front page is not just about design. Each Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top. platform has a limited feature set and focuses on one or two basic actions that users can take. The choice of what to display on the front page is not just about design. Each Web 2.0

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

As communicators who are fighting to change the world, we need to write passionately and tell stories that connect to people in order to motivate them to take action and donate some of their hard earned money. There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts.

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