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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

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My co-worker, Anne Keisman, recently came to me for advice on how she could get started using social media to promote web content. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. Reaching your goals doesn't involve magic.

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Social Networking Inside and Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When asked about social news sites like Digg, Jonathon says: "The type of things we post regularly on Digg and Netscape and Newsvine are real-world events, announcements, and discoveries ??? re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Beth Dunn's " Money for Nothing, IT for Free " has a post about the importance of considering the total cost of a technology investment even if it is free and some advice for getting started. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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An Interview of Heather Cronk, PledgeBank: Advice On Raising Money on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us. Tell the story of how you got involved with the problem you're addressing and how fixing that problem will benefit your community. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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E-Metrics Presentation: How ROI Thinking Can Help Expand Your Blog Community

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  Jonathan will focus on using Digg.  nonprofit and government folks who need to get more advice re: measurement in social media. nonprofit and government folks who need to get more advice re: measurement in social media. .  Laura and Jonathan will be sharing awesome case studies based on their experience. 

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Things We Like (March 2009)

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image, that somebody in the USAF knows what a troll is, or that it has some really good advice. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. We're not sure what's most surprising: that the Air Force cares about its Web2.0 Google's Chrome Experiments.

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Have We Crossed the Chasm yet? Org2.0 Cheat Sheet from Squidoo/Npower New York

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. It signals to me that we are beginning to cross the chasm in Web2.0 in nonprofit land. Or maybe not. Here's the online description: "A one-page cheat sheet with six cool (free) things you can do before the end of the day."