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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

why does someone spend so much time in a game world customising their avatar???? 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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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

NTEN

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. When people logged in on Fridays, they saw hundreds of frozen pea avatars from people who were fighting breast cancer. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Remember that the tagline’s purpose is to provoke interest. Once you’ve got someone’s attention you can do things with it.

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