Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. " That's why the article grabbed my attention. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs! Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

Disclosure - I've written a few articles for the TechnoBuzz newsletter) But, that's not why I'm pointing you over there. So, I am thinking about some of the advice in that Nonprofit Times article on how to do this. Think beyond your organization's employees when searching. The NonProfit Times has an e-newsletter.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Tags can also be used to find resources such as photos, slide presentations, and articles to reference for use on your site. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 8, 2006

Many of these are among the developers of the "new web" apps I've tried out over the last six months - Writely , 37 Signals , Digg - while others are companies with offerings I hadn't encountered yet. Eurekster is a swiki - a customizable search engine you can tailor to your particular community and subject matter and host on your site.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. We deferred since it violates Diggs terms of service, but our opponents might not be so ethical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Meanwhile, a few scholarly articles on the topic. Jon Stahl's link list points to an article called " The Question " - The number-one question lurking in every executive???s He wrote up in his findings in an article here , following a link from down under ! How and Why Nonprofits Are Using Web2.0 and asking for ideas.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Participants will also be trained to make an impact in their blogs and on other Web sites such as Youtube, Myspace, Digg. People want to feel like the blog is speaking to them and they want to feel connected to the article. Well report back in a few days. Make your blog personable.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

While youre at it, the always fantastic Agitator blog posted a video article linking to new data and a helpful article showing how to save costs related to online video. Post a Comment | by Share Article in Video Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. Weve outlined three key take-aways below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? The article describes some mock ups and feature under consideration at Yahoo. Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. We deferred since it violates Diggs terms of service, but our opponents might not be so ethical.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Make sure you are hooked up to an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Netvibes to monitor everything from Twitter to Blogs to what stories hit the front page of Digg. This article was written by Jen Nedeau, Project Manager at New Media Strategies and blogger. Great article. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Articles on TechCrunch and AllFacebook revieiwng this data seem to focus on Facebook ‘s stronghold on the clickthroughs of shared links, at 38% of all links shared by social means. 2) Search is Still King. Takeaway: Ensure your nonprofit website is optimized for Search Engines. 3) Facebook Is Not The Only Social Network.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You pick your topic, add a description of the collection, then you can begin searching for relevant articles and other media to include. provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube. Why Scoop.it

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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. To campaign online successfully, one needs to do three things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I was happy to discover Laura Quinn's recently published and very good article on TechSoup, " A Few Web Analytics Tools." Since this screencast will only show how one tools works, Google Analytics , her article provides the larger context and summarizes the pros/cons of the complete range of tools. And, is it enough?

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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. Google Blog Search. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Post a Comment | by Share Article Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry. If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

How many times have you visited a museum site in search of a phone number or email address and woken up two hours later dizzy from the painful and ultimately unsuccessful phone system nightmare? When I read the New York Times online, each article's author's name is hotlinked and there is an easy and direct way to contact him/her.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! link] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. These stories are summarized and aggregated with some previous articles, posts, and resources about Nonprofits and MySpace here. Check out the articles, blog, and resources. Wiki That A Story Pitching Wiki at TechSoup is where you can submit your article ideas to editors. technologies.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts. Receive monthly updates 3 Comments | by Share Article in Online Advocacy , Online Fundraising , Online Organizing , Social Networking , Web 2.0 Seen a good action alert or fundraising appeal lately?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace? 2 Comments | by Share Article in Technology Reader Comments (2) We dont care how you vote - Republican, Democrat, Green or Libertarian. We do care that your vote counts!

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