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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

There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Putting the Public Back in PR - New Book from Brian Solis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Cautions against it not being a popularity contest, but the number grows because people get some value from part of an active, informative, and value-driven community.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » NTEN Does Web 2.0

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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). See3 has run many successful video contests (a few examples here , here and here ). Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 Our Flickr photo contest. The real value from this particular success on Digg wasn???t t exactly home runs ???

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm writing this post for the benefit of our "Twitter Backchannel Moderators" who will be live tweeting the panel and posting these URLs to Twitter. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. Come measure success. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 5: Embracing

Museum 2.0

The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. Many staff react against this, saying that curation is the museum's job and shouldn't be reduced to a popularity contest. Half of the new features [in rollouts] now come from suggestions in IdeaExchange.

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