Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog. Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Blogs can help you work faster.

Benefit 50

Benefit Stumbleupon Newsletter Digg 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

The origin of this phrase was a blog post announcing BackType Connect , " a one-stop destination for retrieving comments on just about any topic across a wide variety of blogging platforms and social services." The conversation graph is the mapping of conversations and how they're related across social platforms and blogs.

Conversation 50

Conversation Life Social Stats 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2009

Carie Lewis, HSUS Social Networking Maven I just discovered that Carie Lewis of HSUS has a blog ! Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords. Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool. Digg - shows most popular articles on the web. Better yet, she shared her listening techniques.

Tools 92

Tools Digg Technorati Org 92

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

tags: blogging nptech ).     I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg.    I've done it with a lot of story telling and loads of humor. 

Metrics 56

Metrics ROI Community Help 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. I recently commented on Emily Williamson's blog. Source: Skelliewag.

Conversation 50

Conversation Strategy Comment Facilitation 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

Case Study 50

Case Study Stumbleupon Studies Digg 50

Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

Read the full interview with him on Britt's blog! It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times." "–David Cohn, Founder, Spot.us.

Web 100

Web Delicious Bookmarking Case Study 100

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network. " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

Iran 100

Iran Digg Web Bookmarking 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

Summary of Cross-Blog Discussion on NpTech Tag. The proposed call agenda is here. To catch up, read the summary here and to read the most recent thoughts -- see Gavin's newest post here and Emily's reflections here. January 12, 2007.

Mashup 50

Mashup Nptech Tag Digg 50

NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them? Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. 3tyuxpqbwg khgf89n3cu.

Social Media 171

Social Media Media Social RSS 171

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

I noticed that Google added a new feature where you can comment on a search engine result and like DIGG either promote it or demote it. The YouTube Video describes the feature and the official blog post will tell you how it works. You can customize the search results page too.

Google 50

Google Digg Policy YouTube 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's a good round up of links to blog posts and articles by other nonprofit techies and SEO mavens. For more NpTech Talk, see this roundup over at the NTEN blog. The Chronicle sets up a twitter account to broadcast links to blog posts. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results.

Nptech 50

Nptech Slides Summary Tag 50

Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz.

Hunger 120

Hunger Web America Case Study 120

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. Once a year in June, I do an overall benchmarking and ROI analysis of my blog using particular metrics. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Nonprofit Blogging Policies.

ROI 50

ROI Widget Metrics Cambodia 50

NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

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. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.). Tip: Did you notice a spike in traffic from any particular blog? She provides a resource.

Social Media 76

Social Media Generation Media Digg 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

Reddit 50

Reddit Digg Sudan Remix 50

Care2

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

60) Search « Lean, Mean Blogging Machines | Main | Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad » Friday Nov 10 2006 Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) Friday, November 10, 2006 at 01:37PM | by Mark Source: Spirit Bear Youth Coalition. By: Simon Jackson.

Digg 28

Digg Social Media News Advocacy 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Goal: To understand how to use blogging and video blogging tools to strategically tell your organization’s story or get others to share the story. Goal: To understand how to use tools like Twitter and Digg to quickly and virally spread your organization’s messages. Chat Leader: David Neff. Generating Buzz.

Digg 81

Digg Storytelling Social Media Channel 81

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users?

Social Network 71

Social Network Network Digg Myspace 71

See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.]

Myspace 40

Myspace Digg FAQ Newsletter 40

Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

A link from a blog post? bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. Check out the Google Analytics blog to stay on top of the newest tools and exciting changes. The Goal Flow, on the other hand, helps you to understand the dynamics of your site. traffic source, campaign, browser). emailing to friends. liking your site on Facebook.

Analytics 74

Analytics Google Digg Bookmarking 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs? How does he find and pick feeds? How can you catch his eye with your posts? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships?

Aggregator 50

Aggregator Mind Digg RSS 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

Change 100

Change Open Source Journal Digg 100

See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

NTEN 45

NTEN Web Case Study Stumbleupon 45

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. I saw this on her blog. When you are reading this blog in a reader, to you use the feed flare options? Nick asked the question.

Screencast 50

Screencast Digg Content Typepad 50

Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Issues Dynamic, Inc.

Social Media 28

Social Media Advocacy Digg Jordan 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources? Micro Media: Any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.

Stumbleupon 50

Stumbleupon Tools Reddit Digg 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

In this case, it's Kevin Rose of digg fame. They did, so she did. Gary Vaynerchuk has come up with a variation on this and he isn't shaving his head. He's calling out someone else to shave their head. Meanwhile, if you want to help out DonorsChoose.org and use wordpress, here's something that doesn't require you (or Kevin Rose) to shave.

Digg 50

Digg Plugin WordPress Charity 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. Fortune Magazine blog has a post last week called " Are We Moving Away from traditional social networking? And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site.

Digg 50

Digg Stumbleupon Slides Slideshare 50

Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

In this context I'd say "idea discovery", or "policy discovery" is enhanced by having that content get picked up and commented on, cut-n-pasted into blog posts, snippets linked to from course curricula, woven into other people's work, etc. with those sorta annoying little icons for "sharing" with Digg, StubbledUpon, etc.

Policy 51

Policy Impact Digg Mashup 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

And the Bakul Foundation, the creators of the pledge, set up a blog to document their work that has great pictures of the library. 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. 1) Be as concrete and specific as possible.

Money 50

Money Pledge Advice Raise 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. I also mentioned the desire to have some collaborative filtering - like digg, perhaps using pligg as Allan Benamer and Marshall had suggested. When I mentioned this, Jerry suggested I take a look at Dabbledb -- especially the screencast on analyzing digg data with it.

Nptech 50

Nptech Search Digg Tag 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate. " It was a remix of Scoble's white board.

Social Media 50

Social Media Conversation Remix Digg 50

Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Leave comments on blogs. Blog Searches: Technorati. Word of mouth, etc.

Track 41

Track Social Media Media Advocacy 41

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

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.

Social Network 50

Social Network Network Digg Myspace 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

Social Media 50

Social Media Media Social ROI 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. Check out Nick's post and let's send a little blog buzz his way. Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0 and the ps3 tag. Since PS3s are impossible to find at this point, this may be one of the few ways left for gamers to get one.

Homeless 50

Homeless Spain Digg People 50