Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

This trip, I carried over two large suitcases of technology t-shirts for the Cambodian Bloggers that were donated by the generous readers of my blog and included nonprofits and web2.0 There were more than enough t-shirts for the Cambodian bloggers (probably enough for some bloggers to get more than one). Like street hawkers.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is media you dont “buy” but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name. Word of mouth, etc. Blog Searches: Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Our biggest challenge as bloggers was getting off the soap box and into a facilitation role. But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2009

era has a whole other language – like Digg, Blogger, Facebook and Twitter. The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Do You Speak Geek? Do Your Donors?It It seems like the Web 2.0 But these technologies are shaped by a fundraising cornerstone – personal relationships.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Where Are The Gen-Y Bloggers Who Write About Nonprofits and Social Change? Why Nhung Sun, A Cambodian Blogger, Supports The Sharing Foundation. Bloggers Who Create Community Award. Advice on How To Not Pitch Bloggers. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can also participate vicariously through bloggers by encouraging them to write about your organization. (10 Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Tools to help you participate are Twitter and Co-Comment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? " This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Thank Yous So far, other bloggers have added the badge to their site or linked to the campaign and I want say a big thanks and in Khmer too ! I wanted to start with my blog readers and nonprofit tech colleagues and Cambodian blogger colleagues. I am technology trainer, evaluator, curriculum developer, and blogger.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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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. to 5:00 p.m.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real. The First Step Get a champion in the organization. They don't have to be social media butterflies, but they need to have influence and support in the organization.

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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. When another blogger links to it on their blog. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Traffic: Suggests partnering with the web team and using analytics software to track the referrals of unique visitors to site from a site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? Which one worked best? And if you???re

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Here's what some nonprofit technology bloggers posted - Paul Lamb , Allison Fine , and Deborah Finn. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. 1cent thoughts on NPTech is another anonymous nonprofit blogger and has a post " Is technology meant to be more than a set of best practices?"

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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. Water Words That Work - an excellent nonprofit video blogger.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

If you're a blogger, there are also ways that you can craft your posts to encourage more commenting and conversation. One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. Look forward. Look backward. Ask what if?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement?

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. See3 has run many successful video contests (a few examples here , here and here ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

There are other nonprofit bloggers who do not use their real names. Britt Bravo wrote a post called "Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers" a while back. The Pulling My Hair Out Blog , an anonymous nonprofit blogger, is preparing a proposal for the organization's ED about Web2.0 See below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I get spikes here and there when well-known bloggers link to me in a post or interview or a link is in a news article, but the effect is temporary. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. I'm also stealing a line from Chris Brogan that I will add to the end of my posts.

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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. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker. Monitor the Results.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

Post a Comment | by Share Article in Video Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

How can PledgeBank help me and other bloggers change the world? 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. At its most basic, PledgeBank is a positive peer pressure tool. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0"

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us On blogging and blogger outreach : They both moderate every single comment on the blog (they recommend not to allow auto-posting), and someone responds personally to each comment.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Wordpress, Typepad, Blogger, Convio CMS) Microblogging enables real-time sharing of "bite-size" information, quick news, and update links and real-time collaboration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We told a few key bloggers and Twitter personalities about it beforehand; then, on June 30, we started talking about it online. The timeframe also meant that most blog coverage only hit on July 1st (and thanks to all the bloggers who covered us!). Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. How it worked.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. Well known blogger and social media guru, Robert Scoble adds all friends. . - Got drunk together at conference, messed around, not sure how far it went. - Got drunk together at conference, messed around, absolutely horrifically certain how far it went. Frequent teammate in flame wars. -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. " It goes to provide strong encouraging words for new bloggers to jump in there. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. technologies.

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