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Great reads from around the web on August 5th

Amy Sample Ward

" Marshall Kirkpatrick explains: "Yahoo's social bookmarking service Delicious launched a new home page this morning, combining recent tagging activity and cross-referenced links on Twitter to deliver what it calls the hottest news from around the web in real time. Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. Save Yourself Time.

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Social Media Case Study Slam Panel at NTC 08: Danielle Brigida, NWF - A Case Study on Traffic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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Confessions from Social Media Experts

Forum One

During the sesison, social marketing experts Danielle Brigida of the National Wildlife Federation, David J. Next they used stumbleupon.com, a social bookmarking site, to 'thumb up' the sites pages to improve search engine ranking by increasing inbound links. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service.

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What's Your Social Media Baseline?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). How much are you paying to acquire customers via other marketing channels? Make a note of ROI benchmarks.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it. And as readers start to respond -- commenting, tweeting, bookmarking, etc., Should also note, re.

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Digital Life Hacks: Savvy Social Media

Connection Cafe

As usage numbers continue to grow across all age groups, it is safe to say that social media has become an essential element of digital marketing. Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Pinterest and Flipboard are for bookmarking and content sharing. Did you know there are now over 2.3