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.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Neff of the American Cancer Society, and Carie Lewis of the Humane Society offered insightful tricks for getting traffic, attention, and subscribers for their sites. Disclosure: Forum One built the site.): Then she encouraged the staffer running the site to reach out to 'mommy bloggers' by posting comments to their blogs.

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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. 2005 ) I had (wrongly) assumed that getting to the top of social news sites was a matter of dumb luck or that if something went viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). Chris suggests: Before you start the clock it is a good idea to benchmark where you’re at. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Earned media is media you don't “buy&# but earn the old-fashioned way - by taking the time to properly engage reporters, bloggers, and influentials about your issue. Earned media is comprised of coverage on: Blogs.

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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. Word of mouth, etc. Blog Searches: Technorati. You can also setup a RSS feed.

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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. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

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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. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs! When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

In " The Social Web Ain't Rocket Science " Worldchanging blogger Jon Lebkowsky reminds us that blogs, wikis, and social networking sites may not be appropriate for all nonprofits and that hype and pressure shouldn't drive adoption decisions or they may not be successful. The parody sites are sprouting up like mushrooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

There's a lot of resources, ideas, and discussion over at Stop Cyberbullying Site. Update your bookmarks: [link]. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. For Next Week's NpTech Tag Summary. NTC is just days away!

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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 ). nonprofit technology thought leader Marnie Webb created the NpTech Tag as a way for nonprofit techies to share bookmarks on del.icio.us. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. Don’t count out the smaller sites, as together with Twitter and Email, they account for 62% of social sharing. 2) Search is Still King. clicks and 1.7

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. While there are some sites, like YouTube, Wikipedia, and Flickr, that are fairly easy to understand, there are hundreds of others with no clear differentiated value. And even if you understand what a site does, what can it do for your museum?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. It's identified as a single user or submitter on the npdigg site, roborssfeed. Submitter - you can add a resource to the site directly by setting up an account. Sites like Ning.com. There are some new roles.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s Tell me a little bit about you I???m but now that we???ve

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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 I hope you can include Oxfam America Unwrapped on your site. Both HSUS and Oxfam’s primary efforts are on what Carie calls “the big four”: MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr.

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