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eMetrics Panel Slides, Notes, and Blog Posts: ROI of Blogging, Twitter, and Digg for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I also wanted to blog both Laura's excellent Twitter Digg deck and Jon's concise and smart case study of Digg.   Building Buzz Without a Budget View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.    They follow below. Why Twitter Matters View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own.

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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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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. The ability to build either an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink or a carefully crafted and functional community site becomes much more straightforward with open source. Open source builds community, and community, in turn, creates open source.

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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

So, you want to build a MashUp? 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. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results.

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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

NTEN

You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. digg social news. Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits.

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Go Inside the Mind of the Human Aggregator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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

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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

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.). I told her just to try it and see what happens.