Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Algorithms on other channels commonly push down business content to motivate businesses and nonprofits to pay. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media. Free advertising on social is almost extinct.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

It is an accepted convention on Twitter that too many hashtags is unhelpful and, in fact, makes a tweet look too busy and difficult to read. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

I've been busy trying to cram over 150 tech shirts into a suitcase to take to Cambodia so I missed this one. Institutional spokespeople who cultivate a useful reputation within a community like Facebook or Digg while acting on behalf of their employer are building a very personal equity. Ranger Rick Image from Facebook profile.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

But to preserve the all-business-all-the-time feeling of the popular site (current growth is at 1 million new accounts every 25 days) Nye has vowed: “We have no interest in doing it like Facebook with an open A.P.I. Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Although it is a slow time of year and the busy fundraising season is still several months away, there's been lots of activity in the social fundraising judging by these roundups of links from Peter Deitz and Tom Watson (not to mention all the items tagged in the nptech tag stream ). More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. It's authentic.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. If you are a journalist, analyst or academic in the business of understanding social media initiatives, you’ll find the 4Cs Framework really useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We'll also use the Idealware stats to demo a methodology that connects metrics to business questions. Of course, with nonprofits and perhaps businesses, there are intangibles that are not easily tracked. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. Some people call this continuous improvement. Was it worth it?

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3 Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. The Power of Partners Summit in NYC last week brought together business and nonprofits to embrace. This was a topic for an entire book called " Crazy Busy." Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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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. t just arbitrarily demand openness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. If you want to hear the business perspective, the phrase "find the right six or seven people" came from a talk that David Meerman Scott did at the New Marketing Summit.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

It demonstrates who uses the biggest social media tools – the gender, age, education and income of the people who engage with your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Digg and LinkedIn pages. So are you targeting women with your social media sites?

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Frank doesn't give people some office address behind a generic business name--you are writing to a real person at a real house. Fortunately, we're not in a life-or-death business, so we should feel even more assured that honesty, not marketing spin, might be the best policy for gaining trust. In the Web 2.0

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. I think many businesses want to embrace social, but are scared of making a mistake, and dont know how to monitor their results. pretty cool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

While written from a business or commercial perspective, Eric Enge has an article called " 9 Ways to Make Money on Analytics " which includes tips and suggestions for thinking about how the data can help you think through improvements that may lead to more donations or revenue. Unleash the Power of Web Analytics.???

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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. Planned attacks usually occur after business hours, so monitoring is not a 9-5 job. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Intent/Action: What is the most important goal or outcome of your organization, work, or business? Goal: What is your most important organizational, business, program, or project goal? A logic model.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

This is the last week of the Groundswell book discussion, in which we've been looking at five strategies (listening, talking, energizing, helping, and embracing) for business use of social technologies, as defined by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff. Half of the new features [in rollouts] now come from suggestions in IdeaExchange.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2007

Digg is a website that supports and cultivates “the people’s choice” from the ground up. to Digg that they think are awesome. Other users do the same, and or check out these new “diggs” on the site via connections they have to other members, interest areas, or general browsing. For example, go to the World and Business tab.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Business friend. ve done business together). Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. Family member. Partner (you???ve Members of an organization. Blogging buddy. Creepy high school acquaintance. - t remember, too embarrassed to admit it. - Let??? . - s face it, I don???t

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Their recent alert about how businesses would save $8.2 There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts. No, I cant right now “- Takes you to the page to make a one-time donation.

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