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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

These overall strategies aren't anything new in the marketing world: social media is just a new way to do old business. It involves method, just like anything else. 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. Know Your Goals.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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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Web Analytics Webinar from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We'll also use the Idealware stats to demo a methodology that connects metrics to business questions. Methods for listening to conversations off-blog and outside my media. Of course, with nonprofits and perhaps businesses, there are intangibles that are not easily tracked. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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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How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Marketing Genius: What's Your Brilliant Thought?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

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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Screencast Treatment: Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The method by which this tool monitors traffic results in lower numbers (such as fewer visitors, and fewer page views) than some other methods. Stats are better for long term trends or very short events (like measuring a "digg effect" or getting Tech Crunched). Unleash the Power of Web Analytics.???