NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

You can listen for mentions of your organization, products you sell, your executive director or a figurehead’s name, special events you are running, causes you support, campaigns you are managing, and so on. Campaigns you’re managing. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. Mentions of your organization.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

One of the big questions I often get asked by nonprofit campaigners is “how do I know if our blog and social media are succeeding and resonating with people?&# It provides a: Breakdown of networks (Delicious, Digg, Facebook, etc) and you’re super users for these sites as well as tips on how to engage the audience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

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. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

traffic source, campaign, browser). bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. As Google Analytics explains, the Goal Flow visualizer will facilitate a comprehensive plan about: The relative volume of visits to your site by the dimension you choose (e.g. The rates at which visitors abandon different pathways. emailing to friends. commenting.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

60) Search « New Research Findings: Advocacy Groups More Trusted | Main | Social Actions: How to Pitch Yourself in Two Minutes » Wednesday Jun 11 2008 Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 11:52AM | by Hatef Yamini Campaigning online. I will now give you the plain and simple answer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources. I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

When the Washington Post writes about health care reform or corporate accountability is your campaign mentioned? They are still extremely useful in branding your campaigns so take advantage of them. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.". s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. Several of us from Forum One spoke at the conference, and we'll share more about our sessions over the next few days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

I've seen this first hand -- I don't engage deeply on MySpace - yet some of my donors for the Cambodian campaign who heard about on Facebook and shared it with their friends on MySpace. Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

With so many potential connections and over 104 social media networks, utilizing this powerful communication channel to support your campaign or event may feel overwhelming. Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Connect your social to overarching campaign goals. Fear not, as help is on the way!

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

When the Washington Post writes about health care reform or corporate accountability is your campaign mentioned? Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. .&# Think about it. When the NYT writes about climate change is your environmental group quoted? Media outlets both online and offline. Tweets on Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. What happens is that you share your message with enthusiastic supporters and they in turn may choose to pass it to others with a similar a interest in your organization or campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The My Barack Obama community was built around Barack Obama’s presidential campaign. community was built around a series of videos Amber Lee Ettinger made to support Obama’s campaign. Other initiatives, like Vote Report India or the Pink Chaddi Campaign , start off with a strong focus on Collaboration around a specific event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

It's the same reason they don't allow messaging to group members after your group surpasses 1,000 (except for the paid political campaigns) -- because their analysis is that this would be troublesome for users, i.e. lead to a lot of spamming by the big groups.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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. How did you incorporate the use of video in your campaign? We got great coverage on the series of worker stories in the Houston janitors campaign. What were the goals?

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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

AUGUST 28, 2008

Here's some numbers: 30% repeat donors to a Leng Sopharath campaign. Right before I went on the state, I sent an IM to two really connected people who I had just helped with their campaigns - and asked them to retweet it. Viral and word of mouth campaigns often rely on buzz and flash to spread. It got 189 diggs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. The campaign. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates.

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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 ). And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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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

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Beaconfire Blog, " The Twilight of Direct Mail " provides an analysis of the role of direct mail in Obama Campaign. More coverage in the blogosphere and beyond here. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Then I spent another hour going back through the 1,000 plus blog posts and pulling out those that scored in the "best range" which was 8, 9, or 10. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I got involved with PledgeBank in April 2007, after a chance meeting with Tom Steinberg, mySociety's founder/director, at a conference on e-campaigning in Oxford, England during the winter of 2006. It's a project of a nonprofit organization called mySociety , based in the UK. How can PledgeBank help me and other bloggers change the world?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Generate Buzz : When you share your message with enthusiastic supporters, they in turn may choose to pass it to others with a similar interest in your organization or campaign. I hope they share a case study about all this! The key benefit is that drives traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Where Most Needed blogs about the Combined Federal Campaign. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. Others suggest that numbers alone don't tell the story. What do you think? Phillip Smith has a thoughtful post about the continuum of change ranging from entitlement to enterprise. Goodness2.0 ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. " This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. I recommend reading the report " A Network of Networks: Email Lists, Nature Protection, and Pollution Control " it explores the value of email lists as well as next-generation online communities like Digg, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? ve laid the foundation, we can get a huge response from these networks for our campaigns. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s t exactly home runs ??? But that???s

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

We do a lot of brand-sponsored campaigns, like with Campbell's Soup and General Mills. For instance, they can sponsor a campaign where if you join Campbell Soup's cause, they donate a pound of food. I was most recently at Digg. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Fun and humor, used in the right way and in the appropriate context, can help boost your social fundraising campaign. A personal challenge typically issued as statement like "if we make our goal, I'll do or donate xyz" can also energize your campaign. Can this work for larger campaign goals? that it was time to do it again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

-Step 1: Goals for the web site as guides to the data collection -Step 2: Research questions to frame your data collection (why/what around your outcomes) -Step 3: Analytics software tool to collect data -Step 4: Pick reports to answer your research questions -Step 5: Action that improve your web site performance or marketing campaign effectiveness.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

Neff and Jordan Viator -- had the great opportunity to lead a session entitled " The Real Housewives of Social Media " Funny Photoshopped pictures were displayed of us, we sported aprons to hype the theme, and we shared information and case studies on various aspects of social media campaigning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Last week, we helped out our friends at Visible Government with their Beers for Canada campaign. In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. From the outset, this was a short-term campaign built around a single day.

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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 Tim says MySpace is not good for fundraising, although we have seen some examples of orgs running successful fundraising campaigns, such as Dollars for Darfur. On YouTube : everyone loves video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Social Media helps your campaign bounce to a different beat. Makes your campaign quite l33t. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. foot in the grave.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. Josh and Charlene give the example of a French bank that created a marketing campaign called "If I were a banker" (in French). Half of the new features [in rollouts] now come from suggestions in IdeaExchange.

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