Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

You need to do some listening first - after setting up an individual profile, the search feature is your best friend or you may consider paid research services. Are there groups, Causes, or Fan Pages where people are talking about your organization your issue? Who set them up? .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

Think beyond your organization's employees when searching. How can the listener (or viewer) of the story be the catalyst or cause the catalyst to come about? It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. What are they trying to achieve? The hero need not be you!

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

He also said that showing a human face to a cause is incredibly powerful because it brings people, who would not have necessarily cared, to the nonprofit. Presenters included filmmakers and producers, who shared advice on best practices for video for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

The conversation focused largely on the Causes platform itself, along with the editorial and community features built-in to help nonprofits engage donors. With over 150 million installs, Causes is one of the largest apps on Facebook. An Example of Causes: Birthday Wish. Every Cause Is a Community. Singularity of focus.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

It can't be about the cause so much as the messenger. In the past, I've solicited mostly friends and family for fundraising causes. The message is really important and it has to focus on why you are passionate about the cause and the results of raising the money. I used the ChipIn campaign page feature. What do you do?

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? 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.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Participants will also be trained to make an impact in their blogs and on other Web sites such as Youtube, Myspace, Digg. Well report back in a few days. For now, its off to Boot Camp!

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

They tried the Causes challenge – seeking donors on Facebook – and her biggest takeaway was that influencers are more valuable than donors. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Find out what kind of monkey you are for a good cause. Convio or Causes? " 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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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? 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.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Make sure you are hooked up to an RSS reader such as Google Reader or Netvibes to monitor everything from Twitter to Blogs to what stories hit the front page of Digg. RSS feeds are your friends. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

You pick your topic, add a description of the collection, then you can begin searching for relevant articles and other media to include. provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube.

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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.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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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. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s s nearly identical to organic search traffic ??? and Cisco.com, and also caused ???spillover??? Facebook Causes.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! link] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks.

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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 Of the people that friend them, 29% found their page via search, and 13% came from their website. So far, the only real strategy to analyze besides creating groups is the Causes application.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We set up tracking with hashtags and keyword searches. We had a great cause. If your cause isn’t just, people will feel icky promoting it. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The focus is on: improving the effectiveness of the marketing strategy or content, not wasting limited resources, and having more people to take action (push for cause, donate money, or whatever). Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts. ” After you take action, you get sent to a landing page that asks you to share your own experience with having (or not having) Paid Sick Days.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace? 60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace?

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