Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Our biggest challenge as bloggers was getting off the soap box and into a facilitation role. But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Your champion is going to make some of the choices and challenges ahead of you a lot easier to overcome. They don't have to be social media butterflies, but they need to have influence and support in the organization. Who's your champion?

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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. Our challenge in the near future is to get ahead of the "hot new thing to do on the internet" and apply its utility to our campaign goals. They're familiar with it.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 8, 2006

Many of these are among the developers of the "new web" apps I've tried out over the last six months - Writely , 37 Signals , Digg - while others are companies with offerings I hadn't encountered yet. Writing for CNN's Business 2.0 last week he selected his 25 web companies to watch in the near future.

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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? America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! Beth's 51st Birthday Challenge. 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. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

If you read Michele Martin's excellent blog, you no doubt noticed her month-long comment challenge. She also describes some challenges she faced, including one that I can certainly identify with, "I can't think of anything to say!" On Day 28, she asked " What is your blog commenting strategy? Look forward. Look backward.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

freakishly high, we do analyze for things like the digg/slashdot effect, so if one post in someone's blog gets a really unusually high amount of engagement compared to the norm, we don't allow that to completely skew the analysis afterwards, e.g. "dooming" the next bunch of posts to a PostRank of 1.0 Should also note, re.

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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. She asked the audience how many people use formal ROI evaluations with regard to social media efforts.

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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. Techies often lapse into jargon (me included) and we're always challenging ourselves to speak english. Other sectors, like philanthropy, have vocabularly challenges as well. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Is there a creative thinking challenge? Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. What would you add to this list? What the heck does Einstein have to do with Social Media? This idea came to me from Twitter.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Addressing the Challenges So if you're someone (like me) who cares about sharing Web 2.0 Why waste your time learning how to use something that will be out the door tomorrow? The people who keep on top of Web 2.0 Can it attract more visitors?

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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. In turn, as these APIs are developed, they will become publicly available to anyone wishing to integrate other third party CMS systems into Convio FL: What are the main challenges to implementing Convio Open?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

And they challenged me and my colleagues to prove the value of our web strategy through constant testing and the presentation of hard-core data. The real challenge, of course, is to determine the meaning behind those numbers. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s t so risk-averse that they can???t But that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

A personal challenge typically issued as statement like "if we make our goal, I'll do or donate xyz" can also energize your campaign. I did this for my recent birthday campaign , using the Facebook Causes matching challenge that if our cause raised $5,200, I'd donate ten times my age or $520. Source: Beth Kanter, Flickr Account.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

A: The #1 challenge has been inventory. I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg. Q: What has the response been from advertisers for the call to action video project?

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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. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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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. We found our challenges and successes. 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. Till I found myself crying `Wow this is much easier than before -.

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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. There sure is. And what does the result look like?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. I don't think these reasons are enough to say no all together to social networks, but good to understand some of the challenges from a structural point of view. . - Got drunk together at conference, messed around, not sure how far it went. - Frequent teammate in flame wars. - t know them???

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