Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. While each of these channels has their own mechanisms and conventions for using tags the primary function of those tags remains the same - organizing content.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? If so, you may want to set up a YouTube channel. You may want to give Twitter a try.

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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

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. Qui Diaz talks about the importance of multi-channel campaigns and experimentation. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories). In StumbleUpon, she saw results from being the source of quality, relevant info. I have embedded Danielle’s PowerPoint below.

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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

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. An analysis of the back channel from Michael Gilbert.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Community sites often maintain this back-channel discussion with users after launch, letting them know about scheduled outages and ways they are addressing community concerns (for example, the Second Life blog and community meetings). In the Web 2.0 And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness.

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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. Collected hundreds of “thanks” from people affected via Twitter and regular channels saying the info we provided on newsroom helped them navigate their situation better. It's just another channel, another avenue, another street. foot in the grave.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Now the ideas were channeled and directed by the groundswell of Salesforce.com's own customers. The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. Half of the new features [in rollouts] now come from suggestions in IdeaExchange.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. Leigh Blackall has some great rumblings on his Vision for Wikieducator , but goes onto explain how wikis can be a channel for bringing in content from other sources and being able to broadcast them out on RSS. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

Timely And Channels The Public’s Anger "The truth is, shifting away from dirty energy is great for working families—and its essential to rebuilding our tanking economy. There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts. Here’s what hooked me.

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