Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

A (blog) conversation strategy is how you support and nurture a conversation on your blog in the comments. It is a combination of how you will comment on other blogs, how you track the conversation, and how you respond to comments on your blog. So, what's your replying to comments technique or strategy? Respond quickly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. Although I did learn from a commenter on Katya's post that I'm not alone - Flower Dust raised 1800 of it in 18 hours, 800 in 15 minutes). It got 189 diggs. Use feedback in action to adjust as you go. So, this is rough.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

As long as that number is growing, I can get some indication of the topics I'm writing about are of interest and that the time I spend responding to comments and leaving comments elsewhere helps build the regular readership community. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. re already here. And that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Everyone is invited to make any last minute plugs in the comments or trackbacks! How age coding can improve your fundraising effectiveness. In the comments, Michele Martin points to an interesting article " Saying You Can't Compete for Free Is Saying You Can't Compete " What is your take.on

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

Online organizing tools give us a way to connect with others in meaningful and effective ways, and to take responsibility for the communities that we know best. This pledge was initiated in Edinburgh, and created a really interesting side conversation in the comments section. those might be. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

From where I sit, the key to effective crisis communications is to follow the Boy Scouts motto: “Be Prepared.” 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. Reader Comments (4) Great tips, Jen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. Fear about letting the public comment back "publicly". There are many different tools to support this - from leaving comments on blogs or using twitter. Especially in this economy.

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NTEN

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. But putting the cart before the horse -- or tools before the strategy -- should be avoided to ensure the effectiveness of your campaigns. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this.

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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). How many people comment on posts? What is your post to comment ratio? Raw numbers aren't as important as trends) Unique Visitors.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. Traffic, comments, tweets and other means of engagement to record. Come measure success.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

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. Remember that the tagline’s purpose is to provoke interest. Once you’ve got someone’s attention you can do things with it. Make the site interactive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. I wonder which one is more effective or appropriate for MySpace culture - visual design or social design ? I particularly like the advice about how to use the comments for refining your point, a sort of thinking outloud and "Correct English be-damned" point. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg.

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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? Well have to wait and see what effects they might have, but one thing is for certain: Chad probably wont be allowed to vote anymore. We do care that your vote counts!

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