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. RSS feeds are your friends.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

with those sorta annoying little icons for "sharing" with Digg, StubbledUpon, etc. Tags: Communication. -in logical sections/pieces so discrete (groups of) ideas can be linked to. with feature for people to comment on the text. with social media tie-ins woven in, such as for FaceBook (looking for ideas on how best to do thi?).

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

While paid advertising is a very effective way to increase your list of supporters and help brand your organization to target audiences, earned media is another key tactic to deploy in your overall online communications strategy. As you begin to build your relationships, it’s also important that you be strategic in your communications.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

While paid advertising is a very effective way to increase your list of supporters and help brand your organization to target audiences, earned media is another key tactic to deploy in your overall online communications strategy. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. What is Earned Media? Tweets on Twitter.

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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. So, think about how you can communicate impact and add value to your conversations on social.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Tags: NPTech NTEN Social Media Communications. Examples of niche social networks include: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

technology tool, but the oldest communication method known to human beings - stories! It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. This came just in the nick of time as I'm remixing my Web 2.0 workshops for July. These are all on the on the topic of Web2.0 tools and fund raising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

many organizations are initially focusing on using social media as a communication and awareness tool. It's not merely just another communication channel. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Don't repeat the same mistakes. This is evolutionary ? not revolutionary.

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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 [.] 25 May 2007 Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits. Take a look.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

It's look at what's wrong with public relations in an age of social media, a complete social media primer from the perspective of those who work in communications, and lots of incredibly useful information about the art of listening and metrics for the web 2.0

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Brian’s big point was that there’s a lot of noise to cut through and to engage people you must deploy quality, focused, niche communications. You must be a credible member of the community sharing useful information and thoughtful comments before anyone will respond to your asks. Most importantly, participate with authenticity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss. When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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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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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Well report back in a few days.

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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

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. And this might not be a money revolution, but it is most certainly a communications revolution. re now able to reach out to people, communicate in a rich fashion, and build stronger relationships using these tools. re already here. m gaining 50-100 new friends a week.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

3) How to Go Viral Eddie Kurtz, the communications associate at Brave New Films , discussed how to make video go viral. 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.

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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? What Happens When You Treat Social Media Like Communications Media? 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

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Any community, online or otherwise, is about communication between individuals. As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I scanned, uploaded, and organized photos of Leng as well as our communications into photo sets on flickr. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. In the descriptions, I added the URL to the campaign page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Digital Storytelling, Media, and Communications. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. Andy Carvin: Participate in Stopy Cyerbullying Day. TwitterVision and Twitterfeed.com. My Name Is Nonprofit Curmudgeon and I am an Anonymous Coward. TechSoup hosted an online event about digital story telling.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. He studied Communication and Information Sciences at Tilburg University (The Netherlands) and started a successful online communications consultancy in 1999 before joining Oxfam in 2003.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2008

These may include: A worry that social media is less controlled than traditional communications - and a lack of trust in letting staff put unchecked material out in public. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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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. Without APIs to unlock the data in their constituent and donor databases, nonprofit organizations had difficulty maximizing the value of their data in their communications and fundraising strategies.

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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. If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago. " Nancy White's slides from TALO and some audio from Nothern s about the new rules for online communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

When I saw the title of this post, " I'm Engaged ," I thought he was talking about the report that The Network Centric Advocacy Blog mentions as a must-read for advocacy and communication staff called Activation Point. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? Social networking burnout?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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. could become a very interesting space for real time data in situations of natural disaster and crisis communications. button to your bookmarks bar). I think Scoop.it

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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. ??? Tell me about some of the strategies you've used to integrate social media into your communications campaigns -- and tell me how you measure success? a lot of our initial efforts weren???t

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

" Communicating with Your Members. Access brings you bulletins, donation tracking, custom fundraising project creation, petitions, communication with donors, and administrative options. " Jen returned to this theme later: the importance of communicating a cause through real, visible actions. "Free Data!"

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. link] What are some of your favorite social media tracking tools? Its definitely worth mentioning in this post. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

The Strategy by David Neff of Ridgewood: Ingenious Communication Strategies If 2009 was the year everyone and their mom jumped into the social media pool, then 2010 is the year of strategy. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

Called “Web 2.0 – New Outreach and Fundraising Techniques,” the topic of this workshop is something every nonprofit marketing manager and online communications professional wants to talk about. However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

So there I was, sitting lonely needing support, but thinking only, For Social media change we needed to move past communication days of yore. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream".

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