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JUNE 15, 2012

Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action. This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2007

We also discussed the aggregation and publishing side and some initial goals for the NPTech Community site. Many useful observations and questions raised about how to analyze the tagging data we've collected and how to move from a folksonomy to a taxonomy. NpTech Conference Call Notes. January 19, 2007 Marnie Webb puts out a call for a call.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2009

You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. digg social news. Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

When asked about social news sites like Digg, Jonathon says: "The type of things we post regularly on Digg and Netscape and Newsvine are real-world events, announcements, and discoveries ??? re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change. However, take one little step outside of our warm and fuzzy community into the larger technology community, and things change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 6, 2008

Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate. " It was a remix of Scoble's white board. I'm seeing a remix of the Social Media Game cards.

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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). Concentrated audience : Someone or some issue has gathered a community together related to your issue or cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today. Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  Micro Media: Any form of concentrated content created using social tools that broadcast text, voice, images, or video to targeted Web and mobile communities.   Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Jen Burton, Community Director of Causes Fundraising Focus: Facebook. Jen recently spoke at TechSoup’s Online Community Meetup. Jen Burton leads the community and support efforts for Causes.com. She loves interacting with communities online. The Guest Speakers for NPLive: Fundraising. More About Our Speakers.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 5, 2007

The non-profit community has had a special romance with a variety of collaborative tools that have often been lumped together under the rubric of Web 2.0. This includes wiki-style collaborative posting, social bookmarking and "voting" on the importance of article or comments alla Digg.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Her strategy was first to understand the core community of this NWF micro-site namely parents keen on taking their children outdoors. s community using Twitter. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. They actively engaged the site?s Finally, she submitted the site?s The results?

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Pose thought-provoking questions that will help spur discussions amongst the community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0 and the ps3 tag.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Community Building and Social Networking: You build relationships online, nurture a community, engage people and inspire them to take an action, or raise money using social networks and apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). A baseline is a measurement that you can use as a comparison to measure progress against a goal or do before/after comparisons. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. A community tag stream. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. Rashmi called this "just a social graph" (or just a social network). Viral sharing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Because I'm thinking about tagging from the perspective of online communities of practice, I found this bit in the report interesting. I'm very interested in the how communities form, the behaviors, the ecosystem of the community as well as the practical how tos. " There is a section about tagging. lots to ponder here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community. Instead of getting distracted by the tools and the terminologies, I focus on the four underlying themes in social media, the 4Cs of social media: Content, Collaboration, Community and Collective Intelligence. The Third C: Community.

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Care2

APRIL 13, 2009

Essentially, this means not only checking your Google Alerts, but also knowing the influencers in your community. 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. Don’t be a lurker.

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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 ). The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. 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

JANUARY 24, 2007

There is an interest in a community filtering concept. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. Some discussion around how a community developed taxonomy could be helpful to facilitate shared publishing between web sites. I found that idea exciting!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Engagement: This is defined as the amount of time a person either participates within a dedicated or hosted Web community or service related to your brand, or interacts with someone from your organization online.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

I hope that they will be able to continue to enrich our community which is why I am writing about Idealist.org today. In an appeal to the community late last week, the org's founder Ami Dar, wrote: Over the past ten years, most of our funding has come from the small fees we charge organizations for posting their jobs on Idealist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. From Comments as Group Discussion by Skelliwag. 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

In the book People to People Fundraising , I talked about the "Changing Nature of Community" and how "never before have people been able to transcend the physical boundaries of location, language, or other limitations to connect with one another in such powerful ways." Communities matter. Social networking matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Institutional spokespeople who cultivate a useful reputation within a community like Facebook or Digg while acting on behalf of their employer are building a very personal equity. After all, if somebody wants to read organizational boilerplate, they'll visit your homepage.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

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. For example, Community United Against Violence used a blog to cover the trial of men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a woman they killed after they discovered that she was biologically male.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

I'm the session designer and I got a couple of rock stars from the video blogging community with us - Jay Dedman , Ryan Hodson , Jonny Goldstein , Andy Carvin , and Robyn Tippins to lead the session. In a few weeks, there will be a video blogging geekout session at NTC. So, over the last month, I've been looking for examples.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

This post was authored by Matt Fairchild who is an online community manager experienced in growing social, mobile, and competitive gaming communities. He blogs about community management. Jen introduced Causes' Birthday Wish feature as the first example of how the Causes community can use social structures to create value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. For example, Community United Against Violence used a blog to cover the trial of men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a woman they killed after they discovered that she was biologically male. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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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. Eurekster is a swiki - a customizable search engine you can tailor to your particular community and subject matter and host on your site.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Bloggers Who Create Community Award. Online Community Engagement Strategies. 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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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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