Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." 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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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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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

My head is spinning from a rapid infusion of knowledge gleaned from three days at the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco. (My Several of us from Forum One spoke at the conference, and we'll share more about our sessions over the next few days. s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

IN two weeks, I will have the honor of presenting at the E-Metrics Conference with Jonathon Coleman, Nature Conservancy and Laura Lee Dooley.   Jonathan will focus on using Digg.  Photo by Smitty42. World Resources Institute - two of the savvy and smart nonprofit social media practitioners who are also metrics geeks. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

Nancy White just sent me this note about a conference call on Monday about the topic. There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. This week on the NpTech Tag call, the idea of social search was referenced. chaff, the chaff wins.

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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. " It goes on to describe a panel discussion from the MIT Emerging Technology Conference that featured what Rashmi might describe as "object-based social networks." I know you and you know her and i connect to you, I can be connected to her.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! I loved that idea. So much so that I'm stealing, I mean borrowing it. once which was a trip.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference I attended a group discussion breakfast about personal vs. professional branding. While at WWD I had my posts make it to the front page of Digg a few times, and the front page of Yahoo! I loved that idea. So much so that I'm stealing, I mean borrowing it. once which was a trip.

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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. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

My most recent experiment involved Twitter, fundraising, and an integrated offline component at the Gnomedex Conference in Seattle. By the end of the conference, the total had climbed to $3,774. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs.

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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

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

At Beyond Broadcast Conference keynote, Henry Jenkins , used the term " astro turf " to refer to "participatory media" made by big business. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

If you're at the conference, hand me an index card the URL of a web resource that you discovered in a session or informal conversation, write a brief description, and hand it to me while at the conference. David Wilcox gives a killer keynote at the UK Nonprofit Technology Conference Pathways to Success. There's also dogooder.tv

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. Some more post conference write ups and live blog posts from smArts & Culture and Len Edgerly. And if Web 2.0 pushes your buttons, why not push a few Web2.0

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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

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. But at least they were preserved) An early video from the Riders Conference in Kansas City in 2000 was discovered on Blip.TV.

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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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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

sessions at NTEN, Nonprofit Technology Conference in New Orleans last week. 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). I went to several Web 2.0 I attended two of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I'm also prepping for a panel session I'll be doing at the Museum Computer Network Conference later this fall on Web Analytics. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. We'll also use the Idealware stats to demo a methodology that connects metrics to business questions. re already here. m gaining 50-100 new friends a week.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

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. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

You have until April 6th to nominate a project to be featured at the Netsquared 2007 Conference. With lots of conferences coming up in the next few weeks, head over to Techsoup and read these two articles - How To Deliver A Bad Presentation and How To Design A Bad Presentation. Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

I got involved with PledgeBank in April 2007, after a chance meeting with Tom Steinberg, mySociety's founder/director, at a conference on e-campaigning in Oxford, England during the winter of 2006. It's a project of a nonprofit organization called mySociety , based in the UK. How can PledgeBank help me and other bloggers change the world?

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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. Congrats to Avaaz.org for the winning video in the NTC Video Contest.

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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. To create content that is appealing to a certain group of people, you need to know what they’re talking about, what they feel, what they eat, drink and dream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 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. The example I'm using is an excerpt from a blog benchmarking process and presentation that I gave at e-metrics conference in October. Now it is your turn.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

was coined in 2005 and has a Wikipedia page and several bloggers, conferences, and active debates surrounding it. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. I've been doing some reading recently about 2.0 on the library side of the fence. It's fascinating: the term "Library 2.0"

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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. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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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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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.) technologies are still a major part of the Click experience, but they are more narrowly focused on conferring authority to the public rather than providing a social experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

He called out Kevin Rose of digg fame to shave his head for charity. The most recent example comes from Holly Ross, Executive Director of NTEN, who is willing to loose her dignity to help $10,000 for the Nonprofit Technology Conference scholarship fund. Gary Vaynerchuk. She will eat a whole one. In Union Square. In Daylight.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

At the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we -- Carie Lewis , Beth Kanter , David J. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Got drunk together at conference, messed around, not sure how far it went. - Got drunk together at conference, messed around, absolutely horrifically certain how far it went. Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. . - Creepy high school acquaintance. - t remember, too embarrassed to admit it. - s face it, I don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. from Kathy Sierra is a good reminder that attending conferences in person provides something very essential - inspiration. I think wikis can be excellent tools to create a resource as a conference session handout. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery.

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Care2

APRIL 20, 2009

There is also a series of blog posts from other moms and a Digg button front and center to promote the blog posts. ” After you take action, you get sent to a landing page that asks you to share your own experience with having (or not having) Paid Sick Days.

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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? 60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace?

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