Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

He talks about the benefits of both putting book content online *and* also allowing people to engage/comment/mashup the text. This also applies well to what a lot of our clients who are focused on accomplishing - trying to have their policy analysis content reach the widest possible audiences and have the largest possible impact.

Policy 51

Policy Impact Digg Mashup 51

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? . 

Stumbleupon 50

Stumbleupon Tools Reddit Digg 50

Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. interacting with a slideshow (such as the rotating content on many home pages). Blast Advanced Media explores some of the site interactions that you will now be able to track with events as goals (though some of these options require additional tracking code setup): printing pages. watching videos.

Analytics 74

Analytics Google Digg Bookmarking 74

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.

Social Network 50

Social Network Network Digg Myspace 50

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Hone in on the ones where your supporters are and where they are most likely to engage with your content. Think about the type of content you have to share and which social channels are most appropriate for that type of content. Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Use the tools provided.

Social Media 29

Social Media Digital Life Media 29

Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. Adding tags to content, whether blog post; video; photo; and so on, helps content creators organize content and, more importantly, helps your intended audience find it on the Internet.

Tag 61

Tag Social Media Bookmarking Delicious 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I usually do this in a room with a quick poll, but I wanted to push myself to create the content based on their questions. But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content. In A Museum?

Social Media 101

Social Media Time Media Remix 101

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

So when Scoop.it , a new content curation platform, hit the web recently, the #CommBuild network seemed like the perfect place to try it out. In fact, the web is so full of information that many organizations are finding it useful to pull together topic-specific content on the web and make it available in one place. I think Scoop.it

Content 186

Content Tools Digital Bookmarking 186

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

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 First C: Content. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. Next they used stumbleupon.com, a social bookmarking site, to 'thumb up' the sites pages to improve search engine ranking by increasing inbound links. They actively engaged the site?s s community using Twitter. Finally, she submitted the site?s The results?

Social Media 51

Social Media San Francisco Media Social 51

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

Benefit 76

Benefit Stumbleupon Newsletter Digg 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. content creation??? ???It's It's an emerging rule of thumb that suggests that if you get a group of 100 people online then one will create content, 10 will "interact" with it (commenting or offering improvements) and the other 89 will just view it.

Ratio 50

Ratio Tag Community Online 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing. " I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. Just need the attribution). Put Yourself on Youtube.

New York 50

New York Remix Digg Widget 50

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).

Digg 77

Digg Summary Nptech Change 77

NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Contributing on-topic content is usually appreciated. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Examples of niche social networks include: .

Social Network 74

Social Network Network Social Demographics 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

In fact, it can help provide content for both. If you've been posting on your organization's blog regularly, you'll have lots of content to pull from when you sit down to write your newsletter. When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg.

Benefit 50

Benefit Stumbleupon Newsletter Digg 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

One of the things I've been wanting to do for a while is review my blog content for the year and select the "Top 10" posts or the "best of" posts. But, a top ten post would focus on the content itself - and also jump start some thinking that I need to do for a redesign of this blog. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

ROI 50

ROI Cambodia Widget Metrics 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

This week I wrote a post called, " What Happens When You Set Your Content Free With Creative Commons? " There were some really thoughtful comments and blog posts that extended the conversation. The conversation off my blog was easy to capture in my listening radar because the blog posts and tweets linked to the original post.

Conversation 50

Conversation Life Social Stats 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. " But you need to flesh out the group profile, add content, invite friends to join, and promote it in other ways on and off Facebook. My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends.

Nptech 50

Nptech Group Facebook Digg 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

I scan the table of contents and the index and jump to the parts that I'm most interested in. For this book, I was like a moth to flame to Chapter 18: A New Guide for Metrics. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . I have a hypertext brain.

Public 50

Public Metrics ROI Chapter 50

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Idealist.org doesn't just aggregate existing information and resources, they also produce new content and research for those working in the nonprofit sector. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. Even if you have gotten assistance from Idealist.org before, perhaps I mentioned a new item or topic that your didn't already know about.

Help 33

Help Digg FAQ Aggregator 33

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

  Here's what she shared: Basically we track all these different ways people respond to and share content (like blog posts). Additionally, PostRanks are calculated one of two ways, either comparing a site's content against its own past performance only (feed-based PostRank). Should also note, re.

Metrics 71

Metrics Bookmarking Analysis Feeds 71

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This post was in draft because I was starting to devour all the great content on the NTEN Blog , including Marshall's post called " Ten Cool Tools for Working on the Web " and I strongly resisted the urge take Thinkature out for a test drive. I also stumbled across her more recent post about NpTech Mashups.

Mashup 50

Mashup Meme Nptech Listserv 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

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. It encouraged us to put more resources behind producing fresh content and keeping You Tube in our arsenal.

Video 50

Video Houston QuickTime Broadcast 50

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? How about Digg ?

Consultant 31

Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. I guess I have to agree with his points: My experience tells me this about me and my content: you???re Good content matters. How does it inform your strategy, improve your content/program, or get results? re already here. m gaining 50-100 new friends a week. And that???s

Analytics 50

Analytics Web Metrics ROI 50

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.

Social Media 28

Social Media Advocacy Digg Jordan 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds.

Marketing 70

Marketing Social Blackboard Social Media 70

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Consultants and Vendors Thursday, November 16, 2006 at 05:26PM | by Justin Perkins Matt Howes Guest Blog By Matt Howes, Director of Technology, Media Matters for America Remember when the webmaster did everything from graphic design to information architecture and content writing? How about Digg ?

Consultant 31

Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

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? Think about what kind of content it is that you want to share with your audience.

Social Media 33

Social Media Work Media Social 33

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. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. The point made is: Some content is going to be very well suited to video -- but other.

Summary 50

Summary Wiki Flickr NTC 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. Join the Conversation and Debate On Open Content for Nonprofits. Her call to action: "If we want good nonprofit content in the world, we can???t Open Content for Nonprofits? " and tells exactly why.

Nptech 50

Nptech Netsquared NTC Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. " and offers some advice to tool makers, teachers, and users. An article called Free Software, Handpicked for Nonprofits by Tactical Technology Collective and iCommons just published on Techsoup.

Summary 50

Summary Nptech Tag Courseware 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. where you vote for one of the finalists in the NTEN Video Content or watch a machinima about Nonprofits in Second Life. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. There's also dogooder.tv New (to me) Blogs.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Ning Machinima 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. Ask what if? Williambrook mentions a plugin to follow your comments. There are other services: CoComment.

Conversation 50

Conversation Strategy Comment Facilitation 50

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). See3 has run many successful video contests (a few examples here , here and here ). Now here is my criticism of all Web 2.0

NTEN 45

NTEN Web Case Study Stumbleupon 45

NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. times, regardless of social network or the number of people who shared the content. Here are some quick takeaways to consider: 1) The Ease of Social Sharing is Important.

Studies 258

Studies Share Stumbleupon Digg 258