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. . Cautions against it not being a popularity contest, but the number grows because people get some value from part of an active, informative, and value-driven community.

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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. Here's Steve Wright modeling his ).

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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. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day. Some reactions here.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. Many staff react against this, saying that curation is the museum's job and shouldn't be reduced to a popularity contest. Half of the new features [in rollouts] now come from suggestions in IdeaExchange.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2007

Is there a better model for the kind of voting and participating that could occur in museums, around a vast collection of content with varied interest and value to different users? Digg is a website that supports and cultivates “the people’s choice” from the ground up. to Digg that they think are awesome. There sure is.

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