Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

There's also a profile of the Humane Society's recent $50,000 contest win from Microsoft. With streaming video tools that are free - like Ustream.TV - I imagine we'll see more people video streaming from professional conferences like next month's NTC Conference in New Orleans. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Next week's Carnival will be hosted over at Getting Attention Blog and it's on the topic of professional development. Time to Nominate Projects, Vote for Videos, and Charity Badge Contest! Check out the top ten charity badges over at the Six Degrees -- the contest is in the home stretch. You can submit something here.

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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

JULY 8, 2009

Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators. This campaign was promoted almost entirely on Twitter and using our personal and professional networks to spread the word.

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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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