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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Top Rated Resources at Kikono. 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. Democracy in Action Blog tells us how to use tagging and widgets to share jobs in their community. Details are here.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? The question is "When is video a good.

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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Carie Lewis, Humane Society of the US Carie's poem is about the Humane Society's experiments with photo contests and how to use metrics to improve your social media strategy. Spay Day Photo Contest Page LOL Seals 4. set audience. affected people.

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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Conversion rates were less than 0.2%, which we attribute in part to the passive message we used at first. We set the right kinds of goals up front.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 5: Embracing

Museum 2.0

Many businesses are putting the job of judging and prioritizing suggestions in the hands of their customers by allowing them to rate each other's suggestions. The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions.

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Do You Digg?

Museum 2.0

Many museum people, when you suggest letting visitor rate content/exhibits/programs, bring up the “American Idol” argument. Digg is a website that supports and cultivates “the people’s choice” from the ground up. to Digg that they think are awesome. The unique function Digg provides is the popularity contest.

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