Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

NpTech Conversations. Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results.

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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. Water cooler conversations around shared objects. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. NetVibes lets users pepper a personal dashboard with widgets.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

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'll accept if we've had a conversation I can remember, on or offline. once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world. Connect on LinkedIn. Are you a knitter too?

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

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'll accept if we've had a conversation I can remember, on or offline. once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world. Connect on LinkedIn.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.&# Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Think about it. Photo sharing sites like Flickr.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Don't forget to use some other ways to track conversations like co-comment and icerocket. If that's your intention - go right ahead. But know there are other video hosts. Get Found on Technorati. Take your rank with a grain of salt. Measure Your Traffic. Yep, google analytics is great. And here's a good listener's guide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Collaboration can happen at three levels: conversation, co-creation and collective action. As consumers and curators engage with compelling content, the content becomes the center of conversations. Conversations create buzz, which is how ideas tip, become viral. Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. The Third C: Community.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. So, think about how you can communicate impact and add value to your conversations on social. You also want to drive cost per email down along with increasing donor conversations via email and social. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. Thing is, if you want to build relationships through your blog, you have to have conversations.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Yes, it’s true and that’s why it’s important for all nonprofits that are advocating for causes to start becoming a part of the conversation publicly and not just behind closed doors or on “the hill.” Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). You may be ignored at first but after a month of daily half hour engagement you should start to have two-way conversations. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Conversation: Your placement, status, ranking, perception, and participation in the Social Media sphere. It starts with tracking conversation threads or by keyword. Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

You can avoid having a conversation. You can even pretend the conversations aren't happening elsewhere. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. The Illusion of Control Web 1.0 was about controlling the one-way message. is about engaging in two-way messages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Participate: Is joining the conversation with your audience. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Link listening and analysis to decisions or actions. 5 hours per week).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Except for a little bit chaos while we quickly switched from a Skypecast to a traditional conference call, we had a excellent conversation and there are notes ! A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. still thinking outloud. There is an interest in a community filtering concept. I found that idea exciting!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs facilitate conversations with supporters and potential supporters. Thing is, if you want to build relationships through your blog, you have to have conversations. When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Use tags to not only find content but to identify individuals or organizations who are creating or sharing useful information and, in the case of Twitter, to engage in actual real time conversations or tweetchats. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati.

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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 ). That was the conversation in the nonprofit, nonprofit technology, and social change social media space. Here's a summary of the distributed conversations, some context, and some questions. Back in the early days of Web 2.0,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Regardless of what Facebook and MySpace do and don't allow, their members want to interact and converse with authentic, real, responsive individuals, not institutions. After all, if somebody wants to read organizational boilerplate, they'll visit your homepage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Intergenerational Wired Fundraisers: A Conversation. What is your blog conversation strategy? Then I spent another hour going back through the 1,000 plus blog posts and pulling out those that scored in the "best range" which was 8, 9, or 10. Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

" The ask itself - a simple and easy ask of $10 played a factor as Katya Andresen notes , "The simpler and easier the ask, the bigger the conversion. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. s hard to say no to it." Here's the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

  Reader engagement consists of metrics for: Conversation (commenting). The areas of the blogging ROI analysis included:  author contribution, readership growth, reader engagement, authority, cost, and value.  Reader Sharing (bookmarked items). Should also note, re. because they're nowhere near what just one post got.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Methods for listening to conversations off-blog and outside my media. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. ve found that my conversations here, with you, are pertinent to the revolution. He gives a great list of what goes into the map. List of the most likely places a human will encounter the media I produce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. Need to catch up last week's ROI conversations so you can jump in - start here. Find out what kind of monkey you are for a good cause. And if Web 2.0 generators.

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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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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. So make sure to have an idea of how much conversation is going on in the beginning, middle and end of a crisis. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

A Few NpTech Conversations. No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation? What do you think?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Since conversations are getting more distributed and in addition to using the NpTech tag to discover, aggregate, and summarize resources, I'm incorporating nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, nptech friendfeed room, and networks. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

He said that things in the field happen in spaces between particles- the analogue is a conversation between people. The important thing is having the conversation. Participate: Once you know what the audience is saying, the next step is to engage in a conversation with them. It was not a success - at least not yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

thank the folks that do the blogging and keep them up-to-date on your progress * engage people in a conversation about the cause * Try to make connections with local college students in your area. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. s amazing how many times a good message works on me.

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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. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. I'll come with extra blank index cards. New (to me) Blogs.

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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. Join the Conversation and Debate On Open Content for Nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

This pledge was initiated in Edinburgh, and created a really interesting side conversation in the comments section. PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

My latest contribution to the Stanford Social Innovation Review is now up – you can read the post and join the conversation on the SSIR blog , or check out the repost below. provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

The conversation focused largely on the Causes platform itself, along with the editorial and community features built-in to help nonprofits engage donors. I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? s engaged enough to write a sentence or two or to participate in a conversation or to upload a photo with a caption is a person who???s a lot of our initial efforts weren???t But that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Twitter & Digg? If anything, Godin's got the attention of those who work in the nonprofit sector and are engaged in the social media conversation. Diss non-profits for their marketing strategies by all means, but not for their lack of featuring in the top 100 on Twitter. Is that how we measure social impact now? and social media.

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