Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

However, as Stephen notes, the data is very useful. online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. I also think that in tagging communities we see some nuances of behavior based on frequency or at least based on an unsciencetific analysis of NPTech Tagging data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

In terms of additional data, perhaps some visualization of the taggers -- how many taggers, how many items tagged, who is the first tagger of a resource, etc. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

"   I've been trying think through a benchmarking process that would identify metrics to track, how to track, and how to reflect on the data to make improvements in your blog.   But, this is the type of question people will ask and sometimes it is because they want to challenge the validity of the data.  

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

Vander Wal states that the value of a folksonomy is derived from three key data elements: the person tagging, the object being tagged (as an entity), and the tag being attached to that object. From these three data elements you only need two in order to find the third. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. He provides an example from del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like. It is also useful to see quantitative data. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

To monitor and reflect, you need collect both quantitative and qualitative data. Avoid data collection for the sake of data collection or you will pollute your reflection. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. Here's the report.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The short version: Google will announce a new set of APIs on November 5 that will allow developers to leverage Google's social graph data. Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Many of them expressed concerns that there is not an organization-wide strategy for using social media, and that in the absence of ownership there are more data and interaction silos being created. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Don't fall into the silo syndrome trap.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 8, 2006

Many of these are among the developers of the "new web" apps I've tried out over the last six months - Writely , 37 Signals , Digg - while others are companies with offerings I hadn't encountered yet. world: individuals sign up, easily create an account, and data can be shared with other users. Writing for CNN's Business 2.0

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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. . 1) identify success or benefits; 2) get a baseline, identify data; 3) define goals in terms of your metrics (increase x number of visitors) 4) develop strategies/tactics to reach goals 5) Estimate cost/benefit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. Ivan Boothe from the Genocide Network has a case study of how his organization used Reddit to drive calls to the Hotline.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. For example, a tool created to allow a community to map local water quality data can easily be re-purposed for a neighboring community, or one across the world. What do we want? Forums and blogs too!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

While youre at it, the always fantastic Agitator blog posted a video article linking to new data and a helpful article showing how to save costs related to online video. They talked about how to actually go about making a video and what equipment to use and also how to make the video spread through the Internet, or go viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Path back to a central data capture for reporting and strategy monitoring. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. List of the most likely places a human will encounter the media I produce. Methods for listening to conversations off-blog and outside my media. re already here. m gaining 50-100 new friends a week.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

If youve ever kept a list of information in Excel, you will be relieved to know that under the hood, even the most sophisticated database contains tables that look exactly like a simple list in Excel - with rows and columns of data. If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Articles on TechCrunch and AllFacebook revieiwng this data seem to focus on Facebook ‘s stronghold on the clickthroughs of shared links, at 38% of all links shared by social means. Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing. clicks and 1.7 clicks, respectively.

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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. Commentary on the data here. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. CEO Kintera steps down. Some reactions here. What do you think? Generation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. How can Google Analytics reports data help improve your Web site's performance. What follows is a very rough draft for a script. What is the visual metaphor?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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. could become a very interesting space for real time data in situations of natural disaster and crisis communications. button to your bookmarks bar). I think Scoop.it

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

And they challenged me and my colleagues to prove the value of our web strategy through constant testing and the presentation of hard-core data. Or, in another way of speaking: data talks and bull sh!t The Conservancy, as a science-based organization, places a lot of value in numbers and data-driven arguments. but now that we???ve

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

There's a reason they call it "capturing" data. Relatedly, the geography question could glean some relevant data about how local and non-local visitors view and judge the efforts of a community-based museum. They ask only what they truly need to make the exhibit and the judging successful. With Click, I don't feel like a prisoner.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

"Free Data!" 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. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg. It's free, but you have to be a valid nonprofit organization to get it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

When standard metrics are discussed, people easily fall into the "mine is bigger or better than yours" comparisons or "numbers data out of context thinking." Data is not like Martha Stewart - it is far from perfect. Visiting a web site is radically different if you look at from view of Web data collection.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. I shared a few points about how I use A/B testing with my Facebook Fan Page Season To Taste: This was a point about actually looking at your data to reap insights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

In the end, the campaign raised just over $1,000 in two days; donations will help open government data to citizens and promote transparency in public offices. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Last week, we helped out our friends at Visible Government with their Beers for Canada campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Though I love data, traditional numbers are so far from social media at it's core. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. Here's his description of the problem: Because Facebook owes your data, not you. You cannot save all your data on your computer. Basically, you cannot import or export your data. t import/export your data. Frequent teammate in flame wars. - s face it, I don???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. However, be careful -- data can get lost and not everything is backed up by the provider. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg. technologies.

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