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 consider myself an early adopter/adventurous techie, but I am not a developer. once which was a trip. I quit because I prefer to concentrate my professional attention in the nonprofit world. Fantastic organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. Particularly if there is some momentum around using the NptechTag "folksonomy" to develop a more formal taxonomy. Some discussion around how a community developed taxonomy could be helpful to facilitate shared publishing between web sites. I found that idea exciting!

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

1) Google: Back last month, TechCrunch reported that google was getting ready for an announcement about an open developer's API that would compete with the attention that the Facebook Platform is getting from developers. that allows outside developers to weave their own programs into its site. " The new developer platform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I also found this bit extremely important - the whole that actually talks about tagging in the context of "wisdom of crowds" - so what are the differences between, say, tagging and collaborative filtering with digg. Does one approach focus more on the information itself without developing the community aspect?

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about? Take a look. The Facebook news is big. First a little background.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Technology for nonprofit development and fundraising is quickly changing. She’s a native of the great, rainy, Pacific Northwest and has held customer service, product management, marketing and community management roles at some of the internet’s greatest game changers including Amazon, Slide, and Digg. Pacific time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

We will continue using both MySpace and Facebook, but this is a frustrating development. Institutional spokespeople who cultivate a useful reputation within a community like Facebook or Digg while acting on behalf of their employer are building a very personal equity. They make it a lot harder to interact with people than MySpace does.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Integration is the hot button topic, as noted by Holly Ross in her " Integration is King " post.

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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. Writing for CNN's Business 2.0 last week he selected his 25 web companies to watch in the near future.

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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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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

" She points to a post by Caroline Middlebrook with some advice about developing a blog commenting strategy. One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content. On Day 28, she asked " What is your blog commenting strategy?

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. Because of this, any project under active development will have, in turn, a vibrant and active community surrounding it. Bio: Jonathan Hedstrom has been developing software for over a decade, and open source software for over six years.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Allen Gunn from Aspiration, the site's developer, called me on the phone (how retro!) One thing he spoke about was mashups with content from other sources, the ability to make "playlists" of tools, and some collaborative filtering or "digg like" features. memory lapses, had forgotten it.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Getting Attention Blog hosted a Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants on the topic of Professional Development for nonprofit marketers. Another interesting post about going from blogging for professional development to Social Networking as professional development. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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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. WeWorkForFree is a design community that allows it's members to upload and share their portfolios in order to raise money for international programs that benefit developing nations around the globe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I am technology trainer, evaluator, curriculum developer, and blogger. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. What is the checklist? I'm not a marketing or fundraising professional.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

is very flexible and organic, able to develop and evolve and fit different shapes you can mould it into. context: How are museums encouraging stickiness and user investment in their proposed and in some cases, already developed, post 2.0 social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. For me, the web and 2.0

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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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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

Post a Comment | by Share Article in Video Reader Comments There are no comments for this journal entry.

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. In turn, as these APIs are developed, they will become publicly available to anyone wishing to integrate other third party CMS systems into Convio FL: What are the main challenges to implementing Convio Open?

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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. RSS feeds are your friends. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker. How to start?

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

For every successful viral out there, whether it was developed by an organisation ([link] or an individual ([link] , there are about a billion others that no one has ever seen. Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. Whatever you do: do NOT listen to the man.

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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. What are the strategies for developing trust with users in a Web2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. professional development. Why waste your time learning how to use something that will be out the door tomorrow? The people who keep on top of Web 2.0 literally speak a different language from the rest of us. We can start making things happen.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Now, after his work on Theory of Relativity Einstein spent many years developing a Unified Field Theory. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. It was not a success - at least not yet.

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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. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s That way, we let Flickr and Yahoo worry about developing the technology while we???re a lot of our initial efforts weren???t

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

On the accuracy front, sites like Wikipedia have developed methods of community authoring and editing that make them more voluminous AND more accurate than traditional encyclopedic sources. And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The in-house team for Click included two curators, one interpreter, one artist/designer, and two web developers, but the person managing the whole project (Shelley Bernstein) is from Information Systems, not curatorial. In this way, Click is a powerful example of the "venue as content platform" definition of 2.0.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

While I was with the American Cancer Society, we were inspired by an amazing monitoring system developed by the Humane Society. We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Develop volunteers, brand ambassadors, even employees!

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us Developing custom Facebook apps may be the way to go, as already discussed on this blog. I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Mapping is the process of developing a map of all things you are doing to generate conversation, sharing, and collaboration as a social media maker. Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. Think Nielsen Ratings ). source: Chris Brogan).

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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. Remember that the tagline’s purpose is to provoke interest. Once you’ve got someone’s attention you can do things with it.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Chapter 9 focuses on "embracing" the groundswell, or finding ways to involve users in the development of new products, services, and strategies. Charlene and Josh define two distinct reasons why embracing audience participation is useful: to develop better products, and to develop them faster.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I believe we need to develop museum "platforms" that allow us to harness, prioritize, and present the diversity of voices around a given object, exhibit, or idea. There have been huge user-protests of both YouTube and Digg for perceived bias in the "featured content" algorithms that vault some content to the top.

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