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Lame spam of the day: Digg + Facebook

Robert Weiner

I've seen two versions of this spam claiming to be verification of Facebook social sharing on Digg. One said it's a Facebook verification, the other a Digg verification. Enable Facebook social sharing, and share your Digg experience with your Facebook friends. Cheers, the Digg crew. Subject: Thank you for registering.

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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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Digg is Dying. Who are the Players Now?

Care2

Digg, the once beloved link-sharing site that power users were able to game has been dying a slow death over the past couple of years. Since January of 2011 Digg’s unique web visits have declined by more than 50% and gone from 9.4M Sites like Reddit.com have clearly benefitted from Digg’s demise.

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Will Digg Make a Category for Nonprofits?

Wild Apricot

With big changes in the works at Digg right now, what are the odds that the site might broaden its horizons, and add a separate category for nonprofits and social change? A fair number of solid stories from the nonprofit sector are submitted to Digg every day — but those stories tend to get lost in the crowd.

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Digg This?

Allegiance Group

Easier to determine–and something I can now instruct you to do for yourself–is to learn the difference between Digg , Reddit , Facebook , Twitter , and StumbleUpon. Don’t add a “Digg this!&# link to all your pages simply because you know that Digg is the biggest and most active social networkout there.

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Should there be A Nonprofit and Social Change Category on Digg?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I got a message from one of my readers, Ashley Messick, on Facebook about a recent post about Social Actions Twitter for Good Facebook Group and TwitterFeed Mashup I wanted to Digg post about Save the World with Twitter and wasn't quite sure how to categorize it when submitting. Wouldn't it be nice to have a place in Digg for nonprofit news?

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Do You Digg?

Museum 2.0

Digg is a website that supports and cultivates “the people’s choice” from the ground up. to Digg that they think are awesome. Other users do the same, and or check out these new “diggs” on the site via connections they have to other members, interest areas, or general browsing. There sure is. And what does the result look like?

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6 Takeaways From ShareThis’ Study on Social Sharing

NetWits

Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3 Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing.

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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit. While Allan has been in Vietnam celebrating the lunar New Year and eating exotic foods, he has still managed to get online, play with Pipes, and IM me about it.

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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

ShareThis – While the three social tools mentioned above are the baseline, what happens when you want to give your participants access to other social networks like StumbleUpon®, Digg®, and Yahoo!®?

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Online Discussion on June 23: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Robert Weiner

The speakers include: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization’s voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. read more.

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Transcript: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Robert Weiner

The discussion featured: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. read more.

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Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

60) Search « Lean, Mean Blogging Machines | Main | Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad » Friday Nov 10 2006 Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) Friday, November 10, 2006 at 01:37PM | by Mark Source: Spirit Bear Youth Coalition. By: Simon Jackson.

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RSS Readers for Your Desktop, Smartphone, and Tablet

Tech Soup Blog

Digg Reader. praised Digg Reader for its clean, minimal design and rich social media features. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. Additionally, with the recent departure of Google Reader you might also be looking for a worthy replacement.

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Social Media Case Study Slam Panel at NTC 08: Danielle Brigida, NWF - A Case Study on Traffic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

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Which Social Network Use Base Is More Altruistic?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users?

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What tools and keywords do you use for your organization's listening dashboard?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Digg - shows most popular articles on the web. Twitter Search - shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don't use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately). Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords. Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool. Boardreader - shows forum posts by keyword.

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NxE's 50 Most Influential Female Bloggers (I'm Number 29!)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And if you think this is cool, go digg it. Here's the list.

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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network.

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Worth a Look: Scoop.it Digital Content Tool

Amy Sample Ward

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. You pick your topic, add a description of the collection, then you can begin searching for relevant articles and other media to include. button to your bookmarks bar).

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What lies beneath?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. This is very interesting to me - an entire community of nptech taggers has been imported into a digg like entity or what Allan Benamer is calling the anthill. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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Social bookmarking PR requires sustained community participation | Beaconfire Wire

Allegiance Group

The WSJ carefully profiled Digg, Newsvine, Netscape, Del.icio.us, and other ??social s traffic went from virtually nil to over 50,000 hits per day after appearing on the front page of Digg. t work is having a bunch of staff sign up at Digg right before they need something to get big. Two days later, Digg suspended my account.

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Great reads from around the web on August 5th

Amy Sample Ward

It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times." While the exact formula behind the front page remains unclear, its contents are clearly changing minute by minute.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 s OK, because our popularity on Digg drove in 50+ links from blogs, including a few elite sources like The Huffington Post.

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Google SearchWiki, it's the Diggification of Google!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I noticed that Google added a new feature where you can comment on a search engine result and like DIGG either promote it or demote it. I was googling to find an article about social network policies, specifically friending policies. You can customize the search results page too.

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Gary Vaynerchuk Wants Kevin Rose To Shave His Head for Charity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this case, it's Kevin Rose of digg fame. They did, so she did. Gary Vaynerchuk has come up with a variation on this and he isn't shaving his head. He's calling out someone else to shave their head. Meanwhile, if you want to help out DonorsChoose.org and use wordpress, here's something that doesn't require you (or Kevin Rose) to shave.

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Vote for the First Anti-Genocide Hotline on Reddit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. I wanted to help him out, so follow that link above and then follow the instructions. Then come back here. Thanks Ivan.

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Free Webinar Tomorrow: Understanding the ROI of Social Media

Tech Soup Blog

If you are interested in implementing a social media program (Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Digg) but are unsure how to measure the impact or know what success looks like, attend this free TechSoup Talks webinar on Thursday, August 13, 10 a.m. How do you show that this new technology is something worth the staff time invested? Pacific time.

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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

This time, they had a variety of videos featuring well-known celebrities like Matt Damon, Taye Diggs, and Ana Ortiz. Their annual September campaign, Hunger Action Month, is a massive effort to educate communities on the scope of hunger issues in the United States and empower them to take action.

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What I learned about Social Search on Yi-Tan and How It Applies to NpTech Tag Discussion.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. I also mentioned the desire to have some collaborative filtering - like digg, perhaps using pligg as Allan Benamer and Marshall had suggested. When I mentioned this, Jerry suggested I take a look at Dabbledb -- especially the screencast on analyzing digg data with it.

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Online Discussion on June 23: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Tech Soup Blog

The speakers include: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. read more.

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Social Networking Inside and Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When asked about social news sites like Digg, Jonathon says: "The type of things we post regularly on Digg and Netscape and Newsvine are real-world events, announcements, and discoveries ??? re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Transcript: Using Social Networks to Promote Good Causes

Tech Soup Blog

The discussion featured: Danielle Brigida , the social-media outreach coordinator at the National Wildlife Federation, in Washington, DC where she manages the organization's voice on online networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Care2, Change.org, Digg, and StumbleUpon. read more.

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From Social Media StarFish To Conversation Prism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate. " It was a remix of Scoble's white board.

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Go Inside the Mind of the Human Aggregator

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How does he use sites like Techmeme/DIGG vs. niche blogs? What are simple keyboard shortcuts anyone can use? How does he find and pick feeds? How can you catch his eye with your posts? How does he use RSS feeds for building relationships?

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Three Cheap Tools to Measure Blogs and Social Media

Care2

It provides a: Breakdown of networks (Delicious, Digg, Facebook, etc) and you’re super users for these sites as well as tips on how to engage the audience. Want to know how big organizations like the National Wildlife Federation track some of their social media social bookmarking? Allows you to see engagement trends over time.

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Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. [link] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks. August 3, 2009 | yovkov Hi!

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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

NTEN

You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. digg social news. Idealist.org and Reddit launched a joint venture today: IdealistNews.org , a social news site geared towards nonprofits.

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Network of Networks: Using a Listserv to Engage your Audience

GroundWire

″ online communities such as Digg, YouTube, Flickr, and blogs, and how those communities compare to traditional email lists. While social networking sites like Digg, Facebook, and YouTube have gained a lot of attention the humble email list still has tremendous potential.