Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). His post "The Apollo and Dionysus of digital evaluation " talks about finding the right mashup between numbers and stories using mythology metaphors. Make a note of the obvious numb ers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Ethan Zuckerman's " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism ": "Web 1.0 IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. (If you have an iPhone, you can get an app that takes it one step further , with links to nearby farmers markets.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Terms like social media, digital media, new media, citizen media, participatory media, peer-to-peer media, social web, participatory web, peer-to-peer web, read write web, social computing, social software, web 2.0, The 4Cs Social Media Framework Applied to Digital Activism. The Pink Chaddi Campaign leveraged Collective Action.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

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. She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. Tagging can be a great activity for volunteers, as it provides an opportunity to volunteer virtually by adding tags to the digital content your organization has on photo or video sharing sites such as Flickr and YouTube.

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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. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Digital Diner has an excellent post on photo management tools and the limits of consumer projects in an enterprise setting. The post goes on to describe a Digital Asset Management System. Digital Storytelling, Media, and Communications. TechSoup hosted an online event about digital story telling. New (to me) Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Michelle Martin rounds up some recent videos from Michael Wesch , the creator of The Machine is US/ing Us , including his newest "Information R/evolution," it is about how digital information is qualitatively different from information on paper and how this changes the ways we think about how to store, use, access it.

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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. Amy Sample Ward , filling in for Britt Bravo, writes about several awards and competitions including the UK Catalyst Awards and Simon Fairway's pointer to the digital makeover contest.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

Most digital cameras today have a movie function and, unless you are planning on making a documentary, that is really all you need. They can interview those experts and expose them to the public. Jay and Ryanne also went into detail about equipment, but they stressed that you do not have to go overboard in terms of expenses.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

ErikaBJune shines a spotlight on virtual world and digital games for change projects. Gregg Swanson from HumaniNet picks out a few projects that are based on collaboration/partnership and a track of record of doing projects like the one proposed. is from Michael Gibbons who used leadership, passion, and resourcefulness as his criteria.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. Meaning the lack of knowledge of traditional digital media gets in the way of something that the social media - and service providers related to it - kind of make up for. Even with a more traditional digital approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s Jonathon Coleman's Twitter Avatar. but now that we???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Tom goes on to say: I preach digital change to nonprofits every day. Twitter & Digg? Tom Watson wrote a post " Why Seth Godin in Wrong " we could be best summarized in his tweet: Seth Godin uses the Ashton Kutcher Metric of Social Change - not yet proven, only a theory! Is that how we measure social impact now? and social media.

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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. Along the way, we learned a lot about campaigning in a digital world, particularly one based on real-time word of mouth. What did we do wrong?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

Museums will always need to retain some powers to manage the preservation of objects, to wield IP controls properly, and to manage the digital reproduction and dissemination of content. 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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

Museums will always need to retain some powers to manage the preservation of objects, to wield IP controls properly, and to manage the digital reproduction and dissemination of content. 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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