NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.). I told her just to try it and see what happens. Quality Traffic Drivers (Longer time on site).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. The first perspective we heard was that folks are sharing via email because it works best. I also mentioned the desire to have some collaborative filtering - like digg, perhaps using pligg as Allan Benamer and Marshall had suggested. Some other urls here and here.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Just enter your keyword and subscribe via RSS or email. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. Get set up on Google Alerts to monitor the web at large. If it’s out there Google will probably find it. Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. I replied by email with a cc to Michele. These options might be called " Social Media Optimization " (more here ).

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. You can also motivate supporters to engage with you over social via email. Website visitors, one-time donors, lapsed donors, and those who open emails but don’t give should be some of your targets. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

s content to Kirsty.com, a mom oriented niche Digg-like service. Within eight months pages views doubled (from 8,000 to 16,000), email list doubled (2,500 to 5,000) and they have established relationships with influential 'mommy bloggers' across the country who are representing them. They actively engaged the site?s The results?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. When someone emails it to them. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

My rule now is that I set up a presence on different sites and have email forwarded if people want to contact me, but I go deep in only a couple of places. Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. The answer to "which social networks?" I agree you don't have to be everywhere.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Tip: If you're going to use your blog as a regular communication tool, please allow readers to subscribe by email as well as rss. Use a service like Feedblitz or Feedburner Email to facilitate readers' subscribing by email. When someone emails it to them. Many, many people do not know how to subscribe by rss.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

online communities, like tagging communities, digg communities, and others. The follow up email interviews to the survey were designed to gain an insight into this issue but are not very comprehensive. Ha, I found something on page 8 and illustrated by the above chart.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

Email: appeals-comment@facebook.com and ask them to let Ranger Rick exist on Facebook! I emailed Facebook as I assume someone hacked our account. I received an email back stating that only individuals are allowed to create profiles, but that we were more than welcome to start a group (which we already have).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. Priscilla (I need your email address so I can activate your invitation). My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku. It was invitation only.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. We're not talking about the immediate gratification of email blasts. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks). It takes a few months before you see results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

Today was a crazy whirlwind of too many conference calls, IMs, emails, and trying to get things done (not as successfully as I'd like.) A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. 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

AUGUST 28, 2008

Integrate quick email interviews as you say thanks with donors, pattern analysis of comments or blog posts. " And, this checked out with some of the responses I got via email right from the donor's mouths or err fingers which lead to the "Why Not? It got 189 diggs. Watch it closely as it unfolds. Here's the report.

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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. But Zimbra is a different beast: a web-based email system trying to enter the enterprise email space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

To continue the conversation, she sent me a private email with a very thoughtful response with a note that " I've been trying to figure out my replying-to-comments strategy outside of the LJ world, and I'm trying the email conversation tactic these days. Set up some email templates covering a few typical answers, requests etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

How can we use email? They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Lots of new vendors. Lots of tools. Few experts. Few owners. Few results. Many of the same questions are being asked. Will people give online? Will people give through Facebook? How can we use Twitter? Who owns the blog?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. If any picked up on the story of the campaign, an email was sent to our activist list in Texas with a campaign update, a link to You Tube and a mention of the news coverage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I created some template language to cut and paste into emails, skype/im pings, and thank you messaging, etc. I pinged some nonprofit technology and cambodian blogger colleagues via skype or email, asking for campaign advice. Also, can an email with EIN number suffice as a tax receipt? I used the ChipIn campaign page feature.

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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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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories). She learned from the experience to require email in the voting tool, target people likely to submit videos, and do more blogger outreach.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

I pulled these metrics from a tool called Postrank that uses a model called the " 5 C's of Engagement " in some email back and forth with Melanie Baker, the community manager for Post Rank, Sue Waters and I asked her if she could unpack the 5s a bit further and tell us a little bit about how it worked.  Should also note, re.

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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

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

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Which is worse, email overload or social networking fatigue. WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? " suggests that the answer to fixing a broken email, the most widely used web application, is to add social networking features. I wholeheartedly agree !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The idea is that you need to think about your organization's web presence, one-way communication like email marketing and search engine optimization and finally the social. My own feeling is that social media is not a either/or to email or search engine optimization. There is some debate about how to order these components.

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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. Nonprofit Software (and hardware) Ryan at PicNet hacks Email to RSS for NTEN Affinity Groups ! Loud cheers and happy dances from people who overwhelmed with email. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. Don’t count out the smaller sites, as together with Twitter and Email, they account for 62% of social sharing. 2) Search is Still King. clicks and 1.7 5) More is More.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

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. And there is also an email-a-friend feature, which lets you reach out to folks for whom you do have an address.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

You have to be an NTEN member to participate and you have to be the first one to email Gavin.) Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. Gavin Clabaugh 's annual PotLatch Program (a regular giveaway of gently used hardware and gadgets) has come and gone. New (to me) Blogs.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. What do we want? Forums and blogs too! We want thumbs up and thumbs down, and images.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. To create content that is appealing to a certain group of people, you need to know what they’re talking about, what they feel, what they eat, drink and dream. To create a new comment, use the form below. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

I recommend reading the report " A Network of Networks: Email Lists, Nature Protection, and Pollution Control " it explores the value of email lists as well as next-generation online communities like Digg, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr.

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