Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Nate Ritter gives a brilliant example of how Twitter could help save the lives of missing children. 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. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

For example you will now be able to see how many active visitors are on your site at that very moment, what platform they are using to view the site and if they are using a mobile device ? bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. If so, get ready for a new, redesigned version that is packed with some great features and analytics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2006

I provide about half dozen examples of nonprofits using community tagging and publishing, flickr and video. And, if you want to digg deeper into the whole concept of participatory media, I recommend that you check out these thinkers/resources. My article, Using Participatory Media Tools in Nonprofit Campaigns.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources. Read more posts on our blog. Here's one visualizing the recession.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Examples of niche social networks include: . Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Kabissa (location-based – African NGOs, 3,200+ members).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

For example, you can use Twitter as both a listening tool and for participation. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Also, the categories have overlap in terms of tools. And for spreading buzz for that matter).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

engagement) to leave a comment or write your own blog post responding to someone else's, for example, than it does to just click on a post to read it, or click a button to bookmark it. It takes more work on the part of the reader and shows more interest (i.e. So trackbacks and comments get more weight than clicks and views.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Facebook, for example, has Facebook Groups and Messenger which allows you to communicate more directly with your supporters. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media. Use the tools provided.

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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. For example, these are the stats for the above post. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in. It is very easy to use.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

He provides an example from del.icio.us 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. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. How can they enhance or support?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

So, over the last month, I've been looking for examples. Well, this example is no astro turf. 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. It's the real thing.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. Check out TechSoup's Nonprofits in Second Life Delicious group page for an example of how multiple users can collaborate with social bookmarking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. For example, Community United Against Violence used a blog to cover the trial of men accused of murdering Gwen Araujo, a woman they killed after they discovered that she was biologically male. Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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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. For example, Newsvine is a read-write news site with a revenue sharing model for its members. Writing for CNN's Business 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Wikis are a perfect example of co-creation. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. Examples of social media initiatives that leverage the Community or Collective Intelligence layers are few and far between.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Be A Voice for Darfur: Great Example of A Multi-Channel Campaign. Then I spent another hour going back through the 1,000 plus blog posts and pulling out those that scored in the "best range" which was 8, 9, or 10. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? I gave her an example of an example of a Facebook friend that I recently had to let go.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

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. For example, recently on the UK Riders list there was a thread about tech support knowledge base software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

" For example, a pledge might read, "I'll organize a street party in my neighborhood, but only if 5 other people will help organize it" or it might read, "I'll organize a street party in my neighborhood, but only if 50 other people will attend. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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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. I think NTEN is a terrific example of the rule of thirds. The important thing is having the conversation.

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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). See3 has run many successful video contests (a few examples here , here and here ). Now here’s the part where I criticize my boss.

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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

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. Geoff Livingston mentions it here and points to examples and blog posts about the problem in the corporate PR sector. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation.

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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. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. If you're interested in seeing more examples, Teresa Crawford , has been adding them into del.icio.us

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Bamboo Project points to two excellent examples of technology stewardship from the World Grows Wide blog. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. The Democracy in Action Blog has a wonderful post about the most common typos that people make. This queen of typos enjoyed that post quite a bit!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

The are many projects are out campaigning for votes -- for example - here , here , here , here , here , here , here , here ,and here. Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns.

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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. The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs. For example, many of our clients work with Heller Consulting. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Consider, for example, the above image, created by David Lee King , which describes less a spectrum than an ascension to 2.0topia. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. But the most heated battles seem to be focused on the perceived divide between those obsessed with Web 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

For example, this month’s online chat, normally coordinated via the text chat platform CoverItLive, tried out a new platform, Google+ Hangout. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

An Example of Causes: Birthday Wish. Jen introduced Causes' Birthday Wish feature as the first example of how the Causes community can use social structures to create value. Lady Gaga is a high-profile example of the latter option. Another example, Give India , shows off the community features provided by a Causes page.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Community sites often maintain this back-channel discussion with users after launch, letting them know about scheduled outages and ways they are addressing community concerns (for example, the Second Life blog and community meetings). And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

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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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. ??? s an example of a comment that I feel really illustrates this point. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s a lot of our initial efforts weren???t but wouldn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Twitter & Digg? See [link] com or countless other examples catalogued by Beth and others. Here’s a simple example from my day job: on a regular basis, Squidoo writes $10,000 checks to charities. Diss non-profits for their marketing strategies by all means, but not for their lack of featuring in the top 100 on Twitter.

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