Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

The technique is to illustrate the issue through the experience of an individual. 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 ??? I found this slideshow Via Stephen Downes.

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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. 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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

The exceptions to this in my experience have been very, very few and far between. Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2008

    I'm using my experience benchmarking my blog with key metrics.    Laura and Jonathan will be sharing awesome case studies based on their experience.    Jonathan will focus on using Digg.    Laura and Jonathan will be sharing awesome case studies based on their experience. 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. what we experience on Facebook. I know you and you know her and i connect to you, I can be connected to her.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

Yes, in print: The few authors who have experimented with giving away digital copies (mostly in sci-fi) have found that they end up selling more print copies, because their books are discovered by more people. with those sorta annoying little icons for "sharing" with Digg, StubbledUpon, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0 tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. and the ps3 tag.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Google's Chrome Experiments. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. We're not sure what's most surprising: that the Air Force cares about its Web2.0 image, that somebody in the USAF knows what a troll is, or that it has some really good advice.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Experiment : Start out with a couple of prospective communities. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Examples of niche social networks include: . Don’t be put off.

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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. I thought, this might be great geek bait for the NpTech Facebook group experiment. My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

I'm getting ready to a workshop later this week, I did a simple pre-workshop assessment, asking folks about their level of experience/comfort and their burning questions. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

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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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. keyword to use. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. How can they enhance or support? lots to ponder here.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Keep learning and experimenting. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media. WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks. Know how your audience differs on each social channel.

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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. Writing for a blog is a creative and social experience. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post.

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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. It was an experiment to see if pushing SEIU in non-traditional areas for us would prove popular.

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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. Writing for a blog is a creative and social experience. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. When another blogger links to it on their blog.

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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. . These might work well as a series of pilots/experiments to track and learn. Traffic: Suggests partnering with the web team and using analytics software to track the referrals of unique visitors to site from a site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

So, I really need reap experience to create a checklist, templates, and a worksheet. By the end of the experience, will have some beginnings of a checklist, templates, and worksheets. Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. What should I try doing next? What do you think?

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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? Gnomedex Real Time Fundraising Experiment. 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? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world. Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week.

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MARCH 27, 2008

All experiments still, but there is clearly potential.” 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. I guess I have to agree with his points: My experience tells me this about me and my content: you???re I get spikes here and there when well-known bloggers link to me in a post or interview or a link is in a news article, but the effect is temporary. re already here. And that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

eBay and Amazon assign ratings to sellers and reviewers respectively, based on whether other members in the community had a good experience with them. On the day of the 2008 US elections, the Obama campaign was able to assign trimmed down telecalling lists to volunteers by ticking off the names of the people who had already voted.

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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. Deborah also reports on her Day of Service experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

PledgeBank is a platform that gives folks a way to connect with others in ways that integrate with their everyday lives and capitalize on their wisdom, experience, and resources -- whatever. those might be. It's a project of a nonprofit organization called mySociety , based in the UK. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

No doubt an ongoing conversation with lots of experiments. with a detailed account of her organization's experience. Miles Maier has been blogging about his Web Office experiment for the past month or so. Are there other experiments going on? What are the engagement strategies - how to move from monologue to dialogue?

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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. Listening: If you are new to social media, this should be the objective for your first experiment with social media.

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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. Volume of discussion isn’t a bad thing – especially if you can turn what was a negative experience into a positive. RSS feeds are your friends.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. You don't need to be a technologist to conceive or lead a project like this, but in many museums, non-techies just aren't as exposed to the ideas and products that typify participatory experiences.

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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. If it's an experiment, say so. 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. Talk resources and impact.

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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 upcoming donations API will allow organizations to deliver a completely customized donation experience. If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

There are two reasons to pursue this: for better accuracy (trusted source of info) and for more diverse inclusion of voices (trusted source of varied social experience). Find a way to vet non-traditional primary sources. And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

You've experimented with quite a few Web 2.0/Social 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 The real value from this particular success on Digg wasn???t

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

More nonprofits need to adapt, to experiment, to take risks, to embrace change. Twitter & Digg? Besides, nonprofits are way, way down the list of sectors that really abhor change. Wall Street, big insurance, government – now they really hate change. But they need to keep on providing services while they’re doing it.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Test Kitchen : Having low-risk experiments using metrics are very important. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

I have a lot of conversations with people that go like this: Other person: "So, you think that museums should let visitors control the museum experience?" In most museums, the professional experience of the staff--to preserve objects, to design exhibits, to deliver programs--is not based on content control. Me: "Sort of."

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