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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). We reached out to people we’ve never met and got them onboard. Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks. Martin Luther King Jr.

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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

People who can touch API's out there have been fooling around with trying to extract data from the NpTech tag for analysis as well as think about ways that we can make the data that has been tagged more filtered via social search, collaborative filtering, and whatever else. Click through to flickr to see larger diagram Created in Snagit.

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Social Media Monitoring in 30 Minutes or Less

NetWits

Most people will tell you that learning how to effectively monitor (or listen to) what’s being said on the web is the beginning of social media success. The increasing popularity of social networking, blogs and social media on the web validates this point nicely – People are talking about you, but is your nonprofit listening to them?

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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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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

Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. Google reader has google reader sharing - reblogging - Imagine a power RSS user culls posts that are really useful and clicks share - and creates an exhaust feed of items. So, this is a little bit raw.

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Social Networking Inside and Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." 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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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  Here's what she shared: Basically we track all these different ways people respond to and share content (like blog posts). Additionally, PostRanks are calculated one of two ways, either comparing a site's content against its own past performance only (feed-based PostRank). since it won't have any engagement yet.

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