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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). I don't necessarily agree with all the tactics, but I SO appreciate him sharing their work! Feeding America has utilized numerous Call2Action Sparks.

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Social Media Monitoring in 30 Minutes or Less

NetWits

Learning takes time, but it’s something that you can start to pick up very quickly and with daily or weekly work you’ll become effective in no time at all. Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. Each of the above will let you search for a word or phrase and then get the RSS feed for that search. Click on that link.

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WeAreMedia ToolBox: This Week We're Working Crowdsourcing, Micro Media, and Lifestreaming Tools

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.  These services are powered by the RSS feeds that each network offers to its users and makes following activity across sites easier and in one spot.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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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. Slide 1: My name is Danielle Brigida and I work on the Operations team for National Wildlife Federation. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Some great insights.

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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

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. The first perspective we heard was that folks are sharing via email because it works best.

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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

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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