Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". Developers will be able to include Flash applets, iFrame elements and Javascript snippets in their applications, and access most of the core MySpace resources (profile information, friend list, activity history, etc.).

Facebook 40

Facebook News Site Myspace 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

Viral and word of mouth campaigns often rely on buzz and flash to spread. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. You can't help but be moved to act. On that note, what can companies and brands learn from social cause fundraising? Here's the report.

Analysis 50

Analysis Reflection Experiment Time 50

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. Right now its Twitter and Facebook; five or six years ago it was "viral Flash movies." RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

Social Media 35

Social Media Communication Tips Advocacy 35

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. This is hard to pin down.

Metrics 56

Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56