Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2009

This Tuesday The Chronicle of Philanthropy will host another free online discussion about how nonprofits can use social media. Wendy Harman , the social-media manager at the American Red Cross, in Washington, DC.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. It’s free, web-based and simple to use. 5 Free Tools for Personal Reputation Management by Dan Schawbel. If it’s out there Google will probably find it. Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.). I told her just to try it and see what happens. Quality Traffic Drivers (Longer time on site).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. If you are enjoying this post, subscribe for free. These options might be called " Social Media Optimization " (more here ).

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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. Will google set it free in 2007 ? And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free. Will be efficient?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2007

There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. EST Primary Dial-in Number: 1-800-615-2900 (Toll Free in USA and Canada) 1-661-705-2005 (for callers outside the USA and. We'll find. the Google Reader Sharing. FAQ ) and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Here's the online description: "A one-page cheat sheet with six cool (free) things you can do before the end of the day." " I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. It signals to me that we are beginning to cross the chasm in Web2.0 in nonprofit land. Or maybe not.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

Last October, I discovered and blogged about this (free) listening tool called BackType. When I teach workshops for nonprofits about listening with free tools , it's one of the half dozen basic tools that should be included in the tool box. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

Perhaps you need to look existing secondary research on demographics and characteristics of users (see this post for some places to start finding free information). Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. Brian Solis points this out in terms of branding.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Free advertising on social is almost extinct. 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. Get specific with social advertising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

He has, however, expressed concern in the recent past about the way the term has been mis-applied and his definition, taken from a recent blog posting, attempted to clarify some of the issues: Folksonomy is the result of personal free tagging of information and objects (anything with a URL) for one's own retrival [sic].

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. Free Flickr Pro Account Through TechSoup. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks. Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. You're It!

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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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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. Quite a few of the products are the type of free or low cost tool we've gotten used to in the web 2.0 Writing for CNN's Business 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

An article called Free Software, Handpicked for Nonprofits by Tactical Technology Collective and iCommons just published on Techsoup. Open Content, Online Privacy, and Virtual Worlds Where Most Needed points out that few US Universities jump on MIT's Free Courseware Bandwagon. Deadline is March 2n.

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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. . Measurement Tools: There's a high level overview of analytics tools - covering the topic of using free tools or not. These might work well as a series of pilots/experiments to track and learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Through demos of free tools such as AWStats and Google Analytics, we'll look at what these tools can tell you about your site. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free. What are visitors doing when they get there? Which features are most popular? And that???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

" This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. Games for Change and Virtual Words Nick Booth points to Free Rice, an online edugaming for good. And if you???re

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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? The Best Free Sources of Social Media Audience Research. 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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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. re enjoying this blog, please consider subscribing for free The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. that could be available for free download from your site, making it easy for people to spread the word. t know how do-able that is for you, but it???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The first C, Content, refers to the idea that social media tools allow everyone to become a creator, by making the publishing and distribution of multimedia content both free and easy, even for amateurs. The First C: Content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. There are different tools and methods that you can use to listen , including free tools like google alert, technorati, RSS readers , and even Twitter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. My Name Is Nonprofit Curmudgeon and I am an Anonymous Coward. Digital Storytelling, Media, and Communications. If you missed it, some good articles here and here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Creative Commons points out the projects that support free culture and open content on their site and on. In the comments, Michele Martin points to an interesting article " Saying You Can't Compete for Free Is Saying You Can't Compete " What is your take.on CompuMentor's founder shares his top ten projects.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Takeaway: Ensure your website has sharing functionality integrated for easy social sharing, such as those offered by free services, such as ShareThis or AddThis. This study reveals that 31% of website referrals are from the “sharing&# of your content; including social networks, blogs, and email–and bookmarks. clicks and 1.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Susie's Blog, winning hearts and minds over to FOSS, points to an interesting article about how to convince management to approve free software. Laura Quinn's resource roundups ( here , here , and here ) always resources not discovered elsewhere. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Perfect Password generator.

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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. SH: Convio doesnt charge any extra licensing fees for Open APIs, so theyre free. If youve ever used My Yahoo! The ever popular widgets seen on blogs, for example, take advantage of APIs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Scope: This screencast will demystify web analytics and use Author and Analytics Evangelist Avinash Kaushik's mantra of simplicity to illustrate some of the useful features and reports in Google Analytics , a free but powerful web analytics software tool. The nonprofit will most likely not have a full-time IT or web manager staff person.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Any nonprofit can become a partner - all for free. It's free, but you have to be a valid nonprofit organization to get it. "Free Data!" I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR.

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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. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s s OK, because our popularity on Digg drove in 50+ links from blogs, including a few elite sources like The Huffington Post.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. I have seen many such websites that provide competitive analysis for free. link] What are some of your favorite social media tracking tools?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Remember, this is a free tool, one that people use to focus attention and galvanize action. Twitter & Digg? Seth Godin took a swing at nonprofits today in a blog post “ The problem with non ," saying that nonprofits are afraid of change and that many are lacking in social media adoption. None of them are non-profits.

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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. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

We also used free services like Google Groups and Clicky. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. We put badges on the Beers For Canada website encouraging people to Digg us and promote us on other social news aggregators. We didn’t build it all ourselves. This means we didn’t need to code too much.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us People can also support the cause by sending a fun and free e-card to their friends from [link]. I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start.

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