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Great reads from around the web on August 5th

Amy Sample Ward

Have Fun • Do Good: Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us - "You cannot run a community if you're not informed. It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times."

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The Scoop on the New and Improved Google Analytics

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bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. All of these new, fun options that Google Analytics is offering will enhance your website. Blast Advanced Media explores some of the site interactions that you will now be able to track with events as goals (though some of these options require additional tracking code setup): printing pages.

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Guest Post: 8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Britt Bravo, publisher of Have Fun • Do Good Should all nonprofits have a blog? When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can be fun! Can having a blog benefit your organization? Below are eight benefits of having a nonprofit blog.

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8 Benefits of Having a Nonprofit Blog

Have Fun - Do Good

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. Blogs can be fun! When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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Tech and NGO T-Shirts for Cambodia

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Great fun! There was a group photo at the end and we sang Arapee Yah and there was some Khmer dancing. I was dancing so I put down my camera, so you won't see me dance in the video above, but you can see it in Preetam's video. I love what Lux wrote about the t-shirts: new t-shirts on the street: don???t m wearing ???i writing this post.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Social Networking: Part of Your Job or Just for Fun? 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? Micro Fundraising and Trust.

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