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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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Also, when appropriate tailor your pitches to broader topics that are generating news and frame your story in a similar context. Media outlets both online and offline. Photo sharing sites like Flickr. Tweets on Twitter. Links shared on Facebook. Word of mouth, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Many digital activism initiatives like Social Documentary and Witness.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Mentoring and Teaching tools : Inspiration for up-and-coming leaders and tools to help teachers introduce youth to public service are just a couple of the items that you'll find to help the next generation of do- gooders get fueled. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. Pass it on to your friends, coworkers, and other organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

I also found this bit extremely important - the whole that actually talks about tagging in the context of "wisdom of crowds" - so what are the differences between, say, tagging and collaborative filtering with digg. VanderWal , 2005, blog entry. How can they enhance or support? lots to ponder here.

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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

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". “We're not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.” 3) MSNBC meanwhile ran a report that it had purchased social news site Newsvine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

And it is the lingua franca for dealing with Generation Y and younger-minded supporters. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. There is still a lot of hyper-hype, but the opportunity and potential is very real. The First Step Get a champion in the organization.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

What you see above is a social network analysis I created with Gnomedex schwag (and some pennies I borrowed from Chris Brogan ) to illustrate the type of report I would like to be able to generate automatically. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Well report back in a few days.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Even better is getting your constituents to share their stories about your organization with others or “user generated content.”. Generate Buzz : When you share your message with enthusiastic supporters, they in turn may choose to pass it to others with a similar interest in your organization or campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

We've already spotted a number of ning generated nonprofit related social network sites ( Cool n Conscientious , Stop Cyberbullying , Library 2.0 Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. Ning is a platform that allows you to create your own social networking site. New (to me) Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

generators. Social Networking Fundraising Success article describing how different nonprofit organizations are using social networking sites to tap into a whole generation of new supporters. This one of the ideas that David Weinberger touches on in Everything Is Misc. And if Web 2.0 pushes your buttons, why not push a few Web2.0

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Coming from a background in SEM and lead generation, I was so glad to see “Web 2.0 Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories). I attended two of them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. Generation. " Donor Power Blogs describes the online/offline generation gap , although some members of the great generation have been spotted on YouTube. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

My post over at Katya's blog generated some excellent advice and has also raised many more questions. 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. Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Perfect Password generator. I recommend reading the report " A Network of Networks: Email Lists, Nature Protection, and Pollution Control " it explores the value of email lists as well as next-generation online communities like Digg, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry !

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

Interesting to me, though, is that “Other&# (which includes blogging, StumbleUpon & Digg ) and Twitter –mostly open networks–have higher average clicks than private networking tools Facebook and email, at 5.3 Takeaway: While Facebook is important for inclusion, it is not the end-all, be-all of social sharing.

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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. RSS feeds are your friends. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. To create content that is appealing to a certain group of people, you need to know what they’re talking about, what they feel, what they eat, drink and dream.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Can it generate revenue? Why waste your time learning how to use something that will be out the door tomorrow? The people who keep on top of Web 2.0 literally speak a different language from the rest of us. Can it attract more visitors?

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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. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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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. It seems to generate very accurate traffic information, too. link] What are some of your favorite social media tracking tools?

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Causes is a.com and not a.org, so it does work to generate profit, mostly from advertising, sponsorship, and user-driven "tips." 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. Q&A Session with Jen Burton. [Jen

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Twitter & Digg? And yet, virtually no “major” causes have sent their volunteers over to use it as a fundraising or attention raising or action generating tool. Diss non-profits for their marketing strategies by all means, but not for their lack of featuring in the top 100 on Twitter. Is that how we measure social impact now?

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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. It tends to be ideal when catering to the emotional side of issues and is well-utilized for user generated content. 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 had links to the Visible Government website, and generated enquiries there. 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. Attention generated. We had a great cause.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When you think of a platform for user-generated content, you may not think of that platform as having power. User-generated content sites control user and community behavior, both implicitly through the tools that are and aren't offered, and explicitly through community management. The power to use and exploit user-generated content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Mapping is the process of developing a map of all things you are doing to generate conversation, sharing, and collaboration as a social media maker. The page view does not offer a suitable way to measure the next generation of web sites. Think Nielsen Ratings ). source: Chris Brogan). Avinash suggested Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Analyzed which types of content generated most activity. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream". And the idea, instead of dying was kept alive and continued flying. Till I found myself crying `Wow this is much easier than before -.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. This same process can also be applied to visitor-generated content. Instead of holding big meetings to wrangle over features, developers can move forward knowing what people want.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2007

Digg is a website that supports and cultivates “the people’s choice” from the ground up. to Digg that they think are awesome. Other users do the same, and or check out these new “diggs” on the site via connections they have to other members, interest areas, or general browsing. There sure is. Well… somewhat.

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