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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. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

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Guest Post by Gaurav Mishra: The 4Cs Social Media Framework

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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NpTech Tag: Stop Cyberbulling Day is Today!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The sampling of some of the top rated resources this week: Death Threats Are Not Protected Speech. 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. It's moved.

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NpTechTag Summary: Insect Antennae, A Blast from the Past, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is based on some open source code called Pligg that creates a "digg" like interface. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. Generation. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? What do you think?

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Top Rated Resources at Kikono. 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.

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2.0 Culture Wars: Luddites and 2.0topians

Museum 2.0

Churn rate. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Can it generate revenue? If we want to work with directors, trustees, and other skeptics to evolve museums and other content providers alongside Web 2.0, we have to work first on establishing a culture that makes Web 2.0

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Meetup Recap: Jen Burton from Causes on Fundraising and Online Communities

Tech Soup

Causes is a.com and not a.org, so it does work to generate profit, mostly from advertising, sponsorship, and user-driven "tips." As a for-profit company, we do have a burn rate. 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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