Forum One

JUNE 9, 2009

Yes, in print: The few authors who have experimented with giving away digital copies (mostly in sci-fi) have found that they end up selling more print copies, because their books are discovered by more people. with those sorta annoying little icons for "sharing" with Digg, StubbledUpon, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic). I think one of the consultants at the CES session cracked it when she said that the lab coats of traditional expert evaluation were starting to give way to self-evaluation and user-led evaluation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. For instance, LinkedIn isn’t for sharing personal fundraising appeals, but it is a great network to tout corporate sponsorships, talk about employee giving, and share innovative ways your nonprofit is working to make the world better. 1 in 4 said they’d give at least 25% more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Be sure to read the user agreement first and understand that are giving away the rights to your content and that you're decreasing the change of being discovered by remixing. " I've added some advice in italics which Npower is free to remix since my blog is cc: by license. Just need the attribution). Put Yourself on Youtube.

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Care2

APRIL 13, 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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Communication Tips Digg Influence 35

Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. She loves interacting with communities online. Over and over again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Will people give online? Will people give through Facebook? then you need to give up some control. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Lots of uncertainty. Lots of buzzword bingo. Lots of new vendors. Lots of tools. Few experts. Few owners. Few results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 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. People don't understand that -- you have to give it time. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks). I wouldn't advise an organization to start here. (20

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like. And, it struck me that postrank could give the option of comparing your posts to one another with a number. It is also useful to see quantitative data.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

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 give you the press you seek. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Global Giving's " Giving Made Green " launched last week and was written up in the New York Times. The Wall Street Journal published a very positive piece about the potential for online giving and social networks. The DoGoodWell Blog points out that platforms for giving are different than motivations for giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I am trying to understand motivations to give a small amount to someone you don't even know." Just tell me how much you need and I will give it to you. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. But What About Traffic? Here's the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. How did the idea of using YouTube to message about your organization come about? It was an experiment to see if pushing SEIU in non-traditional areas for us would prove popular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can give you the press you seek. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website.

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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? Giving Good Poke. America's Giving Challenge: We Came In First! You're Not Going To Ask Us To Give You An Outhouse for Your Birthday? Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader. Working Wikily: The Power of the Newbie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

What advice would you give to your supporters so they are successful in a group fundraising campaign? So, how do you give your supporters the freedom to run with it while ensuring that it won't backfire? Will it still be authentic if you give template messaging? I'm summarizing some observations, comments, and advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Usually, I panic and start brainstorming a list of smarter people and browsing my networks for people I am sure can give me the answers. One thing he spoke about was mashups with content from other sources, the ability to make "playlists" of tools, and some collaborative filtering or "digg like" features.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? You may want to give Twitter a try. Do you have a lot of video to share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. David Wilcox gives a killer keynote at the UK Nonprofit Technology Conference Pathways to Success. " The Giving Carnival: Edition 5 was about how to measure social impact. Donorpower Blog tells us to learn how to write differently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Carnival Collaboration The Carvinal of Nonprofit Consultants and The Giving Carnival will join forces next week. Lucy Bernholz summarizes what NY Times Columnist, David Pogue has shared about his experience in Second Life and suggests his comments are revealing regarding the development of an independent sector in the virtual world.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Giving people certain authority to speak on your behalf, and rewarding them with praise or titles or special invitations to events, etc. 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).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

He gives a great list of what goes into the map. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. Chris talks about the importance of mapping your social media strategy and identifying a key metric or two for each strategy that tells you whether you've been successful. re already here. m gaining 50-100 new friends a week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

An extension is actually good thing, gives us more time to look at all those projects! " Rolf Kleef has looked over the list to identify " facilitator projects " that give people the tools to improve their own situation in their own way. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better? " 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

Online organizing tools give us a way to connect with others in meaningful and effective ways, and to take responsibility for the communities that we know best. Second, a pledge called " Employers Coffee " is an "anyone can do this" kind of pledge that, honestly, gives me chills (the good kind). those might be.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

I will now give you the plain and simple answer. Read blogs, get into social networks, register at Digg and then go sit in a corner and listen. Once you have a reputation, people will understand you better, accept the content you’re bringing them, and will consider giving it a look. Don’t give up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

The Give and Take Blog raises a question " Are anonymous blog authors as credible as those who write under their real names ? Ruby Sinreich gives a report about Hillary Clinton's Second Life Campaign Headquarters. The Give and Take blog points to Lucy Bernholz's blog post about ATMs as a tool for charitable giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Mastering each tool individually seems like a lot of work and a lot of people give up even before they begin.

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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. Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John Coate was first written in 1992 and will give you a good context of online community practice. The Give and Take blog has coverage here.

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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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Social Media Communication Tips Advocacy 35

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Think of it like giving gifts; it's more important to give someone something they will like than something you like. Most of all, you have to identify with the folks you are talking with and give up your insider status.

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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. Wouldnt it be nice to give your constituents an easy way to share their affinity with your organization with their friends and family? If youve ever used My Yahoo! Well, thats exactly where APIs can be helpful.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

We trust different people and institutions in different ways--to be respectful, to keep our secrets, to give us love, to give us information. Frank doesn't give people some office address behind a generic business name--you are writing to a real person at a real house.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

" The goal is to become the best place online for giving , and they're well on their way to achieving it. Causes is thoroughly integrated with social media, giving fundraising projects new ways to reach their audiences. Another example, Give India , shows off the community features provided by a Causes page.

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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 ll send the link for our landing page to all of my contacts and ask them to give it a positive review. but now that we???ve

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

" She not only gives an overview of the different choices of analytics software tools available, but also provides basic definitions for the data one might collect. The trend in the overall number of visits to your site over time can give you insight into your site's popularity. Week, Month).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

He called out Kevin Rose of digg fame to shave his head for charity. So, NTEN has set up a scholarship fund and has been actively fundraising, asking for cash and frequent flyer donations: Give to the Scholarship Fund. Shaving your head to supercharge a fundraising campaign has continued to be popular into 2008. Gary Vaynerchuk.

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