Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 7, 2008

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. Google reader has google reader sharing - reblogging - Imagine a power RSS user culls posts that are really useful and clicks share - and creates an exhaust feed of items. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. a social searching program called lejit.

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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. I know you and you know her and i connect to you, I can be connected to her.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

60) Search « The ROI of Social Media | Main | Advocacy Online Launches in the US » Thursday May 21 2009 Earned Media: How to Stay Relevant and Track It Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 01:20PM | by Allyson Kapin “If you dont brand yourself, Google will brand you,” says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki. Word of mouth, etc.

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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. the Google Reader Sharing. We'll find. our best information from other people, not from software filters. FAQ ) and more. What do you use?

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Care2

APRIL 13, 2009

Essentially, this means not only checking your Google Alerts, but also knowing the influencers in your community. 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.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Google's Chrome Experiments. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. We're not sure what's most surprising: that the Air Force cares about its Web2.0 image, that somebody in the USAF knows what a troll is, or that it has some really good advice.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

“If you don't brand yourself, Google will brand you,&# says branding expert Sherry Beck Paprocki. Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Think about it. When the NYT writes about climate change is your environmental group quoted? Media outlets both online and offline. Photo sharing sites like Flickr.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

1) Google: Back last month, TechCrunch reported that google was getting ready for an announcement about an open developer's API that would compete with the attention that the Facebook Platform is getting from developers. that allows outside developers to weave their own programs into its site. "

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Yep, google analytics is great. Get Found on Technorati. Take your rank with a grain of salt. Don't forget to use some other ways to track conversations like co-comment and icerocket. Measure Your Traffic. You also might to check out some widgets that combine social networking with stats like mybloglog.com. Tap the Blogs.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). You can always start with a Google search but don’t forget to use group directories on WiserEarth , Ning , and Facebook. A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. So, here's a stab with lots of caveats. Let me define the categories for you. Key skill is pattern analysis.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about?

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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

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. Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. re already here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

I use a variety of tools for this analysis, including Google Analytics, Feedburner subscriber counts, and manually tracking comment to post ratios (typepad doesn't have a nifty plugin like wordpress to automate that grunge work) A tool that use to evlauate my content is PostRank. Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg?

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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

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

"Google? After lunch, bloggers came back into the main meeting room. The clogger team got on stage with the bags of t-shirts and started to pull them out one-by-one. Like street hawkers. YouthNoise?" " Bloggers were shouting, pointing, laughing, and gesturing. They were very excited to get the t-shirts. m wearing ???i

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Google has been reaching out to nonprofits for its Google Earth product over the last few months. Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. To keep up with what the arts community is doing in technology and the social web, follow the blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Google extracts the pagerank, a measure of how important a page is, from our (implicit) linking and clicking behavior. Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

So, ran a google analytics reports on visitors and there was definitely a rise on the day I gave the presentation. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. People will offer more than the recommended amount if they feel so inclined. Here's the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

Our website shows feed-based, folder view in Google Reader with our extension installed shows thematic, as an example -- thematic is comparing the posts of all feeds you've added to a specific folder against each other. Should also note, re. because they're nowhere near what just one post got.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. We want email alerts, RSS, and we want widgets that people can take from our site and stick into Facebook, MySpace, Google or anywhere else for that matter. Custom maps, plus Google Maps, and Yahoo too! What do we want? And videos!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

The Google Powered Nonprofit Office Here's a few how-to articles about how to use google applications for your domain or how to become the on demand nonprofit. Google Social Edge Search searches 35 sites, including : omidyar.net, compumentor.org, techsoup.org, bblocks.org, idealist.org, rpcv.org, etc. Here's a few: Web 3.0:

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

You can listen with google alerts, technorati, Twitter search, and RSS readers. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. I hope they share a case study about all this!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

I have been knee deep researching and thinking about Web Analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular for a third screencast in a series I'm doing for NTEN. Or they might have some understanding of metrics and have gone as far as setting up a free google analytics account, but are not sure what to do next. Young Einstein.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

Essentially, this means not only checking your Google Alerts, but also knowing the influencers in your community. 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.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

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). Make a Google Search Story Video in Under 5 Minutes Ready for Another Video Contest? Case Soup: Nonprofit Video Secrets Revealed!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

For example, this month’s online chat, normally coordinated via the text chat platform CoverItLive, tried out a new platform, Google+ Hangout. This video chat application is part of Google+ and allows up to 10 video participants to come together—great for #CommBuild participants because they get real face time with each other.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. Google Blog Search. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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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. The I Pulled My Hair Out Blog tells us how to consolidate google accounts and here are the top ten gmail hacks. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

It demonstrates who uses the biggest social media tools – the gender, age, education and income of the people who engage with your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Digg and LinkedIn pages. First, here’s a news story and infographic.

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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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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

People are not choosing museums over google when they need to find something out, regardless of how trustworthy we are. It's great that museums are a trusted source of information. But is that really our mission? And more practically, is being a trusted source of information a key value proposition?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. This is very interesting to me - an entire community of nptech taggers has been imported into a digg like entity or what Allan Benamer is calling the anthill. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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