Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

Social Media and social networks allow for the quantum effects, paired elements at a distance. And another multiplier comes from Network Theory (not Einstein directly but building on physics and mathematics) which shows that a network strength is in its Weak ties / Loose connections. The more Weak ties/ the stronger the network.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Click through for larger image. I'm also prepping for a panel session I'll be doing at the Museum Computer Network Conference later this fall on Web Analytics. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. We are at the heart of a social media and social networking revolution. NEW SEMINAR! re already here.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Consider, for example, the above image, created by David Lee King , which describes less a spectrum than an ascension to 2.0topia. The image below, created by Meredith Farkas , is more balanced, providing a "cultural landscape" of fear, loathing, and obsession with Web 2.0. Does my virtual pet really need a social network?

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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. Online Organizing, Online Communities, and Social Networking New Organizing Institute conducted a jam-packed three-day training for nonprofits on online organizing and technology. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

So when Scoop.it , a new content curation platform, hit the web recently, the #CommBuild network seemed like the perfect place to try it out. provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.) As a Click judge, you can't view other peoples' comments or ratings, even after you've scored a particular image. You can't set photos as favorites for others to see.

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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. ??? ve laid the foundation, we can get a huge response from these networks for our campaigns. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s t exactly home runs ??? But that???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

Click through the larger image to see where the links take you. 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.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

She says social networks are “not just a bunch of lonely teenage boys.” She notes that people really rely on social networks for influence on decision-making. However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us

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