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RSS Readers for Your Desktop, Smartphone, and Tablet

Tech Soup

An RSS reader is an essential tool for keeping up with current news and the issues that affect or influence your organization. Digg Reader. Digg Reader. praised Digg Reader for its clean, minimal design and rich social media features. For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article.

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Which Social Network Use Base Is More Altruistic?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Pete Cashmore of Mashable has a post that asks an interesting question: Facebook, MySpace (MySpace reviews), LinkedIn (LinkedIn reviews), Digg and Twitter are often compared in terms of features, but which one has the most generous users? I don't think that you can really compare the entire user base of one social network with another.

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Great reads from around the web on June 16th

Amy Sample Ward

I'm checking out this new "Digg for associations" from Wild Apricot. Here's a story from the NYTimes addressing just that. Association Jam | Association Management News :: Submit. It looks like users can find, read or submit stories and vote on them; have discussions; and generally network. " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Twitter Isn't the Point

NTEN

As you might suspect, user ratings and reviews on websites matter more than they ever have in terms of influencing consumer behavior. But the real influencers are the same as always: friends and family. The difference now is HOW that influence is transmitted. It's a bit of a misnomer. More frequently, it's happening online. .

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How to Avoid the Elephant Stampede (And Other Crisis Communications Tips)

Care2

Essentially, this means not only checking your Google Alerts, but also knowing the influencers in your community. These influencers will be the first ones to react positively or negatively to information and share that information with their networks. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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Digital Life Hacks: Savvy Social Media

Connection Cafe

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Influencer marketing is growing at a faster rate than all other types of marketing techniques, including paid advertising on social. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media.

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Your organization's social networking strategy doesn't have to be like mastercard - you don't have to be everywhere!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

(That is if you've built relationships and identified influencers). Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. I've seen this first hand -- I don't engage deeply on MySpace - yet some of my donors for the Cambodian campaign who heard about on Facebook and shared it with their friends on MySpace.