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Yi-Tan Call on Monday: Social Search

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are many social ways to filter info, from digg (see especially the Diggswarm ) and Memeorandum to del.icio.us , blogging, reblogging (see. so let's discuss: How are people making sense of the torrent of info on the Net? We'll find. our best information from other people, not from software filters. FAQ ) and more.

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Pownce on Pownce Invitations in Facebook NpTech Group

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends. My Flickr Stream. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku. It was invitation only. I managed to get an invitation from one of my twitter friends.

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Unpacking Engagement Metrics for the Nonprofit Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

freakishly high, we do analyze for things like the digg/slashdot effect, so if one post in someone's blog gets a really unusually high amount of engagement compared to the norm, we don't allow that to completely skew the analysis afterwards, e.g. "dooming" the next bunch of posts to a PostRank of 1.0 Should also note, re.

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See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » NTEN Does Web 2.0

See3

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). In StumbleUpon, she saw results from being the source of quality, relevant info.

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Trust Me, Know Me, Love Me: Trust in the Participatory Age

Museum 2.0

There are two reasons to pursue this: for better accuracy (trusted source of info) and for more diverse inclusion of voices (trusted source of varied social experience). Find a way to vet non-traditional primary sources. And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness.

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

Tech Soup

A: One of our goals with the feature email project is to be able to send info to donors saying "we've done this, and here are examples of what we're doing." 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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SXSW: Social Media Nonprofit ROI Poetry Slam - Slides, Links, and Poems (long)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. asked our chapters if it was valuable to them in telling their story and getting info out, made adjustments based on their feedback. . Trained 100 disaster response volunteers in submitting their info, improving content. We made adjustments.

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