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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the above is the actual cover of " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " - a must read booklet from Tactical Technology Collective. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. He also talks about how, contrary to some observations , Digg just isn't empty traffic.

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Using Social Media Increases Fundraising by 40% [Study]

NetWits

So what should you do with information like this? ShareThis – While the three social tools mentioned above are the baseline, what happens when you want to give your participants access to other social networks like StumbleUpon®, Digg®, and Yahoo!®?

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RSS Readers for Your Desktop, Smartphone, and Tablet

Tech Soup

Digg Reader. praised Digg Reader for its clean, minimal design and rich social media features. This visual tool also has some helpful exploring options for finding new information sources. Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter.

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Great reads from around the web on August 5th

Amy Sample Ward

Have Fun • Do Good: Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us - "You cannot run a community if you're not informed. It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times."

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Social Media Case Study Slam Panel at NTC 08: Danielle Brigida, NWF - A Case Study on Traffic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Allan Benamer's NpTech Tag Meta Feed Digg Plig Collaborative Search Mashup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

More importantly, have that filtered product available easily to those without API programming skills or a low-tolerance to information overload. So, Allan takes us through a few options and explains here. I admit that I don't understand some of the more technical stuff.

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What I learned about Social Search on Yi-Tan and How It Applies to NpTech Tag Discussion.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Digg Swarm - visualization of what is going through Digg. The existing social searches are simply too big for trust - the information flow to huge and overwhelming. I remember that this was a prediction in David Shenk 's book called Data Smog: Surviving the Information Glut. a social searching program called lejit.

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