Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

They make it a lot harder to interact with people than MySpace does. Regardless of what Facebook and MySpace do and don't allow, their members want to interact and converse with authentic, real, responsive individuals, not institutions. We will continue using both MySpace and Facebook, but this is a frustrating development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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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 [.] One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about? Take a look. The Facebook news is big. First a little background.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. will interact with Snapchat today. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media. WordPress, Tumblr, and Medium are for blogging and publishing networks. Know how your audience differs on each social channel.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The final installment of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays tweetchat series, an interactive companion to its Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki , covered the topic of tagging. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Many of them expressed concerns that there is not an organization-wide strategy for using social media, and that in the absence of ownership there are more data and interaction silos being created. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. Don't fall into the silo syndrome trap.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Engagement: This is defined as the amount of time a person either participates within a dedicated or hosted Web community or service related to your brand, or interacts with someone from your organization online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

It takes your RSS feed and applies engagement metrics, analyzing the types and frequency of an audience's interaction with your content. The more interesting or relevant an item is, the more work they will do to share or respond to that item so interactions that require more effort are weighted higher.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. I'd two more issues with how the interaction design meshes with fundraising here and here. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most people understand that a community that has a large number of members (size) who have strong relationships and frequent interactions with each other (strength) is better than a community which doesn’t. A vibrant community has size and strength, and is built around a meaningful social object.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

As such, when it comes time to create or grow an online community, tools that allow for and encourage communication and interaction are vital. We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. Any community, online or otherwise, is about communication between individuals. What do we want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

It's awesome that they used PledgeBank, that they got over 1000 people to act (and to interact), and that they built a new library in India this past April because of it. PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us.

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Care2

APRIL 14, 2009

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. With a little practice and interaction online, you can turn a crisis that appears to be a steep mountain into a rolling hill. RSS feeds are your friends.

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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. Open allows nonprofits to capture more rich data such as constituents interactivity with the Website, not just their name and address. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

But first, you have to build trust, credibility and -- most importantly -- a relationship with those who might interact with your posted content. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. The key benefit is that drives traffic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Social Explorer Maps - interactive Census maps! I recommend reading the report " A Network of Networks: Email Lists, Nature Protection, and Pollution Control " it explores the value of email lists as well as next-generation online communities like Digg, YouTube, blogs, and Flickr. Social Housing explores social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

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. We interact with articles and other media all day long, so pulling it together under a central topic should fit into that flow. button to your bookmarks bar). Why Scoop.it

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. It makes us uncomfortable with opening museum content up to comment, tagging, and alterations by visitors. And then there's the value of primary voices for interestingness.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

When the exhibition opens in June, visitors will see the photos ordered by aggregate score, but you will also be able to look at the scores by art knowledge (and geography) on the web and on interactive kiosks. How will the art novices' choices compare to the art experts'? What conclusions will we draw from that difference?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

There are four main powers that platforms have: the power to set the rules of behavior the power to preserve and exploit user-generated content the power to promote and feature preferred content the power to define the types of interaction available to users These powers constitute a set of controls which constitutes a real and valuable authority.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

These sites will be built with Ajax, Flash and other interactive technologies that allow the user to conduct affairs all within a single web page - like Gmail or the Google Reader. Engagement= Interaction + Attention. However, the metric is about to become a moot point. This eliminates the need to click from one page to another.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2009

Early on in the design process, we were tempted to overload the message–something like, “Buy your country a beer and promote open interactions between federal government and Canadian citizens.” Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

A creative report on non-profits, social media, and effective ROIs delivered as poetry slam and expertly judged including interactive crowd participation. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. The panel will be in room 18BCD at 5: 00 PM. The description: What works and rhymes?

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us I agree based on sheer traffic volume, the first 3 are no-brainers for any nonprofit to start. certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. trend is wrong because we completely loose all richness of in-person interactions and relationships. . - Got drunk together at conference, messed around, not sure how far it went. - Got drunk together at conference, messed around, absolutely horrifically certain how far it went. but they???d

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. illustrating the continnum of face-to-face interaction is interesting. One wonders where virtual words like Second Life fit on the interaction and communications axis. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

There are four main powers that platforms have: the power to set the rules of behavior the power to preserve and exploit user-generated content the power to promote and feature preferred content the power to define the types of interaction available to users These powers constitute a set of controls which constitutes a real and valuable authority.

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