Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Over the last year, I have had to explain how social media works to diplomats, defense officials, and academics and students focused on fields as diverse as international affairs, management and sociology. The Need for the 4Cs Social Media Framework. I have found that first-timer find social media confusing because of two reasons.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Her take-aways from that activity are that internally, people love the feedback from bloggers, and externally, people love to know that you care. Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon.

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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. see here ) In celebration of International Women's Day, Joe's Blog showcases some games that are designed to teach us about this issue, along with ways to support NGO's doing work in this area.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Especially in this economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

She shares some of the internal conversation her colleagues on staff and their differing views: It took a little more work to convince my co-workers [about web 2.0 Sandra Dickinson has started an interesting discussion thread. Emily, of the World Grows Wide blog in Australia, responds. with a detailed account of her organization's experience.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

These can be useful internally and externally—you can share news with colleagues or create a dashboard of resources for your community. 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. button to your bookmarks bar).

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OCTOBER 20, 2007

YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. In fact, ASPCA and Conservation International received recognition during Convios Summit, in part for their successful use of widgets on social networks such as MySpace. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

This YouTube video shows how to exclude your internal traffic (min 2:13) by using a filter. Very basic tools, but useful for an international site with a wide variety of visitors. Stats are better for long term trends or very short events (like measuring a "digg effect" or getting Tech Crunched).

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The internal team is led by a non-curator. 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.) We are just providing the container, the mechanism so it can function.

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MAY 3, 2011

While Paypal is able to handle international currencies, you have to know who you're sending the money to while you collect. 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. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg.

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. Keep an internal list of your repeat offenders. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

She acknowledged it can be very time consuming, and reiterated a suggestion See3 often makes to our clients: get interns and volunteers! However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

However, what we discovered was that social media (once internally accepted and acknowledged) could truly compliment and improve engagement with our programs. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. A little birdy told the web team "We should use a twitter stream".

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