Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

The tools have changed, but the need for knowing your audience, having an end goal, testing theories, and acting on lessons learned remains the same. I set her on the path to join all of the major and up-and-coming social media sites like StumbleUpon , Digg , Reddit , Delicious and Mixx. Know Your Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

The Learning Objectives. Goal: To understand how to use tools like Twitter and Digg to quickly and virally spread your organization’s messages. The back channel will be moderated by even more experts, who will add additional insights and answer participants questions. Generating Buzz. Presenter: Holly Ross. Online Networking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 27, 2007

I learned something today from two of my readers, Nick Temple and Michele Martin about to add the "Share on Facebook" and "Digg This" links to your posts automatically on typepad. These options might be called " Social Media Optimization " (more here ). Nick asked the question. I saw this on her blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. And, if you're in Facebook and want to share what you're learning about how nonprofits can use it. I'll be summarizing the learnings and resources from that group out here. My Flickr Stream. It was invitation only.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 6, 2006

Yep, and you should also learn how to use an RSS reader so you can efficiently monitor those feeds and respond. You also might to check out some widgets that combine social networking with stats like mybloglog.com. Tap the Blogs. And here's a good listener's guide. Donations with Squidoo. I'd also take a look at widget fundraising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2008

About 5 hours a week once you learn how to use the tools and make listening a daily habit. (5 Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. You can listen with google alerts, technorati, twitter, and RSS readers. 5 hours per week).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

There is a lot to be learned about our respective tagging behaviors and who contributes to the NpTech Tag stream and why. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. I wanted to capture some reflections while it is still fresh in my mind and this is going to be unformed and in no particular order. still thinking outloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). And, of course, one of the community ad hoc collaborations incorporated Digg or a "Digg like" ability to crowdsource news items. That discussion generated some good tips for using Digg (as well as other tools).

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MAY 13, 2011

Learn more below, and RSVP today to reserve your space. She’s a native of the great, rainy, Pacific Northwest and has held customer service, product management, marketing and community management roles at some of the internet’s greatest game changers including Amazon, Slide, and Digg. Pacific time. Over and over again.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

There's always something to be learned by reading from a variety of perspectives and getting out of the silo of a particular field. via Stephen Downes who points to a very good report capturing some of the main ideas behind Web 2.0 and looking into some of the implications. He notes that if you are new to Web 2.0, lots to ponder here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

I did a brief interview with him through YouTube to learn more about how they created the video. We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. What did you learn about using video/youtube that would share with others?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. Keep learning and experimenting. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

It's called double-loop learning. Apply your learnings to the next project. Although I did learn from a commenter on Katya's post that I'm not alone - Flower Dust raised 1800 of it in 18 hours, 800 in 15 minutes). On that note, what can companies and brands learn from social cause fundraising? It got 189 diggs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. " To further help readers learn about tagging visit TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 wiki or any of the following: Thirteen Tips for Effective Tagging. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Learn from the mistakes of the past. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. 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.

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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. . These might work well as a series of pilots/experiments to track and learn. Traffic: Suggests partnering with the web team and using analytics software to track the referrals of unique visitors to site from a site.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

How about Digg ? I thought one organization I was working with was getting great traffic from Digg, in part due to highly placed users who seemed to really like our stuff. But then we were approached by a high profile Digg user and asked to work out a reward for future links (i.e. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Well report back in a few days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

And occassionally, there might be a post where some good soul has summarized the learning from the last time that particular question was asked on the listserv. In the NpTech space, Idealware , NTEN , and Techsoup are always mentioned, with pointers to specific articles or reports. I'd love to see some workflows shared too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

I'm taking a deep breath to capture the learnings and roll them into the next steps for my personal fundraising campaign on behalf of the Sharing Foundation 's College Sponsorship Program and Leng Sopharath. That's part of the reason why I've shaped it as a learning opportunity. Results My campaign goal is $750 by December 31, 2006.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2009

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? Using Metrics for Continuous Learning. Then I spent another hour going back through the 1,000 plus blog posts and pulling out those that scored in the "best range" which was 8, 9, or 10. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Donorpower Blog tells us to learn how to write differently. What did you learn? Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. Telling the Story of What Drives You offers some great advice from Susan Finkelpearl from Free Range Studios. TechSoup hosted an online event about digital story telling.

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MARCH 27, 2008

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). She learned from the experience to require email in the voting tool, target people likely to submit videos, and do more blogger outreach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Laura asked me to join her to demo Google Analytics and answers questions and it is great to collaborate with colleagues, you always learn something. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. Over the past six months, I've been doing some writing on metrics/analytics in general and Google Analytics in particular.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Stephen Downes describes the difficulty of measuring ROI of E-Learning with the best quote yet, "Measuring learning is still like measuring friendship. Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Since social media encompasses many different types of tools, and each tool has specific characteristics and a steep learning curve, a toolkit approach can quickly become overwhelming.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. The project benefited the local community by providing online access to resources, and benefited our local Drupal group by allowing our community to come together, learn from one another, and see a site go from idea to reality. What do we want?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

We have the NPTech Meta Tag Feed (which aggregates about dozen feeds of NpTech tagged items and I'm still using for various reasons); Kikono.org (which uses an NpTech feed and digg like features) and now we have the two pipes from NTEN - the NTC pipe and the NpTech Pipe. is an attitude , not a download. Open Source Software is Fair Trade !

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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. The critical time to learn about Twitter or Facebook or appropriate blog manners is *not* at the time of crisis. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker.

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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. If you want to learn more about mindmapping and diagramming tools, the Web Worker Daily has a review here ) Share the Technology , a computer recycling database that matches requests with donations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

recommends that to learn more about social networking, you need to get hands-on and provides five places to do so. The Nonprofit CMS blog shares some agruments against Open Source. Check this out - NTEN's Wikipedia entry ! Perfect Password generator. The 5 Site Guide Web 2.0

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Why waste your time learning how to use something that will be out the door tomorrow? They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Toy stores have their toy of the year; Web 2.0 has its hot app of the moment. The people who keep on top of Web 2.0

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Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

As I learned from attending the just completed Convio Summit in Austin, Texas, a discussion about APIs and databases fortunately doesnt have to be technical. YouTube , Google Maps , DIGG , TypePad , MySpace , Facebook , Plaxo, or Salesforce , then youve likely run across an API. Other providers, such as Blackbaud may follow their lead.

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