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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

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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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The Perils of Popularity

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. The last section of the slide show offers ten lessons on social design - for interface designers. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site.

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Pownce on Pownce Invitations in Facebook NpTech Group

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Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. Lesson Learned: If you build a Facebook Group profile, they won't come. My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku. It was invitation only.

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Best of Beth's Blog 2008: Finding The Top Ten Posts In Less Than Five MInutes!

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Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? An Internet Lesson in Rural Cambodia. 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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Alistair Croll, Guest Post: Using Twitter for Fundraising - Lessons Learned from Beers for Canada

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We learned a lot about what did and didn’t work, and in the interests of transparency, we thought we’d share some of the lessons we learned along the way (and see if we can collect some ideas for next time.) Set up Reddit, Digg, and other social news aggregators. How it worked. We set the right kinds of goals up front.

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The Real Housewives of Social Media: Cooking up Recipes for Nonprofit Success

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We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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NpTech Tag: People Behind Tags, NpTech Timeline, Twitter, and More Widgets

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. 9 Lessons for Would-be Bloggers. Wayne Glynn's chemotherapy party photos in flickr , let's him wish him a speedy recovery. Michael Stein (East Coast) reflects on striving for simplicity in design. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg. It means antenna of an ant. Here's more about the site and the name.

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