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New Social News Site for Nonprofits

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You're probably familiar with the concept of social news through sites like StumbleUpon and Digg : users post links to stories, other users rate the posts by voting them up or down. "Oh, a link to a map of legal drinking ages around the world , eh? " (And then it took me 5 minutes to find a map of risky drinking patterns.

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From Social Media StarFish To Conversation Prism

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Perhaps it inspired this visualization of the Digg Community activity) The conversation map is a living, breathing representation of Social Media and will evolve as services and conversation channels emerge, fuse, and dissipate. " It was a remix of Scoble's white board. I'm seeing a remix of the Social Media Game cards.

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Things We Like (March 2009)

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The New York Times continues to produce great examples of interactive maps. We have a thing for maps, it's true. IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. Read more posts on our blog. Here's one visualizing the recession.

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The Conversation Graph: The Social Life of A Blog Post

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many of us are familiar with the term " Social Graph " defined as the global mapping of everybody and how they're related. But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like.

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Use Niche Social Networks to Spread Your Message

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Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). A niche social network is an online community drawn together by a shared location, demographic, or interest -- or combination of the three. Examples of niche social networks include: . Kabissa (location-based – African NGOs, 3,200+ members).

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Web Analytics Webinar from Idealware

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Chris talks about the importance of mapping your social media strategy and identifying a key metric or two for each strategy that tells you whether you've been successful. He gives a great list of what goes into the map. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. And the fact that Metrics alone are meaningless.

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Building Community with Open Source

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We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. We want all of the above on a map. Several maps! Custom maps, plus Google Maps, and Yahoo too! First, let's take a look at what can happen if we dive directly into the technology and overlook the actual needs of our community.