Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

Social media and community staff rely on RSS readers to find interesting and share-worthy articles for Facebook or Twitter. Digg Reader. praised Digg Reader for its clean, minimal design and rich social media features. For content creators, a news story can inspire a moving blog or article.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2007

Last week, we had a NpTech Conference call (see Marnie's notes here and my stabb at a summary here ) During the call Nancy White mentioned "social search" and later she forwarded this note about a Yi-Tan tech community call on the topic today. Social Search is: people helping people find stuff. Some other urls here and here.

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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. Tagging, a feature found across many social media channels, is used to help surface content during searches. A Taxonomic Tree of Philanthropy.

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Forum One

APRIL 29, 2009

Meanwhile, I wanted to share a nice summary of one of the more popular sessions that we did not lead: "Confessions of a Social Media Campaigner.". We could imagine just about any non-profit with a lightly visited website and little dedicated social media support being able to pull off the same sort of results. The results?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2009

Twitter Search - shows tweets containing a certain keyword (we don't use this anymore because we use Tweetdeck separately). Digg - shows most popular articles on the web. Tweetmeme - tells you the most popular tweets about a subject. Technorati - shows blogs that mention certain keywords. Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Deborah Finn has written a SEO primer called " Search Engine Optimization for Nervous Nonprofit Novices " and she is seeking feedback from SEO mavens. Social Media A couple of really useful posts on Facebook and Nonprofits. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

60) Search « Lean, Mean Blogging Machines | Main | Crowd-sourcing to Clean up Elections and Foil Chad » Friday Nov 10 2006 Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) Friday, November 10, 2006 at 01:37PM | by Mark Source: Spirit Bear Youth Coalition.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

I noticed that Google added a new feature where you can comment on a search engine result and like DIGG either promote it or demote it. You can customize the search results page too. As LockerGnome's Matt Hartley notes, "it will shake up search to the core for everyone."

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Care2

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

This breakdown of data will let you determine just how successful and engaging portions of your website are, and determine how people got to each particular page--was it a google search? bookmarking on Delicious & Digg. A link from a blog post? The Goal Flow, on the other hand, helps you to understand the dynamics of your site.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Is your organization using niche networks as part of its social media strategy? Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). Search and select : Niche communities can be hard to find by their very nature. Most nonprofits have a certain amount of bandwidth to dedicate to their social media strategies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

In the early days of social media, when blogs were the centerpiece of the conversation graph, we focused on using our blogs to promote conversation and community in the comments as David Wilcox and Michelle Martin. BackType Connect extends this to searching for comments, tweets, and other mentions across different platforms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. Blogs can increase the search ranking of your website. Search engines like sites that update their content regularly and have lots of incoming links; consequently, they like blogs! Blogs can give you the press you seek.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

My autographed copy of Brian Solis 's (and Deirdre Breakenridge's) new book, Putting the Public Back in Public Relationships: How Social Media is Reinventing the Aging Business of PR just arrived in today's mail. If you are a social media strategist, it's a great book to share with your senior manager. I have a hypertext brain.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2007

Object-Based Social Networks: 2004 Think Flickr, delicious, digg, Slideshare. The slide showing SlideShare's popularity metrics and goals sheds some light on metrics for social media. StumbledUpon is social search that lets users unearth sites that might be interesting to them. Water cooler conversations around shared objects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

How To Think Like A Nonprofit Social Media Genius View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. Here are my slides from the Convio " Social Media for Social Good " for tomorrow. Convio asked me to prepare something for organizations that are just getting ready to embrace social media. tags: nonprofit socialmedia ).

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? 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.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? 60) Search « Would you like a share of $5 million? 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.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 60) Search « The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Participants will also be trained to make an impact in their blogs and on other Web sites such as Youtube, Myspace, Digg. Well report back in a few days. For now, its off to Boot Camp!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

Think beyond your organization's employees when searching. The other remix challenge is take the Social Media and remix for fundraising 2.0. It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. What are they trying to achieve? The hero need not be you! cards and presentation ).

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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. This article was written by Jen Nedeau, Project Manager at New Media Strategies and blogger. RSS feeds are your friends. Don’t be a lurker. Make the time.

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

frogloop Home frogloop Home Receive monthly updates Subscribe to our RSS feed Follow frogloop on Twitter Most Popular Posts Social Network ROI Calculator Social Networking for Nonprofits: ROI, Tracking Tools and More "While Theyre Hot!"

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2008

You need to do some listening first - after setting up an individual profile, the search feature is your best friend or you may consider paid research services. Jonathan Colman mentioned this say multiplier effect from a recent Digg campaign. Who set them up? Brian Solis points this out in terms of branding.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

The idea of "social search" -- how do we layer our social network on top of a search. A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. In terms of additional data, perhaps some visualization of the taggers -- how many taggers, how many items tagged, who is the first tagger of a resource, etc.

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Care2

JUNE 11, 2008

60) Search « New Research Findings: Advocacy Groups More Trusted | Main | Social Actions: How to Pitch Yourself in Two Minutes » Wednesday Jun 11 2008 Three Keys to Successful Online Campaigns Wednesday, June 11, 2008 at 11:52AM | by Hatef Yamini Campaigning online.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

MARCH 8, 2006

Many of these are among the developers of the "new web" apps I've tried out over the last six months - Writely , 37 Signals , Digg - while others are companies with offerings I hadn't encountered yet. rubric - from social media to platforms for building real business apps. But some are a different order of application altogether.

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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. APIs achieve this by opening small windows into a database that allow light-weight applications to access and display the data in a variety of places online. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Scarcity Thinking Michele Martin's recent conversation starter, " Is the Scarcity Mentality the Biggest Barrier to Social Media in Nonprofits ?" social media rather than try to develop their own (competing) ones. Social Housing explores social media. " prompted some discussion. A few comments over at Kikono too.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

The first session I attended was specifically about social networking and led by Brian Reich of Echo Ditto, author of Media Rules! She asked the audience how many people use formal ROI evaluations with regard to social media efforts. 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

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Nonprofit Social Media ROI and Adoption Issues The meme of the last week continues with a look at specific metrics like engagement. " What do you think about measuring social media? NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. The NTC is the nonprofit technology's field largest gathering.

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

60) Search « The Web’s Influence on Affluence | Main | Fundraising Dips In First Quarter Of 2009 » Monday Jun 29 2009 Top 8 Social Media Tracking Tools Monday, June 29, 2009 at 10:07PM | by Allyson Kapin Social media! But how should nonprofits track their social media? What tools should they use? Lets dig in.

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NetWits

JUNE 7, 2011

2) Search is Still King. Although social sharing accounts for 31% of website traffic, search engine referrals account for almost twice as much, or over 50% of all website referrals. Takeaway: Ensure your nonprofit website is optimized for Search Engines. 3) Facebook Is Not The Only Social Network. clicks and 1.7

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

makes it possible to pull together media of all kinds—blogs, news, videos, etc.—from You pick your topic, add a description of the collection, then you can begin searching for relevant articles and other media to include. Unlike a blog, which positions us all as topic experts with a soapbox of our own, Scoop.it How it Works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. And give those blog posts good technorati tags so people can find them. Send your contacts in LinkedIn a note about what you???re re doing and ask ???em

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. I was (and still am) so convinced that social media and web 2.0 Luckily enough, one of the most interesting parts of engaging in social media is how you can measure just about everything that you do. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s

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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. Google Blog Search. More pointers to NTC posts here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Inferring intent from search keywords. What percent of my traffic is from search engines? According to research, approximately 80% of web users use search engines to find sites. Are the expected search engines showing up? Are we overleveraged on one search engine? Social Media Measurement. And, is it enough?

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