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Generating Buzz: Using Social Media to Drive Website Traffic

NTEN

It involves method, just like anything else. 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. " So much of social media is dependent on the support of others (votes, thumb-ups, diggs, etc.). Reaching your goals doesn't involve magic.

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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. In thinking about the evolution of social networks and having been deeply steeped in Object-Based Social Networks like those on flickr and, of course, the NpTech Tag, I am wondering about methods for aggregating resources discovered via Facebook from friends.

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NPTimes TechnoBuzz: Telling Stories Online Makes That Vital Connection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

technology tool, but the oldest communication method known to human beings - stories! It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us. This came just in the nick of time as I'm remixing my Web 2.0 workshops for July. These are all on the on the topic of Web2.0 tools and fund raising.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. Once you have content created through these methods, it can be easily shared using the buzz tools above through social networks.

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Reflection and Analysis: Gnomedex Real-Time Social Fundraising Experiment

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while you can use this method to do an ROI analysis, the real gold is the deeper understanding of what works and what doesn't. Several days later, Jonathan Colman set up a digg and announced it in the NpTech Friend Feed Room. It got 189 diggs. To monitor and reflect, you need collect both quantitative and qualitative data.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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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NpTech Tag Summary: Highlights from the NpDev and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Integration is the hot button topic, as noted by Holly Ross in her " Integration is King " post.

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