Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content, and the hope of monetizing it through advertising, is at the core of the business model of almost all social media platforms. eBay and Amazon assign ratings to sellers and reviewers respectively, based on whether other members in the community had a good experience with them.

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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. So, let's take a quick look at the most highly rated items this week - which are about money, content, software, jobs, and some geek humor. the integrated philanthropy model in honor of National Corporate Philanthropy Day.

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Summary Wiki Flickr NTC 50

Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

The model is dependent on you telling your friends and networks what you care about. As a for-profit company, we do have a burn rate. I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR. We do make recommendations for strong causes.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Think Nielsen Ratings ). Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. What is your conversion rate for getting me to sign up, volunteer, donate, purchase an item, etc leading towards that goal? A logic model. (I source: Chris Brogan).

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

So when people like me start advocating for the creation of tools and opportunities by which visitors can share their stories, reaggregate the artifacts, even rate and review each others' creations, museum professionals of all stripes get concerned. There are many models as well for what we do with user-generated content in the museum.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Many businesses are putting the job of judging and prioritizing suggestions in the hands of their customers by allowing them to rate each other's suggestions. The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions.

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Museum Participatory Evaluation Chapter 20

Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2007

Many museum people, when you suggest letting visitor rate content/exhibits/programs, bring up the “American Idol” argument. Is there a better model for the kind of voting and participating that could occur in museums, around a vast collection of content with varied interest and value to different users? It’s about “the people’s choice.”

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