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Social Networking Inside and Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When asked about social news sites like Digg, Jonathon says: "The type of things we post regularly on Digg and Netscape and Newsvine are real-world events, announcements, and discoveries ??? re becoming popular on Digg and a number of the other big social news networks regularly because of the strength of our content.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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Social Media Case Study Slam Panel at NTC 08: Danielle Brigida, NWF - A Case Study on Traffic

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This case study is by Danielle Brigida from the NWF and her experience using Digg and StumbleUpon for generating traffic. Today I'll be talking about using Digg and Stumbleupon specifically. Slide 4: After attending last year's NTEN, two tools stuck out for me that I really wanted to try- Digg and Stumbleupon.

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Your organization's social networking strategy doesn't have to be like mastercard - you don't have to be everywhere!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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.

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How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Generate Buzz: Your raising your organizations profile and spreading awareness of your organization's programs or campaigns. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories. 10-15 hours per week - also includes some listening tasks).

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Networking and News Sites scramble to keep up with Facebook.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page". 4) MySpace, Facebooks's most direct competitor, has decided that it too needs to be more like it's college-educated sibling. Applications will need to be hosted on MySpace servers. The new developer platform.

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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).