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Great reads from around the web on June 15th

Amy Sample Ward

We reached out to people we’ve never met and got them onboard. 7 Social Media experiments we tried with the 99% Power Coalition | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Joe Solomon does a great job sharing the tools, tactics, and mini-campaigns used in the recent 99% Power Campaign. Martin Luther King Jr.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Voting Deadline at Netsquared Extended, NTC Pipe, and More

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Netsquared Voting Deadline Extended. Due to some technical glitches , you now have 48 additional hours to figure out what 5-10 of the 150 fantastic social change and technology projects at Netsquared will receive your vote. Michael Gilbert responds here and invites people to dive in. Photo from Cambodia4kids.

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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Take the NetSquared Mashup Challenge ! Twitter's CEO has learned that short is sweet, flexibility is essential, and applications shoudl work so that people don't have to be at their computer all day long. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Social Networking Inside and Out

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" I used the technique two years ago for a presentation at the first netsquared conference called " I Tag the Hand that Feeds Me " or what I should retitle "Meet Sally." 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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NpTech Summary: Nonprofit and Social Change Digg Redux

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). Marshall Kirkpatrick , who was working with Netsquared , whipped up the NpTech Metafeed which allowed folks to aggregate items tagged by nonprofit techies from many distributed sources. Back in the early days of Web 2.0,

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NpTech Tag Summary: Scarcity Thinking, Social Network Fragmentation?, and Engagement Strategies

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Will this lead to niche social networks that are more relevant to people's interests? Netsquared Net Tuesday next week in SF is about " How Nonprofits Can Use And Build Online Social Networks ," featuring speakers from Change.org and Ning. A Few NpTech Conversations. Social Network Fragmentation. Social network fragmentation?

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What's your (blog) Conversation Strategy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In an earlier post, I covered some tips for getting " conversation ready " from Alexandra Samuel's recent workshop at Netsquared. What are other people saying. One that I've used is Commentful is a service that watches comments on blog posts, Digg submissions, Flickr galleries, and many other types of content.