Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

75% of Young Adults Gave to Charity Last Year, Study Finds – News – The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas – The new Millennial Donor Survey is out! "Charities I don't necessarily agree with all the tactics, but I SO appreciate him sharing their work!

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 5, 2009

Delicious Reborn as Real Time News Tracker - Are you a Delicious user? Their new updates may ensure that answer is a "yes!" It's something the site probably should have done awhile ago and if done correctly could make other services, like Digg, look all the more behind the times." What do you think?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

“We're not going to have people sending electronic hamburgers to each other.” 3) MSNBC meanwhile ran a report that it had purchased social news site Newsvine. Newsvine is not as well none as social news innovator Digg, where users rank stories and push them to the "front page".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 8, 2007

I'm also highlighting this because it is a terrific example of using social news sites like Digg and Reddit o promote a cause (the Reddit guys were among my first video blog interviewees back in Nov. 2005 ) I had (wrongly) assumed that getting to the top of social news sites was a matter of dumb luck or that if something went viral.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2008

I spend a lot (and I mean a lot) of time trying to figure out how to use social networking, bookmarking and news sites to enhance the National Wildlife Federation's online presence. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 21, 2007

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

OCTOBER 21, 2008

  We're talking about tools like Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and others.    Which ones are you using, what are the best tips and resources?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Here's a roundup of recent additions: Social News for Social Good is about how to build buzz with Digg by Jonathon Coleman and the slide show he presented at Forum One - Social Sites for Social Good. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 21, 2007

Linux Journal ran the following advertisement by a company called “QSOL&# : And, it got 2100+ diggs , with the title “Best. Unfortunately, the open source community seems to find ways to ridicule, degrade and and belittle women quite often. It ran in 2000, with a lot of uproar, and they promised never to run it again. Be Helpful.

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Care2

MAY 22, 2009

Earned media is comprised of coverage through: Blogs Media outlets both online and offline Podcasts Photo sharing sites like Flickr Tweets on Twitter Links shared on Facebook Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Digg and Reddit: Digg and Reddit lets you search for submitted stories that match your organizations name.

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Care2

MAY 21, 2009

Tagging on social bookmarking sites like delicious, Digg, etc. Share important news, feed them useful stats and resources that relates to your cause and the issues they have been writing about. Share important news, feed them useful stats and resources that relates to your cause and the issues they have been writing about.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes.

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NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

IdealistNews.org aims to be the Digg , er, Reddit of social news sites, while Academic Earth wants to be the Hulu of education. But if you get caught playing their browser-based Tetris clone, you didn't hear it from us. (Oh, Oh, and if you want to drive yourself insane, try this hi-def version.). You could win cash monies!

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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. A tag stream of web resources, videos, powerpoint slides, news items, etc. And with traffic that often rivals the New York Times Website, Digg lets users vote their favorite stories to the top of the site. A community tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

Blogs help provide quick, up to the minute news about your organization and cause. Not only can you share organizational news as it happens, you can also comment on how breaking news in the world relates to your cause, or organization. Blog posts, on the other hand, can be written in 15-30 minutes.

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See3

JULY 17, 2006

read more | digg story Share and Enjoy: One Comment comment See What’s Out There » Blog Archive » Facebook Platform – Opening Up [.] The Facebook news is big. One reason is that it’s ugly. Maybe you don’t know what I am talking about? Take a look. First a little background.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2007

We agreed You Tube should be used to showcase video when we decided to experiment with other forms of "emerging technology" like Digg, Flickr, etc. If any picked up on the story of the campaign, an email was sent to our activist list in Texas with a campaign update, a link to You Tube and a mention of the news coverage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 30, 2008

Should there be a nonprofit and social change category on Digg? Digg it here ). The result of these ad hoc collaborations was a folksonomy of terms of nonprofit technology related news and a community of taggers. These early experiments were about how to crowd source, aggregate, and share nonprofit technology news using web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. By leveraging social advertising, you can ensure that your posts reach your intended audience and aren’t left out of critical news feeds. Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter are for social networking. Instagram, Snapchat, and YouTube are great for sharing media.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Social bookmarks are used to listen, track news, follow a topic, and receive updates. Social bookmarking sites include well-known sites such as Delicious, Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit, and Technorati. One tagging tool that is overlooked as a nonprofit resource is social bookmarks.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

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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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2006

Consultants and Vendors | Main | Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) » Monday Nov 13 2006 Lean, Mean Blogging Machines Monday, November 13, 2006 at 10:00AM | by Jordan Wait If you think your blogging gut is getting a little flabby, today is the day to whip it into shape. Well report back in a few days.

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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. For example, Newsvine is a read-write news site with a revenue sharing model for its members. Writing for CNN's Business 2.0

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Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

User generated content is also at the core of citizen journalism, the notion that amateur users can perform journalist-like functions (accidentally or otherwise) by reporting and commenting on news. However, just because everyone can become a creator doesn’t mean that everyone does.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. A few more good links about strategy for social news sites. As bloggers and others give it closer scrutiny, we're hearing a debate about which Facebook App is better?

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Care2

JULY 15, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

I get spikes here and there when well-known bloggers link to me in a post or interview or a link is in a news article, but the effect is temporary. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. m gaining 50-100 new friends a week. I'm also stealing a line from Chris Brogan that I will add to the end of my posts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Emily Weinberg from the Nonprofit Blog Exchange Michelle Martin from the Bamboo Project ChipIn News Blog CrowdFunding (that is that awesome vlogger Sull) First-of-its-Kind (Peter Dietz - excellent advice on how to go about these campaigns) My Cambodian blogger colleagues have linked or posted about the campaign. .

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Home • About Us Mission Team News Partners Careers • Services Overview Interactive Marketing Video Web Design and Development • Clients Clients List Client Login • Resources Overview Events YouTube for Nonprofits Guide to Online Video Video FAQs Our Blog • Contact POSTED BY Daniel Hartman MAR 27, 2008 NTEN Does Web 2.0

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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. RSS feeds are your friends. Even something small could lead to something big if you know the networks of the people in your ecosystem. Don’t be a lurker.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

These can be useful internally and externally—you can share news with colleagues or create a dashboard of resources for your community. makes it possible to pull together media of all kinds—blogs, news, videos, etc.—from to organize news and information about their cause, neighborhood, or organization. Why Scoop.it

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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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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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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. They don't call a friend to share news; they blog, twitter, facebook, and myspace it. The people who keep on top of Web 2.0 literally speak a different language from the rest of us.

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NCE Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2012

First, here’s a news story and infographic. It demonstrates who uses the biggest social media tools – the gender, age, education and income of the people who engage with your Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Pinterest, Digg and LinkedIn pages. It’s true. Today I sahre with you to sources detailing it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Museums aren't the only venues facing this question: news outlets, corporate brands, and educators are also grappling with the question of trust in the participatory age. How can we transition from people trusting our information to trusting their ability to participate in museums and be respected, safe, and rewarded for doing so?

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