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What tools and keywords do you use for your organization's listening dashboard?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Staff - prominent people in your org, like your CEO. Digg - shows most popular articles on the web. Current - issues that people are talking about that involve you right now. Detractors - people you know don't like you but talk about you. Competition - people in the same space as you. Blogpulse - another blog monitoring tool.

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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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Have We Crossed the Chasm yet? Org2.0 Cheat Sheet from Squidoo/Npower New York

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's call org.2.0! Graphic in Flickr Source: Tara Hunt's post " Cross the Chasm " Chris Brogan sent me a link to the new NpowerNY/Squido Handout on Seth's Blog. It signals to me that we are beginning to cross the chasm in Web2.0 in nonprofit land. Or maybe not. And here's a good listener's guide. Donations with Squidoo.

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Help Idealist.org so it will be there for us in the future

Connection Cafe

In an appeal to the community late last week, the org's founder Ami Dar, wrote: Over the past ten years, most of our funding has come from the small fees we charge organizations for posting their jobs on Idealist. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. Pass it on to your friends, coworkers, and other organizations.

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Free Ranger Rick

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I know the move by most orgs recently has been to transition over to Facebook (something Oxfam has slowly been doing), but this is very annoying. Institutional spokespeople who cultivate a useful reputation within a community like Facebook or Digg while acting on behalf of their employer are building a very personal equity.

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The social media cheesecloth: Filter and find what works for you

Connection Cafe

You see all of these other orgs using Twitter, Facebook, Digg, MySpace, YouTube, LinkedIn, Blogger and the list goes on… How do you make sure you are using the latest and greatest in new media that will effectively contribute to your movement? Is your org all about getting the latest updates out quickly?

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Interview with Jonathon Colman: Social Media Secrets from a Green Geek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

s taken us a long time to build up credible, authoritative profiles and groups on sites like Care2 , Digg , Facebook , Flickr , and StumbleUpon. ??? In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s s OK, because our popularity on Digg drove in 50+ links from blogs, including a few elite sources like The Huffington Post.