Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Each story is written from a second-person point of view, with the reader assuming the role of the protagonist and determining the plot arc by deciding which page to turn to. Goal: To understand how to use tools like Twitter and Digg to quickly and virally spread your organization’s messages. Generating Buzz. Presenter: Holly Ross.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Monitor what’s being bubbled up about you on Digg. 5 Free Tools for Personal Reputation Management by Dan Schawbel. If it’s out there Google will probably find it. Have a Google Blog Search and Technorati Blog Search running at all times to see what the Blogosphere has to say. The internet’s popularity contest at your fingertips.

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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. The ability to watch someone's tag stream and re-tag for personal meaning. NetVibes lets users pepper a personal dashboard with widgets. Rashmi called this "just a social graph" (or just a social network). A community tag stream.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg. It isn't just self either, the charity will benefit and be able to help a homeless young person. Nick, who loves to experiment for good causes, is hoping to use some web2.0 and the ps3 tag. Check out Nick's post and let's send a little blog buzz his way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2009

I've definitely added that link to my social media metrics personal learning space ) She recently pointed to a blog post called " Ten Ways To Measure Social Media Success " by Chris Lake. number of Facebook fans, Twitter followers, Digg links, Delicious bookmarks, and referrals from social media sites, plus existing website traffic).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2007

More will be said about this in the section on network effects, but for now it is sufficient to note that there is a distinction between a folksonomy (a collection of tags created by an individual for their own personal use) and a collabulary (a collective vocabulary). The act of tagging is done by the person consuming the information.'

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 15, 2017

Reddit, Quora, and Digg provide discussion channels. For instance, LinkedIn isn’t for sharing personal fundraising appeals, but it is a great network to tout corporate sponsorships, talk about employee giving, and share innovative ways your nonprofit is working to make the world better. Make it personal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2007

What person, historical figure, even animal or mythical creature might represent these heroes? Are they identifiable individuals or a set of problems that can be personified in a character or person? We don't have to personally attack other people to show the problem as evil (although at times, it has undeniably worked).

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AFP Blog

APRIL 1, 2009

era has a whole other language – like Digg, Blogger, Facebook and Twitter. But these technologies are shaped by a fundraising cornerstone – personal relationships. The NonProfit Times - The Leading Business Publication For Nonprofit Management: "Do You Speak Geek? Do Your Donors?It It seems like the Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg When another blogger links to it on their blog. The personal, human tone of a blog can help. When someone shares it with them using an AddThis like button on the bottom of the post. What do you think? Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

At the conference, I had spent the 25 minutes telling the story of my cause with passion and personality - as Charlene Li points out: Call it the "geek ATM", but personal fundraising doesn't work without that personal appeal. Can a company excite the passion and conviction, that personal connection that Beth can?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2007

So now my personal Facebook profile is the Administrator of the Oxfam America group (which I can tell you, is less than ideal). 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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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In a recent talk on Why Mobile Matters , Miles points out, our phones are usually within an arms reach of us and become an “intimate and personal device.” On MoreBirthdays.com, people can support, give, and celebrate surviving cancer or loved ones by creating a birthday wish through e-cards, music video, or musician phone call.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

When they find it saved by someone on a social bookmarking site like del.icio.us , StumbleUpon or Digg. The personal, human tone of a blog can help. Again, it's like going to a party, and no one wants to chat with the person at the party who'd rather not be there 'cause they were forced to attend. What do you think?

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2007

They'll start with Orkut and iGoogle (Google's personalized home page), and expand from there to include Gmail, Google Talk and other Google services over time. 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

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. Taping and interviews were done by a staff person. It was an experiment to see if pushing SEIU in non-traditional areas for us would prove popular. How much time did it take?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2008

Should There Be A Social Actions Category on Digg? What's the sweet spot between personal productivity and social productivity? Organizational Versus Personal Voice on A Blog. Blog Action Day: Can One Person Make A Difference. Scored 10 How Much Time Does It Take To Do Social Media? Twitter As Charitable Gift Spreader.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2009

Get granular - figure how how many unique visits a particular blogger sent, a Facebook Event, or Digg. . Engagement: This is defined as the amount of time a person either participates within a dedicated or hosted Web community or service related to your brand, or interacts with someone from your organization online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

I never pack anything personal in those suitcases. Click To Play Whenever I've travel over to Cambodia, I have the opportunity to check two large suitcases up to 70 pounds each. beth kanter brought all of those for cloggers. m wearing ???i writing this post.

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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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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. Make your blog personable.

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See3

MARCH 27, 2008

Danielle Brigida from NWF presented a case study on Digg and StumbleUpon. It took her 7 months to establish relationships in the Digg community sufficiently to get good results (ie, popular stories). I am that marketing & communications person who wears all those hats. Now here is my criticism of all Web 2.0

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Connection Cafe

JULY 29, 2009

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? Let’s say you are a small or new organization just trying to get your roots planted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

The social object can be a person, a place, a thing or an idea. People don’t build relationships with each other in a vacuum. A vibrant community is built around a social object that is meaningful for its members. The Netroots community is built around progressive politics in America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. Peter Deitz, from FOIK, also a nominated project, offers volunteer assistance to the other 149 projects in implementing personal fundraising campaigns. I'm probably the only insane person who is using all these plus others sources.

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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. If nothing else, go watch the video clip by Robert Thompson it's a powerful example of using a story telling technique on video for personal fundraising. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae?

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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. Pick one tool at a time, create a personal account, join in (make friends, upload pics or video, share links, etc) and build your toolbox. RSS feeds are your friends.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

Last month, the IMLS published a report on a survey of 1,700 people, with similar findings about trustworthiness of museums and libraries, and some great added information about how use of the internet benefits both museums (with higher in-person visitation) and visitors (with more ways to find information of interest). Be personal.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Whether you’re interested in community building, hot air ballooning, or the way robots work, you’re never going to be the only person talking about it online. provides automated searches to match all the keywords you include on your topic—check out the image below to see automated searches on Digg, Twitter, and Youtube.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

sites were the right way to grow our constituency and awareness online that I dedicated a lot of personal time to pursuing them both before- and after-hours. So the case I made in the beginning was one of personal commitment. In response to a post on Digg about the Conservancy???s t so risk-averse that they can??? But that???s

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Care2

JULY 2, 2009

The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. link] It tracks Twitter, Facebook, Myspace, Digg, Delicious, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn. My personal favourite is [link]. [link] Xinureturns: Provides an overview of your website presence on popular search engines and social networks.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

The in-house team for Click included two curators, one interpreter, one artist/designer, and two web developers, but the person managing the whole project (Shelley Bernstein) is from Information Systems, not curatorial. But it's pretty unusual to have a REAL exhibition led by a web person. The internal team is led by a non-curator.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

A personal challenge typically issued as statement like "if we make our goal, I'll do or donate xyz" can also energize your campaign. The personal challenge doesn't have to be making a donation. used a variation on the personal challenge theme by asking a friend to do take a personal challenge for charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The nonprofit will most likely not have a full-time IT or web manager staff person. Show a date range and indicate that all those views could, in theory, come from the same person clicking over and over again.) The nonprofit's web site isn't overly complex and has a clear marketing strategy in place. Learning Goals. Page Views.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Twitter & Digg? I was actually overwhelmed with mail (about ten times more than I usually get) and every single piece from a frustrated person inside of a non-profit. Diss non-profits for their marketing strategies by all means, but not for their lack of featuring in the top 100 on Twitter. Is that how we measure social impact now?

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NTEN

MAY 27, 2010

We used this technique for DIGG, forums, Twitter, Bing, and Google and then set up various searches along with monitoring of certain Twitter feeds. My personal motto is never post something I wouldn't want my mother to see. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle. Now, anyone can log in to monitor this.

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