Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2007

A sort of "digg" for NpTech Tag items. There is interest is seeing the NpTech Site become a central place to go for information, updates, or whatever is happening with NpTech Tag, not exlusively a place to aggregate nptech tagged items. I found that idea exciting!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

Kirtsy (demographic-based – think Digg for women, 200,000+ members). WiserEarth itself would be an issues based social network but we also have plenty of place based sub-groups. . TuDiabetes (issue-based – people touched by diabetes, 14,000+ members) . Why use them to spread your message?

Social Network 74

Social Network Network Social Demographics 74

Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

To understand why tagging is found on so many social sharing sites it helps to understand why tags exist in the first place. 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. The campaign.

Tag 61

Tag Social Media Bookmarking Delicious 61

Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Both parties need a common place to post and find opportunities and Idealist.org has been that place for years. Tweet it, Post it, Digg it, and donate. To ensure that resource is available for future job posters and seekers in the nonprofit sector, we must support Idealist.org now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2007

Kevin Rose of Digg fame launched a new social sharing site called Pownce to much buzz and mixed reviews. What have you learned from setting up a Facebook profile and keeping it a lively place? My Flickr Stream. Pownce lets you share files, links, and other info with your friends. It is a competitor of twitter and jaiku.

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Nptech Group Facebook Digg 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 11, 2009

But, what I can't easily do for a specific blog post is see who is referring to the article in other places on the social web, like Twitter, Friendfeed, Digg, and the like. That's where the recently launched BackType Connect comes in.

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Conversation Life Social Stats 50

Care2

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. 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. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

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Consultant Myspace Social Media Advocacy 31

Care2

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

Wikipedia is one place where consultants could shortly play a supporting role for issue organizations. 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. he wanted to get paid for linking to us).

Consultant 31

Consultant Social Media Myspace Advocacy 31

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2007

In the video above, Virak is placing laptop stickers on his laptop. t be surprised if u r on the way to somewhere sometime and see cambodians on bicycles or motorbikes wearing t-shirs of technorati , creative commons , secondlife , techsoup , and so on??? beth kanter brought all of those for cloggers. m wearing ???i writing this post.

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Cambodia NGO Secondlife Tech 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2008

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. This points to a larger issues of control - conversations are fragmenting and we have no control where they take place. Look forward. Look backward. Ask what if?

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Conversation Strategy Comment Facilitation 50

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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Social Media Work Media Social 33

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

Reading Minds and Telling You What's on Their Minds Mary Joyce from DemoBlog has a post called " Think Digg: How NGOs Can Read Their Members' Minds " Sean Stannard-Stockton from Tactical Philthanthropy writes about the potential for "donor-created social media philthanthropy research" and thinks it should encouraged.

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Summary Nptech Tag Courseware 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Amy Sample Ward writes about the new plugin launched by Social Actions that will place ???possibly The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation. Which one worked best?

Nptech 50

Nptech Social Fundraising Plugin 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

List of the most likely places a human will encounter the media I produce. Chris Brogan has also written about the Digg effect. Chris talks about the importance of mapping your social media strategy and identifying a key metric or two for each strategy that tells you whether you've been successful. re already here. And that???

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Analytics Web Metrics ROI 50

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.

Social Media 106

Social Media Media Social Aggregator 106

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

The Bamboo Project gives up the round up of places to find great multimedia content online. Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. TechSoup hosted an online event about digital story telling. If you missed it, some good articles here and here. Donorpower Blog tells us to learn how to write differently.

Nptech 50

Nptech Tag Ning Machinima 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2007

Searching between the cracks There are so many different places where nptech resources are being aggregated and thanks to Yahoo pipes many variations on the meta feeds that occassionally you discover little pockets of resources that either get lost in the flow or don't make it into the main fire hoses for one reason or another.

Social Network 50

Social Network Nptech Tag Summary 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2007

To create a pledge like this you don't need any special training or knowledge -- just a sense that a small change could be a helpful thing in making the world a better place. PledgeBank plays well with others -- you can share your pledge via Facebook, on your blog, on your MySpace page, and with sites like Digg and del.icio.us.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

So when Scoop.it , a new content curation platform, hit the web recently, the #CommBuild network seemed like the perfect place to try it out. In fact, the web is so full of information that many organizations are finding it useful to pull together topic-specific content on the web and make it available in one place. Why Scoop.it

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Content Tools Digital Bookmarking 186

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. FLOSS Usability Sprint is taking place this weekend. Flickr photo from jhritz NpDigg: The Insect Antennae? npdigg.org , cooked up by the nonprofittech blog , is up and running. The wiki is here and they welcome remote participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

This can take place in a variety ways, including brown bag lunches "Facebook Friday," presenting examples from other organizations experiences, sharing market research data about consumer trends and social media. Especially in this economy. The key to crossing the chasm to adoption is education, awareness, and discussion internally.

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Marketing Blackboard Social Social Media 70

Care2

OCTOBER 20, 2007

The essence of an API is that it enables databases and applications to talk to each other, so you can share data and host data in multiple places simultaneously. 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.

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API Convio Open Social Media 28

Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

And most contemporary museums are not only places for information-seeking. In short, it limits museums from being places that are trusted as institutions of public engagement and interaction--the places many museums claim they want to be. You can't be equally committed to both.

Participatory 20

Participatory Museum Teen Voice 20

Care2

JULY 2, 2009

link] HootSuite: Allows you to manage multiple twitter accounts in one place. The reports are filled with listings on Technorati, Google, Diggs, and links back to your website. KnewEm ( [link] - a quick place to see if your brand name is registered on hundreds of social media sites. Thanks for the new links to look at.

Social Media 70

Social Media Track Media Tools 70

Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Facebook already has a system in place for recognizing your birthday and alerting your friends. " The goal is to become the best place online for giving , and they're well on their way to achieving it. Q: Do you place a dollar value on a Facebook page? I was most recently at Digg. "We're working on that."

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Causes Community Online Fundraising 64

Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This highlights the fact that while participatory design is by no means exclusive to the Web, that is the place most of the current experimentation is happening. The view counts, comments, favorites, most e-mailed, and leader boards of sites we all love (Flickr, Digg, StumbleUpon, NetFlix, The New York Times, etc.)

Museum 24

Museum Participatory Artist Arts 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

The Conservancy, as a science-based organization, places a lot of value in numbers and data-driven arguments. 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 But that???s

Social Media 62

Social Media Green Digg Stumbleupon 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2007

The RSS feed that comes out Yahoo Pipes has been brought into the npdigg site, which is digg for nptechers. This is very interesting to me - an entire community of nptech taggers has been imported into a digg like entity or what Allan Benamer is calling the anthill. So, the Nptech tag is jumpstarting this digg community!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

The nonprofit's web site isn't overly complex and has a clear marketing strategy in place. Note that the proceeds from his book will benefit the Smile Train and Doctors Without Borders to assist in their efforts to make our world a better place. The nonprofit will most likely not have a full-time IT or web manager staff person.

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See3

OCTOBER 22, 2007

However, neither Carie nor Tim discussed social bookmarking or social news strategies in any depth, and Digg, Stumble Upon, and del.icio.us On MySpace : Both Oxfam and HSUS prove what we already know from Greenpeace and others – MySpace is a great place to get new advocates. certainly have enough traffic to warrant a deep approach.

America 40

America Social Media Myspace Second Life 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Influence/Authority: Scoble defines this as % of posts that show up on Techmeme, Digg, my Link Blog, Slashdot, StumbleUpon, etc. List of the most likely places a human will encounter the media I produce. Dave Winer says why rss subscriber numbers alone don't matter and Kaushik has some advice on measuring this.

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Metrics Social Media Media ROI 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

link] wildlifewatch Not only that, but it shows how we took our return from this experiment and placed it within the programs website to show more dynamic content and interaction possibilities. With Twitter, Facebook, Digg and Stumbleupon gone are the days forgotten lore. Doubting social media, `Nevermore.'. It’s slicker. . .

ROI 76

ROI Social Media Slides Media 76

Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 8, 2008

When it comes to museums, comparable rules can guarantee that the museum remains a safe, welcoming place for visitors of all kinds. There are some "rules" already in place--like the rule that you have to pay to enter--that may have great effect on the types of users who engage in museums and the behavior they display within.

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Authoring Platform Museum YouTube 42

Museum 2.0

JULY 2, 2007

Digg is a website that supports and cultivates “the people’s choice” from the ground up. to Digg that they think are awesome. Other users do the same, and or check out these new “diggs” on the site via connections they have to other members, interest areas, or general browsing. There sure is. And what does the result look like?

Digg 20

Digg Museum Aggregator New York 20

Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

When it comes to museums, comparable rules can guarantee that the museum remains a safe, welcoming place for visitors of all kinds. There are some "rules" already in place--like the rule that you have to pay to enter--that may have great effect on the types of users who engage in museums and the behavior they display within.

Authoring 44

Authoring Share Museum YouTube 44

Care2

NOVEMBER 6, 2006

60) Search « Featured Article from Care2 News Network (our own little digg) | Main | Hey Voters, Will You Be My Friends on Myspace? " Basically how it works, is that the VoterStory widget can be placed on any Web site. Youth voters can also send text messages that will also be posted online.

Chad 28

Chad Social Media Advocacy Poll 28