Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The use of tags has become common practice to manage the flow of information available on the Internet. 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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Later in this series I'll go into some reasons why the thinking and practice around these kinds of applications are flawed. They don't need to understand the latest techno widget or the nuances of StumbleUpon vs. Digg. The premise of the article misses the point and ignores a fundamental principle of fundraising ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

This happens all the time on listservs where people who work on integrating technology into their work participate -- whether it be teachers, librarians, community of practice, online facilitators, nonprofit techies, etc. The key in choosing a tool is the right fit to purpose and practices. I'd love to see some workflows shared too.

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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

JULY 22, 2009

Different thinkers and practitioners use different terms to describe similar tools and practices. So, I use the term social media to encompass all the tools and all the practices that are described by the terms I mentioned above. The second reason is a clear definition of what social media is, even within the social media community.

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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

JULY 15, 2008

Presenters included filmmakers and producers, who shared advice on best practices for video for nonprofits. They talked about how to actually go about making a video and what equipment to use and also how to make the video spread through the Internet, or go viral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

Has anyone put any of the advice into practice? Slide Show from the Founder of Digg about Crowd Generated Media. 1cent thoughts on NPTech is another anonymous nonprofit blogger and has a post " Is technology meant to be more than a set of best practices? What did you learn? New (to me) Blogs. New (to me) Blogs.

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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). April 22, 2008 This is cross-posted from See What’s Out There [.]

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

From Flickr User Philswin2003 The above flickr photo is from the Nonprofit Software Development Summit and some flipchart notes illustrating what's going on right now: inspiration, matchmaking, and practical methods! Integration is the hot button topic, as noted by Holly Ross in her " Integration is King " post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2008

The summaries are more focused on a social media theme or a social media question related to practice. Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Do you remember the Grasshopper and the Ant Fable ? Which one worked best?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. " This post from a few months back from Search England Land titled " How To Win Friends and Influence People in Social News Networks " offers some tips for leveraging sites like Digg, and Stumbleupon. from Tim Davies and Practical Participation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2006

What is the best practice here? Another thing you can try is to get people to Digg the story as they read it. Hey, someone added to digg ) * create some badges, wallpaper, t-shirt decals, etc. And, given that most of the donations are really relatively small gifts, do donors expect, want, need tax documentation.

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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. Cyberspace Innkeeping: Building Online Community by John Coate was first written in 1992 and will give you a good context of online community practice. 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. With a little practice and interaction online, you can turn a crisis that appears to be a steep mountain into a rolling hill. RSS feeds are your friends.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

It's supposed to be about practical application of scientific knowledge, not fear, dependence, or belief. They don't just keep bookmarks, they Digg things and save them to del.icio.us. Why are people religious about technology? Or rather, why do people group themselves religiously around technology? The people who keep on top of Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2008

I brainstormed series of equations or theories that represent best practices that nonprofits are using to implement social media. Buzz tools include FriendFeed, Twitter, StumbleUpon, and Digg - and of course you add many others to this category that are found in other categories.

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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. In the coming months, developers will be able to share information and best practices and theres the potential of creating an open source community around Convio Open APIs. If youve ever used My Yahoo!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Kaushik's thinking is based on " Occam's Razor Principle " (which boils down to a poetic way of saying " KISS ") The screencast will show some practical examples of how at least one nonprofit organization's web site, the Idealist , is using the software in practice. What follows is a very rough draft for a script.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 28, 2008

And more practically, is being a trusted source of information a key value proposition? Would you trust a survey report about consumer confidence in meat safety commissioned by the beef industry? And here's the bigger problem. It's great that museums are a trusted source of information. But is that really our mission?

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

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.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

I was most recently at Digg. At Digg there were a lot of PR issues, and as the community manager there I had to work very closely with PR. There are no PR nightmares like we faced monthly at Digg. Q: Is there a place our community members can go to learn best practices? At Causes, we don't have "PR."

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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. You can make one, too: type in Cancer (or your own keyword) at search.twitter.com and see what results are returned. Then, grab the search RSS feed and add it to your iGoogle.

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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 6 Jun 2008 Leave a Reply Get Tips and Best Practices Sign up below to get our newsletters highlighting the latest in online marketing and communications for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

The IdeaExchange and related programs use a Digg -like interface to allow users to promote preferred suggestions. And more importantly, how can these strategies be sustainable parts of our practice instead of one-time gimmicks or marketing campaigns? They talk about balancing humility and creativity in our practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The session will provide a brief summary of the recent thinking on this topic by thought leaders in the field, but mostly provide an opportunity for small group discussion and sharing about current practices on this important topic. Session Learning Goals. To understand why social media metrics are different from traditional web metrics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 17, 2008

He points out these problems with current social networking practices. (1) Someone who was willing to Digg my blog post. 1) the lack of sufficient privacy protection. He is talking about the fact that we have different levels of intimacy with our social networks or social graph, but due to privacy issues we can't manage them. . -

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Kikono - Digg for NpTech. The other big story in Kikono was Best Practices in MySpace pointed to by Solidariti blog. from the Campaign Monitor blog takes us through a detailed makeover of an email newsletter to help illustrate best practices for email design, layout and construction. Kikono is the new name for NpDigg.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 6, 2019

While I originally wrote this post to advocate for more participatory practice (i.e. letting museum visitors contribute and collaborate in museums), I now see this as a crucial issue also for more democratic and inclusive practice (i.e. welcoming people with more diverse perspectives and backgrounds to participate meaningfully).

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