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NpTech Tag Summary: NpTech Slide Decks, Twitter Saves Children, and Visualizing Information for Advocacy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

" There's also another article on a similar theme that focuses on the describing the problem -- or why nonprofits, designers, and techies can't talk to each other. The presentation describes the benefits of using Digg and shares some before/after results. Haven't dug into Digg yet? re working with???something

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NPTimes TechnoBuzz: Telling Stories Online Makes That Vital Connection

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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). It's so cool that the cards have OKNO and Segnalo - the Italian versions of Digg and Del.icio.us.

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NpTech Roundup: Grasshoppers and Ants - Social Fundraising Off Season

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Small Change blog points to First Giving Digg Contest which was one of four social media promotional ideas using social media tools. Geoff Livingston mentions it here and points to examples and blog posts about the problem in the corporate PR sector. The article profiles Networked For Good's Six Degrees of Separation.

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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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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The Coming Wave of Web 2.0 Consultants and Vendors - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

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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An Interview of Heather Cronk, PledgeBank: Advice On Raising Money on Your Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Tell the story of how you got involved with the problem you're addressing and how fixing that problem will benefit your community. 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. 3) Integrate other organizing tools.

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Building Community with Open Source

NTEN

We want friends lists, favorites, ranking with stars, and perhaps ranking like Digg does. That obscure problem you're trying to solve? First, let's take a look at what can happen if we dive directly into the technology and overlook the actual needs of our community. What do we want? Forums and blogs too! all over the world.